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Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

Pattern-based file access is a fundamental but often under-documented aspect of computational research. The Python glob module provides a simple yet powerful way to search, filter, and ingest files using wildcard patterns, enabling scalable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Sidney Shapiro

Gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences are most efficiently identified through matched filter searches, which match the data against a pre-generated bank of gravitational-wave templates. Although different techniques…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Connor McIsaac , Charlie Hoy , Ian Harry

The existing matched filtering method for gravitational wave (GW) search relies on a template bank. The computational efficiency of this method scales with the size of the templates within the bank. Higher-order modes and eccentricity will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-27 CunLiang Ma , Sen Wang , Wei Wang , Zhoujiang Cao

This study presents a computational framework for evaluating the detectability of white hole-induced gravitational wave signals and their imprints on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The approach integrates stochastic gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-19 Antonios Valamontes , Ioannis Adamopoulos

The dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) is a simple and powerful data-driven modeling technique that is capable of revealing coherent spatiotemporal patterns from data. The method's linear algebra-based formulation additionally allows for a…

Because of the small strain amplitudes of gravitational-wave (GW) signals, unveiling them in the presence of detector/environmental noise is challenging. For visualizing the signals and extracting its waveform for a comparison with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-09 Sangin Kim , C. Y. Hui , Jianqi Yan , Alex P. Leung , Kwangmin Oh , A. K. H. Kong , L. C. -C. Lin , Kwan-Lok Li

The construction of a model of the gravitational-wave (GW) signal from generic configurations of spinning-black-hole binaries, through inspiral, merger and ringdown, is one of the most pressing theoretical problems in the build-up to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-15 Mark Hannam , Patricia Schmidt , Alejandro Bohé , Leila Haegel , Sascha Husa , Frank Ohme , Geraint Pratten , Michael Pürrer

We introduce new modules in the open-source PyCBC gravitational- wave astronomy toolkit that implement Bayesian inference for compact-object binary mergers. We review the Bayesian inference methods implemented and describe the structure of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-23 C. M. Biwer , Collin D. Capano , Soumi De , Miriam Cabero , Duncan A. Brown , Alexander H. Nitz , V. Raymond

We demonstrate how a morphological veto involving Bayesian statistics can improve the receiver-operating characteristic (ROC) curves of the current search for core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) as implemented by the coherent Waveburst (cWB)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-22 Kiranjyot Gill , Wenhui Wang , Oscar Valdez , Marek Szczepanczyk , Michele Zanolin , Soma Mukherjee

Detecting unmodeled gravitational wave (GW) bursts presents significant challenges due to the lack of accurate waveform templates required for matched-filtering techniques. A primary difficulty lies in distinguishing genuine signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Matteo Pracchia , Sacha Peters , Maxime Fays

Gravitational wave searches rely on a combination of methods, including matched filtering, coherent analyses, and more recent machine learning based pipelines. For compact binary coalescences, where signals originate from the relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Lorenzo Mobilia , Tito Dal Canton , Gianluca Maria Guidi

In this paper, we investigate the morphology of the events from the GWTC-1 catalog of compact binary coalescences as reconstructed by a method based on coherent excess power: we use an open-source version of the coherent WaveBurst (cWB)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 F. Salemi , E. Milotti , G. A. Prodi , G. Vedovato , C. Lazzaro , S. Tiwari , S. Vinciguerra , M. Drago , S. Klimenko

PyPWA is a toolkit designed to optimize parametric models describing data and generate simulated distributions according to a model. Its software has been written within the python ecosystem with the goal of performing Amplitude or Partial…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2023-06-06 Mark Jones , Peter Hurck , William Phelps , Carlos W. Salgado

The advent of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has presented us with a completely new means for observing the Universe, allowing us to probe its structure and evolution like never before. In this thesis, we explore three distinct but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Alexander C. Jenkins

We present a unified description of gravitational-wave data analysis that unites the template-based analysis used to detect deterministic signals from well-modeled sources, such as binary-black-hole mergers, with the cross-correlation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Neil J. Cornish , Joseph D. Romano

Componentwise boosting (CWB), also known as model-based boosting, is a variant of gradient boosting that builds on additive models as base learners to ensure interpretability. CWB is thus often used in research areas where models are…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-01 Daniel Schalk , Bernd Bischl , David Rügamer

Various privacy-preserving frameworks that respect the individual's privacy in the analysis of data have been developed in recent years. However, available model classes such as simple statistics or generalized linear models lack the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-13 Daniel Schalk , Bernd Bischl , David Rügamer

Accurate parameter estimation(PE) of gravitational waves(GW) is essential for GW data analysis. In extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary(EMRI) systems, orbital eccentricity is a critical parameter for PE. However, current software for for PE…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Gen-Liang Li , Shu-Jie Zhao , Huai-Ke Guo , Jing-Yu Su , Zhen-Heng Lin

Matched-filtering detection techniques for gravitational-wave (GW) signals in ground-based interferometers rely on having well-modeled templates of the GW emission. Such techniques have been traditionally used in searches for compact binary…