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The matched filtering paradigm is the mainstay of gravitational wave (GW) searches from astrophysical coalescing compact binaries. The compact binary coalescence (CBC) search pipelines perform the matched filter between the GW detector's…

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In the future, the third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors, exemplified by the Einstein Telescope (ET), will be operational. The detection rate of GW from binary neutron star (BNS) is expected to reach approximately $10^4$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Cunliang Ma , Xinyao Yu , Zhoujian Cao , Mingzhen Jia

We present a first proof-of-principle study for using deep neural networks (DNNs) as a novel search method for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) from unknown spinning neutron stars. The sensitivity of current wide-parameter-space CW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-09 Christoph Dreissigacker , Rahul Sharma , Chris Messenger , Ruining Zhao , Reinhard Prix

We report on the construction of a deep convolutional neural network that can reproduce the sensitivity of a matched-filtering search for binary black hole gravitational-wave signals. The standard method for the detection of well modeled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Hunter Gabbard , Michael Williams , Fergus Hayes , Chris Messenger

Searches and analyses of strong gravitational lenses are challenging due to the rarity and image complexity of these astronomical objects. Next-generation surveys (both ground- and space-based) will provide more opportunities to derive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-18 Clecio Bom , Jason Poh , Brian Nord , Manuel Blanco-Valentin , Luciana Dias

The strong beams of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW) emitted by cusps and kinks of cosmic strings are studied in detail. As a consequence of these beams, the stochastic ensemble of GW's generated by a cosmological network of…

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The ensemble of unresolved compact binary coalescences is a promising source of the stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background. For stellar-mass black hole binaries, the astrophysical stochastic GW background is expected to exhibit…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-22 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Sachiko Kuroyanagi , Guo-Chin Liu

With the advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors taking observations the detection of gravitational waves is expected within the next few years. Extracting astrophysical information from gravitational wave detections is a well-posed problem and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Tyson B. Littenberg , Jonah B. Kanner , Neil J. Cornish , Margaret Millhouse

Gravitational wave detection has opened up new avenues for exploring and understanding some of the fundamental principles of the universe. The optimal method for detecting modelled gravitational-wave events involves template-based matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Damon Beveridge , Alistair McLeod , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec

Lensed gravitational waves (GWs) provide a new window into the study of dark matter substructures, yet the faint interference signatures they produce are buried in detector noise. To address this challenge, we develop a deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-25 Mengfei Sun , Jie Wu , Jin Li , Nan Yang , Xianghe Ma , Borui Wang , Minghui Zhang , Yuanhong Zhong

Detection of gravitational waves produced by merger of binary compact objects could provide an independent way for measuring the luminosity distance to the gravitational-wave burst source, indicating that gravitational-wave observation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Xuan-Neng Zhang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We investigate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks (including the modern ConvNeXt network family) to classify transient noise signals (i.e.~glitches) and gravitational waves in data from the Advanced LIGO detectors. First, we use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Tiago S. Fernandes , Samuel J. Vieira , Antonio Onofre , Juan Calderón Bustillo , Alejandro Torres-Forné , José A. Font

In recent years, much work have studied the use of convolutional neural networks for gravitational-wave detection. However little work pay attention to whether the transient noise can trigger the CNN model or not. In this paper, we study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-08 Chao Zhan , Mingzhen Jia , Cunliang Ma , Zhongliang Lu , Wenbin Lin

The expected volume of data from the third-generation gravitational waves (GWs) Einstein Telescope (ET) detector would make traditional GWs search methods such as match filtering impractical. This is due to the large template bank required…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Wathela Alhassan , Tomasz Bulik , Mariusz Suchenek

The nonlinear memory effect is a fascinating prediction of general relativity (GR), in which oscillatory gravitational-wave (GW) signals are generically accompanied by a monotonically-increasing strain which persists in the detector long…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Alexander C. Jenkins , Mairi Sakellariadou

Future GW observatories, such as the Einstein Telescope (ET), are expected to detect gravitational wave signals, some of which are likely to overlap with each other. This overlap may lead to misidentification as a single GW event,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Cunliang Ma , Weiguang Zhou , Zhoujian Cao

The detection of gravitational waves is considered to be one of the most magnificent discoveries of the century. Due to the high computational cost of matched filtering pipeline, there is a hunt for an alternative powerful system. I…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-05 Hrithika Dodia

We consider a machine learning algorithm to detect and identify strong gravitational lenses on sky images. First, we simulate different artificial but very close to reality images of galaxies, stars and strong lenses, using six different…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-06 H. G. Khachatryan

The observation of gravitational waves is hindered by the presence of transient noise (glitches). We study data from the third observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, and identify new glitch classes. Using training sets assembled by…

The detection of gravitational waves with LIGO and Virgo requires a detailed understanding of the response of these instruments in the presence of environmental and instrumental noise. Of particular interest is the study of anomalous…

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