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As two neutron stars merge, they emit gravitational waves that can potentially be detected by earth bound detectors. Matched-filtering based algorithms have traditionally been used to extract quiet signals embedded in noise. We introduce a…

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Deep learning is a powerful analysis technique that has recently been proposed as a method to constrain cosmological parameters from weak lensing mass maps. Due to its ability to learn relevant features from the data, it is able to extract…

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Galaxy-scale strong gravitational lensing is not only a valuable probe of the dark matter distribution of massive galaxies, but can also provide valuable cosmological constraints, either by studying the population of strong lenses or by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-06 Francois Lanusse , Quanbin Ma , Nan Li , Thomas E. Collett , Chun-Liang Li , Siamak Ravanbakhsh , Rachel Mandelbaum , Barnabas Poczos

We study the relative contribution of cusps and pseudocusps, on cosmic (super)strings, to the emitted bursts of gravitational waves. The gravitational wave emission in the vicinity of highly relativistic points on the string follows, for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Matthew J. Stott , Thomas Elghozi , Mairi Sakellariadou

Current templated searches for gravitational waves (GWs) emanated from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) assume that the binaries have circularized by the time they enter the sensitivity band of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network. However,…

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The lensing effect of a cosmic string is studied, and some new methods are proposed to detect the cosmic string. The technique for using jets as extended gravitational lensing probes was firstly explored by Kronberg. We use the…

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The gravitational waveform of merging binary neutron stars encodes information about extreme states of matter. Probing these gravitational emissions requires the gravitational-wave detectors to have high sensitivity above 1 kHz. Fortunately…

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Accurate extractions of the detected gravitational wave (GW) signal waveforms are essential to validate a detection and to probe the astrophysics behind the sources producing the GWs. This however could be difficult in realistic scenarios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-20 Chayan Chatterjee , Linqing Wen , Foivos Diakogiannis , Kevin Vinsen

Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts provide the greater multi-messenger community with information about the candidate events detected by the International Gravitational-Wave Network (IGWN). Prompt release of data products such as the sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Seiya Tsukamoto , Andrew Toivonen , Holton Griffin , Avyukt Raghuvanshi , Megan Averill , Frank Kerkow , Michael W. Coughlin , Man Leong Chan , Leo Singer

The detection of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources of gravitational waves is a realistic goal for the current generation of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Short duration bursts of gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick R Brady , Saikat Ray-Majumder

We search for gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences (CBC) in the $2024$ mock data challenge of the Einstein Telescope (ET) with a detection algorithm that does not rely on the waveform of the signal searched. With…

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The early inspiral from stellar-mass binary black holes (sBBHs) can emit milli-Hertz gravitational wave signals, making them detectable sources for space-borne gravitational wave missions like TianQin. However, the traditional matched…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-08 Xue-Ting Zhang , Natalia Korsakova , Man Leong Chan , Chris Messenger , Yi-Ming Hu

LIGO interferometer is considered the most sensitive and complicated gravitational experimental equipment ever built. Its main objective is to detect the gravitational wave from the strongest events in the universe by observing if the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-10 Reymond Mesuga , Brian James Bayanay

Quantum computational devices, currently under development, have the potential to accelerate data analysis techniques beyond the ability of any classical algorithm. We propose the application of a quantum algorithm for the detection of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-06 Sijia Gao , Fergus Hayes , Sarah Croke , Chris Messenger , John Veitch

We present the first application of deep learning forecasting for binary neutron stars, neutron star - black hole systems, and binary black hole mergers that span an eccentricity range e <= 0.9. We train neural networks that describe these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-19 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta , Mengshen Yun , Nicholas Loutrel , Md Arif Shaikh , Prayush Kumar , Roland Haas , Volodymyr Kindratenko

We investigate the potential of using gravitational wave (GW) signals from rotating core-collapse supernovae to probe the equation of state (EOS) of nuclear matter. By generating GW signals from simulations with various EOSs, we train…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-07 Y. Sultan Abylkairov , Matthew C. Edwards , Daniil Orel , Ayan Mitra , Bekdaulet Shukirgaliyev , Ernazar Abdikamalov

Third-generation gravitational wave detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will detect a bunch of gravitational-wave (GW) signals originating from the coalescence of binary neutron star (BNS) and binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Yoshiaki Himemoto , Atsushi Nishizawa , Atsushi Taruya

Pre-Big-Bang models in string cosmology predict a relic background of gravitational wave radiation in the early universe. The spectrum of this background shows that the energy density rises rapidly with frequency, which is an interesting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-16 Yufeng Li , Xilong Fan , Lijun Gou

Many continuous gravitational wave searches are affected by instrumental spectral lines that could be confused with a continuous astrophysical signal. Several techniques have been developed to limit the effect of these lines by penalising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Joseph Bayley , Chris Messenger , Graham Woan

A network of observable, macroscopic cosmic (super-)strings may have formed in the early universe. If so, the cusps that generically develop on cosmic-string loops emit bursts of gravitational radiation that could be detectable by both…

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