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We construct a Bayesian inference deep learning machine for parameter estimation of gravitational wave events of binaries of black hole coalescence. The structure of our deep Bayesian machine adopts the conditional variational autoencoder…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Han-Shiang Kuo , Feng-Li Lin

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors like TianQin are expected to detect GW signals emitted by the mergers of massive black hole binaries. Luminosity distance information can be obtained from GW observations, and one can perform…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-05 Liang-Gui Zhu , Yi-Ming Hu , Hai-Tian Wang , Jian-dong Zhang , Xiao-Dong Li , Martin Hendry , Jianwei Mei

Spectral-sirens inference enables the extraction of cosmological parameters from gravitational-wave data alone, without electromagnetic counterparts or galaxy catalogs. We introduce new parametric mass functions for the binary black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-10 Tom Bertheas , Vasco Gennari , Danièle Steer , Nicola Tamanini

This paper reviews gravitational wave sources and their detection. One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves are coalescing binary black hole systems. They can occur on all mass scales and be formed in numerous ways,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Hyung Mok Lee , Eric-Olivier Le Bigot , ZhiHui Du , ZhangXi Lin , XiangYu Guo , LinQing Wen , Khun Sang Phukon , Vihan Pandey , Sukanta Bose , Xi-Long Fan , Martin Hendry

Given the growth in the variety and precision of astronomical datasets of interest for cosmology, the best cosmological constraints are invariably obtained by combining data from different experiments. At the likelihood level, one…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Arrykrishna Mootoovaloo , Carlos García-García , David Alonso , Jaime Ruiz-Zapatero

The future space based gravitational wave detector LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) will observe millions of Galactic binaries constantly present in the data stream. A small fraction of this population (of the order of several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-22 Natalia Korsakova , Stanislav Babak , Michael L. Katz , Nikolaos Karnesis , Sviatoslav Khukhlaev , Jonathan R. Gair

Gravitational wave measurements will provide insight into the population of coalescing compact binaries throughout the universe. We describe and demonstrate a flexible parametric method to infer the event rate as a function of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-20 Daniel Wysocki , Jacob Lange , Richard O'Shaughnessy

We derive the effects of a non-zero cosmological constant $\Lambda$ on gravitational wave propagation in the linearized approximation of general relativity. In this approximation we consider the situation where the metric can be written as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-17 José Bernabeu , Domènec Espriu , Daniel Puigdomènech

The gravitational wave (GW) background produced at the cosmological chiral phase transition in a conformal extension of the standard model is studied. To obtain the bounce solution of coupled field equations we implement an iterative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Mayumi Aoki , Jisuke Kubo

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detector with tenfold better sensitivity compared to the advanced LIGO detectors. It will be capable of observing copious stellar mass binary black hole mergers up to a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-30 Pinaki Roy , Tomasz Bulik

This work is a follow-up to the paper, "Numerical Relativity as a Tool for Studying the Early Universe". In this article, we determine if cosmological gravitational waves can be accurately extracted from a dynamical spacetime using an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-24 David Garrison , Christopher Ramirez

We investigate uncertainties in the estimation of the Hubble constant ($H_0$) arising from Gaussian Process (GP) reconstruction, demonstrating that the choice of kernel introduces systematic variations comparable to those arising from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-07 Ruchika , Purba Mukherjee , Arianna Favale

Gravitational wave (GW) detection is now commonplace and as the sensitivity of the global network of GW detectors improves, we will observe $\mathcal{O}(100)$s of transient GW events per year. The current methods used to estimate their…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-21 Hunter Gabbard , Chris Messenger , Ik Siong Heng , Francesco Tonolini , Roderick Murray-Smith

The recently published GWTC-1 - a journal article summarizing the search for gravitational waves (GWs) from coalescing compact binaries in data produced by the LIGO-Virgo network of ground-based detectors during their first and second…

The gravitational waveform of a merging stellar-mass binary is described at leading order by a quadrupolar mode. However, the complete waveform includes higher-order modes, which encode valuable information not accessible from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ethan Payne , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

The last decade has seen increasing efforts to circumscribe and bound the cosmological Hubble flow in terms of model-independent constraints on the cosmological fluid - such as, for instance, the classical energy conditions of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Celine Cattoen , Matt Visser

Bayesian parameter estimation is fast becoming the language of gravitational-wave astronomy. It is the method by which gravitational-wave data is used to infer the sources' astrophysical properties. We introduce a user-friendly Bayesian…

Gravitational waves from the coalescence of binary black holes can be distinguished from noise transients in a detector network through Bayesian model selection by exploiting the coherence of the signal across the network. We present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Geraint Pratten , Alberto Vecchio

Context: We present the first Cosmological Parameter inferences from eROSITA X-ray observations of galaxy clusters using a Machine Learning algorithm. Methods: We train a Random Forest using mock catalogs of clusters from Magneticum…

Second generation interferometric gravitational wave detectors, such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, are expected to begin operation by 2015. Such instruments plan to reach sensitivities that will offer the unique possibility to test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Walter Del Pozzo , John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio