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Weakly-modelled searches for gravitational waves are essential for ensuring that all potential sources are accounted for in detection efforts, as they make minimal assumptions regarding source morphology. While these searches primarily…

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Recent discoveries of gravitational wave (GW) signals from astrophysical compact binary systems of neutron stars and black holes have firmly established them as prime sources for advanced GW detectors. Theoretical templates of expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-04 Soumen Roy , Anand S. Sengupta , Parameswaran Ajith

Gravitational waves emitted by a ringing black hole allow us to perform precision tests of general relativity in the strong field regime. With improvements to our current gravitational wave detectors and upcoming next-generation detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Roberto Cotesta

Gravitational wave observations of quasicircular compact binary mergers in principle provide an arbitrarily complex likelihood over eight independent intrinsic parameters: the masses and spins of the two merging objects. In this work, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-05 Vera Delfavero , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Anjali Yelikar

Low-latency pipelines analyzing gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence events rely on matched filter techniques. Limitations in template banks and waveform modeling, as well as non-stationary detector noise cause errors in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 Sushant Sharma Chaudhary , Gianmarco Puleo , Marco Cavaglia

The speed-up of parameter estimation is an active field of research in gravitational-wave data analysis. In this paper we present GP15, a deep-learning method that merges residual networks and normalizing flows into a general-purpose,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-10 Daniel Lanchares , Osvaldo G. Freitas , Lysiane Mornas , José A. Font , Joaquín González-Nuevo , Luigi Toffolatti , Pietro Vischia

In this work we characterise the performance of a new search technique designed to be sensitive to the remnants of binary neutron star systems. Sensitivity estimates of the new method on simulated data are competitive against those of other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Benjamin Grace , Karl Wette , Susan M. Scott , Ling Sun

Since the recent announcements of evidence for a stochastic gravitational wave background from several pulsar timing array collaborations, much effort has been devoted to explore features beyond the fiducial Hellings-Downs background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Heling Deng , Xavier Siemens , Rand Burnette

Gravitational-wave (GW) parameter estimation typically assumes that instrumental noise is Gaussian and stationary. Obvious departures from this idealization are typically handled on a case-by-case basis, e.g., through bespoke procedures to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Ronan Legin , Maximiliano Isi , Kaze W. K. Wong , Yashar Hezaveh , Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

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

Gravitational waves have been detected from the inspiral of a binary neutron-star, GW170817, which allowed constraints to be placed on the neutron star equation of state. The equation of state can be further constrained if gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Paul J. Easter , Paul D. Lasky , Andrew R. Casey , Luciano Rezzolla , Kentaro Takami

With an increasing number of expected gravitational-wave detections of binary neutron star mergers, it is essential that gravitational-wave models employed for the analysis of observational data are able to describe generic compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Reetika Dudi , Tim Dietrich , Alireza Rashti , Bernd Bruegmann , Jan Steinhoff , Wolfgang Tichy

It has become increasingly useful to answer questions in gravitational-wave astronomy using transdimensional models where the number of free parameters can be varied depending on the complexity required to fit the data. Given the growing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-08 Hui Tong , Nir Guttman , Teagan A. Clarke , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Ethan Payne , Rowina Nathan , Ben Farr , Maya Fishbach , Gregory Ashton , Valentina Di Marco

Parameter estimation of gravitational wave data is often computationally expensive, requiring simplifying assumptions such as circularisation of binary orbits. Although, if included, the sub-dominant effects like orbital eccentricity may…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-11 Rimo Das , V. Gayathri , Divyajyoti , Sijil Jose , Imre Bartos , Sergey Klimenko , Chandra Kant Mishra

Characterizing the properties of black holes is one of the most important science objectives for gravitational-wave observations. Astrophysical evidence suggests that black holes that are nearly extremal (i.e. spins near the theoretical…

The detection rate for compact binary mergers has grown as the sensitivity of the global network of ground based gravitational wave detectors has improved, now reaching the stage where robust automation of the analyses is essential.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-02 Neil J. Cornish

Searching for gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data is computationally intensive. The data is unevenly sampled, and the noise is heteroscedastic, necessitating the use of a time-domain likelihood function with attendant expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Bence Bécsy , Neil J. Cornish , Matthew C. Digman

Continuous-wave (CW) gravitational waves (GWs) call for computationally-intensive methods. Low signal-to-noise ratio signals need templated searches with long coherent integration times and thus fine parameter-space resolution. Longer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Grant David Meadors , Badri Krishnan , Maria Alessandra Papa , John T. Whelan , Yuanhao Zhang

Reliable low-latency gravitational wave parameter estimation is essential to target limited electromagnetic followup facilities toward astrophysically interesting and electromagnetically relevant sources of gravitational waves. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-09 Brandon Miller , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Tyson B. Littenberg , Ben Farr