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In the first paper in this series, we introduced "persistent gravitational wave observables" as a framework for generalizing the gravitational wave memory effect. These observables are nonlocal in time and nonzero in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-20 Éanna É. Flanagan , Alexander M. Grant , Abraham I. Harte , David A. Nichols

This work investigates the problem of detecting gravitational wave (GW) events based on simulated damped sinusoid signals contaminated with white Gaussian noise. It is treated as a classification problem with one class for the interesting…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-01 Xiangru Li , Woliang Yu , Xilong Fan , G. Jogesh Babu

Gravitational waves (GWs) offer a new observational window into the universe, providing insights into compact objects and cosmic structures. Gravitational lensing, commonly studied in electromagnetic waves, also affects GWs, introducing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-25 Xing-Yu Yang , Tan Chen , Rong-Gen Cai

The advent of third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) detectors opens new opportunities for multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star merger events, holding significant potential for probing the history of cosmic expansion.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-07 Tao Han , Ze Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

As of this moment, fifty gravitational waves (GW) detections have been announced, thanks to the observational efforts of the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, working with the Advanced LIGO and the Advanced Virgo interferometers. The detection of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-30 Filip Morawski , Michał Bejger , Elena Cuoco , Luigia Petre

Although the spatial curvature has been precisely determined via the cosmic microwave background (CMB) observation by Planck satellite, it still suffers from the well-known cosmic curvature tension. As a standard siren, gravitational waves…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-20 Yilong Zhang , Shuo Cao , Xiaolin Liu , Tonghua Liu , Yuting Liu , Chenfa Zheng

The discovery of the astrophysical events GW150926 and GW151226 has experimentally confirmed the existence of gravitational waves (GW) and has demonstrated the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems. This finding marks the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Javier M. Antelis , Claudia Moreno

Precessing black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries produce a rich gravitational wave signal, encoding the binary's nature and inspiral kinematics. Using the lalinference\_mcmc Markov-chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation code, we use two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 R. O'Shaughnessy , B. Farr , E. Ochsner , H. S. Cho , V. Raymond , C. Kim , C. H. Lee

We demonstrate unprecedented accuracy for rapid gravitational-wave parameter estimation with deep learning. Using neural networks as surrogates for Bayesian posterior distributions, we analyze eight gravitational-wave events from the first…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-31 Maximilian Dax , Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair , Jakob H. Macke , Alessandra Buonanno , Bernhard Schölkopf

Tidal interactions in coalescing binary neutron stars modify the dynamics of the inspiral and hence imprint a signature on their gravitational wave (GW) signals in the form of an extra phase shift. We need accurate models for the tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Hang Yu , Nevin N. Weinberg , Phil Arras , James Kwon , Tejaswi Venumadhav

We study the effect of non-quadrupolar modes in the detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves (GWs) from non-spinning black-hole binaries. We evaluate the loss of signal-to-noise ratio and the systematic errors in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith , Sascha Husa , Juan Calderon Bustillo , Mark Hannam , Michael Puerrer

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy truly began with the detection of merging compact binaries. The next breakthrough lies in detecting GWs from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), particularly the GW linear memory -- a phenomenon arising from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-11 Kiranjyot Gill

Efficient parameter estimation is critical for Gravitational-Wave astronomy. In the case of compact binary coalescence, the high dimensional parameter space demands efficient sampling techniques - such as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-04 V. Raymond , W. M. Farr

We introduce an algorithm to marginalize the likelihood for a gravitational wave signal from a quasi-circular binary merger over its extrinsic parameters, accounting for the effects of higher harmonics and spin-induced precession. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Javier Roulet , Jonathan Mushkin , Digvijay Wadekar , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay , Matias Zaldarriaga

As the number of detected gravitational wave sources increase with increasing sensitivity of the gravitational wave observatories, observing strongly lensed pair of events will become a real possibility. Lensed GW events will have very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Anupreeta More , Surhud More

We hereby propose an alternative and additional angle on the nature of gravitational waves (GWs), postulating the theoretical and experimental possibility that GWs carry a deformation of the time component of spacetime, other than the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-06 Stefano Bondani , Sergio Luigi Cacciatori

Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors begin operation imminently. Their intended goal is not only to make the first direct detection of GWs, but also to make inferences about the source systems. Binary neutron-star mergers…

Gravitational wave memory is theorized to arise from the integrated history of gravitational wave emission, and manifests as a spacetime deformation in the wake of a propagating gravitational wave. We explore the detectability of the memory…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-01 Kristina Islo , Joseph Simon , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Xavier Siemens

In this article, we compare in detail the linear and nonlinear approach to the Gravitational Waves Displacement and Velocity Memory (GWDM and GWVM) effects. We consider astrophysical situations that give rise to gravitational waves with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Lydia Bieri , Alexander Polnarev

We investigate new optical effects of nonlinear gravitational waves that arise from hereditary effects. Firstly, we show that the amplitude of continuous plane waves has a hereditary effect that grows with distance. This can make the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Yu-Qiang Liu , Yu-Qi Dong , Yu-Xiao Liu