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Gravitational wave detection requires an in-depth understanding of the physical properties of gravitational wave signals, and the noise from which they are extracted. Understanding the statistical properties of noise is a complex endeavor,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-05 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have observed many tens of compact binary mergers to date. Transient, non-Gaussian noise excursions, known as "glitches", can impact signal detection in various ways.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-27 Neev Shah , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , David Stenning

The direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO has strikingly confirmed general relativity (GR), but testing GR via GWs requires estimating parameterized post-Einsteinian (ppE) deviation parameters in waveform models. Traditional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Yong-Xin Zhang , Tian-Yang Sun , Chun-Yu Xiong , Song-Tao Liu , Yu-Xin Wang , Shang-Jie Jin , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Extracting gravitational wave (GW) signals from individual Galactic binaries (GBs) against their self-generated confusion noise is a key data analysis challenge for space-borne detectors operating in the $\approx 0.1$ mHz to $\approx 10$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Xue-Hao Zhang , Shao-Dong Zhao , Soumya D. Mohanty , Yu-Xiao Liu

The sensitivity of searches for astrophysical transients in data from the LIGO is generally limited by the presence of transient, non-Gaussian noise artifacts, which occur at a high-enough rate such that accidental coincidence across…

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

We present a machine learning approach using normalising flows for inferring cosmological parameters from gravitational wave events. Our methodology is general to any type of compact binary coalescence event and cosmological model and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Federico Stachurski , Christopher Messenger , Martin Hendry

Gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers are able to detect a change in distance of $\sim$ 1/10,000th the size of a proton. Such sensitivity leads to large appearance rates of non-Gaussian transient noise bursts in the main detector strain,…

The detection of gravitational waves by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has ushered in a new era of observational astronomy, emphasizing the need for rapid and detailed parameter estimation and population-level analyses. Traditional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-22 Bo Liang , He Wang

The search for signatures of transient, unmodelled gravitational-wave (GW) bursts in the data of ground-based interferometric detectors typically uses `excess-power' search methods. One of the most challenging problems in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Ajith , M. Hewitson , J. R. Smith , K. A. Strain

The noise of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers limits their sensitivity and impacts the data quality, hindering the detection of GW signals from astrophysical sources. For transient searches, the most problematic are transient noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Kerwin Buijsman , Amit Reza , Sarah Caudill

The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

Gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through the universe can be microlensed by stellar and intermediate-mass objects. Lensing induces frequency-dependent amplification of GWs, which can be computed using \texttt{GLoW}, an accurate code…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-12 Marienza Caldarola , Srashti Goyal , Nihar Gupte , Stephen R. Green , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Gravity inversion is a commonly applied data analysis technique in the field of geophysics. While machine learning methods have previously been explored for the problem of gravity inversion, these are deterministic approaches returning a…

With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, techniques to extend the reach of gravitational wave detectors are desired. In addition to the stellar-mass black hole and neutron star mergers already detected, many more are below the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Rich Ormiston , Tri Nguyen , Michael Coughlin , Rana X. Adhikari , Erik Katsavounidis

Transient signals of instrumental and environmental origins ("glitches") in gravitational wave data elevate the false alarm rate of searches for astrophysical signals and reduce their sensitivity. Glitches that directly overlap…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-24 Soumya D. Mohanty , Mohammad A. T. Chowdhury

One of the key challenges of real-time detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers is the computational cost of conventional matched-filtering and Bayesian inference approaches. In particular, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Plamen G. Krastev , Kiranjyot Gill , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

Coincident observations with gravitational wave (GW) detectors and other astronomical instruments are in the focus of the experiments with the network of LIGO, Virgo and GEO detectors. They will become a necessary part of the future GW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , G. Mazzolo , G. Mitselmakher , C. Pankow , G. Prodi , V. Re , F. Salemi , I. Yakushin

Identifying the presence of a gravitational wave transient buried in non-stationary, non-Gaussian noise which can often contain spurious noise transients (glitches) is a very challenging task. For a given data set, transient gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 V. Gayathri , Dixeena Lopez , R. S. Pranjal , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai , Chris Messenger

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