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We present a parameter estimation framework for gravitational wave (GW) signals that brings together several ideas to accelerate the inference process. First, we use the relative binning algorithm to evaluate the signal-to-noise-ratio…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-31 Tousif Islam , Javier Roulet , Tejaswi Venumadhav

The study of compact binary in-spirals and mergers with gravitational wave observatories amounts to optimizing a theoretical description of the data to best reproduce the true detector output. While most of the research effort in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-10-30 Tyson B. Littenberg , Michael Coughlin , Benjamin Farr , Will M. Farr

Future third generation (3G) ground-based GW detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will have unprecedented sensitivities enabling studies of the entire population of stellar mass binary black hole coalescences in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-24 Michael Pürrer , Carl-Johan Haster

Detection of gravitational waves produced by merger of binary compact objects could provide an independent way for measuring the luminosity distance to the gravitational-wave burst source, indicating that gravitational-wave observation,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-15 Xuan-Neng Zhang , Ling-Feng Wang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors like the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA experiments now regularly witness gravitational waves from compact binary mergers: the relativistic collisions of neutron stars and/or stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-28 T. A. Callister

The direct detection of gravitational waves offers an exciting new window onto our Universe. At the same time, multiple observational evidence and theoretical considerations motivate the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-18 Horng Sheng Chia

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are sensitive to a narrow range of frequencies, effectively taking a snapshot of merging compact-object binary dynamics just before merger. We demonstrate that by adopting analysis parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-01 Benjamin Farr , Evan Ochsner , Will M. Farr , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The first generation of gravitational wave interferometric detectors has taken data at, or close to, their design sensitivity. This data has been searched for a broad range of gravitational wave signatures. An overview of gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Stephen Fairhurst , Gianluca M Guidi , Patrice Hello , John T Whelan , Graham Woan

In dense stellar regions, highly eccentric binaries of black holes and neutron stars can form through various n-body interactions. Such a binary could emit a significant fraction of its binding energy in a sequence of largely isolated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Kai Sheng Tai , Sean T. McWilliams , Frans Pretorius

The coalescence of compact binaries containing neutron stars or black holes is one of the most promising signals for advanced ground-based laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors, with the first direct detections expected over the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Simon Stevenson , Frank Ohme , Stephen Fairhurst

Gravitational wave detectors now under construction are sensitive to the phase of the incident gravitational waves. Correspondingly, the signals from the different detectors can be combined, in the analysis, to simulate a single detector of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 Lee Samuel Finn

The new generation of gravitational wave (GW) detectors have the potential to open a novel window onto the violent dynamics of core collapse. Although it is certain that core collapse events generate gravitational radiation, understanding…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chris L. Fryer , Daniel E. Holz , Scott A. Hughes , Michael S. Warren

Gravitational waves (GWs) provide a revolutionary tool to investigate yet unobserved astrophysical objects. Especially the first stars, which are believed to be more massive than present-day stars, might be indirectly observable via the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-20 Tilman Hartwig , Marta Volonteri , Volker Bromm , Ralf S. Klessen , Enrico Barausse , Mattis Magg , Athena Stacy

We demonstrate the potential of new adaptive optical technology to expand the detection horizon of gravitational-wave observatories. Achieving greater quantum-noise-limited sensitivity to spacetime strain hinges on achieving higher…

Gravitational wave (GW) signals of astrophysical origin are typically weak. This is because gravity is a weak force, the weakest among the four forces we know of. In order to detect GW signals, one must make differential measurements of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Sanjeev Dhurandhar

How many gravitational-wave observations from double compact object mergers have we seen to date? This seemingly simple question surprisingly yields a somewhat ambiguous answer that depends on the chosen data-analysis pipeline, detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-25 Floor S. Broekgaarden , Sharan Banagiri , Ethan Payne

The recent claim by BICEP2 of evidence for primordial gravitational waves from inflation has focused interest on the potential for early-Universe cosmology using observations of gravitational waves. In addition to cosmic microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-11 John T. Giblin , Eric Thrane

We present LEGWORK (LISA Evolution and Gravitational Wave Orbit Kit), an open-source Python package for making predictions about stellar-origin gravitational wave sources and their detectability in LISA or other space-based gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-08 Tom Wagg , Katelyn Breivik , Selma E. de Mink