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Gravitational wave bursts are transient signals distinct from compact binary mergers that arise from a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. Because most of these phenomena are poorly modeled, the use of traditional search methods such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Vincent Boudart

The promise of multi-messenger astronomy relies on the rapid detection of gravitational waves at very low latencies ($\mathcal{O}$(1\,s)) in order to maximize the amount of time available for follow-up observations. In recent years,…

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) with possible telescope follow-ups opens a window to ground-breaking discoveries in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. With the improved sensitivity of current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Ana Martins , Melissa Lopez , Quirijn Meijer , Gregory Baltus , Marc van der Sluys , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill

Detecting unmodeled gravitational wave (GW) bursts presents significant challenges due to the lack of accurate waveform templates required for matched-filtering techniques. A primary difficulty lies in distinguishing genuine signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-17 Matteo Pracchia , Sacha Peters , Maxime Fays

Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e., they will be collected at times when only one detector in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-14 Marco Cavaglia , Sergio Gaudio , Travis Hansen , Kai Staats , Marek Szczepanczyk , Michele Zanolin

Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts provide the greater multi-messenger community with information about the candidate events detected by the International Gravitational-Wave Network (IGWN). Prompt release of data products such as the sky…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-19 Seiya Tsukamoto , Andrew Toivonen , Holton Griffin , Avyukt Raghuvanshi , Megan Averill , Frank Kerkow , Michael W. Coughlin , Man Leong Chan , Leo Singer

GW170817 has led to the first example of multi-messenger astronomy with observations from gravitational wave interferometers and electromagnetic telescopes combined to characterise the source. However, detections of the early inspiral phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-26 Gregory Baltus , Justin Janquart , Melissa Lopez , Amit Reza , Sarah Caudill , Jean-Rene Cudell

Models of gravitational waveforms play a critical role in detecting and characterizing the gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences. Waveforms from numerical relativity (NR), while highly accurate, are too computationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-03 Zoheyr Doctor , Ben Farr , Daniel E. Holz , Michael Pürrer

The detection of gravitational wave usually requires to match the measurement data with a large number of templates, which is computationally very expensive. Compressed sensing methods allow one to match the data with a small number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-26 Yan Wang

Gravitational waves from the coalescences of black hole and neutron stars afford us the unique opportunity to determine the sources' properties, such as their masses and spins, with unprecedented accuracy. To do so, however, theoretical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Lucy M. Thomas , Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt

We present here the latest development of a machine-learning pipeline for pre-merger alerts from gravitational waves coming from binary neutron stars. This work starts from the convolutional neural networks introduced in our previous paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-17 Grégory Baltus , Justin Janquart , Melissa Lopez , Harsh Narola , Jean-René Cudell

Machine learning can be a powerful tool to discover new signal types in astronomical data. We here apply it to search for long-duration transient gravitational waves triggered by pulsar glitches, which could yield physical insight into the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Luana M. Modafferi , Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel

Low-latency detections of gravitational waves (GWs) are crucial to enable prompt follow-up observations to astrophysical transients by conventional telescopes. We have developed a low-latency pipeline using a technique called Summed…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-09 Xiangyu Guo , Qi Chu , Shin Kee Chung , Zhihui Du , Linqing Wen

A yet undetected class of GW signals is represented by the close encounters between compact objects in highly-eccentric e~1 orbits, that can occur in binary systems formed in dense environments such as globular clusters. The expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Federico De Santi , Massimiliano Razzano , Francesco Fidecaro , Luca Muccillo , Lucia Papalini , Barbara Patricelli

The waveform templates of the matched filtering-based gravitational-wave search ought to cover wide range of parameters for the prosperous detection. Numerical relativity (NR) has been widely accepted as the most accurate method for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-30 Joongoo Lee , Sang Hoon Oh , Kyungmin Kim , Gihyuk Cho , John J. Oh , Edwin J. Son , Hyung Mok Lee

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

Ground-based gravitational wave laser interferometers (LIGO, GEO-600, Virgo and Tama-300) have now reached high sensitivity and duty cycle. We present a Bayesian evidence-based approach to the search for gravitational waves, in particular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio

Gravitational waves are ripples in the space time fabric when high energy events such as black hole mergers or neutron star collisions take place. The first Gravitational Wave (GW) detection (GW150914) was made by the Laser Interferometer…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-13 Yash Chauhan

Searching for a signal depending on unknown parameters in a noisy background with matched filtering techniques always requires an analysis of the data with several templates in parallel in order to ensure a proper match between the filter…

We introduce deep learning time-series forecasting for gravitational wave detection of binary neutron star mergers. This method enables the identification of these signals in real advanced LIGO data up to 30 seconds before merger. When…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-09 Wei Wei , E. A. Huerta