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The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes are some of the most important sources for LISA. Detection techniques based on fully coherent matched filtering have been shown to be computationally intractable.…

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The quantification of myocardial perfusion MRI has the potential to provide a fast, automated and user-independent assessment of myocardial ischaemia. However, due to the relatively high noise level and low temporal resolution of the…

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The Expectation--Maximization (EM) algorithm is a simple meta-algorithm that has been used for many years as a methodology for statistical inference when there are missing measurements in the observed data or when the data is composed of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-15 Hideitsu Hino , Shotaro Akaho , Noboru Murata

We describe a new kludge scheme to model the dynamics of generic extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs; stellar compact objects spiraling into a spinning supermassive black hole) and their gravitational-wave emission. The Chimera scheme is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Carlos F. Sopuerta , Nicolas Yunes

We present realistic eccentricity distributions for extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) forming via the two-body relaxation channel in nuclear star clusters, tracking their evolution up to the final plunge onto the central Schwarzschild…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Davide Mancieri , Luca Broggi , Morgan Vinciguerra , Alberto Sesana , Matteo Bonetti

Mini-Extreme-Mass-Ratio Inspirals (mini-EMRIs), comprising a sub-solar exotic compact object (such as a primordial black hole or boson star) orbiting a much heavier stellar-origin or exotic compact object, represent key targets for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Zi-Xuan Wang , Xing-Yu Chen , Ju Chen , Gong Cheng , Huai-Ke Guo , Andrew L. Miller

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed third generation ground-based interferometer, for which the target is a sensitivity that is a factor of ten better than Advanced LIGO and a frequency range that extends down to about 1Hz. ET will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R. Gair

A number of open problems hinder our present ability to extract scientific information from data that will be gathered by the near-future gravitational-wave mission LISA. Many of these relate to the modeling, detection and characterization…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-17 Alvin J. K. Chua , Natalia Korsakova , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Stanislav Babak

It is not currently clear how important it will be to include conservative self-force (SF) corrections in the models for extreme-mass-ratio inspiral (EMRI) waveforms that will be used to detect such signals in LISA (Laser Interferometer…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-30 E. A. Huerta , Jonathan R Gair

Randomized algorithms exploit stochasticity to reduce computational complexity. One important example is random feature regression (RFR) that accelerates Gaussian process regression (GPR). RFR approximates an unknown function with a random…

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Phase estimation protocols provide a fundamental benchmark for the field of quantum metrology. The latter represents one of the most relevant applications of quantum theory, potentially enabling the capability of measuring unknown physical…

Gravitational wave Bayesian parameter inference involves repeated comparisons of GW data to generic candidate predictions. Even with algorithmically efficient methods like RIFT or reduced-order quadrature, the time needed to perform these…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 D. Wysocki , R. O'Shaughnessy , Y-L. L. Fang , Jacob Lange

The inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into supermassive black holes constitute some of the most important sources for LISA. Detection of these sources using fully coherent matched filtering is computationally intractable, so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jonathan Gair , Linqing Wen

In this study, we present a method to predict the Received signal strength indication (RSSI) in an area of the base station. Traditional attenuated wave propagation models are often time consuming as well as computationally complex,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Tung Giang Le , Huy Tung Quach , Thu Thao Dao Le , Manh Hoang Tran

Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) provide a fast alternative to traditional gradient-based learning in neural networks, offering rapid training and robust generalization capabilities. Its theoretical basis shows its universal approximation…

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We propose a deep learning-based approach that integrates MRI sequence parameters to improve the accuracy and generalizability of quantitative image synthesis from clinical weighted MRI. Our physics-driven neural network embeds MRI sequence…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Lingjing Chen , Chengxiu Zhang , Yinqiao Yi , Yida Wang , Yang Song , Xu Yan , Shengfang Xu , Dalin Zhu , Mengqiu Cao , Yan Zhou , Chenglong Wang , Guang Yang

We study eccentric orbits of the Schwarzschild spacetime for extreme mass ratio system (EMRI) in modified gravity theories with additional scalar fields. Due to the additional energy and angular momentum carried away by the scalar field,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-05 Chao Zhang , Yungui Gong , Dicong Liang , Bin Wang

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will detect gravitational wave signals from a wide range of sources. However, disentangling individual signals from the source-dominated data stream is a challenging problem and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Jonathan R Gair , Gareth Jones

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are among the most powerful probes of strong-field gravity and of the environments surrounding supermassive compact objects. Motivated by the expected presence of dark matter near galactic centers, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Mustapha Azreg-Aïnou , Mubasher Jamil , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

Rapid and robust parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources is a key component of modern multi-messenger astronomy. We present a novel and straightforward method for rapid parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources that uses…

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