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Many traditional algorithms applied in gravitational-wave astronomy rely on the assumption of Gaussian noise, a condition not always met. To meet this need, this study extends a robust statistical framework, advancing previous work on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 Argyro Sasli , Minas Karamanis , Nikolaos Karnesis , Michael W. Coughlin , Vuk Mandic , Uroš Seljak , Nikolaos Stergioulas

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed next-generation Gravitational Wave (GW) interferometer designed to detect a large number of astrophysical and cosmological sources with unprecedented sensitivity. A key target for ET is the detection of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-17 Ilaria Caporali , Giulia Capurri , Walter Del Pozzo , Angelo Ricciardone , Lorenzo Valbusa Dall'Armi

The energy density spectrum is an observable of gravitational waves. Divergence has appeared in the energy density spectra of the scalar induced gravitational waves for different gauge fixings. To resolve the discrepancy, we investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-06 Zhe Chang , Sai Wang , Qing-Hua Zhu

We consider the problem of estimating cross-spectral quantities in the low-frequency regime, where long observation times limit averaging over large ensembles of periodograms, thereby preventing the use of approximate Gaussian statistics.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-16 Lorenzo Sala , Stefano Vitale

We present a method of noise level estimation that is valid even for high noise levels. The method makes use of the functional dependence of coarse grained correlation entropy $K_2(\eps)$ on the threshold parameter $\eps$. We show that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Urbanowicz , J. A. Holyst

We present data analysis methods used in detection and the estimation of parameters of gravitational wave signals from the white dwarf binaries in the mock LISA data challenge. Our main focus is on the analysis of challenge 3.1, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-23 Arkadiusz Błaut , Stanislav Babak , Andrzej Królak

Precision timing of highly stable milli-second pulsars is a promising technique for the detection of very low frequency sources of gravitational waves. In any single pulsar, a stochastic gravitational wave signal appears as an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Neil J. Cornish , Laura M. Sampson

We formulate the data analysis problem for the detection of the Newtonian coalescing-binary signal by a network of laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors that have arbitrary orientations, but are located at the same site. We use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-09 Sukanta Bose , Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar , Archana Pai

One of the key science goals of advanced gravitational-wave detectors is to observe a stochastic gravitational-wave background. However, recent work demonstrates that correlated magnetic fields from Schumann resonances can produce…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Eric Thrane , Nelson Christensen , Robert M. S. Schofield , Anamaria Effler

LISA will detect gravitational waves (GWs) in the milli-Hz frequency band in space. Time-delay interferometry (TDI) is developed to suppress laser frequency noise beneath the acceleration noise and optical metrology noise. To identify…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-30 Gang Wang , Bin Li , Peng Xu , Xilong Fan

A variational Bayesian inference for measured wave intensity, such as X-ray intensity, is proposed in this paper. The data is popular to obtain information about unobservable features of an object, such as a material sample and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Akinori Asahara , Yoshihiro Osakabe , Yamamoto Mitsuya , Hidekazu Morita

Data analysis in modern science using extensive experimental and observational facilities, such as a gravitational wave detector, is essential in the search for novel scientific discoveries. Accordingly, various techniques and mathematical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-14 Piljong Jung , Sang Hoon Oh , Young-Min Kim , Edwin J. Son , John J. Oh

We present a new differential mechanical gradiometer for the detection of low-frequency Gravitational Waves. The frequency range is 0.05 to 1 Hz, a frequency gap not covered either by future space-based detectors such as LISA or by…

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will explore the source-rich milli-Hertz band of the gravitational wave spectrum. In contrast to ground based detectors, where typical signals are short-lived and discrete, LISA signals are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-09 Travis Robson , Neil Cornish

In order to analyze data produced by the kilometer-scale gravitational wave detectors that will begin operation early next century, one needs to develop robust statistical tools capable of extracting weak signals from the detector noise.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-06 Jolien D. E. Creighton

The Gaussian phase noise of intensity time series is demonstrated to be drastically reduced when the raw voltage data are digitally filtered through an arbitrarily large number $n$ of orthornormal bandpass profiles (eigen-filters) sharing…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Richard Lieu , Kristen Lackeos

The detection and estimation of gravitational wave burst signals, with {\em a priori} unknown polarization waveforms, requires the use of data from a network of detectors. For determining how the data from such a network should be combined,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Soumya D. Mohanty , Malik Rakhmanov , Sergei Klimenko , Guenakh Mitselmakher

Future searches for a gravitational-wave background using Earth-based gravitational-wave detectors might be impacted by correlated noise sources. A well known example are the Schumann resonances, which are extensively studied in the context…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-20 Kamiel Janssens , Thomas A. Callister , Nelson Christensen , Michael W. Coughlin , Ioannis Michaloliakos , Jishnu Suresh , Nick van Remortel

Gravitational-wave searches for cosmic strings are currently hindered by the presence of detector glitches, some classes of which strongly resemble cosmic string signals. This confusion greatly reduces the efficiency of searches. A…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-23 Quirijn Meijer , Melissa Lopez , Daichi Tsuna , Sarah Caudill

A central challenge in Gravitational Wave Astronomy is identifying weak signals in the presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise. The separation of gravitational wave signals from noise requires good models for both. When accurate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Neil J. Cornish , Tyson B. Littenberg