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Identifying the source parameters from a gravitational-wave measurement alone is limited by our ability to discriminate signals from different sources and the accuracy of the waveform family employed in the search. Here we address both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-21 Frank Ohme , Alex B. Nielsen , Drew Keppel , Andrew Lundgren

Bayesian parameter estimation of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence (CBC) typically requires more than millions of evaluations of computationally expensive template waveforms. We propose a technique to reduce the cost of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 Soichiro Morisaki

Because of the electromagnetic radiation produced during the merger, compact binary coalescences with neutron stars may result in multi-messenger observations. In order to follow up on the gravitational-wave signal with electromagnetic…

We discuss an astrometric timing effect on data analysis of continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating isolated neutron stars. Special attention is directed to the possibility of determining their distances by measuring the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Naoki Seto

Among the most eagerly anticipated opportunities made possible by Advanced LIGO/Virgo are multimessenger observations of compact mergers. Optical counterparts may be short-lived so rapid characterization of gravitational wave (GW) events is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tyson B. Littenberg , Ben Farr , Scott Coughlin , Vicky Kalogera

Gravitational-wave astronomy will soon become a new tool for observing the Universe. Detecting and interpreting gravitational waves will require deep theoretical insights into astronomical sources. The past three decades have seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-03 Alessandra Buonanno , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Searching for gravitational waves in pulsar timing array data is computationally intensive. The data is unevenly sampled, and the noise is heteroscedastic, necessitating the use of a time-domain likelihood function with attendant expensive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Bence Bécsy , Neil J. Cornish , Matthew C. Digman

We investigate a novel approach to measuring the Hubble constant using gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binaries by exploiting the narrowness of the distribution of masses of the underlying neutron-star population.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-31 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel

In the gravitational-wave analysis of pulsar-timing-array datasets, parameter estimation is usually performed using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods to explore posterior probability densities. We introduce an alternative procedure that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Michele Vallisneri , Marco Crisostomi , Aaron D. Johnson , Patrick M. Meyers

One of the main bottlenecks in gravitational wave (GW) astronomy is the high cost of performing parameter estimation and GW searches on the fly. We propose a novel technique based on Reduced Order Quadratures (ROQs), an application and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-26 Priscilla Canizares , Scott E. Field , Jonathan R. Gair , Manuel Tiglio

Gravitational-wave observations provide a powerful probe of compact objects and strong-field gravity. In this work, we investigate the detectability of binaries containing (sub-)solar-mass black holes and superspinars with current and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 K. S. Sruthy , N. V. Krishnendu , Chandrachur Chakraborty , Nami Uchikata

We produce the gravitational waveforms for the extreme mass ratio inspiral systems (EMRIs) of binary stars moving around central supermassive black hole (SBH), or called B-EMRIs. We calculate the external orbits of the binary stars via the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 Kun Meng , Hongsheng Zhang , Xi-Long Fan , Yuan Yong , Fei Du

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,…

As two neutron stars merge, they emit gravitational waves that can potentially be detected by earth bound detectors. Matched-filtering based algorithms have traditionally been used to extract quiet signals embedded in noise. We introduce a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-29 Marlin B. Schäfer , Frank Ohme , Alexander H. Nitz

Gravitational-wave observations of compact binaries have the potential to uncover the distribution of masses and angular momenta of black holes and neutron stars in the universe. The binary components' physical parameters can be inferred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Mark Hannam , Duncan A. Brown , Stephen Fairhurst , Chris L. Fryer , Ian W. Harry

The first detection of gravitational waves by LIGO from the merger of two compact objects has sparked new interest in detecting electromagnetic counterparts to these violent events. For mergers involving neutron stars, it is thought that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Neil J. Cornish

The copious scientific literature produced after the detection of GW170817 electromagnetic counterpart demonstrated the importance of a prompt and accurate localization of the gravitational wave within the co-moving volume. In this letter,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-14 Stefano Rinaldi , Walter Del Pozzo

Pulsar timing is a promising technique for detecting low frequency sources of gravitational waves. Historically the focus has been on the detection of diffuse stochastic backgrounds, such as those formed from the superposition of weak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-08-18 Vincent Corbin , Neil J. Cornish

Third-generation ground-based gravitational wave detectors are expected to observe $\mathcal{O}(10^5)$ of overlapping signals per year from a multitude of astrophysical sources that will be computationally challenging to resolve…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 G. Giarda , A. I. Renzini , C. Pacilio , D. Gerosa

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