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Gravitational Waves (GWs) provide a powerful means for cosmological distance estimation, circumventing the systematic uncertainties associated with traditional electromagnetic (EM) indicators. This work presents a model for estimating…

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In this paper, we develop a Neural Likelihood Estimator and apply it to analyse real gravitational-wave (GW) data for the first time. We assess the usability of neural likelihood for GW parameter estimation and report the parameter space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Luca Negri , Anuradha Samajdar

We construct compact and high accuracy Reduced Basis (RB) representations of single and multiple quasinormal modes (QNMs). The RB method determines a hierarchical and relatively small set of the most relevant waveforms. We find that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Sarah Caudill , Scott E. Field , Chad R. Galley , Frank Herrmann , Manuel Tiglio

The orbital evolution of binary black hole (BBH) systems is determined by the component masses and spins of the black holes and the governing gravity theory. Gravitational wave (GW) signals from the evolution of BBH orbits offer an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Debtroy Das , Soumen Roy , Anand S. Sengupta , Cosimo Bambi

Coalescing binary black-hole systems are among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for ground-based interferometers. While the \emph{inspiral} and \emph{ring-down} stages of the binary black-hole coalescence are well-modelled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Ajith

The gravitational waveform of a merging stellar-mass binary is described at leading order by a quadrupolar mode. However, the complete waveform includes higher-order modes, which encode valuable information not accessible from the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Ethan Payne , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

Since the very first detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of two black holes in 2015, Bayesian statistical methods have been routinely applied by LIGO and Virgo to extract the signal out of noisy interferometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-23 Renate Meyer , Matthew C. Edwards , Patricio Maturana-Russel , Nelson Christensen

Gravitational wave echoes offer a unique probe of the near-horizon structure of astrophysical black holes, beyond the standard ''black hole spectroscopy''. Theoretical waveform predictions, however, remain uncertain, motivating robust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Di Wu , Xi-Li Zhang , Qing-Guo Huang , Jing Ren

The coalescences of stellar-mass black-hole binaries through their inspiral, merger, and ringdown are among the most promising sources for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. If a GW signal is observed with sufficient…

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) provides a unique opportunity to study cosmology and astrophysics at multiple scales. Detecting microlensing signatures, in particular, requires efficient parameter estimation methods due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-02 Roberto Bada-Nerin , Oleg Bulashenko , Osvaldo Gramaxo Freitas , José A. Font

Thanks to the recent discoveries of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers by Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo, the genuinely strong-field dynamics of spacetime can now be…

We introduce a gravitational waveform inversion strategy that discovers mechanical models of binary black hole (BBH) systems. We show that only a single time series of (possibly noisy) waveform data is necessary to construct the equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-10 Brendan Keith , Akshay Khadse , Scott E. Field

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

Numerical relativity (NR) enables the study of physics in strong and dynamical gravitational fields and provides predictions for the gravitational-wave signals produced by merging black holes. Despite the impressive accuracy of modern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-15 Richard Dyer , Christopher J. Moore

As gravitational-wave (GW) observations of binary black holes are becoming a precision tool for physics and astronomy, several subdominant effects in the GW signals need to be accurately modeled. Previous studies have shown that neglecting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-22 Ajit Kumar Mehta , Praveer Tiwari , Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel , Chandra Kant Mishra , Vijay Varma , Parameswaran Ajith

Once a gravitational wave signal is detected, the measurement of its source parameters is important to achieve various scientific goals. This is done through Bayesian inference, where the analysis cost increases with the model complexity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Quirijn Meijer , K. Haris , Chris Van Den Broeck

Gravitational wave detection has opened up new avenues for exploring and understanding some of the fundamental principles of the universe. The optimal method for detecting modelled gravitational-wave events involves template-based matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-15 Damon Beveridge , Alistair McLeod , Linqing Wen , Andreas Wicenec

We present a comprehensive investigation of the F-statistic method for parameter estimation of gravitational wave (GW) signals from compact binary coalescences. By analytically maximizing the likelihood over the luminosity distance and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Hai-Tian Wang

The direct discovery of gravitational waves from compact binary systems leads for the first time to explore the possibility of black hole spectroscopy. Newly formed black holes produced by coalescing events are copious emitters of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-24 Andrea Maselli , Kostas Kokkotas , Pablo Laguna

We present and assess a Bayesian method to interpret gravitational wave signals from binary black holes. Our method directly compares gravitational wave data to numerical relativity simulations. This procedure bypasses approximations used…