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All-sky searches for continuous gravitational waves are generally model dependent and computationally costly to run. By contrast, SOAP is a model-agnostic search that rapidly returns candidate signal tracks in the time-frequency plane. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-09 Joseph Bayley , Chris Messenger , Graham Woan

The signal of continuous gravitational waves has a longer duration than the observation period. Even if the waveform in the source frame is monochromatic, we will observe the waveform with modulated frequencies due to the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Takahiro Tanaka

The accuracy of Bayesian inference can be negatively affected by the use of inaccurate forward models. In the case of gravitational-wave inference, accurate but computationally expensive waveform models are sometimes substituted with faster…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Miaoxin Liu , Xiao-Dong Li , Alvin J. K. Chua

We quantify the advantages of a recently proposed data processing technique to search for continuous gravitational wave (GW) signals from isolated rotating asymmetric neutron stars in data measured by ground-based GW interferometers. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Harshit Raj , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Massimo Tinto

With the improvement in sensitivity of gravitational wave (GW) detectors and the increasing diversity of GW sources, there is a strong need for accurate GW waveform models for data analysis. While the current model accuracy assessments…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-22 Qian Hu , John Veitch

We present a method for detection of weak continuous signals from sources in binary systems via the incoherent combination of many "short" coherently-analyzed segments. The main focus of the work is on the construction of a metric on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Chris Messenger

The increasing precision of cosmological data provides us with an opportunity to test general relativity (GR) on the largest accessible scales. Parameterizing modified gravity models facilitates the systematic testing of the predictions of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Ali Narimani , Douglas Scott

In this paper, we propose a parameter space augmentation approach that is based on "intentionally" introducing a pseudo-nuisance parameter into generalized linear models for the purpose of variance reduction. We first consider the parameter…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-07-22 Lixing Zhu , Zhenghui Feng

Detection of gravitational waves(GW) involves using the network of GW telescopes to observe a large sky region. However, owing to the arrangement of the GW telescopes, even with aLIGO- aVirgo-KAGRA network,parameter estimation accuracy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 Kenji Ono , Kazuhiro Hayama

The maximum likelihood method is often used for parameter estimation in gravitational wave astronomy. Recently, an interesting approach was proposed by Vallisneri to evaluate the distributions of parameter estimation errors expected for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Naoki Seto , Koutarou Kyutoku

We investigate the matching of continuous gravitational wave (CGW) signals in an all sky search with reference to Earth based laser interferometric detectors. We consider the source location as the parameters of the signal manifold and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. K. Sahay

As the sensitivity and observing time of gravitational-wave detectors increase, a more diverse range of signals is expected to be observed from a variety of sources. Especially, long-lived gravitational-wave transients have received…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-24 Adrian Macquet , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Nelson Christensen , Michael Coughlin

The problem of search for nearly periodic gravitational wave sources in the data from laser interferometric detectors is discussed using a simple model of the signal. Accuracies of estimation of the parameters and computational requirements…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrzej Królak

We present a new type of search strategy designed specifically to find continuously emitting gravitational wave sources in known binary systems based on the incoherent sum of frequency modulated binary signal sidebands. The search pipeline…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Messenger , G. Woan

We describe a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non\textendash Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. The method is based on the determination of relevant statistical parameters using importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Riccardo Buscicchio , Anirban Ain , Matteo Ballelli , Giancarlo Cella , Barbara Patricelli

In this paper we review the application of the matched filter (MF) technique and its application to detect weak, deterministic, smooth signals in a stationary, random, Gaussian noise. This is particular suitable in astronomy to detect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-21 Roberto Vio , Paola Andreani

In this paper, we consider the problem of detecting signals in multiple, sequentially observed data streams. For each stream, the exact distribution is unknown, but characterized by a parameter that takes values in either of two disjoint…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-30 Yiming Xing , Anamitra Chaudhuri , Yifan Chen

Gravity theories beyond general relativity (GR) can change the properties of gravitational waves: their polarizations, dispersion, speed, and, importantly, energy content are all heavily theory- dependent. All these corrections can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-20 Maximiliano Isi , Leo C. Stein

A valuable target for advanced gravitational-wave detectors is the stochastic gravitational-wave background. The stochastic background imparts a weak correlated signal into networks of gravitational-wave detectors, and so standard searches…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 Thomas Callister , Michael Coughlin , Jonah Kanner

I define here a novel function on a modeled space of gravitational-wave signals, before studying its properties as a statistic for detection, as an objective function for identification, and as an effective likelihood function for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Alvin J. K. Chua