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We describe new methods for denoising and detection of gravitational waves embedded in additive Gaussian noise. The methods are based on Total Variation denoising algorithms. These algorithms, which do not need any a priori information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-10 Alejandro Torres , Antonio Marquina , José A. Font , José M. Ibáñez

As engineered systems grow in complexity, there is an increasing need for automatic methods that can detect, diagnose, and even correct transient anomalies that inevitably arise and can be difficult or impossible to diagnose and fix…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Robert E. Colgan , Zsuzsa Márka , Jingkai Yan , Imre Bartos , John N. Wright , Szabolcs Márka

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 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

Gravitational waves emitted by a ringing black hole allow us to perform precision tests of general relativity in the strong field regime. With improvements to our current gravitational wave detectors and upcoming next-generation detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Costantino Pacilio , Swetha Bhagwat , Roberto Cotesta

Gravitational wave observations by ground based detectors such as LIGO and Virgo have transformed astrophysics, enabling the study of compact binary systems and their mergers. However, transient noise artifacts, or glitches, pose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

The analysis of gravitational wave interferometer data requires estimates for the noise covariance matrix. For stationary noise, this amounts to estimating the power spectrum. Classical methods such as Welch averaging are used in many…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Toral Gupta , Neil Cornish

Bayesian model selection provides a powerful and mathematically transparent framework to tackle hypothesis testing, such as detection tests of gravitational waves emitted during the coalescence of binary systems using ground-based laser…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio

Bayesian inference is a powerful tool in gravitational-wave astronomy. It enables us to deduce the properties of merging compact-object binaries and to determine how these mergers are distributed as a population according to mass, spin, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-15 Isobel M. Romero-Shaw , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

With the advent of gravitational wave astronomy, techniques to extend the reach of gravitational wave detectors are desired. In addition to the stellar-mass black hole and neutron star mergers already detected, many more are below the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-22 Rich Ormiston , Tri Nguyen , Michael Coughlin , Rana X. Adhikari , Erik Katsavounidis

The article reviews the statistical theory of signal detection in application to analysis of deterministic gravitational-wave signals in the noise of a detector. Statistical foundations for the theory of signal detection and parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Piotr Jaranowski , Andrzej Królak

We present a unified description of gravitational-wave data analysis that unites the template-based analysis used to detect deterministic signals from well-modeled sources, such as binary-black-hole mergers, with the cross-correlation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Neil J. Cornish , Joseph D. Romano

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will be able to observe signals from sources that are otherwise nearly impossible from current ground-based detection. Consequently, the well established signal detection method, matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-17 Tianyu Zhao , Ruoxi Lyu , He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

We apply common gravitational wave inference procedures on binary black hole merger waveforms beyond general relativity. We consider dynamical Chern-Simons gravity, a modified theory of gravity with origins in string theory and loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Maria Okounkova , Maximiliano Isi , Katerina Chatziioannou , Will M. Farr

We present a rapid and reliable deep learning-based method for gravitational wave signal reconstruction from elusive, generic binary black hole mergers in LIGO data. We demonstrate that our model, \texttt{AWaRe}, effectively recovers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

We introduce the use of autoregressive normalizing flows for rapid likelihood-free inference of binary black hole system parameters from gravitational-wave data with deep neural networks. A normalizing flow is an invertible mapping on a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Stephen R. Green , Christine Simpson , Jonathan Gair

We show that gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers may be better distinguished from instrumental noise transients by using Bayesian models that look for signal coherence across a detector network. This can be achieved even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-30 Maximiliano Isi , Rory Smith , Salvatore Vitale , T. J. Massinger , Jonah Kanner , Avi Vajpeyi

Gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers are able to detect a change in distance of $\sim$ 1/10,000th the size of a proton. Such sensitivity leads to large appearance rates of non-Gaussian transient noise bursts in the main detector strain,…

Data from gravitational wave detectors are recorded as time series that include contributions from myriad noise sources in addition to any gravitational wave signals. When regularly sampled data are available, such as for ground based and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-23 Neil J. Cornish

Instrumental and environmental transient noise bursts in gravitational-wave detectors, or glitches, may impair astrophysical observations by adversely affecting the sky localization and the parameter estimation of gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 Kentaro Mogushi , Ryan Quitzow-James , Marco Cavaglià , Sumeet Kulkarni , Fergus Hayes