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Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection is one of the most anticipated GW detection projects in the next decade, which promises to detect abundant compact binary systems. At present, deep learning methods have not been widely explored…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Ruijun Shi , Yue Zhou , Tianyu Zhao , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

Gravitational waves (GWs) have enabled direct detections of compact binary coalescences (CBCs). However, their poor sky localisation and the typical lack of observable electromagnetic (EM) counterparts make it difficult to confidently…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-17 Avinash Tiwari , Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Sourav Chatterjee , Giacomo Fragione

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will observe gravitational-wave signals from a wide range of sources, including massive black hole binaries. Although numerous techniques have been developed to perform Bayesian inference for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-26 Charlie Hoy , Connor Weaving , Laura K. Nuttall , Ian Harry

This work aims efficiently estimating the posterior distribution of kinetic parameters for dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) imaging given a measurement of time of activity curve. Considering the inherent information loss from…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Xiaofeng Liu , Thibault Marin , Tiss Amal , Jonghye Woo , Georges El Fakhri , Jinsong Ouyang

We introduce an algorithm to marginalize the likelihood for a gravitational wave signal from a quasi-circular binary merger over its extrinsic parameters, accounting for the effects of higher harmonics and spin-induced precession. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-06 Javier Roulet , Jonathan Mushkin , Digvijay Wadekar , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay , Matias Zaldarriaga

Stellar-mass compact binaries in eccentric orbits are almost guaranteed sources of gravitational waves for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We present a prescription to compute accurate and efficient gravitational-wave polarizations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Manuel Tessmer , Achamveedu Gopakumar

The present operation of the ground-based network of gravitational-wave laser interferometers in "enhanced" configuration brings the search for gravitational waves into a regime where detection is highly plausible. The development of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 John Veitch , Alberto Vecchio

We describe a hierarchical data analysis pipeline for coherently searching for gravitational wave (GW) signals from non-spinning compact binary coalescences (CBCs) in the data of multiple earth-based detectors. It assumes no prior…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Sukanta Bose , Thilina Dayanga , Shaon Ghosh , Dipongkar Talukder

Gravitational-wave parameter estimation for compact binary signals typically relies on sequential estimation of the properties of the detector Gaussian noise and of the binary parameters. This procedure assumes that the noise variance,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-14 Cailin Plunkett , Sophie Hourihane , Katerina Chatziioannou

We report a gravitational-wave parameter estimation algorithm, AMPLFI, based on likelihood-free inference using normalizing flows. The focus of AMPLFI is to perform real-time parameter estimation for candidates detected by machine-learning…

Accurate parameter estimation(PE) of gravitational waves(GW) is essential for GW data analysis. In extreme mass-ratio inspiral binary(EMRI) systems, orbital eccentricity is a critical parameter for PE. However, current software for for PE…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-18 Gen-Liang Li , Shu-Jie Zhao , Huai-Ke Guo , Jing-Yu Su , Zhen-Heng Lin

We present a robust method to characterize the gravitational wave emission from the remnant of a neutron star coalescence. Our approach makes only minimal assumptions about the morphology of the signal and provides a full posterior…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-03 Katerina Chatziioannou , James Alexander Clark , Andreas Bauswein , Margaret Millhouse , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish

The LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories have detected many exciting events over the past five years. As the rate of detections grows with detector sensitivity, this poses a growing computational challenge for data analysis. With…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-11 Stephen R. Green , Jonathan Gair

Modern simulation-based inference techniques use neural networks to solve inverse problems efficiently. One notable strategy is neural posterior estimation (NPE), wherein a neural network parameterizes a distribution to approximate the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-06 Alex Kolmus , Justin Janquart , Tomasz Baka , Twan van Laarhoven , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tom Heskes

This paper reports a comprehensive study on the gravitational wave (GW) background from compact binary coalescences. We consider in our calculations newly available observation-based neutron star and black hole mass distributions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-20 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric J. Howell , David G. Blair , Zong-Hong Zhu

Generative Bayesian Computation (GBC) methods are developed for Casual Inference. Generative methods are simulation-based methods that use a large training dataset to represent posterior distributions as a map (a.k.a. optimal transport) to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-12-25 Maria Nareklishvili , Nicholas Polson , Vadim Sokolov

Gravitational waveforms for compact binary coalescences (CBCs) have been invaluable for detections by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration. They are obtained by a combination of semi-analytical models and numerical simulations. So far systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-13 Abhay Ashtekar , Tommaso De Lorenzo , Neev Khera

Gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact objects encode direct information about the luminosity distance to the binary. When paired with a redshift measurement, this enables standard-siren cosmology: a Hubble diagram can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-26 Amanda M. Farah , Thomas A. Callister , Jose María Ezquiaga , Michael Zevin , Daniel E. Holz

We introduce an algorithm for placing template waveforms for the search of compact binary mergers in gravitational wave interferometer data. We exploit the smooth dependence of the amplitude and unwrapped phase of the frequency-domain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-03 Javier Roulet , Liang Dai , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Barak Zackay , Matias Zaldarriaga
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