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In order to extract information about the properties of compact binaries, we must estimate the noise power spectral density of gravitational-wave data, which depends on the properties of the gravitational-wave detector. In practice, it is…

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Gravitational wave Bayesian parameter inference involves repeated comparisons of GW data to generic candidate predictions. Even with algorithmically efficient methods like RIFT or reduced-order quadrature, the time needed to perform these…

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Fast, highly accurate, and reliable inference of the sky origin of gravitational waves would enable real-time multi-messenger astronomy. Current Bayesian inference methodologies, although highly accurate and reliable, are slow. Deep…

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Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a promising avenue for the discovery of new physics beyond general relativity as it probes extreme curvature and ultra-relativistic dynamics. However, in the absence of a compelling alternative to…

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We introduce a highly-parallelizable architecture for estimating parameters of compact binary coalescence using gravitational-wave data and waveform models. Using a spherical harmonic mode decomposition, the waveform is expressed as a sum…

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Interferometric gravitational-wave observatories have opened a new era in astronomy. The rich data produced by an international network enables detailed analysis of the curved space-time around black holes. With nearly one hundred signals…

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The matched filtering paradigm is the mainstay of gravitational wave (GW) searches from astrophysical coalescing compact binaries. The compact binary coalescence (CBC) search pipelines perform the matched filter between the GW detector's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-19 Chetan Verma , Amit Reza , Dilip Krishnaswamy , Sarah Caudill , Gurudatt Gaur

The properties of black-hole and neutron-star binaries are extracted from gravitational-wave signals using Bayesian inference. This involves evaluating a multi-dimensional posterior probability function with stochastic sampling. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-29 Virginia D'Emilio , Rhys Green , Vivien Raymond

This thesis presents advancements in the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, utilising the most sensitive observatories constructed to date. The research focuses on enhancing gravitational-wave signal searches…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-27 Arthur Tolley

GPU architectural simulation is orders of magnitude slower than native execution, necessitating workload sampling for practical speedups. Existing methods rely on hand-crafted features with limited expressiveness, yielding either aggressive…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Wang , Jingwei Sun , Jiyu Luo , Han Li , Guangzhong Sun

The rapidly increasing sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors is enabling the detection of a growing number of compact binary mergers. These events are crucial for understanding the population properties of compact binaries. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Meesum Qazalbash , Muhammad Zeeshan , Richard O'Shaughnessy

Classical simulation of quantum circuits remains indispensable for algorithm development, hardware validation, and error analysis in the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) era. However, state-vector simulation faces exponential memory…

Globally, Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) experiments have revealed evidence supporting an existing gravitational wave background (GWB) signal in the PTA data set. Apart from acquiring more observations, the sensitivity of PTA experiments can be…

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We introduce Bilby-MCMC, a Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo sampling algorithm tuned for the analysis of gravitational waves from merging compact objects. Bilby-MCMC provides a parallel-tempered ensemble Metropolis-Hastings sampler with access to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Gregory Ashton , Colm Talbot

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

The Gaussian process (GP) is a widely used probabilistic machine learning method with implicit uncertainty characterization for stochastic function approximation, stochastic modeling, and analyzing real-world measurements of nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Mark D. Risser , Marcus M. Noack , Hengrui Luo , Ronald Pandolfi

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

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhang Sheng , Lishu Duan , Hanbo Jiang

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are now routinely surveying the dark Universe, finding hundreds of collisions between compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. However, terrestrial non-Gaussian noise artefacts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Gregory Ashton , Colm Talbot , Andrew Lundgren , Ann-Kristin Malz , Joseph Areeda

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is slated for launch in the early 2030s. A main target of the mission is massive black hole binaries that have an expected detection rate of $\sim20$ yr$^{-1}$. We present a parameter estimation…

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