English
Related papers

Related papers: Robustness of Sensitivity Evaluations for Gravitat…

200 papers

Machine learning has emerged as a popular and powerful approach for solving problems in astrophysics. We review applications of machine learning techniques for the analysis of ground-based gravitational-wave detector data. Examples include…

Suspended optics in gravitational wave (GW) observatories are susceptible to alignment perturbations, particularly slow drifts over time, due to variations in temperature and seismic levels. Such misalignments affect the coupling of the…

The recent Nobel-prize-winning detections of gravitational waves from merging black holes and the subsequent detection of the collision of two neutron stars in coincidence with electromagnetic observations have inaugurated a new era of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-06 Daniel George , E. A. Huerta

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

Gravitational waves from binary black hole and neutron star mergers are being regularly detected. As of 2021, ninety confident gravitational wave detections have been made by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. Work is ongoing to further increase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-15 Craig Cahillane , Georgia Mansell

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves is expected to be observed in current and future detectors. In view of the growing number of detections, computationally light pipelines are needed. Detection pipelines used in past…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jef Heynen , Soumen Roy , Justin Janquart

We describe a novel, very fast and robust, directed search incoherent method for periodic gravitational waves (GWs) from neutron stars in binary systems. As directed search, we assume the source sky position to be known with enough…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-07 Paola Leaci , Pia Astone , Sabrina D'Antonio , Sergio Frasca , Cristiano Palomba , Ornella Piccinni , Simone Mastrogiovanni

(abridged for arXiv) With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of astronomy by providing an alternate means of sensing the…

One of the key challenges of real-time detection and parameter estimation of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers is the computational cost of conventional matched-filtering and Bayesian inference approaches. In particular, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Plamen G. Krastev , Kiranjyot Gill , V. Ashley Villar , Edo Berger

Among the most eagerly anticipated opportunities made possible by Advanced LIGO/Virgo are multimessenger observations of compact mergers. Optical counterparts may be short-lived so rapid characterization of gravitational wave (GW) events is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Tyson B. Littenberg , Ben Farr , Scott Coughlin , Vicky Kalogera

We present AttenGW, an attention-based multi-detector gravitational-wave detection model and accompanying software stack designed for analysis of real LIGO data. AttenGW combines a per-detector hierarchical dilated convolutional network…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-16 Victoria Tiki , Eliu Huerta

A yet undetected class of GW signals is represented by the close encounters between compact objects in highly-eccentric e~1 orbits, that can occur in binary systems formed in dense environments such as globular clusters. The expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Federico De Santi , Massimiliano Razzano , Francesco Fidecaro , Luca Muccillo , Lucia Papalini , Barbara Patricelli

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences employ a process called matched filtering, in which gravitational wave strain data is cross-correlated against a bank of waveform templates. Data from every observing run of…

This paper presents an efficient numerical sensitivity-estimation method and implementation for continuous-gravitational-wave searches, extending and generalizing an earlier analytic approach by Wette [1]. This estimation framework applies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Christoph Dreissigacker , Reinhard Prix , Karl Wette

Gravitational wave (GW) observations probe both a diffuse, stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) as well as individual cataclysmic events such as the merger of two compact objects. The detection and description of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-28 Eleanor Gleave , Andrew Jaffe

The detection of gravitational waves has opened unparalleled opportunities for observing the universe, particularly through the study of black hole inspirals. These events serve as unique laboratories to explore the laws of physics under…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-22 Beka Modrekiladze

The purpose of this mock data and science challenge is to prepare the data analysis and science interpretation for the second generation of gravitational-wave experiments Advanced LIGO-Virgo in the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave…

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

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

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