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The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

We present the results of directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from unknown neutron stars in five Milky Way globular clusters. We carry out the searches in the LIGO data from the first eight months of the fourth…

Excess transient noise artifacts, or glitches impact the data quality of ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and impair the detection of signals produced by astrophysical sources. Mitigation of glitches is crucial for improving…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-09 Kentaro Mogushi

Traditionally, gravitational waves are detected with techniques such as matched filtering or unmodeled searches based on wavelets. However, in the case of generic black hole binaries with non-aligned spins, if one wants to explore the whole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Paraskevi Nousi , Alexandra E. Koloniari , Nikolaos Passalis , Panagiotis Iosif , Nikolaos Stergioulas , Anastasios Tefas

Pulsar timing arrays recently found evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB), likely the stochastic overlap of GWs from many supermassive black hole binaries. Anticipating a continuous gravitational wave (CW) detection from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 Emiko C. Gardiner , Bence Bécsy , Luke Zoltan Kelley , Neil J. Cornish

The ability of deep learning (DL) approaches to learn generalised signal and noise models, coupled with their fast inference on GPUs, holds great promise for enhancing gravitational-wave (GW) searches in terms of speed, parameter space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Shreejit Jadhav , Mihir Shrivastava , Sanjit Mitra

The discovery of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging compact binaries has transformed modern astrophysics, driving innovation in detection methodologies. Whereas matched-filtering techniques have long been the standard, the growing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-08 Alexandra E. Koloniari , Lazaros Lazaridis , Christos Paschalidis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The high computational cost of wide-parameter-space searches for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) significantly limits the achievable sensitivity. This challenge has motivated the exploration of alternative search methods, such as deep…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Prasanna M. Joshi , Reinhard Prix

Searches for continuous gravitational waves target nearly monochromatic gravitational wave emission from e.g. non-axysmmetric fast-spinning neutron stars. Broad surveys often require to explicitly search for a very large number of different…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-14 Benjamin Steltner , Thorben Menne , Maria Alessandra Papa , Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein

Long-lived gravitational wave (GW) transients have received interest in the last decade, as the sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo increases. Such signals, lasting between 10 and 1000s, can come from a variety of sources, including accretion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-24 Adrian Macquet , Marie-Anne Bizouard , Nelson Christensen , Michael Coughlin

Deep learning method develops very fast as a tool for data analysis these years. Such a technique is quite promising to treat gravitational wave detection data. There are many works already in the literature which used deep learning…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Xiaolin Liu , Shichao Wu , Jian-Yang Zhu

Seven years after the first direct detection of gravitational waves, from the collision of two black holes, the field of gravitational wave astronomy is firmly established. A first detection of continuous gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Karl Wette

Gravitational waves in the sensitivity band of ground-based detectors can be emitted by a number of astrophysical sources, including not only binary coalescences, but also individual spinning neutron stars. The most promising signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-08 David Keitel , Rodrigo Tenorio , Gregory Ashton , Reinhard Prix

Fully coherent searches (over realistic ranges of parameter space and year-long observation times) for unknown sources of continuous gravitational waves are computationally prohibitive. Less expensive hierarchical searches divide the data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-27 Holger J. Pletsch , Bruce Allen

The recent completion of Advanced LIGO suggests that gravitational waves (GWs) may soon be directly observed. Past searches for gravitational-wave transients have been impacted by transient noise artifacts, known as glitches, introduced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Jonah B. Kanner , Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil Cornish , Meg Millhouse , Enia Xhakaj , Francesco Salemi , Marco Drago , Gabriele Vedovato , Sergey Klimenko

Any search effort for gravitational waves (GW) using interferometric detectors like LIGO needs to be able to identify if and when noise is coupling into the detector's output signal. The Critical Coupling Likelihood (CCL) method has been…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-03 Cesar A. Costa , Cristina V. Torres

Many continuous gravitational wave searches are affected by instrumental spectral lines that could be confused with a continuous astrophysical signal. Several techniques have been developed to limit the effect of these lines by penalising…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-28 Joseph Bayley , Chris Messenger , Graham Woan

The field of gravitational wave (GW) detection is progressing rapidly, with several next-generation observatories on the horizon, including LISA. GW data is challenging to analyze due to highly variable signals shaped by source properties…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-17 Maria-Catalina Isfan , Laurentiu-Ioan Caramete , Ana Caramete , Daniel Tonoiu , Alexandru Nicolin-Żaczek

Current templated searches for gravitational waves (GWs) emanated from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) assume that the binaries have circularized by the time they enter the sensitivity band of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-03 Adhrit Ravichandran , Aditya Vijaykumar , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Prayush Kumar

The gravitational wave detection problem is challenging because the noise is typically overwhelming. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been successfully applied, but require a large training set and the accuracy suffers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-21 Christopher Bresten , Jae-Hun Jung