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All-sky surveys for isolated continuous gravitational waves present a significant data-analysis challenge. Semicoherent search methods are commonly used to efficiently perform the computationally-intensive task of searching for these weak…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 K. Wette , S. Walsh , R. Prix , M. A. Papa

The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit and go undetected. Like voices in a crowded room, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arianna I. Renzini , Boris Goncharov , Alexander C. Jenkins , Pat M. Meyers

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

The detection of gravitational waves has revolutionized our understanding of the universe, offering unprecedented insights into its dynamics. A major goal of gravitational wave data analysis is to speed up the detection and parameter…

In this paper, we develop a Neural Likelihood Estimator and apply it to analyse real gravitational-wave (GW) data for the first time. We assess the usability of neural likelihood for GW parameter estimation and report the parameter space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-23 Luca Negri , Anuradha Samajdar

coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detectors. The algorithmic core of cWB is a time-frequency analysis…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 M. Drago , V. Gayathri , S. Klimenko , C. Lazzaro , E. Milotti , G. Mitselmakher , V. Necula , B. O'Brian , G. A. Prodi , F. Salemi , M. Szczepanczyk , S. Tiwari , V. Tiwari , G. Vedovato , I. Yakushin

We present a comprehensive study of the effectiveness of Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) to detect long duration transient gravitational-wave signals lasting $O(hours-days)$ from isolated neutron stars. We determine that CNNs are robust…

The computational cost of searching for gravitational wave (GW) signals in low latency has always been a matter of concern. We present a self-supervised learning model applicable to the GW detection. Based on simulated massive black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-08 Hao-Yang Liu , Yu-Tong Wang

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

We demonstrate an all-sky search for persistent, narrowband gravitational waves using mock data. The search employs radiometry to sidereal-folded data in order to uncover persistent sources of gravitational waves with minimal assumptions…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-31 Boris Goncharov , Eric Thrane

Searching the data of gravitational-wave detectors for signals from compact binary mergers is a computationally demanding task. Recently, machine learning algorithms have been proposed to address current and future challenges. However, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-30 Ondřej Zelenka , Bernd Brügmann , Frank Ohme

All-sky and wide parameter space searches for continuous gravitational waves are generally template-matching schemes which test a bank of signal waveforms against data from a gravitational wave detector. Such searches can offer optimal…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Joe Bayley , Graham Woan , Chris Messenger

Gravitational waves (GWs) are unique messengers as they travel through the Universe without alteration except for gravitational lensing. Their long wavelengths make them susceptible to diffraction by cosmic structures, providing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-12 Juno C. L. Chan , Jose María Ezquiaga , Rico K. L. Lo , Joey Bowman , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Luka Vujeva

The LIGO observatories detect gravitational waves through monitoring changes in the detectors' length down to below $10^{-19}$\,$m/\sqrt{Hz}$ variation---a small fraction of the size of the atoms that make up the detector. To achieve this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Robert E. Colgan , K. Rainer Corley , Yenson Lau , Imre Bartos , John N. Wright , Zsuzsa Marka , Szabolcs Marka

We consider the problem of searching for continuous gravitational wave sources orbiting a companion object. This issue is of particular interest because the LMXB's, and among them Sco X-1, might be marginally detectable with 2 years…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-31 Sanjeev V. Dhurandhar , 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

We present the results of a search for continuous gravitational wave signals (CGWs) in the second data release (DR2) of the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration. The most significant candidate event from this search has a…

One of the goals of the current LIGO-GEO-Virgo science run is to identify transient gravitational wave (GW) signals in near real time to allow follow-up electromagnetic (EM) observations. An EM counterpart could increase the confidence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-11-30 Laura K Nuttall , Patrick J Sutton

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary neutron stars (BNSs) with possible telescope follow-ups opens a window to ground-breaking discoveries in the field of multi-messenger astronomy. With the improved sensitivity of current…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Ana Martins , Melissa Lopez , Quirijn Meijer , Gregory Baltus , Marc van der Sluys , Chris Van Den Broeck , Sarah Caudill

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
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