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The new era of gravitational wave astronomy truly began on September 14, 2015 with the detection of GW150914, the sensational first direct observation of gravitational waves from the inspiral and merger of two black holes by the two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Nelson Christensen , Renate Meyer

Detection of gravitational waves(GW) involves using the network of GW telescopes to observe a large sky region. However, owing to the arrangement of the GW telescopes, even with aLIGO- aVirgo-KAGRA network,parameter estimation accuracy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-03 Kenji Ono , Kazuhiro Hayama

Understanding the noise in gravitational-wave detectors is central to detecting and interpreting gravitational-wave signals. Glitches are transient, non-Gaussian noise features that can have a range of environmental and instrumental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 J. Glanzer , S. Banagiri , S. B. Coughlin , S. Soni , M. Zevin , C. P. L. Berry , O. Patane , S. Bahaadini , N. Rohani , K. Crowston , V. Kalogera , C. Østerlund , A. Katsaggelos

In their fourth observing run, the LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA gravitational-wave observatories have found hundreds of new signals, but many are contaminated by non-Gaussian transient noise artefacts known as glitches. Left unaddressed, glitches can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Mattia Emma , Ann-Kristin Malz , Adriana Dias , Gregory Ashton

The success of the multi-messenger astronomy relies on gravitational-wave observatories like LIGO and Virgo to provide prompt warning of merger events involving neutron stars (including both binary neutron stars and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Hang Yu , Rana X. Adhikari , Ryan Magee , Surabhi Sachdev , Yanbei Chen

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), which is currently under construction, is designed to measure gravitational wave signals in the milli-Hertz frequency band. It is expected that tens of millions of Galactic binaries will be the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Stefan H. Strub , Luigi Ferraioli , Cedric Schmelzbach , Simon C. Stähler , Domenico Giardini

The current gravitational-wave localization methods rely mainly on sources with electromagnetic counterparts. Unfortunately, a binary black hole does not emit light. Due to this, it is generally not possible to localize these objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-02 Otto A. Hannuksela , Thomas E. Collett , Mesut Çalışkan , Tjonnie G. F. Li

Likelihood-free inference provides a framework for performing rigorous Bayesian inference using only forward simulations, properly accounting for all physical and observational effects that can be successfully included in the simulations.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-24 Justin Alsing , Tom Charnock , Stephen Feeney , Benjamin Wandelt

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is designed to detect a variety of gravitational-wave events, including mergers of massive black hole binaries, stellar-mass black hole inspirals, and extreme mass-ratio inspirals. LISA's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-28 Aasim Jan , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Deirdre Shoemaker , Jacob Lange

The analysis of optical images of galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing systems can provide important information about the distribution of dark matter at small scales. However, the modeling and statistical analysis of these images is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Adam Coogan , Konstantin Karchev , Christoph Weniger

The space-borne gravitational-wave (GW) detectors will open a new mass and redshift regime, allowing us to observe massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) throughout the Universe. A subset of these systems is expected to produce electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Xue-Ting Zhang , Jonathan Gair , Chris Messenger , Natalia Korsakova , Yi-Ming Hu , Hong-Yu Chen

Rapid sky localization of gravitational wave sources is crucial to enable prompt electromagnetic follow-ups. In this article, we present a novel semianalytical approach for sky localization of gravitational waves from compact binary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Qian Hu , Cong Zhou , Jhao-Hong Peng , Linqing Wen , Qi Chu , Manoj Kovalam

We compute the accuracy at which a LISA-like space-based gravitational wave detector will be able to observe deviations from General Relativity in the low frequency approximation. To do so, we introduce six correction parameters that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Cédric Huwyler , Antoine Klein , Philippe Jetzer

Characterization of search selection effects comprises a core element of gravitational-wave data analysis. Knowledge of selection effects is needed to predict observational prospects for future surveys and is essential in the statistical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-16 Thomas A. Callister , Reed Essick , Daniel E. Holz

Extreme-mass-ratio-inspiral observations from future space-based gravitational-wave detectors such as LISA will enable strong-field tests of general relativity with unprecedented precision, but at prohibitive computational cost if existing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Alvin J. K. Chua , Sonke Hee , Will J. Handley , Edward Higson , Christopher J. Moore , Jonathan R. Gair , Michael P. Hobson , Anthony N. Lasenby

In likelihood-free settings where likelihood evaluations are intractable, approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) addresses the formidable inference task to discover plausible parameters of simulation programs that explain the observations.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-03-05 Kelvin Hsu , Fabio Ramos

This paper reviews gravitational wave sources and their detection. One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves are coalescing binary black hole systems. They can occur on all mass scales and be formed in numerous ways,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-19 Hyung Mok Lee , Eric-Olivier Le Bigot , ZhiHui Du , ZhangXi Lin , XiangYu Guo , LinQing Wen , Khun Sang Phukon , Vihan Pandey , Sukanta Bose , Xi-Long Fan , Martin Hendry

2015 will see the first observations of Advanced LIGO and the start of the gravitational-wave (GW) advanced-detector era. One of the most promising sources for ground-based GW detectors are binary neutron-star (BNS) coalescences. In order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 C P L Berry , B Farr , W M Farr , C-J Haster , I Mandel , H Middleton , L P Singer , A L Urban , A Vecchio , S Vitale , K Cannon , P B Graff , C Hanna , S Mohapatra , C Pankow , L R Price , T Sidery , J Veitch

Inferring the source properties of a gravitational wave signal has traditionally been very computationally intensive and time consuming. In recent years, several techniques have been developed that can significantly reduce the computational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-01 Neil J. Cornish

The planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect gravitational wave signals from ~100 extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) of stellar-mass compact objects into massive black holes. The long duration and large…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan R Gair , Ilya Mandel , Linqing Wen