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Pulsar timing array projects measure the pulse arrival times of millisecond pulsars for the primary purpose of detecting nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves. The measurements include contributions from a number of astrophysical and…

Space-borne gravitational wave detectors, such as (e)LISA, are designed to operate in the low-frequency band (mHz to Hz), where there is a variety of gravitational wave sources of great scientific value. To achieve the extraordinary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Yan Wang , Gerhard Heinzel , Karsten Danzmann

Long-term precise timing of Galactic millisecond pulsars holds great promise for measuring the long-period (months-to-years) astrophysical gravitational waves. Several gravitational-wave observational programs, called Pulsar Timing Arrays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Rutger van Haasteren , Yuri Levin , Patrick McDonald , Tingting Lu

Since its debut by John Skilling in 2004, nested sampling has proven a valuable tool to the scientist, providing hypothesis evidence calculations and parameter inference for complicated posterior distributions, particularly in the field of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-01 Joshua G. Albert

ARTUS is an event-based data-processing framework for high energy physics experiments. It is designed for large-scale data analysis in a collaborative environment. The architecture design choices take into account typical challenges and are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-11-04 Joram Berger , Fabio Colombo , Raphael Friese , Dominik Haitz , Thomas Hauth , Thomas Müller , Günter Quast , Georg Sieber

Gravitational lensing is the deflection of light rays due to the gravity of intervening masses. This phenomenon is observed in a variety of scales and configurations, involving any non-uniform mass such as planets, stars, galaxies, clusters…

GWtuna is a fast gravitational-wave search prototype built on Optuna (optimisation software library) and JAX (accelerator-orientated array computation library) [1, 2]. Using Optuna, we introduce black box optimisation algorithms and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Susanna Green , Andrew Lundgren

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) tests AI systems' ability to perform human-like inductive reasoning from a few demonstration pairs. Existing Gymnasium-based RL environments severely limit experimental scale due to computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Aadam , Monu Verma , Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) will enable the detection of nanohertz gravitational waves (GWs) from a population of supermassive binary black holes (SMBBHs) in the next $\sim 3-7$ years. In addition, PTAs provide a rare opportunity to probe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-12 Xavier Siemens , Jeffrey S. Hazboun , Paul T. Baker , Sarah Burke-Spolaor , Dustin Madison , Chiara Mingarelli , Joseph Simon , Tristan Smith

State-space models are important tools for quality control of error-prone animal movement data. The near real-time (within 24 h) capability of the Argos satellite system aids dynamic ocean management of human activities by informing when…

Pulsar timing array projects are carrying out high precision observations of millisecond pulsars with the aim of detecting ultra-low frequency (~ 10^{-9} to 10^{-8} Hz) gravitational waves. We show how unambiguous detections of such waves…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 George Hobbs

Gaussian-process state-space models (GP-SSMs) provide a flexible nonparametric alternative for modeling time-series dynamics that are nonlinear or difficult to specify parametrically. While the Kalman filter is effective for linear-Gaussian…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-02 Genshiro Kitagawa

Analysis of pulsar timing data-sets may provide the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This paper, the third in a series describing the mathematical framework implemented into the tempo2 pulsar timing package, reports on using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Hobbs , F. Jenet , K. J. Lee , J. P. W. Verbiest , D. Yardley , R. Manchester , A. Lommen , W. Coles , R. Edwards , C. Shettigara

Since the first detection in 2015 of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence, improvements to the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have expanded our view into the universe for these signals. Searches of the of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-05 Daniel Williams , John Veitch , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Patricia Schmidt , Richard P. Udall , Avi Vajpeji , Charlie Hoy

Continuous gravitational wave signals, like those expected by asymmetric spinning neutron stars, are among the most promising targets for LIGO and Virgo detectors. The development of fast and robust data analysis methods is crucial to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 O. J. Piccinni , S. Frasca , P. Astone , S. D'Antonio , G. Intini , P. Leaci , S. Mastrogiovanni , A. Miller , C. Palomba , A. Singhal

An alternative, new laser link acquisition scheme for the triangular constellation of spacecraft (SCs) in deep space in the detection of gravitational waves is considered. In place of a wide field CCD camera in the initial stage of laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Jinke Yang , Yong Xie , Yidi Fan , Pengcheng Wang , Xindong Liang , Haojie Li , Xue Wang , Zhao Cui , Jianjun Jia , Yucheng Tang , Yun Kau Lau

Precision timing of highly stable milli-second pulsars is a promising technique for the detection of very low frequency sources of gravitational waves. In any single pulsar, a stochastic gravitational wave signal appears as an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-01 Neil J. Cornish , Laura M. Sampson

Gravitational waves (GWs) are fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity. Using a collection of millisecond pulsars as high-precision clocks, the nanohertz band of this radiation is likely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 P. Demorest , J. Lazio , A. Lommen

Digital twins provide a powerful paradigm for diagnostic and prognostic tasks in the monitoring and control of engineered systems; however, their deployment for complex structures remains challenged by model-form uncertainty, arising from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Marcus Haywood-Alexander , Gregory Duthé , Eleni Chatzi

We describe a novel approach to the detection and parameter estimation of a non\textendash Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational waves. The method is based on the determination of relevant statistical parameters using importance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-22 Riccardo Buscicchio , Anirban Ain , Matteo Ballelli , Giancarlo Cella , Barbara Patricelli