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Weakly-modelled searches for gravitational waves are essential for ensuring that all potential sources are accounted for in detection efforts, as they make minimal assumptions regarding source morphology. While these searches primarily…

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We construct a Bayesian inference deep learning machine for parameter estimation of gravitational wave events of binaries of black hole coalescence. The structure of our deep Bayesian machine adopts the conditional variational autoencoder…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Han-Shiang Kuo , Feng-Li Lin

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

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves (GWs) provides a unique opportunity to study cosmology and astrophysics at multiple scales. Detecting microlensing signatures, in particular, requires efficient parameter estimation methods due…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-02 Roberto Bada-Nerin , Oleg Bulashenko , Osvaldo Gramaxo Freitas , José A. Font

Using the \texttt{lalinference} Markov-chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation code, we examine two distinct nonprecessing black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries with and without higher-order harmonics. Our simulations suggest that higher…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 R. O'Shaughnessy , B. Farr , E. Ochsner , Hee-Suk Cho , C. Kim , Chang-Hwan Lee

Deep learning can be used to drastically decrease the processing time of parameter estimation for coalescing binaries of compact objects including black holes and neutron stars detected in gravitational waves (GWs). As a first step, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-28 Alistair McLeod , Daniel Jacobs , Chayan Chatterjee , Linqing Wen , Fiona Panther

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 2017-12-13 Daniel George , E. A. Huerta

With the anticipated launch of space-based gravitational wave detectors, including LISA, TaiJi, TianQin, and DECIGO, expected around 2030, the detection of gravitational waves generated by intermediate-mass black hole binaries (IMBBHs)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-14 Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

Variational Bayesian Inference is a popular methodology for approximating posterior distributions over Bayesian neural network weights. Recent work developing this class of methods has explored ever richer parameterizations of the…

Gravitational wave (GW) observations provide a unique opportunity to test Einstein's General Relativity (GR) in the strong-field regime. While GR predicts only two tensor polarization modes, generic metric theories allow up to six…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-28 Sk Md Adil Imam , Macarena Lagos

Generative Bayesian Filtering (GBF) provides a powerful and flexible framework for performing posterior inference in complex nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space models. Our approach extends Generative Bayesian Computation (GBC) to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-07 Edoardo Marcelli , Sean O'Hagan , Veronika Rockova

The Einstein Telescope (ET), along with other third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors, will be a key instrument for detecting GWs in the coming decades. However, analyzing the data and estimating source parameters will be…

A massive black hole can develop a dark-matter overdensity, and the dark matter changes the evolution of a stellar-mass compact object inspiraling around the massive black hole through the dense dark-matter environment. Specifically,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Eileen Wilcox , David Nichols , Kent Yagi

Bayesian inference in the physical sciences faces a fundamental challenge: the imperative for high-fidelity physical modeling often clashes with the intrinsic limitations of stochastic sampling algorithms. Complex, high-dimensional…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-09 Bo Liang , Chang Liu , Hanlin Song , Tianyu Zhao , Minghui Du , He Wang , Haohao Gu , Sensen He , Yuxiang Xu , Wei-Liang Qian , Li-e Qiang , Peng Xu , Ziren Luo , Mingming Sun

Precessing black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) binaries produce a rich gravitational wave signal, encoding the binary's nature and inspiral kinematics. Using the lalinference\_mcmc Markov-chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation code, we use two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 R. O'Shaughnessy , B. Farr , E. Ochsner , H. S. Cho , V. Raymond , C. Kim , C. H. Lee

We present a novel Bayesian inference tool that uses a neural network to parameterise efficient Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) proposals. The target distribution is first transformed into a diagonal, unit variance Gaussian by a series of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-03 Adam Moss

Finding and characterizing gravitational waves from individual supermassive black hole binaries is a central goal of pulsar timing array experiments, which will require analysis methods that can be efficient on our rapidly growing datasets.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Bence Bécsy

The characterization of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) with pulsar-timing arrays requires a continual expansion of datasets and monitored pulsars. Whereas detection of the stochastic GW background is predicated on measuring a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 Stephen R. Taylor , Joseph Simon , Levi Schult , Nihan Pol , William G. Lamb

Once a gravitational wave signal is detected, the measurement of its source parameters is important to achieve various scientific goals. This is done through Bayesian inference, where the analysis cost increases with the model complexity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 Harsh Narola , Justin Janquart , Quirijn Meijer , K. Haris , Chris Van Den Broeck

Parameter estimation (PE) for compact binary coalescence (CBC) events observed by gravitational wave (GW) laser interferometers is a core task in GW astrophysics. We present a method to compute the posterior distribution efficiently without…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Jonathan Mushkin , Javier Roulet , Barak Zackay , Tejaswi Venumadhav , Oryna Ivashtenko , Digvijay Wadekar , Ajit Kumar Mehta , Matias Zaldarriaga