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The first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from the binary neutron star (NS) inspiral GW170817 has opened a unique channel for probing the fundamental properties of matter at supra-nuclear densities inaccessible elsewhere in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-03 Geraint Pratten , Patricia Schmidt , Tanja Hinderer

This work investigates the problem of detecting gravitational wave (GW) events based on simulated damped sinusoid signals contaminated with white Gaussian noise. It is treated as a classification problem with one class for the interesting…

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We investigate the cross-correlation between astrometric and timing-residual observables for distant sources, such as pulsars and galaxies, and equivalent observables for nearby solar system bodies. Using the unified spin-weighted formalism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-31 Elias Fink , Carlo Contaldi , Giorgio Mentasti

In order to reach the sensitivity required to detect gravitational waves, pulsar timing array experiments need to mitigate as much noise as possible in timing data. A dominant amount of noise is likely due to variations in the dispersion…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 K. J. Lee , C. G. Bassa , G. H. Janssen , R. Karuppusamy , M. Kramer , K. Liu , D. Perrodin , R. Smits , B. W. Stappers , R. van Haasteren , L. Lentati

With the doors beginning to swing open on the new gravitational wave astronomy, this review provides an up-to-date survey of the most important physical mechanisms that could lead to emission of potentially detectable gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Kostas Glampedakis , Leonardo Gualtieri

The signal of continuous gravitational waves has a longer duration than the observation period. Even if the waveform in the source frame is monochromatic, we will observe the waveform with modulated frequencies due to the motion of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Takahiro Tanaka

Refractometric biosensing is a vital label-free tool for the real time detection and interaction analysis of biological and chemical substances. Nanophotonic platforms like Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) have played a critical role in…

Vortices, phase singularities, and topological defects of any kind often reflect information that is crucial for understanding physical systems in which such entities arise. With near-field experiments supported by numerical calculations,…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 L. De Angelis , L. Kuipers

Robust signal detection in colored noise with unknown covariance is essential in radar, cognitive radio, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), and quantum sensing applications. This paper develops a unified analytical framework for…

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Random walkers absorbing on a boundary sample the Harmonic Measure linearly and independently: we discuss how the recurrence times between impacts enable non-linear moments of the measure to be estimated. From this we derive a new technique…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ellak Somfai , Nicholas R. Goold , Robin C. Ball , Jason P. DeVita , Leonard M. Sander

We investigate the detectability of gravitational waves (GWs) lensed by a system that consists of binary black holes as lenses using time-domain numerical simulations. The gravitational lensing potential of this system is no longer static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-05 Yi Qiu , Ke Wang , Jian-hua He

In a recent investigation of the effects of precession on the anticipated detection of gravitational-wave inspiral signals from compact object binaries with moderate total masses, we found that (i) if precession is ignored, the inspiral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Grandclement , V. Kalogera

The astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) originates from numerous faint sub-threshold gravitational wave (GW) signals arising from the coalescing binary compact objects. This background is expected to be discovered…

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Phase distortion refers to the alteration of the phase relationships between frequencies in a signal, which can be perceptible. In this paper, we discuss a special case of phase distortion known as phase-intercept distortion, which is…

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Non-trivial spatial topology of the Universe can imprint potentially observable signatures on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). In this study, we investigate how deviations from the standard nearly-scale-free primordial power spectrum…

Time-varying inhomogeneities on stellar surfaces constitute one of the largest sources of radial velocity (RV) error for planet detection and characterization. We show that stellar variations, because they manifest on coherent, rotating…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-08 Lily L. Zhao , Megan E. Bedell , David W. Hogg , Rodrigo Luger

The problem of decentralized sequential detection with conditionally independent observations is studied. The sensors form a star topology with a central node called fusion center as the hub. The sensors make noisy observations of a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-12-29 Leena Zacharias , Rajesh Sundaresan

We demonstrate analytically that gravitational waves, upon interacting with co-propagating electromagnetic radiation in a plasma, induce distinctive sidebands on the modulated light, thereby providing a detectable signature of their…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-22 Martin W. McCall , Stefanos Fr. Koufidis

We propose a novel mechanism where a first-order phase transition modulates the decay rate of a massive field. This modulation, even if the scalar field has negligible energy density, subsequently generates an observable stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

With the increasing sensitivity of gravitational-wave detectors, we expect to observe multiple binary neutron-star systems through gravitational waves in the near future. The combined analysis of these gravitational-wave signals offers the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-11 Nina Kunert , Peter T. H. Pang , Ingo Tews , Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich