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Gravitational waves from black hole binary mergers carry information about the component spins, but inference is sensitive to analysis assumptions, which may be broken by terrestrial noise transients known as glitches. Using a variety of…

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Gravitational wave observations by ground based detectors such as LIGO and Virgo have transformed astrophysics, enabling the study of compact binary systems and their mergers. However, transient noise artifacts, or glitches, pose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 Chayan Chatterjee , Karan Jani

Detecting and coherently characterizing thousands of gravitational-wave signals is a core data-analysis challenge for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). Transient artifacts, or "glitches", with disparate morphologies are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-22 Alice Spadaro , Riccardo Buscicchio , Daniele Vetrugno , Antoine Klein , Davide Gerosa , Stefano Vitale , Rita Dolesi , William Joseph Weber , Monica Colpi

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 Tyson B. Littenberg , Neil J. Cornish

The data analysis of space-based gravitational wave detectors like Taiji faces significant challenges from non-stationary noise, which compromises the efficacy of traditional frequency-domain analysis. This work proposes a unified framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Minghui Du , Ziren Luo , Peng Xu

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to study the strong-field, highly relativistic regime of gravity. Gravitational-wave tests of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-02 Jack Y. L. Kwok , Rico K. L. Lo , Alan J. Weinstein , Tjonnie G. F. Li

We introduce the use of autoregressive normalizing flows for rapid likelihood-free inference of binary black hole system parameters from gravitational-wave data with deep neural networks. A normalizing flow is an invertible mapping on a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Stephen R. Green , Christine Simpson , Jonathan Gair

Overlapping signals represent one of the major data analysis challenges in next-generation gravitational wave detectors. We leverage Transformers and Normalizing Flows, state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms, to address the parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-06 Lucia Papalini , Federico De Santi , Massimiliano Razzano , Ik Siong Heng , Elena Cuoco

The exquisite sensitivity of the advanced LIGO detectors has enabled the detection of multiple gravitational wave signals. The sophisticated design of these detectors mitigates the effect of most types of noise. However, advanced LIGO data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-15 Daniel George , Hongyu Shen , E. A. Huerta

In the 2030s, a new era of gravitational-wave (GW) observations will dawn as multiple space-based GW detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, Taiji and TianQin, open the millihertz window for GW astronomy. These detectors…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Wen-Hong Ruan , He Wang , Chang Liu , Zong-Kuan Guo

"Glitches" -- transient noise artifacts in the data collected by gravitational wave interferometers like LIGO and Virgo -- are an ever-present obstacle for the search and characterization of gravitational wave signals. With some having…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-21 Jonathan Merritt , Ben Farr , Rachel Hur , Bruce Edelman , Zoheyr Doctor

Tests of general relativity (GR) with gravitational waves (GWs) introduce additional deviation parameters in the waveform model. The enlarged parameter space makes inference computationally costly, which has so far limited systematic,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-06 Dhruv Kumar , Ish Gupta , Bangalore Sathyaprakash

Non-Gaussian noise in gravitational-wave detectors, known as "glitches," can bias the inferred parameters of transient signals when they occur nearby in time and frequency. These biases are addressed with a variety of methods that remove or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Sophie Hourihane , Katerina Chatziioannou

The Taiji mission for space-based gravitational wave (GW) detection employs laser interferometry to measure picometer-scale distance variations induced by GWs. The tilt-to-length (TTL) coupling noise in the inter-spacecraft interferometers,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Qiong Deng , Leiqiao Ye , Ke An , Yidi Fan , Ruihong Gao , Ziren Luo , Minghui Du , Pengcheng Wang , Peng Xu

Ground-based gravitational wave detectors are now routinely surveying the dark Universe, finding hundreds of collisions between compact objects such as black holes and neutron stars. However, terrestrial non-Gaussian noise artefacts,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Gregory Ashton , Colm Talbot , Andrew Lundgren , Ann-Kristin Malz , Joseph Areeda

We report on the construction of a deep convolutional neural network that can reproduce the sensitivity of a matched-filtering search for binary black hole gravitational-wave signals. The standard method for the detection of well modeled…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-11 Hunter Gabbard , Michael Williams , Fergus Hayes , Chris Messenger

The detection of gravitational waves has inaugurated the era of gravitational astronomy and opened new avenues for the multimessenger study of cosmic sources. Thanks to their sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-05 Massimiliano Razzano , Elena Cuoco

Glitches are transitory noise artifacts that degrade the detection sensitivity and accuracy of interferometric observatories such as LIGO and Virgo in gravitational wave astronomy. Reliable glitch subtraction techniques are essential for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Mohammad Abu Thaher Chowdhury

We present the implementation of an anomaly-detection algorithm based on a deep convolutional autoencoder for the search for gravitational waves (GWs) in time-frequency spectrograms. Our method targets short-duration ($\lesssim…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-23 Gianluca Inguglia , Huw Haigh , Kristyna Vitulova , Ulyana Dupletsa

We present an algorithm for the identification of transient noise artifacts (glitches) in cross-correlation searches for long O(10s) gravitational-wave transients. The algorithm utilizes the auto-power in each detector as a discriminator…

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