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Searching for sources of electromagnetic emission in spectral-line radio astronomy interferometric data is a computationally intensive process. Parallel programming techniques and High Performance Computing hardware may be used to improve…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-20 Stefan Westerlund , Christopher Harris

We propose a method based on the process of extracting gravitational wave (GW) parameters from GW signals to simulate the binary neutron-star (BNS) merging events. We simulate 1000 GW standard sirens based on the observation of the Einstein…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Dong Zhao , Zhi-Chao Zhao , Jun-Qing Xia

We present a new Python package, gwbench, implementing the well-established Fisher information formalism as a fast and straightforward tool for the purpose of gravitational-wave benchmarking, i.e. the estimation of signal-to-noise ratios…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-31 Ssohrab Borhanian

The large-scale analysis task of deciphering gravitational wave signals in the LISA data stream will be difficult, requiring a large amount of computational resources and extensive development of computational methods. Its high…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-12 Michael L. Katz , Nikolaos Karnesis , Natalia Korsakova , Jonathan R. Gair , Nikolaos Stergioulas

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

This study presents a reconstruction of the Gaussian Beam Tracing solution using CUDA, with a particular focus on the utilisation of GPU acceleration as a means of overcoming the performance limitations of traditional CPU algorithms in…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhang Sheng , Lishu Duan , Hanbo Jiang

Fully coherent searches (over realistic ranges of parameter space and year-long observation times) for unknown sources of continuous gravitational waves are computationally prohibitive. Less expensive hierarchical searches divide the data…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-27 Holger J. Pletsch , Bruce Allen

The purpose of this work is to investigate the prospects of using the future standard siren data without redshift measurements to constrain cosmological parameters. With successful detections of gravitational wave (GW) signals an era of GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-23 Xuheng Ding , Marek Biesiada , Xiaogang Zheng , Kai Liao , Zhengxiang Li , Zong-Hong Zhu

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

Persistent homology naturally addresses the multi-scale topological characteristics of the large-scale structure as a distribution of clusters, loops, and voids. We apply this tool to the dark matter halo catalogs from the Quijote…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Jacky H. T. Yip , Matteo Biagetti , Alex Cole , Karthik Viswanathan , Gary Shiu

Simulated galaxy catalogues have become an essential tool for preparing and exploiting observations from galaxy surveys. They constitute a key ingredient in modelling the systematic uncertainties present in the analysis. However, in order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-01 I. Tutusaus , P. Fosalba , L. Blot , P. Tallada-Crespí , J. Carretero , F. J. Castander , E. J. Gonzalez , A. Alarcon

The number density of galaxy clusters across mass and redshift has been established as a powerful cosmological probe. Cosmological analyses with galaxy clusters traditionally employ scaling relations. However, many challenges arise from…

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The detection of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources of gravitational waves is a realistic goal for the current generation of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Short duration bursts of gravitational waves from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Patrick R Brady , Saikat Ray-Majumder

In recent years, the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) has emerged as a low-cost alternative for high performance computing, enabling impressive speed-ups for a range of scientific computing applications. Early adopters in astronomy are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-23 Christopher J. Fluke

Inferring cosmological parameters from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) data requires repeated and computationally expensive calculations of theoretical angular power spectra using Boltzmann solvers like CAMB. This creates a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-30 L. Storchi , P. Campeti , M. Lattanzi , N. Antonini , E. Calore , P. Lubrano

With the advance in computational resources, Bayesian inference is increasingly becoming the standard tool of practise in GW astronomy. However, algorithms such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) require a large number of iterations to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-04 Edward K. Porter

Scalable Gaussian process (GP) inference is essential for sequential decision-making tasks, yet improving GP scalability remains a challenging problem with many open avenues of research. This paper focuses on iterative GPs, where iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Alan Yufei Dong , Jihao Andreas Lin , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

We describe a hierarchical, highly parallel computer algorithm to perform searches for unknown sources of continuous gravitational waves -- spinning neutron stars in the Galaxy -- over wide areas of the sky and wide frequency bandwidths. We…

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