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A stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is expected from the superposition of a wide variety of independent and unresolved astrophysical and cosmological sources from different stages in the evolution of the Universe. Radiometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Anirban Ain , Jishnu Suresh , Sanjit Mitra

We present an enhanced method for the application of Gaussian Mixture Modelling (GMM) to the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) algorithm in the search for short-duration gravitational wave (GW) transients. The supervised Machine Learning method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-06 Leigh Smith , Sayantan Ghosh , Jiyoon Sun , V. Gayathri , Ik Siong Heng , Archana Pai

In order to extract information about the properties of compact binaries, we must estimate the noise power spectral density of gravitational-wave data, which depends on the properties of the gravitational-wave detector. In practice, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

It is known that stochastic gravitational wave backgrounds (SGWBs) have anisotropies generated by squeezed-type tensor non-Gaussianities originating from scalar-tensor-tensor (STT) and tensor-tensor-tensor cubic interactions. While the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-01 Shingo Akama , Shin'ichi Hirano , Shuichiro Yokoyama

Recent PTA analyses reporting evidence for a nanohertz common-spectrum process motivate targeted tests of whether any anisotropic component of the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is correlated with the nearby large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Yun Fang

The paucity of observed supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) may imply that the gravitational wave background (GWB) from this population is anisotropic, rendering existing analyses sub-optimal. We present the first constraints on the…

The gravitational waves (GWs) from supermassive binary black holes (BBHs) are long sought by pulsar timing array experiments (PTAs), in the forms of both a stochastic GW background (GWB) and individual sources. The evidence for a GWB was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-27 Yunfeng Chen , Qingjuan Yu , Youjun Lu

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) data stream will inevitably contain gaps due to maintenance and environmental disturbances, introducing nonstationarities and spectral leakage that compromise standard frequency-domain…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Ruiting Mao , Jeong Eun Lee , Matthew C. Edwards

Gravitational wave (GW) standard sirens may resolve the Hubble tension, provided that standard siren inference of $H_0$ is free from systematic biases. However, standard sirens from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers suffer from two sources…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-08 Samuel Gagnon-Hartman , John Ruan , Daryl Haggard

Direct detection of low-frequency gravitational waves ($10^{-9} - 10^{-8}$ Hz) is the main goal of pulsar timing array (PTA) projects. One of the main targets for the PTAs is to measure the stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWB)…

We investigate the Bayesian framework for detection of continuous gravitational waves (GWs) in the context of targeted searches, where the phase evolution of the GW signal is assumed to be known, while the four amplitude parameters are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Reinhard Prix , Badri Krishnan

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

Since the first LIGO/Virgo detection, Gravitational Waves (GWs) have been very promising as a new complementary probe to understand our Universe. One of the next challenges of GW search is the detection and characterization of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 Gabriele Perna , Angelo Ricciardone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo

Gravitational waves admit a Stokes decomposition into intensity ($I$), circular polarization ($V$), and linear polarization ($Q$, $U$), analogous to Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) polarimetry. We implement a full-Stokes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Töre Boybeyi , Vuk Mandic

In a previous paper (gr-qc/0105100) we derived a set of near-optimal signal detection techniques for gravitational wave detectors whose noise probability distributions contain non-Gaussian tails. The methods modify standard methods by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce Allen , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Eanna E. Flanagan , Joseph D. Romano

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…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Ramit Dey , Luís Felipe Longo Micchi , Suvodip Mukherjee , Niayesh Afshordi

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) perform Bayesian posterior inference with expensive MCMC methods. Given a dataset of ~10-100 pulsars and O(10^3) timing residuals each, producing a posterior distribution for the stochastic gravitational wave…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-20 David Shih , Marat Freytsis , Stephen R. Taylor , Jeff A. Dror , Nolan Smyth

The primordial stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) carries first-hand messages of early-universe physics, possibly including effects from inflation, preheating, cosmic strings, electroweak symmetry breaking, and etc. However,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-16 Zhen Pan , Huan Yang

Future missions of gravitational-wave astronomy will be operated by space-based interferometers, covering very wide range of frequency. Search for stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (GWBs) is one of the main targets for such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hideaki Kudoh , Atsushi Taruya , Takashi Hiramatsu , Yoshiaki Himemoto