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We devise a technique to suppress the effect of noise transients occurring at gravitational-wave detectors based on temporal anticoincidence. Searches for gravitational-wave signals in the detector data are prone to spurious disturbances of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Souradeep Pal

The use of a high precision pulsar timing array is a promising approach to detecting gravitational waves in the very low frequency regime ($10^{-6} -10^{-9}$ Hz) that is complementary to the ground-based efforts (e.g., LIGO, Virgo) at high…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yan Wang , Soumya D. Mohanty , Fredrick A. Jenet

Noise in various interferometer systems can sometimes couple non-linearly to create excess noise in the gravitational wave (GW) strain data. Third-order statistics, such as bicoherence and biphase, can identify these couplings and help…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-29 Bernard Hall , Sudhagar Suyamprakasam , Nairwita Mazumder , Anupreeta More , Sukanta Bose

Strict measurement of the speed of gravitational wave (GW) is very important for fundamental physics. In this paper, taking cosmological effect into account, we derive a more precise formula for calculating the speed of GW based on GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 Shuang Du

The direct detection of gravitational waves will provide valuable astrophysical information about many celestial objects. Also, it will be an important test to general relativity and other theories of gravitation. The gravitational wave…

Disturbances in gravitational wave (GW) observational data are often caused by non-stationary noise in the detector itself, such as back-scattering of laser stray light into the signal field. Unlike GW signals, non-stationary noise can…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-11-07 Niels Böttner , Roman Schnabel , Mikhail Korobko

Gravitational Waves (GWs) are tiny ripples in the fabric of space-time predicted by Einstein's General Relativity. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are well poised to detect low frequency ($10^{-9}$ -- $10^{-7}$ Hz) GWs in the near future. There…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. A. Ellis , F. A. Jenet , M. A. McLaughlin

We quantify the advantages of a recently proposed data processing technique to search for continuous gravitational wave (GW) signals from isolated rotating asymmetric neutron stars in data measured by ground-based GW interferometers. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Harshit Raj , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Massimo Tinto

State of the art quantum computers have very limited applicability for accurate calculations. Here we report the first experimental demonstration of qubit-based matched filtering for a detection of the gravitational-wave signal from a…

The analysis of how a stochastic background of gravitational radiation interacts with a spherical detector is given in detail, which leads to explicit expressions for the system response functions, as well as for the cross-correlation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-04 J. Alberto Lobo , Alvaro Montero

A common technique for detection of gravitational-wave signals is searching for excess power in frequency-time maps of gravitational-wave detector data. In the event of a detection, model selection and parameter estimation will be performed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Coughlin , Nelson Christensen , Jonathan Gair , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Eric Thrane

Gravitational wave astronomy is rapidly advancing with the development of new observatories, leading to an increasing volume and complexity of data. This trend places growing pressure on classical data analysis methods and motivates the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-19 Fangzhou Guo , Jibo He

The first direct observation of gravitational waves' action upon matter has recently been reported by the BICEP2 experiment. Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are being installed. They will soon be commissioned, and then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 Scott A. Hughes

We have developed a method 'time-frequency (TF) clustering' to find the burst gravitational waves for TAMA data analysis. TF clustering method on sonogram (spectrogram) shows some characteristics of short duration signal. Using parameters…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-04-03 Ryota Honda , Shougo Yamagishi , Nobuyuki Kanda , TAMA collaboration

Space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors will be able to observe signals from sources that are otherwise nearly impossible from current ground-based detection. Consequently, the well established signal detection method, matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-17 Tianyu Zhao , Ruoxi Lyu , He Wang , Zhoujian Cao , Zhixiang Ren

Previously, we derived exact relationships between the properties of a linear time-invariant control system and properties of an anomaly detector that quantified the impact an attacker can have on the system if that attacker aims to remain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-05 Navid Hashemi , Justin Ruths

We propose a non-Gaussianity test for gravitational wave backgrounds by combining data streams of multiple detectors. This simple method allows us to check whether a detected background is "smooth" enough to be consistent with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Naoki Seto

We develop a general formalism for the parameter-space metric of the multi-detector F-statistic, which is a matched-filtering detection statistic for continuous gravitational waves. We find that there exists a whole family of F-statistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Reinhard Prix

We describe an improved version of the Hough transform search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars assuming the input to be short segments of Fourier transformed data. The method presented here takes into account…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Alicia M. Sintes , Badri Krishnan

We describe the design of a gravitational wave timing array, a novel scheme that can be used to search for low-frequency gravitational waves by monitoring continuous gravitational waves at higher frequencies. We show that observations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-25 María José Bustamante-Rosell , Joel Meyers , Noah Pearson , Cynthia Trendafilova , Aaron Zimmerman