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The sensitivity of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors is characterized by their noise curves, which determine the detector's reach and ability to measure the parameters of astrophysical sources accurately. The detector noise is typically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-21 Sumit Kumar , Alexander H. Nitz , Xisco Jiménez Forteza

The collection of individually resolvable gravitational wave (GW) events makes up a tiny fraction of all GW signals which reach our detectors, while most lie below the confusion limit and go undetected. Like voices in a crowded room, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-02 Arianna I. Renzini , Boris Goncharov , Alexander C. Jenkins , Pat M. Meyers

We propose a blind, template-free method for the extraction of a common signal between the Hanford and Livingston detectors and apply it especially to the GW150914 event. We construct a log-likelihood method that maximizes the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-02-21 Hao Liu , James Creswell , Sebastian von Hausegger , Andrew D. Jackson , Pavel Naselsky

Assuming that, for a given source of gravitational waves (GWs), we know its sky position, as is the case of GW events with an electromagnetic counterpart such as GW170817, we discuss a null stream method to probe GW polarizations including…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-26 Yuki Hagihara , Naoya Era , Daisuke Iikawa , Hideki Asada

The phenomenon of Gravitational Wave (GW) analysis has grown in popularity as technology has advanced and the process of observing gravitational waves has become more precise. Although the sensitivity and the frequency of observation of GW…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Elena-Simona Apostol , Ciprian-Octavian Truică

Gravitational wave (GW) detection is of paramount importance in fundamental physics and GW astronomy, yet it presents formidable challenges. One significant challenge is the removal of noise transient artifacts known as glitches, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-10 Chun-Yu Xiong , Tian-Yang Sun , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

We describe a stream-based analysis pipeline to detect gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and neutron-star-black-hole binaries within ~ 1 minute of the arrival of the merger signal at Earth.…

The first detected gravitational wave signal, GW150914, was produced by the coalescence of a stellar-mass binary black hole. Along with the subsequent detection of GW151226, GW170104 and the candidate event LVT151012, this gives us evidence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-27 Sebastian M. Gaebel , John Veitch

In this paper we study the use of cross-correlations between multiple gravitational wave (GW) data streams for detecting long-lived periodic signals. Cross-correlation searches between data from multiple detectors have traditionally been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Badri Krishnan , Himan Mukhopadhyay , John T. Whelan

To strike a balance between energy efficiency and data quality control, this paper proposes a sensor censoring scheme for distributed sparse signal recovery via compressive-sensing based wireless sensor networks. In the proposed approach,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Jwo-Yuh Wu , Ming-Hsun Yang , Tsang-Yi Wang

Efficient searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence are crucial for gravitational wave observations. We present a proof-of-concept for a method that utilizes a neural network taking an SNR map, a stack of SNR time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Takahiro S. Yamamoto , Kipp Cannon , Hayato Motohashi , Hiroaki W. H. Tahara

In this work, we consider a general gravitational wave detector of gravitational wave interacting with an incoming gravitational wave carrying plus polarization only placed inside a harmonic trap. This model can be well acquainted with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-12 Soham Sen , Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Sukanta Bhattacharyya

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

Since the first detection of gravitational-wave (GW), GW150914, September 14th 2015, the multi-messenger astronomy added a new way of observing the Universe together with electromagnetic (EM) waves and neutrinos. After two years, GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-14 Pil-Jong Jung , Keun-Young Kim , Young-Min Kim , John J. Oh , Sang Hoon Oh , Edwin J. Son

The noise of gravitational-wave (GW) interferometers limits their sensitivity and impacts the data quality, hindering the detection of GW signals from astrophysical sources. For transient searches, the most problematic are transient noise…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-17 Melissa Lopez , Vincent Boudart , Kerwin Buijsman , Amit Reza , Sarah Caudill

This work for the first time addresses the feasibility of measuring millihertz gravitational waves (mHz GWs) with a storage ring-based detector. While this overall challenge consists of several partial problems, here we focus solely on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-11 Thorben Schmirander , Velizar Miltchev , Suvrat Rao , Marcus Brüggen , Florian Grüner , Wolfgang Hillert , Jochen Liske

We discuss the coherent search strategy to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries by a network of correlated laser interferometric detectors. From the maximum likelihood ratio statistic, we obtain a coherent statistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hideyuki Tagoshi , Himan Mukhopadhyay , Sanjeev Dhurandhar , Norichika Sago , Hirotaka Takahashi , Nobuyuki Kanda

Simulating time-domain observations of gravitational wave (GW) detector environments will allow for a better understanding of GW sources, augment datasets for GW signal detection and help in characterizing the noise of the detectors,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-23 Tom Dooney , Stefano Bromuri , Lyana Curier

In a recent paper "Tests of general relativity with GW170817" (arXiv:1811.00364 [gr-qc]) the authors claimed overwhelming evidence in favor of tensor gravitational wave (GW) polarization over vector by analyzing GW signals measured by the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Anatoly Svidzinsky , Robert Hilborn

The gravitational wave detectors currently in operation perform the analysis of their scientific data jointly. Concerning the search for bursting sources, coherent data analysis methods have been shown to be more efficient. In the coherent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-01 Olivier Rabaste , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Archana Pai