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Publications (21)

astro-ph.HE2024

Low-latency gravitational wave alert products and their performance at the time of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Andrew Toivonen, Gaurav Waratkar +50

Multi-messenger searches for BNS and NSBH mergers are currently one of the most exciting areas of astronomy. The search for joint electromagnetic and neutrino counterparts to GWs h…

astro-ph.HE2024

Swiftly chasing gravitational waves across the sky in real-time

Aaron Tohuvavohu, Jamie A. Kennea, Christopher J. Roberts +8

We introduce a new capability of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, dubbed `continuous commanding,' achieving 10 seconds latency response time on-orbit to unscheduled Target of Op…

gr-qc2023

When to Point Your Telescopes: Gravitational Wave Trigger Classification for Real-Time Multi-Messenger Followup Observations

Anarya Ray, Wanting Niu, Shio Sakon +36

We develop a robust and self-consistent framework to extract and classify gravitational wave candidates from noisy data, for the purpose of assisting in real-time multi-messenger f…

astro-ph.IM2020

Automating the Inclusion of Subthreshold Signal-to-Noise Ratios for Rapid Gravitational-Wave Localization

Cody Messick, Surabhi Sachdev, Kipp Cannon +29

The accurate localization of gravitational-wave (GW) events in low-latency is a crucial element in the search for further multimessenger signals from these cataclysmic events. The…

gr-qc2020

Archival searches for stellar-mass binary black holes in LISA

Becca Ewing, Surabhi Sachdev, Ssohrab Borhanian +1

Stellar-mass binary black holes will sweep through the frequency band of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) for months to years before appearing in the audio-band of gro…

gr-qc2026

New Methods for Offline GstLAL Analyses

Prathamesh Joshi, Leo Tsukada, Chad Hanna +38

In this work, we present new methods implemented in the GstLAL offline gravitational wave search. These include a technique to reuse the matched filtering data products from a GstL…

astro-ph.IM2024

GWSkyNet II : a refined machine learning pipeline for real-time classification of public gravitational wave alerts

Man Leong Chan, Jess McIver, Ashish Mahabal +12

Electromagnetic follow-up observations of gravitational wave events offer critical insights and provide significant scientific gain from this new class of astrophysical transients.…

gr-qc2024

Scalable matched-filtering pipeline for gravitational-wave searches of compact binary mergers

Yun-Jing Huang, Chad Hanna, Becca Ewing +11

As gravitational-wave observations expand in scope and detection rate, the data analysis infrastructure must be modernized to accommodate rising computational demands and ensure su…

gr-qc2022

A binary tree approach to template placement for searches for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers

Chad Hanna, James Kennington, Shio Sakon +30

We demonstrate a new geometric method for fast template placement for searches for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of compact binaries. The method is bas…

gr-qc2023

Performance of the low-latency GstLAL inspiral search towards LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth observing run

Becca Ewing, Rachael Huxford, Divya Singh +40

GstLAL is a stream-based matched-filtering search pipeline aiming at the prompt discovery of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences such as the mergers of black holes…

astro-ph.IM2023

Improved ranking statistics of the GstLAL inspiral search for compact binary coalescences

Leo Tsukada, Prathamesh Joshi, Shomik Adhicary +37

Starting from May 2023, the LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaboration is planning to conduct the fourth observing run with improved detector sensitivities and an expanded dete…

gr-qc2024

Searching for asymmetric and heavily precessing Binary Black Holes in the gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo third Observing Run

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton +37

Leveraging the features of the GstLAL pipeline, we present the results of a matched filtering search for asymmetric binary black hole systems with heavily misaligned spins in LIGO…

gr-qc2023

Template bank for compact binary mergers in the fourth observing run of Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA

Shio Sakon, Leo Tsukada, Heather Fong +34

Matched-filtering gravitational wave search pipelines identify gravitational wave signals by computing correlations, i.e., signal-to-noise ratios, between gravitational wave detect…

gr-qc2024

Searching for gravitational-wave signals from precessing black hole binaries with the GstLAL pipeline

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton +36

Precession in Binary Black Holes (BBH) is caused by the failure of the Black Hole spins to be aligned and its study can open up new perspectives in gravitational waves (GW) astrono…

astro-ph.IM2020

GstLAL: A software framework for gravitational wave discovery

Kipp Cannon, Sarah Caudill, Chiwai Chan +28

The GstLAL library, derived from Gstreamer and the LIGO Algorithm Library, supports a stream-based approach to gravitational-wave data processing. Although GstLAL was primarily des…

astro-ph.IM2026

Method to get Better Sky Maps in a GstLAL Low-Latency Analysis

Prathamesh Joshi, Becca Ewing, Chad Hanna +40

Modeled gravitational wave searches correlate the strain data with a bank of gravitational wave template waveforms to make detections of gravitational wave candidates, and these re…

gr-qc2025

Template bank for sub solar mass compact binary mergers in the fourth observing run of Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA

Chad Hanna, James Kennington, Wanting Niu +38

Matched-filtering searches for gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers employ template banks which are a collection of modeled waveforms described by unique intrinsi…

gr-qc2026

How Many Times Should We Matched Filter Gravitational Wave Data? A Comparison of GstLAL's Online and Offline Performance

Prathamesh Joshi, Wanting Niu, Chad Hanna +34

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences employ a process called matched filtering, in which gravitational wave strain data is cross-correlated against a b…

gr-qc2022

Metric Assisted Stochastic Sampling (MASS) search for gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers

Chad Hanna, Prathamesh Joshi, Rachael Huxford +29

We present a novel gravitational wave detection algorithm that conducts a matched filter search stochastically across the compact binary parameter space rather than relying on a fi…

gr-qc2026

GstLAL O4 Online Results Paper

Shomik Adhicary, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda Baylor +39

Gravitational-wave observations of merging binary neutron stars and black holes are now routinely made by detectors in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network. Neutron star binary sy…

astro-ph.HE2020

An early warning system for electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave events

Surabhi Sachdev, Ryan Magee, Chad Hanna +28

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) will spend -- 15 minutes in the band of Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors at design sensitivity. Matched-filtering of gravitational-wave (GW…