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Publications (24)

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 in LIGO O3 Data With Corrected Orbital Ephemeris

John T. Whelan, Rodrigo Tenorio, Jared K. Wofford +10

Improved observational constraints on the orbital parameters of the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius~X-1 were recently published in Killestein et al (2023). In the process, errors we…

gr-qc2021

Application of a hierarchical MCMC follow-up to Advanced LIGO continuous gravitational-wave candidates

Rodrigo Tenorio, David Keitel, Alicia M. Sintes

We present the first application of a hierarchical Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) follow-up on continuous gravitational-wave candidates from real-data searches. The follow-up uses…

gr-qc2025

One-stop strategy to search for long-duration gravitational-wave signals

Rodrigo Tenorio, Joan-René Mérou, Alicia M. Sintes

Blind continuous gravitational-wave (CWs) searches are a significant computational challenge due to their long duration and weak amplitude of the involved signals. To cope with suc…

gr-qc2021

An all-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

Rodrigo Tenorio, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

We present a search for continuous gravitational waves emitted by neutron stars in binary systems conducted on data from the early third observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Adva…

gr-qc2026

Comparing astrophysical models to gravitational-wave data in the observable space

Alexandre Toubiana, Davide Gerosa, Matthew Mould +9

Comparing population-synthesis models to the results of hierarchical Bayesian inference in gravitational-wave astronomy requires a careful understanding of the domain of validity o…

astro-ph.HE2026

Accurate and efficient simulation-based inference for massive black-hole binaries with LISA

Alice Spadaro, Jonathan Gair, Davide Gerosa +8

We develop an accurate simulation-based inference framework for high-mass () black-hole binaries observable by LISA. The method is implemented within th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Where did Heavy Binaries Go? Gravitational-wave Populations Using Delaunay Triangulation with Optimized Complexity

Rodrigo Tenorio, Alexandre Toubiana, Tristan Bruel +2

We investigate the joint mass-redshift evolution of the binary black-hole merger rate in the latest Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-4.0. We present and apply a novel non…

gr-qc2021

PyFstat: a Python package for continuous gravitational-wave data analysis

David Keitel, Rodrigo Tenorio, Gregory Ashton +1

Gravitational waves in the sensitivity band of ground-based detectors can be emitted by a number of astrophysical sources, including not only binary coalescences, but also individu…

gr-qc2025

Learning to detect continuous gravitational waves: an open data-analysis competition

Rodrigo Tenorio, Michael J. Williams, Joseph Bayley +29

We report results of a public data-analysis challenge, hosted on the open data-science platform Kaggle, to detect simulated continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs). These are w…

gr-qc2024

Mind the step: On the frequency-domain analysis of gravitational-wave memory waveforms

Jorge Valencia, Rodrigo Tenorio, Maria Rosselló-Sastre +1

Gravitational-wave memory is characterized by a signal component that persists after a transient signal has decayed. Treating such signals in the frequency domain is non-trivial, s…

gr-qc2021

Time-frequency track distance for comparing continuous gravitational wave signals

Rodrigo Tenorio, David Keitel, Alicia M. Sintes

Searches for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources attempt to detect long-lasting gravitational radiation by identifying Doppler-modulated signatures in the data. Sem…

gr-qc2023

General-relativistic precession in a black-hole binary

Mark Hannam, Charlie Hoy, Jonathan E. Thompson +24

The general-relativistic phenomenon of spin-induced orbital precession has not yet been observed in strong-field gravity. Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes (BBH…

gr-qc2021

Search methods for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown sources in the advanced-detector era

Rodrigo Tenorio, David Keitel, Alicia M. Sintes

Continuous gravitational waves are long-lasting forms of gravitational radiation produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of matter. Standard expected sources for ground-based…

gr-qc2022

Empirically estimating the distribution of the loudest candidate from a gravitational-wave search

Rodrigo Tenorio, Luana M. Modafferi, David Keitel +1

Searches for gravitational-wave signals are often based on maximizing a detection statistic over a bank of waveform templates, covering a given parameter space with a variable leve…

gr-qc2026

Gravitational-wave astronomy requires population-informed parameter estimation

Matthew Mould, Rodrigo Tenorio, Davide Gerosa

Gravitational-wave events are interpreted in terms of Bayesian posteriors for their source properties inferred under unphysical reference priors. Though these parameter estimates a…

gr-qc2023

Blind-search constraints on the sub-kiloparsec population of continuous gravitational-wave sources

Rodrigo Tenorio

We use the latest all-sky continuous gravitational-wave (CW) searches to estimate constraints on the sub-kiloparsec population of unknown neutron stars (NS). We then extend this an…

astro-ph.HE2026

Exceptionality of exceptional gravitational-wave events

Rodrigo Tenorio, Davide Gerosa

In gravitational-wave astronomy, as in other scientific disciplines, ``exceptional'' sources attract considerable interest because they challenge our current understanding of the u…

gr-qc2025

Toward a computationally-efficient follow-up pipeline for blind continuous gravitational-wave searches

Lorenzo Mirasola, Rodrigo Tenorio

The sensitivity of continuous gravitational-wave (CW) searches for unknown neutron stars (NSs) is limited by their parameter space breadth. To fit within reasonable computing budge…

astro-ph.HE2023

Convolutional neural network search for long-duration transient gravitational waves from glitching pulsars

Luana M. Modafferi, Rodrigo Tenorio, David Keitel

Machine learning can be a powerful tool to discover new signal types in astronomical data. We here apply it to search for long-duration transient gravitational waves triggered by p…

astro-ph.HE2022

Prospects for detecting transient quasi-monochromatic gravitational waves from glitching pulsars with current and future detectors

Joan Moragues, Luana M. Modafferi, Rodrigo Tenorio +1

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit periodic electromagnetic radiation. While pulsars generally slow down as they lose energy, some also experience glitches: spontaneous i…

gr-qc2025

Scalable data-analysis framework for long-duration gravitational waves from compact binaries using short Fourier transforms

Rodrigo Tenorio, Davide Gerosa

We introduce a framework based on short Fourier transforms (SFTs) to analyze long-duration gravitational wave signals from compact binaries. Targeted systems include binary neutron…

gr-qc2024

Assessing the similarity of continuous gravitational-wave signals to narrow instrumental artifacts

Rafel Jaume, Rodrigo Tenorio, Alicia M. Sintes

Continuous gravitational-wave signals (CWs) are long-lasting quasi-monochromatic gravitational-wave signals expected to be emitted by rapidly-rotating non-axisymmetric neutron star…

gr-qc2025

GPU-Accelerated Searches for Long-Transient Gravitational Waves from Newborn Neutron Stars

Joan-René Mérou, Rodrigo Tenorio, Alicia M. Sintes

We present a novel method to efficiently search for long-duration gravitational wave transients emitted by new-born neutron star remnants of binary neutron star coalescences or sup…

gr-qc2026

Ab uno disce omnes: Single-harmonic search for extreme mass-ratio inspirals

Lorenzo Speri, Rodrigo Tenorio, Christian Chapman-Bird +1

Extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) are one of the key sources of gravitational waves for space-based detectors such as LISA. However, their detection remains a major data analysi…