Publications (24)
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…