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astro-ph.IM2026

Quantifying the Scientific Potential of Intermediate and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals with the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna

Lorenzo Speri, Francisco Duque, Susanna Barsanti +4

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable precision studies of Extreme and Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals (EMRIs/IMRIs), providing unique probes of astrophysical…

astro-ph.IM2026

ESO Expanding Horizon White Paper: Revealing the properties of matter at supranuclear densities with gravitational waves

Tim Dietrich, Tanja Hinderer, Micaela Oertel +40

Understanding dense matter under extreme conditions is one of the most fundamental puzzles in modern physics. Complex interactions give rise to emergent, collective phenomena. Whil…

astro-ph.IM2025

Searching systematically for coupling of laser and phase-modulation noise in heterodyne interferometry

Kohei Yamamoto, Olaf Hartwig, Lennart Wissel +3

Heterodyne interferometry for precision science often comes with an optical phase modulation, for example, for intersatellite clock noise transfer for gravitational wave (GW) detec…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

Revisiting wideband pulsar timing measurements

Abhimanyu Susobhanan, Avinash Kumar Paladi, Réka Desmecht +28

In the wideband paradigm of pulsar timing, the time of arrival of a pulsar pulse is measured simultaneously with the corresponding dispersion measure from a frequency-resolved inte…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 9 cited

Improving cosmological reach of a gravitational wave observatory using Deep Loop Shaping

Jonas Buchli, Brendan Tracey, Tomislav Andric +28

Improved low-frequency sensitivity of gravitational wave observatories would unlock study of intermediate-mass black hole mergers, binary black hole eccentricity, and provide early…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

SETI@home: Data Analysis and Findings

David P. Anderson, Eric J. Korpela, Dan Werthimer +2

SETI@home is a radio Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project that looks for technosignatures in data recorded at the Arecibo Observatory. The data were collected ov…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

On the calculation of p-values for quadratic statistics in Pulsar Timing Arrays

Rutger van Haasteren

Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) projects have reported various lines of evidence suggesting the presence of a stochastic gravitational wave (GW) background in their data. One key line of…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 6 cited

Observable-based reformulation of time-delay interferometry

Kohei Yamamoto, Jan Niklas Reinhardt, Olaf Hartwig

Spaceborne gravitational-wave observatories utilize a postprocessing technique known as time-delay interferometry (TDI) to reduce the otherwise overwhelming laser frequency noise b…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

Regularizing the Pulsar Timing Array likelihood: A path towards Fourier Space

Serena Valtolina, Rutger van Haasteren

The recent announcement of evidence for a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWB) in pulsar timing array (PTA) data has piqued interest across the scientific community.…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 5 cited

Is your stochastic signal really detectable?

Federico Pozzoli, Jonathan Gair, Riccardo Buscicchio +1

Separating a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) from noise is a challenging statistical task. One approach to establishing a detection criterion for the SGWB is using…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

LISA test-mass charging. Particle flux modeling, Monte Carlo simulations and induced effects on the sensitivity of the observatory

Francesco Dimiccoli, Rita Dolesi, Michele Fabi +6

Context. The LISA space observatory will explore the sub-Hz spectrum of gravitational wave emission from the Universe. The space environment, where will be immersed in, is responsi…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 9 cited

Post-processing subtraction of tilt-to-length noise in LISA in the presence of gravitational wave signals

Marie-Sophie Hartig, Sarah Paczkowski, Martin Hewitson +2

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be the first space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory. It will measure gravitational wave signals in the frequency regime…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 8 cited

Flow Matching for Atmospheric Retrieval of Exoplanets: Where Reliability meets Adaptive Noise Levels

Timothy D. Gebhard, Jonas Wildberger, Maximilian Dax +4

Inferring atmospheric properties of exoplanets from observed spectra is key to understanding their formation, evolution, and habitability. Since traditional Bayesian approaches to…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 7 cited

Tilt-To-Length Coupling in LISA -- Uncertainty and Biases

Marie-Sophie Hartig, Joshua Marmor, Daniel George +2

The coupling of the angular jitter of the spacecraft and their sub-assemblies with the optical bench and the telescope into the interferometric length readout will be a major noise…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 9 cited

Solving the PTA Data Analysis Problem with a Global Gibbs Scheme

Nima Laal, Stephen R. Taylor, Rutger van Haasteren +2

The announcement in the summer of 2023 about the discovery of evidence for a gravitational wave background (GWB) using pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) has ignited both the PTA and the…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 11 cited

Use Model Averaging instead of Model Selection in Pulsar Timing

Rutger van Haasteren

Over the past decade and a half, adoption of Bayesian inference in pulsar timing analysis has led to increasingly sophisticated models. The recent announcement of evidence for a st…

astro-ph.IM2024

Tilt-to-length coupling in LISA Pathfinder: long-term stability

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +75

The tilt-to-length coupling during the LISA Pathfinder mission has been numerically and analytically modeled for particular timespans. In this work, we investigate the long-term st…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 12 cited

Precision measurements of the magnetic parameters of LISA Pathfinder test masses

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

A precise characterization of the magnetic properties of LISA Pathfinder free falling test-masses is of special interest for future gravitational wave observatory in space. Magneti…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 13 cited

Magnetic-induced force noise in LISA Pathfinder free-falling test masses

M Armano, H Audley, J Baird +76

LISA Pathfinder was a mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. Magnetically driven forces play a key role in the instrument sen…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 17 cited

Pulsar Timing Arrays require hierarchical models

Rutger van Haasteren

Pulsar Timing Array projects have found evidence of a stochastic background of gravitational waves (GWB) using data from an ensemble of pulsars. In the literature, minimal assumpti…

astro-ph.IM2024

Experimental end-to-end demonstration of intersatellite absolute ranging for LISA

Kohei Yamamoto, Iouri Bykov, Jan Niklas Reinhardt +10

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is a gravitational wave detector in space. It relies on a post-processing technique named time-delay interferometry (TDI) to suppress…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 37 cited

In-depth analysis of LISA Pathfinder performance results: Time evolution, noise projection, physical models, and implications for LISA

M. Armano, H. Audley, J. Baird +77

We present an in-depth analysis of the LISA Pathfinder differential acceleration performance over the entire course of its science operations, spanning approximately 500 days. We f…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 7 cited

Convolutional Neural Networks for signal detection in real LIGO data

Ondřej Zelenka, Bernd Brügmann, Frank Ohme

Searching the data of gravitational-wave detectors for signals from compact binary mergers is a computationally demanding task. Recently, machine learning algorithms have been prop…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 21 cited

PulsarX: a new pulsar searching package -I. A high performance folding program for pulsar surveys

Yunpeng Men, Ewan Barr, C. J. Clark +2

Pulsar surveys with modern radio telescopes are becoming increasingly computationally demanding. This is particularly true for wide field-of-view pulsar surveys with radio interfer…