Wavelet-based tools to analyze, filter, and reconstruct transient gravitational-wave signals
arXiv:2404.18781 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.109.102010
Abstract
The analysis of gravitational-wave (GW) signals is one of the most challenging application areas of signal processing. Wavelet transforms are specially helpful in detecting and analyzing GW transients and several analysis pipelines are based on these transforms, both continuous and discrete. While discrete wavelet transforms have distinct advantages in terms of computing efficiency, continuous wavelet transforms (CWT) produce smooth and visually stunning time-frequency maps. In addition to wavelets the Q-transform is also used, which is a Morlet wavelet-like transform where the width of the Gaussian envelope is parameterized by a parameter denoted by Q. To date, the use of CWTs in GW data analysis has been limited by the higher computational load when compared with discrete wavelets, and also by the lack of an inversion formula for wavelet families that do not satisfy the admissibility condition. In this paper we consider Morlet wavelets parameterized in the same way as the Q-transform (hence the name wavelet Q-transform) which have all the advantages of the Morlet wavelets and where the wavelet transform can be inverted with a computationally efficient specialization of the non-standard inversion formula of Lebedeva and Postnikov [Lebedeva and Postnikov, Royal Society Open Science, 1 (2014) 140124]. We also introduce a two-parameter extension (the wavelet Qp-transform) which is well-adapted to chirping signals like those originating from compact binary coalescences (CBC), and show that it is also invertible just like the wavelet Q-transform. The inversion formulas of both transforms allow for effective noise filtering and produce very clean reconstructions of GW signals. Our preliminary results indicate that the method could be well suited to perform accurate tests of General Relativity by comparing modeled and unmodeled reconstructions of CBC GW signals.
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