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GFH-v2 Pipeline for Searches of Long-Transient Gravitational Waves from Newborn Magnetars

arXiv:2512.09878 · doi:10.1103/jqf5-hbzk

Abstract

This paper presents an enhanced methodology for searching long transient gravitational waves associated with a newborn magnetar, with particular focus on the regime in which the early spin-down is dominated by gravitational-wave emission. The analysis is performed using a strongly improved version of the generalized Frequency Hough Transform algorithm, called GFH-v2. We describe the main developments introduced relative to the original implementation and outline the optimized parameter-space selection used in the search. We then compute the theoretical sensitivity of the method and compare it with an empirical sensitivity estimate obtained by injecting simulated signals into LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a data. The updated framework achieves improved sensitivity and computational performance. These results provide a robust basis for future directed searches for long-transient gravitational-wave signals from core-collapse supernovae and other transient events in current and upcoming observing runs.

16 pages, 10 figures ( +2 figures in appendix)

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