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Detecting Gravitational Wave Memory in the Next Galactic Core-Collapse Supernova
Colter J. Richardson, Haakon Andresen, Anthony Mezzacappa +5
We present an approach to detecting (linear) gravitational wave memory in a Galactic core-collapse supernova using current interferometers. Gravitational wave memory is an importan…
Low-latency gravitational wave alert products and their performance at the time of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
Sushant Sharma Chaudhary, Andrew Toivonen, Gaurav Waratkar +50
Multi-messenger searches for BNS and NSBH mergers are currently one of the most exciting areas of astronomy. The search for joint electromagnetic and neutrino counterparts to GWs h…
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO-Virgo run with coherent WaveBurst enhanced by Machine Learning
Marek J. Szczepańczyk, Francesco Salemi, Sophie Bini +13
This paper presents a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave (GW) transients (or GW bursts) in the data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Vir…
Constraining the Time of Gravitational Wave Emission from Core-Collapse Supernovae
Kiranjyot Gill, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Edo Berger +2
The advent of sensitive gravitational wave (GW) detectors, coupled with wide-field, high cadence optical time-domain surveys, raises the possibility of the first joint GW-electroma…
Search for binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO-Virgo using coherent WaveBurst enhanced with machine learning
T. Mishra, B. O'Brien, M. Szczepanczyk +8
In this work, we use the coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline enhanced with machine learning (ML) to search for binary black hole (BBH) mergers in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo strain data…
The search of higher multipole radiation in gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences by a minimally-modelled pipeline
O. Halim, G. Vedovato, E. Milotti +13
The coherent WaveBurst (cWB) pipeline implements a minimally-modelled search to find a coherent response in the network of gravitational wave detectors of the LIGO-Virgo Collaborat…
Modeling Core-Collapse Supernovae Gravitational-Wave Memory in Laser Interferometric Data
Colter Richardson, Michele Zanolin, Haakon Andresen +3
We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) emission between Hz and Hz (which we refer to as low-frequency emission) from core-collapse supernovae, in the…
Detection of LIGO-Virgo binary black holes in the pair-instability mass gap
Brendan O'Brien, Marek Szczepanczyk, V. Gayathri +5
By probing the population of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO-Virgo, we can infer properties about the underlying black hole formation channels. A mechanism known a…
LIGOs Quantum Response to Squeezed States
L. McCuller, S. E. Dwyer, A. C. Green +194
Gravitational Wave interferometers achieve their profound sensitivity by combining a Michelson interferometer with optical cavities, suspended masses, and now, squeezed quantum sta…
Optimization of model independent gravitational wave search using machine learning
Tanmaya Mishra, Brendan O'Brien, V. Gayathri +4
The Coherent WaveBurst (cWB) search algorithm identifies generic gravitational wave (GW) signals in the LIGO-Virgo strain data. We propose a machine learning (ML) method to optimiz…
Detecting and reconstructing gravitational waves from the next Galactic core-collapse supernova in the Advanced Detector Era
Marek Szczepanczyk, Javier Antelis, Michael Benjamin +17
We performed a detailed analysis of the detectability of a wide range of gravitational waves derived from core-collapse supernova simulations using gravitational-wave detector nois…
First demonstration of early warning gravitational wave alerts
Ryan Magee, Deep Chatterjee, Leo P. Singer +33
Gravitational-wave observations became commonplace in Advanced LIGO-Virgo's recently concluded third observing run. 56 non-retracted candidates were identified and publicly announc…
LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs
D. Davis, J. S. Areeda, B. K. Berger +284
The characterization of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the second and third observing runs has increased the sensitivity of the instruments, allowing for a higher number of detecta…
Environmental Noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors
P. Nguyen, R. M. S. Schofield, A. Effler +215
The sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors to gravitational waves can be affected by environmental disturbances external to the detectors themselves. Since the transition from…
Point absorbers in Advanced LIGO
Aidan F. Brooks, Gabriele Vajente, Hiro Yamamoto +198
Small, highly absorbing points are randomly present on the surfaces of the main interferometer optics in Advanced LIGO. The resulting nano-meter scale thermo-elastic deformations a…
Hubble Constant Measurement with GW190521 as an Eccentric Black Hole Merger
V. Gayathri, J. Healy, J. Lange +7
Gravitational wave observations can be used to accurately measure the Hubble constant and could help understand the present discrepancy between constraints from Type Ia super…
Observing an intermediate mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions
Marek Szczepanczyk, Sergey Klimenko, Brendan O'Brien +10
On May 21, 2019 Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors observed a gravitational-wave transient GW190521, the heaviest binary black-hole merger detected to date with the remnant…
Eccentricity Estimate for Black Hole Mergers with Numerical Relativity Simulations
V. Gayathri, J. Healy, J. Lange +7
The origin of black hole mergers discovered by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories is currently unknown. GW190521 is the heaviest black hole merger detected so far.…
Sensitivity and Performance of the Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Third Observing Run
LIGO Instrument Science List, :, A. Buikema +197
On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long dedi…
Improving the Robustness of the Advanced LIGO Detectors to Earthquakes
Eyal Schwartz, A Pele, J Warner +196
Teleseismic, or distant, earthquakes regularly disrupt the operation of ground--based gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO. Here, we present \emph{EQ mode}, a new glo…
Coherent WaveBurst, a pipeline for unmodeled gravitational-wave data analysis
M. Drago, V. Gayathri, S. Klimenko +12
coherent WaveBurst (cWB) is a highly configurable pipeline designed to detect a broad range of gravitational-wave (GW) transients in the data of the worldwide network of GW detecto…
Interpreting gravitational-wave burst detections: constraining source properties without astrophysical models
Bence Bécsy, Peter Raffai, Kiranjyot Gill +3
We show that for detections of gravitational-wave transients, constraints can be given on physical parameters of the source without using any specific astrophysical models. Relying…
Improving the background of gravitational-wave searches for core collapse supernovae: A machine learning approach
Marco Cavaglia, Sergio Gaudio, Travis Hansen +3
Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e.,…
Machine-learning non-stationary noise out of gravitational wave detectors
Gabriele Vajente, Yiwen Huang, Maximiliano Isi +4
Signal extraction out of background noise is a common challenge in high precision physics experiments, where the measurement output is often a continuous data stream. To improve th…