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20202026
most citedAn early warning system for electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave events

79 citations · 324 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

gr-qc2026

GW070605: An Undisclosed Binary Neutron Star Hardware Injection in LIGO's Fifth Science Run

Heather Fong, Kipp Cannon, Chi-Wai Chan +7

The authors wished to document the sensitivity improvement that has been contributed to the GW detection rate by detection algorithm research and development efforts, and set about…

gr-qc2024

Searching for asymmetric and heavily precessing Binary Black Holes in the gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo third Observing Run

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton +37

Leveraging the features of the GstLAL pipeline, we present the results of a matched filtering search for asymmetric binary black hole systems with heavily misaligned spins in LIGO…

gr-qc2024

Searching for gravitational-wave signals from precessing black hole binaries with the GstLAL pipeline

Stefano Schmidt, Sarah Caudill, Jolien D. E. Creighton +36

Precession in Binary Black Holes (BBH) is caused by the failure of the Black Hole spins to be aligned and its study can open up new perspectives in gravitational waves (GW) astrono…

gr-qc2023

When to Point Your Telescopes: Gravitational Wave Trigger Classification for Real-Time Multi-Messenger Followup Observations

Anarya Ray, Wanting Niu, Shio Sakon +36

We develop a robust and self-consistent framework to extract and classify gravitational wave candidates from noisy data, for the purpose of assisting in real-time multi-messenger f…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 53 cited

Improved ranking statistics of the GstLAL inspiral search for compact binary coalescences

Leo Tsukada, Prathamesh Joshi, Shomik Adhicary +37

Starting from May 2023, the LIGO Scientific, Virgo and KAGRA Collaboration is planning to conduct the fourth observing run with improved detector sensitivities and an expanded dete…

gr-qc2023★ 3 cited

Performance of the low-latency GstLAL inspiral search towards LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA's fourth observing run

Becca Ewing, Rachael Huxford, Divya Singh +40

GstLAL is a stream-based matched-filtering search pipeline aiming at the prompt discovery of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences such as the mergers of black holes…

hep-ph2023★ 7 cited

Observational constraint on axion dark matter in a realistic halo profile with gravitational waves

Takuya Tsutsui, Atsushi Nishizawa

Axions are considered as a candidate of dark matter. The axions form coherent clouds which delay and amplify gravitational waves (GWs) at a resonant frequency. That is, the coheren…

gr-qc2022★ 28 cited

Template bank for compact binary mergers in the fourth observing run of Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA

Shio Sakon, Leo Tsukada, Heather Fong +34

Matched-filtering gravitational wave search pipelines identify gravitational wave signals by computing correlations, i.e., signal-to-noise ratios, between gravitational wave detect…

gr-qc2022

Input optics systems of the KAGRA detector during O3GK

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +246

KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic gravitational-wave detector, was operated for its solo observation from February 25th to March 10th, 2020, and its first joint observation with…

gr-qc2022

A binary tree approach to template placement for searches for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers

Chad Hanna, James Kennington, Shio Sakon +30

We demonstrate a new geometric method for fast template placement for searches for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of compact binaries. The method is bas…

gr-qc2022★ 5 cited

Observational constraint on axion dark matter with gravitational waves

Takuya Tsutsui, Atsushi Nishizawa

Most matter in the Universe is invisible and unknown, which is called dark matter. A candidate of dark matter is axion, which is an ultra-light particle motivated as a solution for…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 30 cited

Performance of the KAGRA detector during the first joint observation with GEO 600 (O3GK)

KAGRA Collaboration, H. Abe, R. X. Adhikari +212

KAGRA, the kilometer-scale underground gravitational-wave detector, is located at Kamioka, Japan. In April 2020, an astrophysics observation was performed at the KAGRA detector in…

gr-qc2021★ 2 cited

Metric Assisted Stochastic Sampling (MASS) search for gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers

Chad Hanna, Prathamesh Joshi, Rachael Huxford +29

We present a novel gravitational wave detection algorithm that conducts a matched filter search stochastically across the compact binary parameter space rather than relying on a fi…

gr-qc2021★ 8 cited

Early warning of precessing neutron-star black-hole binary mergers with the near-future gravitational-wave detectors

Takuya Tsutsui, Atsushi Nishizawa, Soichiro Morisaki

Since gravitational and electromagnetic waves from a compact binary coalescence carry independent information about the source, the joint observation is important for understanding…

gr-qc2020★ 71 cited

All-sky search in early O3 LIGO data for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1369

Rapidly spinning neutron stars are promising sources of persistent, continuous gravitational waves. Detecting such a signal would allow probing of the physical properties of matter…

gr-qc2020★ 10 cited

Early warning of precessing compact binary merger with third-generation gravitational-wave detectors

Takuya Tsutsui, Atsushi Nishizawa, Soichiro Morisaki

Rapid localization of gravitational-wave events is important for the success of the multi-messenger observations. The forthcoming improvements and constructions of gravitational-wa…

astro-ph.IM2020

Automating the Inclusion of Subthreshold Signal-to-Noise Ratios for Rapid Gravitational-Wave Localization

Cody Messick, Surabhi Sachdev, Kipp Cannon +29

The accurate localization of gravitational-wave (GW) events in low-latency is a crucial element in the search for further multimessenger signals from these cataclysmic events. The…

gr-qc2020★ 12 cited

Incorporation of Statistical Data Quality Information into the GstLAL Search Analysis

Patrick Godwin, Reed Essick, Chad Hanna +20

We present updates to GstLAL, a matched filter gravitational-wave search pipeline, in Advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run. We discuss the incorporation of statistical dat…

astro-ph.IM2020

GstLAL: A software framework for gravitational wave discovery

Kipp Cannon, Sarah Caudill, Chiwai Chan +28

The GstLAL library, derived from Gstreamer and the LIGO Algorithm Library, supports a stream-based approach to gravitational-wave data processing. Although GstLAL was primarily des…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 79 cited

An early warning system for electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave events

Surabhi Sachdev, Ryan Magee, Chad Hanna +28

Binary neutron stars (BNSs) will spend -- 15 minutes in the band of Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors at design sensitivity. Matched-filtering of gravitational-wave (GW…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 1 cited

Improving the background estimation technique in the GstLAL inspiral pipeline with the time-reversed template bank

Chiwai Chan, Kipp Cannon, Sarah Caudill +20

Background estimation is important for determining the statistical significance of a gravitational-wave event. Currently, the background model is constructed numerically from the s…

gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

Overview of KAGRA : KAGRA science

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +240

KAGRA is a newly build gravitational-wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper in the series of KAGRA-featured a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 6 cited

High Speed Source Localization in Searches for Gravitational Waves from Compact Object Collisions

Takuya Tsutsui, Kipp Cannon, Leo Tsukada

Multi-messenger astronomy is of great interest. The localization speed of gravitational wave sources is important for the success of electromagnetic follow-up. Although current gra…