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20242026
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15 papers

gr-qc2026

All You Need is not : Beyond the Mean of the Cross-Correlation Estimator when Searching for an Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background

Haowen Zhong, Francesco Iacovelli, Vuk Mandic +1

Searches for the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) using ground-based detectors rely heavily on the cross-correlation estimator , whose statistical properti…

physics.data-an2026

Learned proposals in trans-dimensional inference are optimal at equilibrium, not during assembly

Argyro Sasli, Nikolaos Karnesis, Minas Karamanis +5

Inferring the dimension of a model - the number of components needed to explain data - jointly with the parameters is a pervasive problem, from counting sources in an image to mixt…

gr-qc2026

A thorough investigation of cross-correlation estimators for stochastic gravitational-wave background searches in ground-based detector data

Haowen Zhong, Joseph D. Romano, Vuk Mandic +2

Detecting a stochastic gravitational-wave background represents a crucial yet challenging objective within the field of gravitational-wave astronomy. Ground-based detectors current…

gr-qc2026

Searching Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Landscape Across Frequency Bands

Yunjia Bao, Tore Boybeyi, Vuk Mandic +1

Gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics is entering a multi-band era with upcoming GW detectors, enabling detailed mapping of the stochastic GW background across vast frequencies. We…

gr-qc2026

Polarized Anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Search with Ground-Based Detector Networks

Töre Boybeyi, Vuk Mandic

Gravitational waves admit a Stokes decomposition into intensity (), circular polarization (), and linear polarization (, ), analogous to Cosmic Microwave Background (CM…

gr-qc2026

Parameter Estimation of the Gravitational-Wave Angular Power Spectrum in the Dirty-Map Space

Erik Floden, Alex Granados, Vuk Mandic

We consider a search for the anisotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) that decomposes the sky map into its spherical harmonics components in order to obtain esti…