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most citedBayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with BILBY: Validation and application to the first LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

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gr-qc2026

Bayesian P-spline recovery of stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds in LISA

Nazeela Aimen, Patricio Maturana-Russel, Avi Vajpeyi +2

The detection of a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) is a primary science objective for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). However, extracting these signa…

gr-qc2026

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of correlated gravitational wave detector network noise using matrix-gamma process priors

Yixuan Liu, Renate Meyer, Nelson Christensen +4

This paper addresses the important problem of estimating the noise spectral density of next-generation gravitational-wave detectors, such as LISA and the Einstein Telescope (ET), w…

gr-qc2026

An explicit and differentiable Wilson-Daubechies-Meyer transform for gravitational-wave data analysis

Avi Vajpeyi, Giorgio Mentasti, Quentin Baghi +2

The Wilson-Daubechies-Meyer (WDM) time-frequency transform has been widely used in gravitational-wave astronomy, yet a self-contained, mathematically explicit reference for practit…

gr-qc2025

First-time assessment of glitch-induced bias and uncertainty in inference of extreme mass ratio inspirals

Amin Boumerdassi, Matthew C. Edwards, Avi Vajpeyi +1

This work investigates the impact of streams of transient, non-Gaussian noise artifacts or "glitches" on the parameter estimation of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRI) in the Lase…

gr-qc2025

Bayesian power spectral density estimation for LISA noise based on penalized splines with a parametric boost

Nazeela Aimen, Patricio Maturana-Russel, Avi Vajpeyi +2

Flexible and accurate noise characterization is crucial for the precise estimation of gravitational-wave parameters. We introduce a Bayesian method for estimating the power spectra…

gr-qc2024

Variational inference for correlated gravitational wave detector network noise

Jianan Liu, Avi Vajpeyi, Renate Meyer +5

Gravitational wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope and LISA generate long multivariate time series, which pose significant challenges in spectral density estimation due to a…

gr-qc2023★ 15 cited

Analysis of GWTC-3 with fully precessing numerical relativity surrogate models

Tousif Islam, Avi Vajpeyi, Feroz H. Shaik +6

The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) contains 90 binary coalescence candidates detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration (LVK). We provide a re-analysis of…

gr-qc2021★ 38 cited

Measuring the properties of active galactic nuclei disks with gravitational waves

Avi Vajpeyi, Eric Thrane, Rory Smith +2

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising environments for the assembly of merging binary black hole (BBH) systems. Interest in AGNs as nurseries for merging BBH is rising followi…

gr-qc2021★ 4 cited

A follow-up on intermediate-mass black hole candidates in the second LIGO-Virgo observing run with the Bayes Coherence Ratio

Avi Vajpeyi, Rory Smith, Eric Thrane +7

The detection of an intermediate-mass black hole population ( ) will provide clues to their formation environments (e.g., disks of active galactic nuclei, glo…

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★ 230 cited

GW190521 as a merger of Proca stars: a potential new vector boson of eV

Juan Calderón Bustillo, Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, Alejandro Torres-Forné +6

Advanced LIGO-Virgo reported a short gravitational-wave signal (GW190521) interpreted as a quasi-circular merger of black holes, one populating the pair-instability supernova gap,…

gr-qc2018★ 28 cited

Enhancing confidence in the detection of gravitational waves from compact binaries using signal coherence

Maximiliano Isi, Rory Smith, Salvatore Vitale +3

We show that gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers may be better distinguished from instrumental noise transients by using Bayesian models that look for signal coh…