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Correcting for Evidence Uncertainty in the Templated Background Search for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Argyro Sasli, Muhammed Saleem +1
We report a new source of systematic bias in the Bayesian Templated Background Search (TBS) for the astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background. This bias arises from th…
Ultralight Bosons Explain the Mass-Spin Correlations in the Merging Binary Black Hole Population
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Vuk Mandic, Ran Ding +1
Ultralight bosons could trigger superradiant instabilities in rapidly spinning black holes, forming oscillating clouds while extracting rotational energy. We consider an extended,…
Identifying Cost-Favorable Locations for Cosmic Explorer
Laurence Datrier, Geoffrey Lovelace, Tooba Ansar +19
Cosmic Explorer (CE) is a proposed next-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to extend our gravitational-wave vision to the edge of the observable universe. With a f…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Beyond Gaussian Assumptions: A new robust statistical framework for gravitational-wave data analysis
Argyro Sasli, Minas Karamanis, Nikolaos Karnesis +4
Many traditional algorithms applied in gravitational-wave astronomy rely on the assumption of Gaussian noise, a condition not always met. To meet this need, this study extends a ro…
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…
Importance of Shot Noise in the Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Next Generation Detectors
Haowen Zhong, Vuk Mandic
We investigate the impact of shot noise on the stochastic gravitational wave background generated by binary neutron star mergers, and confirm that the overall background can be sig…
The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)
Andrew Ferguson, Marisa LaFleur, Lars Ruthotto +97
This community paper developed out of the NSF Workshop on the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Mathematical and Physics Sciences (MPS), which was held in March 2025 w…
Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Muhammed Saleem, Vuk Mandic +2
While the third LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog includes 90 signals, it is believed that binary black holes merge somewhere in the Universe every…
On Validating Angular Power Spectral Models for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background Without Distributional Assumptions
Xiangyu Zhang, Erik Floden, Hongru Zhao +4
It is demonstrated that estimators of the angular power spectrum commonly used for the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) lack a closed-form analytical expression for…
Testing models for angular power spectra: A distribution-free approach
Sara Algeri, Xiangyu Zhang, Erik Floden +4
A novel goodness-of-fit strategy is introduced for testing models of angular power spectra with unknown parameters. Using this strategy, it is possible to assess the validity of su…
Two-Step Procedure to Detect Cosmological Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with Next-Generation Terrestrial Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Haowen Zhong, Luca Reali, Bei Zhou +2
Cosmological gravitational-wave backgrounds are an exciting science target for next-generation ground-based detectors, as they encode invaluable information about the primordial Un…
Angular Resolution of a Bayesian Search for Anisotropic Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with LISA
Malachy Bloom, Alexander Criswell, Vuk Mandic
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a spaceborne gravitational wave (GW) detector set to launch in 2035, will observe several stochastic GW backgrounds in the mHz freque…
Templated Anisotropic Analyses of the LISA Galactic Foreground
Alexander W. Criswell, Steven Rieck, Vuk Mandic
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will feature a prominent anisotropic astrophysical stochastic gravitational wave signal, arising from the tens of millions of unresolv…
Searching for cosmological stochastic backgrounds by notching out resolvable compact binary foregrounds with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors
Haowen Zhong, Bei Zhou, Luca Reali +2
Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds can be of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. The detection of an astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background with gro…
Memory of a Random Walk: Astrometric deflections from gravitational wave memory accumulation over cosmological scales
Tore Boybeyi, Vuk Mandic, Alexandros Papageorgiou
We study the impact of gravitational wave memory on the distribution of far away light sources in the sky. For the first time we compute the built up of small, but permanent tensor…
On the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Binary Black Hole Mergers Dynamically Assembled in Dense Star Clusters
Xiao-Xiao Kou, Giacomo Fragione, Vuk Mandic
With about a hundred binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA, and with several hundreds expected in the current O4 run, GWs are revolutionizing our understandi…
A Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in LISA from Unresolved White Dwarf Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Steven Rieck, Alexander W. Criswell, Valeriya Korol +3
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect a wide variety of gravitational wave sources in the mHz band. Some of these signals will elude individual detect…
Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Stellar Core-Collapse Events
Bella Finkel, Haakon Andresen, Vuk Mandic
We estimate the stochastic gravitational-wave background arising from all stellar core-collapse events in the universe based on the gravitational-wave signal predictions of recent…
Nuclear-recoil energy scale in CDMS II silicon dark-matter detectors
R. Agnese, A. J. Anderson, T. Aramaki +106
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS II) experiment aims to detect dark matter particles that elastically scatter from nuclei in semiconductor detectors. The resulting nuclear-re…