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most citedImproved ranking statistics of the GstLAL inspiral search for compact binary coalescences

53 citations · 87 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

SGN: A python framework for stream-processing pipelines

Yun-Jing Huang, Olivia Godwin, Chad Hanna +11

We present the Stream Graph Navigator (SGN), a lightweight Python framework for building streaming data applications. In SGN, stream-processing pipelines are built by connecting co…

astro-ph.IM2026

Method to get Better Sky Maps in a GstLAL Low-Latency Analysis

Prathamesh Joshi, Becca Ewing, Chad Hanna +40

Modeled gravitational wave searches correlate the strain data with a bank of gravitational wave template waveforms to make detections of gravitational wave candidates, and these re…

astro-ph.IM2026

Fisher Information Velocity: A New Geometric Channel for Precision Glitch Identification in Gravitational-Wave Detectors

James Kennington, Zach Yarbrough

Gravitational-wave detectors operate in inherently non-stationary environments, requiring robust detector characterization (DetChar) to distinguish instrumental transients from ast…

gr-qc2026

GstLAL O4 Online Results Paper

Shomik Adhicary, Pratyusava Baral, Amanda Baylor +39

Gravitational-wave observations of merging binary neutron stars and black holes are now routinely made by detectors in the Advanced LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network. Neutron star binary sy…

gr-qc2026

Gauge Theoretic Signal Processing II: Zero-Latency Whitening for Early Warning Pipelines

James Kennington, Joshua Black, Zach Yarbrough +9

Low-latency gravitational-wave search pipelines provide early-warning alerts for multimessenger astrophysical transients. Current pipelines whiten the data stream using acausal, li…

gr-qc2026

Gauge Theoretic Signal Processing I: The Commutative Formalism for Single-Detector Adaptive Whitening

James Kennington, Joshua Black

We present a geometric framework for adaptive whitening in gravitational-wave detectors, reformulating the problem from a sequence of spectral factorizations to parallel transport…

gr-qc2026

Dual Cutler-Vallisneri Corrections: Mitigating PSD Drift in Zero-Latency Gravitational-Wave Searches

James Kennington

Maximizing pre-merger warning times in gravitational-wave searches requires minimizing algorithmic latency. While current pipelines typically rely on truncated linear-phase filters…

astro-ph.IM2025

SGNL: Scalable Low-Latency Gravitational Wave Detection Pipeline for Compact Binary Mergers

Yun-Jing Huang, Chad Hanna, Leo Tsukada +8

We present SGNL, a scalable, low-latency gravitational-wave search pipeline. It reimplements the core matched-filtering principles of the GstLAL pipeline within a modernized framew…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

GW231109_235456: A Sub-threshold Binary Neutron Star Merger in the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA O4a Observing Run?

Wanting Niu, Carl-Johan Haster, Jolien D. E. Creighton +25

We present a sub-threshold search for gravitational-wave inspirals from binary neutron stars using data from the first part of the fourth LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA observing run. To enhan…

gr-qc2025

New Methods for Offline GstLAL Analyses

Prathamesh Joshi, Leo Tsukada, Chad Hanna +38

In this work, we present new methods implemented in the GstLAL offline gravitational wave search. These include a technique to reuse the matched filtering data products from a GstL…

gr-qc2024

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

Chad Hanna, James Kennington, Wanting Niu +38

Matched-filtering searches for gravitational-wave signals from compact binary mergers employ template banks which are a collection of modeled waveforms described by unique intrinsi…

gr-qc2024★ 1 cited

Scalable matched-filtering pipeline for gravitational-wave searches of compact binary mergers

Yun-Jing Huang, Chad Hanna, Becca Ewing +11

As gravitational-wave observations expand in scope and detection rate, the data analysis infrastructure must be modernized to accommodate rising computational demands and ensure su…

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…

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

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…