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Probing Neutron Star Equation of State Universality with Gravitational Waves
Praveer Tiwari, Ajit Kumar Mehta, K. G. Arun
Current neutron star equation-of-state inferences assume that a common equation of state describes all neutron stars. However, {poorly understood dense-matter physics may give rise…
Testing the spin-induced multipole moments of compact binary coalescences using the flexible theory-independent framework
Elise M. Sänger, Alessandra Buonanno, Ajit Kumar Mehta +1
According to the no-hair theorem, the multipole moments of an electrically neutral black hole in general relativity are entirely determined by its mass and spin. However, this is n…
The diffraction-lensing interpretation of GW231123 with astrophysical priors
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Digvijay Wadekar, Matias Zaldarriaga +3
GW231123, if unlensed, is a rare binary black hole merger with high masses and high spins for both progenitors. We show that the signal is better fitted by a lower-mass, lower-spin…
Discovery of Interpretable Surrogates via Agentic AI: Application to Gravitational Waves
Tousif Islam, Digvijay Wadekar, Tejaswi Venumadhav +4
Fast surrogate models for expensive simulations are now essential across the sciences, yet they typically operate as black boxes. We present \texttt{GWAgent}, a large language mode…
GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818: astrophysical interpretation of two asymmetric binary black hole mergers in the IAS catalog
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar +6
We provide a comprehensive analysis of GW190711_030756 and GW200114_020818, two of the most significant binary black hole merger candidates in the IAS catalog, with probabilities o…
Searching for precessing binary systems with mode-by-mode filtering and marginalization
Zihan Zhou, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet +8
Nearly all previous binary black hole searches in LIGO--Virgo--KAGRA (LVK) gravitational wave data have assumed that the component spins are aligned with the orbital angular moment…
Data-driven extraction and phenomenology of eccentric harmonics in eccentric spinning binary black hole mergers
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta +6
Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations indicate that the phenomenology of eccentric binary black hole (BBH) merger waveforms is significantly more complex than that of thei…
Binary black hole population inference combining confident and marginal events from the search pipeline
Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Isha Anantpurkar +6
We present the population properties of binary black hole mergers identified by the pipeline (which incorporates higher-order modes in the search templates) du…
Improving gravitational wave search sensitivity with TIER: Trigger Inference using Extended strain Representation
Digvijay Wadekar, Arush Pimpalkar, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung +9
We introduce a machine learning (ML) framework called for improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave search pipelines. Typically, search pipelines only use a s…
Sampler-free gravitational wave inference using matrix multiplication
Jonathan Mushkin, Javier Roulet, Barak Zackay +5
Parameter estimation (PE) for compact binary coalescence (CBC) events observed by gravitational wave (GW) laser interferometers is a core task in GW astrophysics. We present a meth…
Searching for intermediate mass ratio binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung, Digvijay Wadekar, Ajit Kumar Mehta +6
Intermediate mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs) of binary black holes with mass ratios are astrophysically interesting sources of gravitational waves. Me…
gwharmone: first data-driven surrogate for eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta +6
We present gwharmone, the first data-driven surrogate model for eccentric harmonics (as well as the full radiation content) of the dominant quadrupolar mode in eccentric, non-spinn…
Data-driven extraction, phenomenology and modeling of eccentric harmonics in binary black hole merger waveforms
Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta +6
Newtonian and post-Newtonian (PN) calculations suggest that each spherical harmonic mode of the gravitational waveforms (radiation) emitted by eccentric binaries can be further dec…
Significant increase in sensitive volume of a gravitational wave search upon including higher harmonics
Ajit Kumar Mehta, Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet +6
Most gravitational wave searches to date have included only the quadrupole mode in their search templates. Here, we demonstrate that incorporating higher harmonics improves the sea…
New search pipeline for gravitational waves with higher-order modes using mode-by-mode filtering
Digvijay Wadekar, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Javier Roulet +4
Nearly all template-based gravitational wave (GW) searches only include the quasi-circular quadrupolar modes of the signals in their templates. Including additional degrees of free…
New black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3 data from a gravitational wave search including higher-order harmonics
Digvijay Wadekar, Javier Roulet, Tejaswi Venumadhav +5
Nearly all of the previous gravitational wave (GW) searches in the LIGO-Virgo data included GW waveforms with only the dominant quadrupole harmonic, i.e., omitting higher-order har…
New binary black hole mergers in the LIGO-Virgo O3b data
Ajit Kumar Mehta, Seth Olsen, Digvijay Wadekar +5
We report the detection of 6 new candidate binary black hole (BBH) merger signals in the publicly released data from the second half of the third observing run (O3b) of advanced LI…
New approach to template banks of gravitational waves with higher harmonics: Reducing matched-filtering cost by over an order of magnitude
Digvijay Wadekar, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Ajit Kumar Mehta +5
Searches for gravitational wave events use models, or templates, for the signals of interest. The templates used in current searches in the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra (LVK) data model the do…
Laying the foundation of the effective-one-body waveform models SEOBNRv5: improved accuracy and efficiency for spinning non-precessing binary black holes
Lorenzo Pompili, Alessandra Buonanno, Héctor Estellés +21
We present SEOBNRv5HM, a more accurate and faster inspiral-merger-ringdown gravitational waveform model for quasi-circular, spinning, nonprecessing binary black holes within the ef…