3 papers
gr-qc2026
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…
gr-qc2025
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…
astro-ph.EP2025
An Independent Search for Small Long-period Planets in Kepler Data I: Detection Pipeline
Oryna Ivashtenko, Barak Zackay
The unprecedented photometric precision of Kepler mission allows searching for Earth-like planets. However, it remains difficult to distinguish these low signal-to-noise planets fr…