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astro-ph.IM2026

LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Parts of the Fourth Observing Run

J. Glanzer, A. F. Helmling-Cornell, A. Calafat +244

LIGO detector characterization efforts enabled the confident detection of gravitational waves from hundreds of compact binary coalescences during the fourth observing run. Reliable…

gr-qc2026

Coalescing Compact Binary Parameter Estimation with Gravitational Waves in the Presence of non-Gaussian Transient Noise

Yannick Lecoeuche, Jess McIver, Alan M. Knee +7

Data from gravitational-wave (GW) detectors often contains a high rate of non-Gaussian transient noise, known as glitches. The parameters estimated from GW signals coinciding with…

astro-ph.HE2024

Extracting Astrophysical Information of Highly-Eccentric Binaries in the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Band

Zeyuan Xuan, Smadar Naoz, Alvin K. Y. Li +6

Wide, highly eccentric () compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 60 cited

LIGO Detector Characterization in the first half of the fourth Observing run

S. Soni, B. K. Berger, D. Davis +232

Progress in gravitational-wave astronomy depends upon having sensitive detectors with good data quality. Since the end of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA third Observing run in March 2020, de…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

Detecting gravitational-wave bursts from black hole binaries in the Galactic Center with LISA

Alan M. Knee, Jess McIver, Smadar Naoz +3

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) in galactic nuclei are gravitationally perturbed by the central supermassive black hole (SMBH) of the host galaxy, potentially inducing stro…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

AstroInformatics: Recommendations for Global Cooperation

Ashish Mahabal, Pranav Sharma, Rana Adhikari +45

Policy Brief on "AstroInformatics, Recommendations for Global Collaboration", distilled from panel discussions during S20 Policy Webinar on Astroinformatics for Sustainable Develop…

gr-qc2023★ 6 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves directed at sub-threshold radiometer candidates in O3 LIGO data

Alan M. Knee, Helen Du, Evan Goetz +7

We present results of a follow-up search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs) associated with sub-threshold candidates from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) All-Sky All-Frequency (AS…

astro-ph.IM2023

Explaining the GWSkyNet-Multi machine learning classifier predictions for gravitational-wave events

Nayyer Raza, Man Leong Chan, Daryl Haggard +5

GWSkyNet-Multi is a machine learning model developed for classification of candidate gravitational-wave events detected by the LIGO and Virgo observatories. The model uses limited…

gr-qc2023

A new method to distinguish gravitational-wave signals from detector noise transients with Gravity Spy

Seraphim Jarov, Sarah Thiele, Siddharth Soni +5

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have enabled the confident detection of dozens of mergers of black holes and neutron stars. However, the presence of detector noise t…

gr-qc2023

Waves in a Forest: A Random Forest Classifier to Distinguish between Gravitational Waves and Detector Glitches

Neev Shah, Alan M. Knee, Jess McIver +1

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network of gravitational-wave (GW) detectors have observed many tens of compact binary mergers to date. Transient, non-Gaussian noise excursions, known a…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

GSpyNetTree: A signal-vs-glitch classifier for gravitational-wave event candidates

Sofia Alvarez-Lopez, Annudesh Liyanage, Julian Ding +2

Despite achieving sensitivities capable of detecting the extremely small amplitude of gravitational waves (GWs), LIGO and Virgo detector data contain frequent bursts of non-Gaussia…

gr-qc2022★ 45 cited

A Rosetta Stone for eccentric gravitational waveform models

Alan M. Knee, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Paul D. Lasky +2

Orbital eccentricity is a key signature of dynamical binary black hole formation. The gravitational waves from a coalescing binary contain information about its orbital eccentricit…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 74 cited

Subtracting glitches from gravitational-wave detector data during the third observing run

D. Davis, T. B. Littenberg, I. M. Romero-Shaw +4

Data from ground-based gravitational-wave detectors contains numerous short-duration instrumental artifacts, called "glitches." The high rate of these artifacts in turn results in…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

Prospects for reconstructing the gravitational-wave signals from core-collapse supernovae with Advanced LIGO-Virgo and the BayesWave algorithm

Nayyer Raza, Jess McIver, Gergely Dálya +1

Our current understanding of the core-collapse supernova explosion mechanism is incomplete, with multiple viable models for how the initial shock wave might be energized enough to…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 38 cited

Impact of noise transients on low latency gravitational-wave event localisation

Ronaldas Macas, Joshua Pooley, Laura K. Nuttall +6

Gravitational-wave (GW) data contains non-Gaussian noise transients called "glitches". During the third LIGO-Virgo observing run about 24% of all gravitational-wave candidates were…

gr-qc2021

The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book

Vicky Kalogera, B. S. Sathyaprakash, Matthew Bailes +88

The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors will observe coalescences of black holes and neutron stars throughout the cosmos, thousands of them with exceptiona…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 13 cited

GWSkyNet-Multi: A Machine Learning Multi-Class Classifier for LIGO-Virgo Public Alerts

Thomas C. Abbott, Eitan Buffaz, Nicholas Vieira +4

Compact object mergers which produce both detectable gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission can provide valuable insights into the neutron star equation of state, the ten…

gr-qc2021★ 4 cited

UniMAP: Model-free detection of unclassified noise transients in LIGO-Virgo data using the Temporal Outlier Factor

Julian Ding, Raymond Ng, Jess McIver

Data from current gravitational wave detectors contains a high rate of transient noise (glitches) that can trigger false detections and obscure true astrophysical events. Existing…

gr-qc2021★ 29 cited

Parameterised population models of transient non-Gaussian noise in the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors

Gregory Ashton, Sarah Thiele, Yannick Lecoeuche +2

The two interferometric LIGO gravitational-wave observatories provide the most sensitive data to date to study the gravitational-wave Universe. As part of a global network, they ha…

physics.ins-det2021★ 6 cited

Point Absorber Limits to Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors

W. Jia, H. Yamamoto, K. Kuns +198

High-quality optical resonant cavities require low optical loss, typically on the scale of parts per million. However, unintended micron-scale contaminants on the resonator mirrors…

gr-qc2021★ 10 cited

Prospects for measuring off-axis spins of binary black holes with Plus-era gravitational-wave detectors

Alan M. Knee, Jess McIver, Miriam Cabero

The mass and spin properties of binary black holes (BBHs) inferred from their gravitational-wave signatures reveal important clues about how these systems form. BBHs originating fr…

physics.ins-det2021★ 53 cited

LIGOs Quantum Response to Squeezed States

L. McCuller, S. E. Dwyer, A. C. Green +194

Gravitational Wave interferometers achieve their profound sensitivity by combining a Michelson interferometer with optical cavities, suspended masses, and now, squeezed quantum sta…

quant-ph2021★ 96 cited

Approaching the motional ground state of a 10 kg object

Chris Whittle, Evan D. Hall, Sheila Dwyer +197

The motion of a mechanical object -- even a human-sized object -- should be governed by the rules of quantum mechanics. Coaxing them into a quantum state is, however, difficult: th…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 233 cited

LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs

D. Davis, J. S. Areeda, B. K. Berger +284

The characterization of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the second and third observing runs has increased the sensitivity of the instruments, allowing for a higher number of detecta…