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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…