9 papers
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…
Interplanetary scintillation-informed heliospheric modelling for the MeerKAT Pulsar Timing Array 4.5 yr dataset
Saurav Mishra, Daniel J. Reardon, Andrew Zic +9
Heliospheric density variations impart delays on pulse times of arrivals from millisecond pulsars. Improper modelling of these variations may affect gravitational wave detection an…
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…
Sample-efficient non-Gaussian noise reduction in gravitational wave data via learnable wavelets
Arush Pimpalkar, Digvijay Wadekar, Mark Ho-Yeuk Cheung +1
We introduce , a wavelet-based neural network architecture to identify and reduce non-Gaussian noise in gravitational wave data. Traditionally, convolutional n…
Accuracy of ringdown models calibrated to numerical relativity simulations
Francesco Crescimbeni, Gregorio Carullo, Emanuele Berti +3
The ''ringdown'' stage of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole mergers, mainly consisting of a superposition of quasinormal modes emitted by the merger remnant, is a k…