Stellar-mass black hole binaries, like those currently being detected with the ground-based gravitational wave (GW) observatories LIGO and Virgo, are also an anticipated GW source in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) band.
LISA will observe them during the early inspiral stage of evolution; some of them will chirp through the LISA band and reappear some time later in the band of...
LISA is a future space-based gravitational wave detector that will complement the LIGO/Virgo observations at much lower frequencies, enabling the detection (among other targets) of coalescences of massive black hole binaries (MBHB). Most MBHB signals are expected to be short and merger-dominated. The development of data analysis tools for LISA is crucial to understand the scientific...
In the context of the orbital modulated waveforms from the white dwarf binary gravitational foreground and the stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB) in the LISA observation band, the Fisher Information and Markov Chains Monte Carlo methods give an estimation of the LISA noise and the parameters of the three backgrounds (galactic, astrophysical, cosmological). We simulate a complex...
In my talk I am going to concentrate on the models of machine learning which allow us to learn the probability distributions and apply it to the important unsolved problems in the LISA data analysis. First I am going to talk about fast Bayesian parameter estimation for the Massive Black Hole Binaries (MBHBs) with the Normalising flows. This will solve an important problem of predicting MBHBs...
The detection of galactic binaries as sources of gravitational waves promises an unprecedented wealth of information about these systems, but also raises several challenges in signal processing. In particular, the variety of sources and the presence of both planned and unplanned gaps call for the development of robust methods. We describe here an original non-parametric reconstruction of the...
PyCBC Live is a low-latency search for compact binary mergers based on frequency-domain matched filtering. It has been used during the second and third observing runs of Advanced Virgo and LIGO, together with other low-latency analyses, to generate rapid alerts from the gravitational- wave strain data. I will describe the basic operating principles behind PyCBC Live, the improvements made...
Long transient gravitational waves refer to a class of signals with duration in the range of 1-1000s, which could be emited by a wide range of astrophysical processes such as accretion disk instabilities around black holes or deformations in magnetars. As these processes are still poorly modelized, searches for such kind of signals mostly rely on unconstrained detection methods that make few...
The search for gravitational waves transient sources with LIGO and Virgo is limited by non-Gaussian transient noise artefacts coming from a wide variety of provenances, such as seismic, acoustic and electromagnetic disturbances. The contamination by these "instrumental glitches" can be partially mitigated by requesting temporal coincidence in two or more detectors as their accidental...
