Sakshi Satish Madekar, Nathan K Johnson-McDaniel, Anuradha Gupta and Abhirup Ghosh
{"title":"A meta inspiral–merger–ringdown consistency test of general relativity with gravitational wave signals from compact binaries","authors":"Sakshi Satish Madekar, Nathan K Johnson-McDaniel, Anuradha Gupta and Abhirup Ghosh","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf02a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf02a","url":null,"abstract":"The observation of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences is a promising tool to test the validity of general relativity (GR) in a highly dynamical strong-field regime. There are now a variety of tests of GR performed on the observed compact binary signals. In this paper, we propose a new test of GR that compares the results of these individual tests. This meta inspiral–merger–ringdown consistency test (IMRCT) involves inferring the final mass and spin of the remnant black hole obtained from the analyses of two different tests of GR and checking for consistency. If there is a deviation from GR, we expect that different tests of GR will recover different values for the final mass and spin, in general. We check the performance of the meta IMRCT using a standard set of null tests used in various gravitational-wave analyses: the original IMRCT, the test infrastructure for GR, the flexible-theory-independent test, and the modified dispersion test. However, the meta IMRCT is applicable to any tests of GR that infer the initial masses and spins or the final mass and spin, including ones that are applied to binary neutron star or neutron star–black hole signals. We apply the meta IMRCT to simulated quasi-circular GR and non-GR binary black hole (BBH) signals as well as to eccentric BBH signals in GR (analysed with quasicircular waveforms). We find that the meta IMRCT gives consistency with GR for the quasi-circular GR signals and picks up a deviation from GR in the other cases, as do other tests. In some cases, the meta IMRCT finds a significant GR deviation for a given pair of tests (and specific testing parameters) while the individual tests do not, showing that it is more sensitive than the individual tests to certain types of deviations. In addition, we also apply this test to a few selected real compact binary signals and find them consistent with GR.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuyang Lin, Jiawei Zhang, Chong Mo, Zhe Han, Peilong Yu, Qinbo Ma, Ming Hu and Jianping Huang
{"title":"Suppression of low-frequency noise using discrete component chopping noise suppression circuit for space inertial sensor drive voltage amplifier","authors":"Shuyang Lin, Jiawei Zhang, Chong Mo, Zhe Han, Peilong Yu, Qinbo Ma, Ming Hu and Jianping Huang","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf794","url":null,"abstract":"The space inertial sensor represents a pivotal component of the space gravitational wave detection apparatus, whereas the test mass (TM) it contains serves as a pivotal reference for space gravitational wave detection. The actuation circuit maintains the TM at a fixed position within the space inertia sensor. The Drive Voltage Amplifier (DVA) of the actuation circuit introduces low-frequency noise that directly affects the accuracy of gravitational wave detection at the mHz frequency. Therefore, it is of great significance to suppress low-frequency noise in the DVA. This study analyzes the noise modeling of the DVA in the actuation circuit and points out that the low-frequency noise of the DVA is mainly 1/f noise. A set of chopping noise suppression circuits is designed to greatly suppress the noise floor of the DVA under the premise of ensuring the functionality of the circuit. Based on chopping technology, a set of chopping noise suppression circuits is designed, and a prototype circuit was constructed for experimental analysis. The test results show that the noise floor of the DVA circuit at 1 mHz had been reduced from 21.7 ± 1.51 μV √Hz−1 to 1.35 ± 0.22 μV √Hz−1, which notably diminished the noise floor of the DVA circuit and can be applied to the design of future actuation circuit for the space inertial sensor.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The transition to phenomenological behaviour of static solutions of the Einstein–Dirac system for an increasing number of fermions","authors":"Håkan Andréasson and Joakim Blomqvist","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf792","url":null,"abstract":"Static spherically symmetric solutions to the Einstein–Dirac system were constructed numerically for the first time in 1999 by Finster et al (1999 Phys. Rev. D59 104020) in the case of two fermions. In 2020 this result was generalized by Leith et al (2020 Phys. Rev. D101 106012) to a system consisting of an even number κ of fermions. They constructed solutions for . The purpose of the present investigation is to compare the properties of static solutions of the Einstein–Dirac system with static solutions of the Einstein–Vlasov system as the number of fermions increases, that is, for . Since the Einstein–Vlasov system is a fully classical physical model, whereas the Einstein–Dirac system is semiclassical and thus has a quantum signature, this framework provides an excellent opportunity to study the transition from quantum to classical behaviour. It turns out that even for a comparatively small number of particles, the features of the solutions are remarkably similar. For both systems, we find highly relativistic solutions having a multi-peak structure with strikingly similar characteristics. We also investigate the maximum compactness ratio of the solutions. The solutions of both systems share the fundamental properties regarding the maximum compactness ratio and obey the inequality derived in Andréasson (2008 J. Differ. Equ.245 2243–66). Furthermore, we investigate the sign of the pressure components of solutions of the Einstein–Dirac system. For small values of κ, there are regions where the radial pressure is negative. These regions disappear as κ increases. This supports the interpretation we make as a transition from quantum to classical behaviour as the number of fermions increases.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yunan Wu, Michael Zevin, Christopher P L Berry, Kevin Crowston, Carsten Østerlund, Zoheyr Doctor, Sharan Banagiri, Corey B Jackson, Vicky Kalogera and Aggelos K Katsaggelos
{"title":"Advancing glitch classification in Gravity Spy: multi-view fusion with attention-based machine learning for Advanced LIGO’s fourth observing run","authors":"Yunan Wu, Michael Zevin, Christopher P L Berry, Kevin Crowston, Carsten Østerlund, Zoheyr Doctor, Sharan Banagiri, Corey B Jackson, Vicky Kalogera and Aggelos K Katsaggelos","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf58b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf58b","url":null,"abstract":"The first successful detection of gravitational waves by ground-based observatories, such as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), marked a breakthrough in our comprehension of the Universe. However, due to the unprecedented sensitivity required to make such observations, gravitational-wave detectors also capture disruptive noise sources called glitches, which can potentially be confused for or mask gravitational-wave signals. To address this problem, a community-science project, Gravity Spy, incorporates human insight and machine learning to classify glitches in LIGO data. The machine-learning classifier, integrated into the project since 2017, has evolved over time to accommodate increasing numbers of glitch classes. Despite its success, limitations have arisen in the ongoing LIGO fourth observing run (O4) due to the architecture’s simplicity, which led to poor generalization and inability to handle multi-time window inputs effectively. We propose an advanced classifier for O4 glitches. Using data from previous observing runs, we evaluate different fusion strategies for multi-time window inputs, using label smoothing to counter noisy labels, and enhancing interpretability through attention module-generated weights. Our new O4 classifier shows improved performance, and will enhance glitch classification, aiding in the ongoing exploration of gravitational-wave phenomena.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"188 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zach Yarbrough, Andre Guimaraes, Prathamesh Joshi, Gabriela González and Andrew Valentini
{"title":"PINCH: pipeline-informed noise characterization in LIGO’s third observing run","authors":"Zach Yarbrough, Andre Guimaraes, Prathamesh Joshi, Gabriela González and Andrew Valentini","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf58c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf58c","url":null,"abstract":"We present a method to identify and categorize gravitational wave candidate triggers identified by matched filtering gravitational wave searches (pipelines) caused by transient noise (glitches) in gravitational wave detectors using support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. Our approach involves training SVM models on pipeline triggers which occur outside periods of excess noise to distinguish between triggers caused by random noise and those induced by glitches. This method is applied independently to the triggers produced by the GstLAL search pipeline on data from the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory Hanford and Livingston observatories during the second half of the O3 observing run. The trained SVM models assign scores to ambiguous triggers, quantifying their similarity to triggers caused by random fluctuations, with triggers with scores above a defined threshold being classified as glitch-induced. Analysis of these triggers reveals the distinct impact of different glitch classes on the search pipeline, including their distribution in relevant parameter spaces. We use metrics such as the Bhattacharyya coefficient and an over-representation ratio to quantify the consistency and prevalence of glitch impacts over time and across parameter spaces. Our findings indicate that some glitch types consistently produce triggers in specific regions of the parameter space, while others generate triggers that are more widely distributed. We observe that Scattered Light glitches appear differently in the search pipeline before and after a commissioning change, demonstrating how such detector changes appear in the pipeline’s response to certain glitch classes. This method provides a framework for understanding and mitigating the influence of non-Gaussian transients on gravitational wave search pipelines, with implications for improving detection sensitivity and better understanding noise populations.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Generalization of Bohmian mechanics and quantum gravity effective action","authors":"Aleksandar Miković","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf607","url":null,"abstract":"We generalize the de Broglie–Bohm (dBB) formulation of quantum mechanics to the case of quantum gravity (QG) by using the effective action (EA) for a QG theory. This is done by replacing the dBB equations of motion (EOM) with the EA EOM, which is beneficial even in the non-gravitational case, since in this way one avoids the violations of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations and the absence of the classical trajectories for stationary bound states. Another advantage of the EA formalism is that one can obtain the field configurations in the case of a quantum field theory (QFT). The proposed QG generalization is natural for Bohmiam mechanics because a dBB wavefunction is really a wavefunction of the Universe and in order to define the EA for an arbitrary initial state one needs a QG path integral. The QG EA can be constructed by using the piecewise flat QG (PFQG) theory and the PFQG EA can be approximated by the QFT EA for General Relativity coupled to matter, with a cutoff determined by the average edge length of the spacetime triangulation. One can then calculate the corresponding field configurations and from these field configurations one can obtain the trajectories for the corresponding elementary particles.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144839982","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ringdown signatures in the Ernst-Wild geometry: modelling Kerr black holes immersed in a magnetic field","authors":"Kate J Taylor and Adam Ritz","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf685","url":null,"abstract":"We analyse the quasinormal mode (QNM) spectrum for Kerr black holes surrounded by an asymptotically uniform magnetic field, modelled with the Ernst-Wild geometry. A perturbative expansion in both the rotation parameter a and the magnetic field B allows the analysis of perturbations with Kerr-like asymptotics well inside the Melvin radius, and we obtain the spectrum for a variety of scalar QNMs over a range of parameters using the continued fraction method. We then interpolate the low-lying mode spectrum to construct an Ernst-Wild template for the ringdown, and use the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA analysis tool pyRing to assess the impact of the magnetosphere on the extraction of ringdown signatures from several observed binary black hole mergers.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"292 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144840219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing the longitudinal isolation for LIGO-style test mass suspensions","authors":"E Bonilla, B Shapiro and B Lantz","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf608","url":null,"abstract":"We derive the design of a multi-stage mirror suspension which gives optimal isolation performance for upgrades to the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). This optimization is only constrained by length, optic mass and total suspension mass. We find that the optimally-isolating suspension with N masses, fixed total mass , total length , and bottom mass , has equal distances between suspended masses, equal ratios between successive suspended payloads, and a highest resonance scaling as . This optimization was used to guide the conceptual design for the next planned upgrade, LIGO A . That conceptual design has several additional constraints, but we show that the isolation performance is within 20% of the theoretical best performance achievable. Additionally, the principles derived from the general optimization are broadly applicable and can be used to inform suspension design for other instruments requiring high-performance vibration isolation, including third-generation gravitational wave observatories such as Cosmic Explorer.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144824905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unraveling the Hubble tension with warm inflation","authors":"Anupama B and P K Suresh","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf40a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf40a","url":null,"abstract":"The validity of warm inflation is investigated in the light of recent CMB missions in both strong and weak dissipative regimes. The tensor to scalar ratio of various inflationary models is found to be consistent with the recent CMB results for different models of warm inflation. The role of dissipation on the popular models of warm inflation in the context of supersymmetry and string theory is investigated. Further, the effect of dissipation coefficient of warm inflation on the Hubble parameter and its role in accounting the Hubble tension is examined. Warm inflation embodies superstring theory and can provide a platform to test quantum gravity in multi field scenario.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"29 21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144825216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celestial quantum error correction: I. Qubits from noncommutative Klein space","authors":"Alfredo Guevara and Yangrui Hu","doi":"10.1088/1361-6382/adf686","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/adf686","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum gravity in 4D asymptotically flat spacetimes features spontaneous symmetry breaking due to soft radiation hair, intimately tied to the proliferation of IR divergences. A holographic description via a putative 2D CFT is expected free of such redundancies. In this series of two papers, we address this issue by initiating the study of quantum error correction in celestial CFT (CCFT). In part I we construct a toy model with finite degrees of freedom by revisiting noncommutative geometry in Kleinian hyperkähler spacetimes. The model obeys a Wick algebra that renormalizes in the radial direction and admits an isometric embedding á la Gottesman–Kitaev–Preskill. The code subspace is composed of two-qubit stabilizer states which are robust under soft spacetime fluctuations. Symmetries of the hyperkähler space become discrete and translate into the Clifford group familiar from quantum computation. The construction is then embedded into the incidence relation of twistor space, paving the way for the CCFT regime addressed in follow-up work.","PeriodicalId":10282,"journal":{"name":"Classical and Quantum Gravity","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144824907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}