Now that detection of gravitational wave signals from the coalescence of extra-galactic compact binary star mergers has become nearly routine, it is intriguing to consider other potential gravitational wave signatures. Here we examine the prospects …
In the last decades, luminous accreting super-massive black holes have been discovered within the first Gyr after the Big Bang, but their origin is still an unsolved mystery. We discuss our state-of-the-art theoretical knowledge of their formation …
The detection of gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin is particularly challenging because the signals are always contaminated by noise. Two of most prominent and efficient detection techniques currently used in Virgo/LIGO search …
Of the three main types of binaries detectable through ground-based gravitational wave observations, black hole-neutron star (BHNS) mergers remain the most elusive. While candidates BHNS exist in the triggers released during the third observing run …
This paper will discuss how a Gaussian process, which describes a probability distribution over an infinite dimensional vector space, can be implemented with finite computational resources. It will discuss how the hyperparameters controlling a …