Long Short-Term Memory for Early Warning Detection of Gravitational Waves

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Hauptverfasser: Alfaidi, Reem, Messenger, Christopher
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author Alfaidi, Reem
Messenger, Christopher
author_facet Alfaidi, Reem
Messenger, Christopher
contents The pre-merger detection of gravitational waves from the early inspiral phase of compact binary coalescence events would allow the observation of the earlier stages of the merger in the electromagnetic band. This would significantly impact multi-messenger astronomy, giving astronomers potential access to rich new information. Here, we introduce a proof-of-concept deep-learning-based approach to produce pre-merger early-warning alerts for binary black hole systems. We show the possibility of using a Long Short-Term Memory network trained on the whitened detector strain in the time domain to detect and classify compact binary events. In this work, we consider a single advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detector at design sensitivity and make approximate sensitivity and early warning capability comparisons with approximations to traditional matched filtering approaches. We find that our model is competitive in both aspects, and when applied to a simulated test dataset was able to produce an early alert up to four seconds before the merger.
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spellingShingle Long Short-Term Memory for Early Warning Detection of Gravitational Waves
Alfaidi, Reem
Messenger, Christopher
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The pre-merger detection of gravitational waves from the early inspiral phase of compact binary coalescence events would allow the observation of the earlier stages of the merger in the electromagnetic band. This would significantly impact multi-messenger astronomy, giving astronomers potential access to rich new information. Here, we introduce a proof-of-concept deep-learning-based approach to produce pre-merger early-warning alerts for binary black hole systems. We show the possibility of using a Long Short-Term Memory network trained on the whitened detector strain in the time domain to detect and classify compact binary events. In this work, we consider a single advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detector at design sensitivity and make approximate sensitivity and early warning capability comparisons with approximations to traditional matched filtering approaches. We find that our model is competitive in both aspects, and when applied to a simulated test dataset was able to produce an early alert up to four seconds before the merger.
title Long Short-Term Memory for Early Warning Detection of Gravitational Waves
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04589