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Deep-learning pipeline MADGRAV detects 47 gravitational wave events in LIGO data

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Researchers have developed MADGRAV, a deep-learning pipeline for detecting gravitational waves from high-mass compact binary coalescences. Applied to LIGO data from observing runs 3 and 4, MADGRAV utilizes a series of convolutional neural networks for anomaly detection, glitch classification, and signal ranking. The pipeline identified 47 gravitational wave detections with a false alarm rate below 1 yr⁻¹, with 44 of these shared with the WaveBurst search. The study highlights that MADGRAV is particularly effective at recovering higher-mass events, suggesting its utility as a complementary detection channel to traditional matched filtering. AI

IMPACT This research demonstrates the potential of deep learning for scientific discovery in astrophysics, potentially improving future gravitational wave detection capabilities.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Gianluca Inguglia, Huw Haigh, Ulyana Dupletsa, Alessandro Longo ·

    MADGRAV: a multilevel anomaly-detection pipeline for gravitational-wave searches applied to LIGO data

    arXiv:2609.39583v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present the results of \textbf{MADGRAV}, a deep-learning-based search for high-mass compact binary coalescences, applied to the data collected by the LIGO interferometers during the third observing run and during the first and …

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