Fast targeted gravitational-wave followup search for compact binary mergers using GSTLAL pipeline

arXiv:2606.22266 · astro-ph.HE, gr-qc · Submitted 2026-06-20 · Read on arXiv

Leo Tsukada, Noah Zhang, Surabhi Sachdev, Shomik Adhicary, Chad Hanna, Prathamesh Joshi, Divya Singh

astro-ph.HE, gr-qc

Submitted: 2026-06-20

Comments: 15 pages, 7 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Fast Radio Bursts Detected by CHIME/FRB During the LIGO--Virgo Observing Run O3a
• Likelihood-Ratio Ranking Statistic for Compact Binary Coalescence Candidates with Rate Estimation
• How Many Times Should We Matched Filter Gravitational Wave Data? A Comparison of GstLAL's Online and Offline Performance
• New Methods for Offline GstLAL Analyses
• The GstLAL Search Analysis Methods for Compact Binary Mergers in Advanced LIGO's Second and Advanced Virgo's First Observing Runs
• GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

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