24–28 Aug 2026
Kirchhoff Institute for Physics (KIP)
Europe/Berlin timezone

Anomaly detection for generic-transient gravitational waves

26 Aug 2026, 16:10
8m
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Patterns & Anomalies 🔀 Patterns & Anomalies

Speaker

Prof. Elena Cuoco (Unversity of Bologna)

Description

All gravitational wave detections thus far have been from binary compact object coalescences. These detections rely on analyses that exploit the well-modelled nature of the sources. Generic-transient (burst) gravitational waves, on the other hand, do not have well-modelled gravitational wave signals. Therefore, searches for burst gravitational waves must efficiently scan a broad parameter space while minimising the impact of spurious transient noise. We investigate the application of a transformer-based anomaly detection scheme, TranAD, to burst gravitational wave searches. We characterise the performance of TranAD and demonstrate that this approach is a promising for discovering new types of gravitational wave signals.

Author

Mr Gopal Ale Magar (University of Bologna)

Co-authors

Prof. Elena Cuoco (Unversity of Bologna) Ik Siong Heng (University of Glasgow) Ms Lujia Xu (University of Glasgow)

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