Correcting for Evidence Uncertainty in the Templated Background Search for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

arXiv:2609.27254 · gr-qc, astro-ph.CO · Submitted 2026-09-23 · Read on arXiv

gr-qc, astro-ph.CO

Submitted: 2026-09-23

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Information Gain — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Templated Background Search — 3× in this paper
• Systematic Bias — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fisher Information — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Score Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Advanced LIGO
• Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
• KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector
• GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
• GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run
• GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run
• GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run
• GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
• Population Properties of Compact Objects from the Second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
• The population of merging compact binaries inferred using gravitational waves through GWTC-3
• GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
• GWTC-5.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
• Merging stellar-mass binary black holes
• Binary black hole mergers: formation and populations
• Formation channels of single and binary stellar-mass black holes
• Observed Gravitational-Wave Populations
• The first decade of gravitational-wave measurements of black hole spins
• Stochastic gravitational-wave background as a tool to investigate multi-channel astrophysical and primordial black-hole mergers
• Upper Limits on the Isotropic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run

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