Towards Realistic Detection Pipelines of Taiji: New Challenges in Data Analysis and High-Fidelity Simulations of Space-Based Gravitational Wave Antenna

This paper reviews the unique data analysis challenges of the Taiji space-based gravitational wave mission and introduces the Taiji Data Challenge II alongside the open-source Triangle toolkit, which together provide a high-fidelity simulation platform to bridge the gap between theoretical objectives and realistic detection pipelines.

Minghui Du, Pengcheng Wang, Ziren Luo + 23 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

HOLISMOKES XVII: Detecting strongly lensed SNe Ia from time series of multi-band LSST-like imaging data

This paper presents a deep learning pipeline based on a ConvLSTM2D architecture that effectively detects strongly lensed Type Ia supernovae in multi-band time-series imaging data, achieving high true-positive rates with low false-positive rates by the 7th to 9th observation to enable timely follow-up for upcoming surveys like LSST.

Satadru Bag, Raoul Canameras, Sherry H. Suyu + 4 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients

This paper presents an improved binary black hole search discriminator that utilizes singular value decomposition of real non-Gaussian noise transients to construct a χ2\chi^2 statistic, demonstrating performance comparable to sine-Gaussian-based methods while offering a more direct approach for modeling complex glitches.

Tathagata Ghosh, Sukanta Bose, Sanjeev Dhurandhar + 1 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

Modeling gravitational wave sources in the MillenniumTNG simulations

This paper introduces a flexible, parallel framework called Arepo-GW that integrates binary population synthesis with hydrodynamic simulations to generate gravitational wave event catalogs, demonstrating its application on the MillenniumTNG suite to reveal merger rates and progenitor properties consistent with current observations while highlighting specific discrepancies in binary black hole merger rates and redshift evolution.

Federico Marinacci, Marco Baldi, Giuliano Iorio + 5 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1). Searching for giant gravitational arcs in galaxy clusters with mask region-based convolutional neural networks

This paper introduces ARTEMIDE, an open-source Mask R-CNN framework that successfully automates the detection and segmentation of strong gravitational lensing arcs in Euclid's Quick Data Release, achieving high precision and recall while demonstrating the viability of deep learning for analyzing massive wide-field survey datasets.

Euclid Collaboration, L. Bazzanini, G. Angora + 306 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

High Power RF Pulse Shaping Tests with NG-LLRF and Cool Copper Collider Prototype Structure

This paper demonstrates high-power RF pulse shaping experiments using a digital-only Next Generation LLRF (NG-LLRF) platform and a Cool Copper Collider prototype, achieving peak powers up to 5.4 MW and validating the system's capability to perform complex modulations like phase reversal and beam loading compensation without additional analog components.

Chao Liu, Ankur Dhar, Ronald Agustsson + 4 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

The Northern High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey: II. Single-pulse search set-up and simulations

This paper presents a new single-pulse search pipeline and associated software toolkits (FRBfaker and RFIbye) for the northern High Time Resolution Universe survey, demonstrating its readiness for full data processing through FRB-mimicking simulations and the detection of known pulsars, a RRAT, and numerous new single-pulse candidates.

L. J. M. Houben, H. Falcke, L. G. Spitler + 5 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

Wave Front Sensing demodulated at the difference frequency between two phase-modulation sidebands in a compound interferometer configuration for a gravitational-wave detector

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a novel "Phase-Modulated-sideband × Phase-Modulated-sideband Wave Front Sensing" (PMPMWFS) technique for gravitational-wave detectors, which demodulates signals at the difference frequency between two anti-resonant sidebands to effectively decouple Power Recycling Cavity and incident beam alignment from arm cavity signals, thereby enabling stable, multi-degree-of-freedom control.

Chiaki Hirose, Kenta Tanaka, Osamu Miyakawa + 1 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

Deep Neural Network-Based High-Precision Identification of Weak Stability Boundary Structures

This paper proposes a deep neural network-based method that overcomes the limitations of conventional techniques by achieving both high computational efficiency and identification precision (97.26–99.91%) for weak stability boundary structures, thereby facilitating their application in ballistic capture analysis and low-energy transfer construction.

Shuyue Fu, Ziqi Xu, Di Wu + 1 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

Detecting false positives with PLATO using double-aperture photometry and centroid shifts

This paper proposes and validates a double-aperture photometry strategy as a computationally efficient alternative to on-board centroid shifts for detecting false positives in the PLATO mission, demonstrating that secondary flux measurements achieve the highest detection efficiency (92%) for rejecting eclipsing binary contaminants among Sun-like stars.

F. Gutiérrez-Canales, R. Samadi, A. Birch + 6 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph

H\mathcal{H}-EFTCAMB: A Cobaya-Integrated, Python-Wrapped Extension of EFTCAMB for Covariant Horndeski Gravity

The paper introduces H\mathcal{H}-EFTCAMB, a publicly available, Cobaya-integrated Python extension of EFTCAMB that enables robust cosmological testing of arbitrary covariant Horndeski gravity theories through both EFT mapping and direct scalar field equation solving, the latter of which remains valid even in regimes where the EFT approach fails.

Gen Ye, Shijie Lin, Jiaming Pan + 6 more2026-03-04🔭 astro-ph