{"id":2371,"date":"2026-10-12T10:16:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:16:07","slug":"recent-u%c2%b2grc-research-papers-templates-searches-and-waveform-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/recent-u%c2%b2grc-research-papers-templates-searches-and-waveform-models\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent U\u00b2GRC research papers: templates, searches, and waveform models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three recent papers involving U\u00b2GRC researchers highlight new work in gravitational-wave data analysis and waveform modeling.<\/p>\n<h3>Efficient template placement for gravitational-wave searches<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2610.02448\">Alexandra Wernersson, Jessica Irwin, Melissa Lopez, and Sarah Caudill<\/a> introduce <em>isobank<\/em>, a machine-learning approach for placing waveform templates efficiently in the parameter spaces used in gravitational-wave searches. On an eccentric-binary example, the method achieved strong coverage with fewer templates than a leading stochastic-placement approach.<\/p>\n<h3>Guiding binary-black-hole searches with neural networks<\/h3>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2609.28031\">new work<\/a>, Chetan Verma, Amit Reza, Gurudatt Gaur, Dilip Krishnaswamy, and Sarah Caudill study how neural networks can narrow the part of binary-black-hole parameter space that needs to be searched. Their results examine the influence of different parameter representations on this targeted-search strategy.<\/p>\n<h3>An improved precessing waveform surrogate<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2609.07873\">Abhishek Ravishankar, Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field, Keefe Mitman, Nils Deppe, Leo C. Stein, Michael Boyle, and Mark A. Scheel<\/a> present NRSur7dq4v2, an updated surrogate model for precessing binary-black-hole mergers. The model improves accuracy in the merger and ringdown, expands the modeled waveform content, and accelerates evaluation for applications in gravitational-wave inference.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three recent papers involving U\u00b2GRC researchers highlight new work in gravitational-wave data analysis and waveform modeling. Efficient template placement for gravitational-wave searches Alexandra Wernersson, Jessica Irwin, Melissa Lopez, and Sarah Caudill introduce isobank, a machine-learning approach for placing waveform templates efficiently in the parameter spaces used in gravitational-wave searches. On an eccentric-binary example, the method [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4052,"featured_media":1820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/gravity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}