31 August 2026 to 4 September 2026
Jesi
Europe/Rome timezone

Scalable early warning for BNS mergers in next-generation ground-based detectors using SBI

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20m
Sala Congressi della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi (Jesi)

Sala Congressi della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Jesi

Jesi

Piazza Angelo Colocci, 4, 60035 Jesi (AN)
Talk

Speaker

Martin Gerini (UCLouvain)

Description

Third-Generation (3G) observatories will observe Binary Neutron Star coalescences for hours before merger. Over these extended windows, Earth's motion induces signal modulations that render standard approaches computationally prohibitive for low-latency searches. To overcome this, we propose a 2D Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) processing multi-detector, complex Short Fourier Transform (SFT) tensors to implicitly marginalize over extrinsic parameters, effectively reducing the pipeline to a mass-only search. By optimizing a Binary Cross-Entropy loss, the network learns the signal's non-linear time-frequency morphology, approximating the optimal Bayesian detection statistic. We conduct a large-scale campaign of software-simulated signals to compare the CNN's performance with a GPU-optimized SFT-based Matched Filtering baseline for both $\triangle$ and 2L configurations for the Einstein Telescope, across three signal duration regimes: $T_\text{sig}\approx 25$ minutes ($f_{\text{min}} = 5$ Hz), $\approx 2$ hours ($3$ Hz), and $\approx 6$ hours ($2$ Hz). We found that the CNN achieves comparable detection sensitivity while reducing computational costs by over five orders of magnitude, slashing inference latency from minutes to milliseconds. This efficiency unlocks crucial low-latency early-warning triggers for 3G multi-messenger astronomy.

Author

Martin Gerini (UCLouvain)

Co-authors

Prof. Davide Gerosa (Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca) Rodrigo Tenorio

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