WRWen-Hong Ruan

Wen-Hong Ruan

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Wen-Hong Ruan has a total of 148 co-authors. Here are the top co-authors by number of shared publications:


Latest Publications

  • Open Access

    On networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors

    by Rong-Gen Cai, Zong-Kuan Guo, Bin Hu, Chang Liu, Youjun Lu, Wei-Tou Ni, Wen-Hong Ruan, Naoki Seto, Gang Wang, Yue-Liang Wu

    The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work, we recap the studies and investigations for the joint space-based GW detector networks to highlight: 1) the high precision of sky localization for the massive binary black hole (BBH) coalescences and the GW sirens in the cosmological implication, 2) the effectiveness to test the parity violation in the stochastic GW background observations, 3) the efficiency of subtracting galactic foreground, 4) the improvement in stellar-mass BBH observations. We inspect alternative networks by trading off massive BBH observations and stochastic GW background observation.


  • Premerger detection of massive black hole binaries using deep learning

    by Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo

    Coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are one of primary sources for space-based gravitational wave (GW) observations. The mergers of these binaries are expected to give rise to detectable electromagnetic (EM) emissions with a narrow time window. The premerger detection of GW signals is vital for follow-up EM observations. The conventional approach for searching GW signals involves high computational costs. In this study, we present a deep learning model to search for GW signals from MBHBs. Our model is able to process 4.7 days of simulated data within 0.01 seconds and detect GW signals several hours to days before the final merger. The model provides the possibility of the coincident GW and EM detection of MBHBs.


  • Open Access

    Parameter Inference for Coalescing Massive Black Hole Binaries Using Deep Learning

    by Wenhong Ruan, He Wang, Chang Liu, Zongkuan Guo

    In the 2030s, a new era of gravitational wave (GW) observations will dawn as multiple space-based GW detectors, such as the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, Taiji, and TianQin, will open the millihertz window for GW astronomy. These detectors are poised to detect a multitude of GW signals emitted by different sources. It is a challenging task for GW data analysis to recover the parameters of these sources at a low computational cost. Generally, the matched filtering approach entails exploring an extensive parameter space for all resolvable sources, incurring a substantial cost owing to the generation of GW waveform templates. To alleviate the challenge, we make an attempt to perform parameter inference for coalescing massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) using deep learning. The model trained in this work has the capability to produce 50,000 posterior samples for the redshifted total mass, mass ratio, coalescence time, and luminosity distance of an MBHB in about twenty seconds. Our model can serve as an effective data pre-processing tool, reducing the volume of parameter space by more than four orders of magnitude for MBHB signals with a signal-to-noise ratio larger than 100. Moreover, the model exhibits robustness when handling input data that contain multiple MBHB signals.


  • Open Access

    On networks of space-based gravitational-wave detectors

    by Rong-Gen Cai, Zong-Kuan Guo, Bin Hu, Chang Liu, Youjun Lu, Wei-Tou Ni, Wen-Hong Ruan, Naoki Seto, Gang Wang, Yue-Liang Wu

    The space-based laser interferometers, LISA, Taiji and TianQin, are targeting to observe milliHz gravitational waves (GWs) in the 2030s. The joint observations from multiple space-based detectors yield significant advantages. In this work, we recap the studies and investigations for the joint space-based GW detector networks to highlight: 1) the high precision of sky localization for the massive binary black hole (BBH) coalescences and the GW sirens in the cosmological implication, 2) the effectiveness to test the parity violation in the stochastic GW background observations, 3) the efficiency of subtracting galactic foreground, 4) the improvement in stellar-mass BBH observations. We inspect alternative networks by trading off massive BBH observations and stochastic GW background observation.

  • Open Access

    Rapid search for massive black hole binary coalescences using deep learning

    by Wen-Hong Ruan, He Wang, Chang Liu, Zong-Kuan Guo

    The coalescences of massive black hole binaries are one of the main targets of space-based gravitational wave observatories. Such gravitational wave sources are expected to be accompanied by electromagnetic emissions. Low latency detection of the massive black hole mergers provides a start point for a global-fit analysis to explore the large parameter space of signals simultaneously being present in the data but at great computational cost. To alleviate this issue, we present a deep learning method for rapidly searching for signals of massive black hole binaries in gravitational wave data. Our model is capable of processing a year of data, simulated from the LISA data challenge, in only several seconds, while identifying all coalescences of massive black hole binaries with no false alarms. We further demonstrate that the model shows robust resistance to a wide range of generalization cases, including various waveform families and updated instrumental configurations. This method offers an effective approach that combines advances in artificial intelligence to open a new pathway for space-based gravitational wave observations.

  • Confusion noise from Galactic binaries for Taiji

    by Chang Liu, Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo

    Gravitational waves (GWs) from tens of millions of compact binaries in our Milky Way enter the millihertz band of space-based detection. The majority of them cannot be resolved individually, resulting in foreground confusion noise for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The concept of the Taiji mission is similar to LISA’s with slightly better sensitivity, which means that Galactic GW signals will also affect detection with Taiji. Here, we generate GW signals from 29.8 million Galactic binaries for Taiji and subtract the “resolvable” sources. The confusion noise is estimated and fitted in an analytic form with 6-month, 1-year, 2-year, and 4-year observation times. We find that the full sensitivity curve is slightly lower for Taiji than for LISA at frequencies of ≤0.8  mHz and around 2 mHz. For a 4-year lifetime, more than 29 thousand sources are resolvable with Taiji. Compared to LISA, Taiji can subtract ∼20% more sources, and the distribution of them in our Milky Way is consistent with that of the resolvable sources with LISA. At frequencies around 2 mHz or with the chirp masses ranging from 0.2 to 0.4  M⊙, more sources become resolvable with Taiji.


  • Open Access

    Confusion noise from Galactic binaries for Taiji

    by Chang Liu, Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo

    Gravitational waves (GWs) from tens of millions of compact binaries in our Milky Way enter the milli-Hertz band of space-based detection. The majority of them cannot be resolved individually, resulting in a foreground confusion noise for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The concept of Taiji mission is similar to LISA's with slightly better sensitivity, which means that the galactic GW signals will also affect the detection with Taiji. Here we generate the GW signals from 29.8 million galactic binaries for Taiji and subtract the `resolvable' sources. The confusion noise is estimated and fitted in an analytic form with 6-month, 1-year, 2-year and 4-year observation time. We find that the full sensitivity curve is slightly lower for Taiji than for LISA at frequencies of $\leq 0.8$ mHz and around 2~mHz. For a 4-year lifetime, more than 29 thousand sources are resolvable with Taiji. Compared to LISA, Taiji can subtract $\sim 20 \%$ more sources and the distribution of them in our Milky Way is consistent with that of the resolvable sources with LISA. At frequencies around 2~mHz or with the chirp masses ranging from $0.2 M_\odot$ to $0.4 M_\odot$, more sources become resolvable with Taiji.

  • Open Access

    Gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges: Elliptical orbits on a cone

    by Lang Liu, Øyvind Christiansen, Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo, Rong-Gen Cai, Sang Pyo Kim

    Extending the electromagnetic and gravitational radiations from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges in circular orbits in Phys. Rev. D {\bf 102}, 103520 (2020), we calculate the total emission rates of energy and angular momentum due to gravitational and electromagnetic radiations from dyonic binary black holes in precessing elliptical orbits. It is shown that the emission rates of energy and angular momentum due to gravitational and electromagnetic radiations have the same dependence on the conic angle for different orbits. Moreover, we obtain the evolutions of orbits and find that a circular orbit remains circular while an elliptic orbit becomes quasi-circular due to electromagnetic and gravitational radiations. Using the evolution of orbits, we derive the waveform models for dyonic binary black hole inspirals and show the amplitudes of the gravitational waves for dyonic binary black hole inspirals differ from those for Schwarzschild binary black hole inspirals, which can be used to test electric and magnetic charges of black holes.

  • Open Access

    Gravitational and electromagnetic radiation from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges: elliptical orbits on a cone

    by Lang Liu, Øyvind Christiansen, Wen-Hong Ruan, Zong-Kuan Guo, Rong-Gen Cai, Sang Pyo Kim

    Extending the electromagnetic and gravitational radiations from binary black holes with electric and magnetic charges in circular orbits in Liu et al. (Phys. Rev. D 102:103520, 2020), we calculate the total emission rates of energy and angular momentum due to gravitational and electromagnetic radiations from dyonic binary black holes in precessing elliptical orbits. It is shown that the emission rates of energy and angular momentum due to gravitational and electromagnetic radiations have the same dependence on the conic angle for different orbits. Moreover, we obtain the evolutions of orbits and find that a circular orbit remains circular while an elliptic orbit becomes quasi-circular due to electromagnetic and gravitational radiations. Using the evolution of orbits, we derive the waveform models for dyonic binary black hole inspirals and show the amplitudes of the gravitational waves for dyonic binary black hole inspirals differ from those for Schwarzschild binary black hole inspirals, which can be used to test electric and magnetic charges of black holes.


  • Open Access

    China’s first step towards probing the expanding universe and the nature of gravity using a space borne gravitational wave antenna

    by The Taiji Scientific Collaboration, Yue-Liang Wu, Zi-Ren Luo, Jian-Yu Wang, Meng Bai, Wei Bian, Rong-Gen Cai, Zhi-Ming Cai, Jin Cao, Di-Jun Chen, et al.

    In this perspective, we outline that a space borne gravitational wave detector network combining LISA and Taiji can be used to measure the Hubble constant with an uncertainty less than 0.5% in ten years, compared with the network of the ground based gravitational wave detectors which can measure the Hubble constant within a 2% uncertainty in the next five years by the standard siren method. Taiji is a Chinese space borne gravitational wave detection mission planned for launch in the early 2030 s. The pilot satellite mission Taiji-1 has been launched in August 2019 to verify the feasibility of Taiji. The results of a few technologies tested on Taiji-1 are presented in this paper.