Deep-Learning Classification and Parameter Inference of Rotational Core-Collapse Supernovae

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that deep learning can effectively classify and infer key physical parameters from gravitational-wave signals of rotational core-collapse supernovae, even in noisy detector data.

Contribution

The study introduces a deep learning framework for classifying CCSN GW signals and accurately inferring peak frequency and strain amplitude parameters from noisy data.

Findings

High classification accuracy (98%) for signals with SNR>10.

Parameter inference standard deviations: 18.3 Hz for frequency, 52.6 cm for amplitude.

Model performs well on new, unseen waveforms from different catalogs.

Abstract

We test deep-learning (DL) techniques for the analysis of rotational core-collapse supernovae (CCSN) gravitational-wave (GW) signals by performing classification and parameter inference of the maximum (peak) frequency and the GW strain amplitude ($\Delta h$) multiplied by the luminosity distance ($D$) attained at core bounce, respectively, $(f_{peak})$ and $(D \cdot \Delta h)$. Our datasets are built from a catalog of numerically generated CCSN waveforms assembled by Richers et al. 2017. Those waveforms are injected into noise from the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo detectors corresponding to the O2 and O3a observing runs. For a network signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) above 5, our classification network using time series detects Galactic CCSN GW signals buried in detector noise with a false positive rate of 0.10% and a 98% accuracy, being able to detect all signals with SNR>10. The inference of $f_{peak}$ is more accurate than for $D \cdot \Delta h $, particularly for our datasets with the shortest time window (0.25 s) and for a minimum SNR=15. From the calibration plots of predicted versus true values of the two parameters, the standard deviation ($\sigma$) and the slope deviation with respect to the ideal value are computed. We find $\sigma_{D \cdot \Delta h} = 52.6$ cm and $\sigma_{f_{peak}} = 18.3$ Hz, with respective slope deviations of 11.6% and 8.3%. Our best model is also tested on waveforms from a recent CCSN catalog built by Mitra et al. 2023, different from the one used for the training. For these new waveforms, the true values of the two parameters are mostly within the $1\sigma$ band around the network's predicted values. Our results show that DL techniques hold promise to infer physical parameters of Galactic rotational CCSN events.