Stijn Heyde

Unmodelled Detection of Overlapping Gravitational-Wave Signals with the Einstein Telescope

Master's Thesis · KU Leuven · 2026

Extended a modular unmodelled search pipeline to handle overlapping gravitational-wave signals, motivated by a rare Galactic core-collapse supernova arriving on top of compact binary coalescences. Developed maximum-likelihood localisation of multiple simultaneous sources, reaching single-digit-degree accuracy in a third generation network.