Muhammed Saleem Cholayil
- Research Fellow
- Physics
- Weinberg Institute
Contact Information
Research
My work uses gravitational-wave observations to address questions in fundamental physics, astrophysics, and cosmology. I focus on strong-field tests of general relativity, the stochastic gravitational-wave background, multi-messenger studies of compact objects, and advanced data-analysis techniques for GW experiments—particularly Bayesian inference and machine learning for population inference, noise characterization and low-latency pipelines.
Publications
- E. Marx; W. Benoit; A. Gunny; R. Omer; D. Chatterjee; R. C. Venterea; L. Wills; M. Saleem; E. Moreno; R. Raikman; E. Govorkova; D. Rankin; M. W. Coughlin; P. Harris; E. Katsavounidis — “A machine-learning pipeline for real-time detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences,” Phys. Rev. D 111, 042010 (2025).
- C. Reissel; S. Soni; M. Saleem; M. Coughlin; P. Harris; E. Katsavounidis — “Coherence DeepClean: Toward autonomous denoising of gravitational-wave detector data,” arXiv (2025).
- X.-X. Kou; M. Saleem; V. Mandic; C. Talbot; E. Thrane — “Progress toward the detection of the gravitational-wave background from stellar-mass binary black holes: a mock data challenge,” arXiv (2025).
- S. Datta; M. Saleem; K. G. Arun; B. S. Sathyaprakash — “Multiparameter tests of general relativity using principal component analysis with next-generation gravitational-wave detectors,” Phys. Rev. D 109, 044036 (2024).
- V. Bhalerao et al. — “Science with the Daksha High Energy Transients Mission,” Exp. Astron. 57, 23 (2024).
- M. Saleem; A. Gunny; C.-J. Chou; L.-C. Yang; S.-W. Yeh; A. H. Y. Chen; R. Magee; W. Benoit; T. Nguyen; P. Fan; D. Chatterjee; E. Marx; E. Moreno; R. Omer; R. Raikman; D. Rankin; R. Sharma; M. Coughlin; P. Harris; E. Katsavounidis — “Demonstration of machine-learning–assisted real-time noise regression in gravitational-wave detectors,” Class. Quantum Grav. 41, 195024 (2024).
- Divyajyoti; N. V. Krishnendu; M. Saleem; M. Colleoni; A. Vijaykumar; K. G. Arun; C. K. Mishra — “Effect of double spin-precession and higher harmonics on spin-induced quadrupole moment measurements,” Phys. Rev. D 109, 023016 (2024).
- S. Bhattacharjee; S. Banerjee; V. Bhalerao; P. Beniamini; S. Bose; K. Hotokezaka; A. Pai; M. Saleem; G. Waratkar — “Joint gravitational wave–short GRB detection of binary neutron star mergers with existing and future facilities,” Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 528, 4255–4263 (2024).
- D. Chatterjee; E. Marx; W. Benoit; R. Kumar; M. Desai; E. Govorkova; A. Gunny; E. Moreno; R. Omer; R. Raikman; M. Saleem; S. Aggarwal; M. W. Coughlin; P. Harris; E. Katsavounidis — “Rapid likelihood-free inference of compact binary coalescences using accelerated hardware,” Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 5, 045030 (2024).
- R. W. Kiendrebeogo; M. Saleem; M.-A. Bizouard; A. H. Y. Chen; N. Christensen; C.-J. Chou; M. W. Coughlin; K. Janssens; S. Z. Kam; J. Koulidiati; S.-W. Yeh — “Application of Non-Linear Noise Regression in the Virgo Detector,” arXiv (2024).
- S. Mohan; M. Saleem; L. Resmi — “Detectability of electromagnetic counterparts from neutron star mergers: prompt emission vs afterglow,” Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 511, 2356–2366 (2022).
- S. R. Mohite; P. Rajkumar; S. Anand; D. L. Kaplan; M. W. Coughlin; A. Sagués-Carracedo; M. Saleem; et al. — “Inferring kilonova population properties with a hierarchical Bayesian framework I: Non-detection methodology and single-event analyses,” Astrophys. J. 925, 58 (2022).
- M. Saleem; J. Rana; V. Gayathri; A. Vijaykumar; S. Goyal; S. Sachdev; J. Suresh; S. Sudhagar; A. Mukherjee; G. Gaur; B. Sathyaprakash; A. Pai; R. X. Adhikari; P. Ajith; S. Bose — “The Science Case for LIGO-India,” Class. Quantum Grav. 39, 025004 (2022).
- A. Gunny; D. Rankin; J. Krupa; M. Saleem; T. Nguyen; et al. — “Hardware-accelerated inference for real-time gravitational-wave astronomy,” Nat. Astron. 6, 529–536 (2022).
- N. K. Johnson-McDaniel; A. Ghosh; S. Ghonge; M. Saleem; N. V. Krishnendu; J. A. Clark; et al. — “Investigating the relation between gravitational-wave tests of general relativity,” Phys. Rev. D 105, 044020 (2022).
- M. Saleem; S. Datta; K. G. Arun; B. S. Sathyaprakash — “Parametrized tests of post-Newtonian theory using principal component analysis,” Phys. Rev. D 105, 084062 (2022).
- M. Saleem; N. V. Krishnendu; A. Ghosh; A. Gupta; W. Del Pozzo; A. Ghosh; K. G. Arun — “Population inference of spin-induced quadrupole moments as a probe for non–black-hole compact binaries,” Phys. Rev. D 105, 104066 (2022).
- A. Gunny; D. Rankin; P. Harris; E. Katsavounidis; E. Marx; M. Saleem; M. Coughlin; W. Benoit — “A Software Ecosystem for Deploying Deep Learning in Gravitational Wave Physics,” FlexScience 22 (AI & Scientific Computing at Scale Workshop Proceedings) (2022).
- R. Abbott et al. — “Tests of general relativity with binary black holes from the second LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalog,” Phys. Rev. D 103, 122002 (2021).
- S. Kastha; M. Saleem; K. G. Arun — “Imprints of the redshift evolution of double neutron star merger rate on the signal-to-noise ratio distribution,” Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 496, 523–531 (2020).
- M. Saleem; L. Resmi; K. G. Arun; S. Mohan — “On the energetics of a possible relativistic jet associated with the binary neutron star merger candidate S190425z,” Astrophys. J. 891, 130 (2020).
- M. Saleem — “Prospects of joint detections of neutron star mergers and short GRBs with Gaussian structured jets,” Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 493, 1633–1639 (2020).
- N. V. Krishnendu; M. Saleem; A. Samajdar; K. G. Arun; W. Del Pozzo; C. K. Mishra — “Constraints on the binary black hole nature of GW151226 and GW170608 from the measurement of spin-induced quadrupole moments,” Phys. Rev. D 100, 104019 (2019).
- M. Saleem; A. Pai; K. Misra; L. Resmi; K. G. Arun — “Rates of short-GRB afterglows in association with binary neutron star mergers,” Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 475, 699–707 (2018).
- M. Saleem; L. Resmi; K. Misra; A. Pai; L. Resmi; K. G. Arun — “Exploring short-GRB afterglow parameter space for observations in coincidence with gravitational waves,” Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 474, 5340–5350 (2018).
- B. P. Abbott et al. — “Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A,” Astrophys. J. Lett. 848, L13 (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al. — “GW170817: Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 161101 (2017).
- B. P. Abbott et al. — “Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016).
- B. P. Abbott et al. — “Tests of general relativity with GW150914,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 221101 (2016).
- B. P. Abbott et al. — “Binary black hole mergers in the first Advanced LIGO observing run,” Phys. Rev. X 6, 041015 (2016).