Gravitational waves: search results, data analysis and parameter estimation

Astone, P. et al. (2015) Gravitational waves: search results, data analysis and parameter estimation. General Relativity and Gravitation, 47(2), 11. (doi: 10.1007/s10714-014-1796-x)

Abstract

The Amaldi 10 Parallel Session C2 on gravitational wave (GW) search results, data analysis and parameter estimation included three lively sessions of lectures by 13 presenters, and 34 posters. The talks and posters covered a huge range of material, including results and analysis techniques for ground-based GW detectors, targeting anticipated signals from different astrophysical sources: compact binary inspiral, merger and ringdown; GW bursts from intermediate mass binary black hole mergers, cosmic string cusps, core-collapse supernovae, and other unmodeled sources; continuous waves from spinning neutron stars; and a stochastic GW background. There was considerable emphasis on Bayesian techniques for estimating the parameters of coalescing compact binary systems from the gravitational waveforms extracted from the data from the advanced detector network. This included methods to distinguish deviations of the signals from what is expected in the context of General Relativity.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: 142255
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Veitch, Dr John
• Authors: Astone, P., Weinstein, A., Agathos, M., Bejger, M., Christensen, N., Dent, T., Graff, P., Klimenko, S., Mazzolo, G., Nishizawa, A., Robinet, F., Schmidt, P., Smith, R., Veitch, J., Wade, M., Aoudia, S., Bose, S., Calderon Bustillo, J., Canizares, P., Capano, C., Clark, J., Colla, A., Cuoco, E., Da Silva Costa, C., Dal Canton, T., Evangelista, E., Goetz, E., Gupta, A., Hannam, M., Keitel, D., Lackey, B., Logue, J., Mohapatra, S., Piergiovanni, F., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Pürrer, M., Re, V., Serafinelli, R., Wade, L., Wen, L., Wette, K., Whelan, J., Palomba, C., and Prodi, G.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: General Relativity and Gravitation
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 0001-7701
• ISSN (Online): 1572-9532
• Published Online: 22 January 2015
• Copyright Holders: 2015 The Authors
• First Published: First published in General Relativity and Gravitation 47(2):11
• Publisher Policy: reproduced under a Creative Commons License