2 code implementations • 9 Apr 2019 • Michael Boyle, Daniel Hemberger, Dante A. B. Iozzo, Geoffrey Lovelace, Serguei Ossokine, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Leo C. Stein, Charles J. Woodford, Aaron B. Zimmerman, Nousha Afshari, Kevin Barkett, Jonathan Blackman, Katerina Chatziioannou, Tony Chu, Nicholas Demos, Nils Deppe, Scott E. Field, Nils L. Fischer, Evan Foley, Heather Fong, Alyssa Garcia, Matthew Giesler, Francois Hebert, Ian Hinder, Reza Katebi, Haroon Khan, Lawrence E. Kidder, Prayush Kumar, Kevin Kuper, Halston Lim, Maria Okounkova, Teresita Ramirez, Samuel Rodriguez, Hannes R. Rüter, Patricia Schmidt, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A. Teukolsky, Vijay Varma, Marissa Walker
Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
1 code implementation • 24 Aug 2018 • Prayush Kumar, Jonathan Blackman, Scott E. Field, Mark Scheel, Chad R. Galley, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A. Teukolsky
In this paper we demonstrate the viability of these surrogate models as reliable parameter estimation tools, and show that within a fully Bayesian framework surrogates can help us extract more information from gravitational wave observations than traditional models.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 83C57, 83C35 J.2
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2015 • Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Prayush Kumar, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi
We find that numerical truncation error, error due to gravitational wave extraction, and errors due to the finite length of the numerical waveforms are of similar magnitude, with gravitational wave extraction errors somewhat dominating at noise-weighted mismatches of $\sim 3\times 10^{-4}$.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2013 • Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan, Tanja Hinderer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Abdul H. Mroue, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, Anil Zenginoglu
Gravitational waves emitted by black-hole binary systems have the highest signal-to-noise ratio in LIGO and Virgo detectors when black-hole spins are aligned with the orbital angular momentum and extremal.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2013 • Nicholas W. Taylor, Michael Boyle, Christian Reisswig, Mark A. Scheel, Tony Chu, Lawrence E. Kidder, Bela Szilagyi
The direct NP approach is simpler than CCE, but NP waveforms can be contaminated by near-zone effects---unless the waves are extracted at several distances from the source and extrapolated to infinity.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
