We introduce a reduced basis approach as a new paradigm for modeling, representing and searching for gravitational waves. We construct waveform catalogs for non-spinning compact binary coalescences, and we find that for accuracies of 99% and 99.999% the method generates a factor of about 10−105 fewer templates than standard placement methods. The continuum of gravitational waves can be represented by a finite and comparatively compact basis. The method is robust under variations in the noise of detectors, implying that only a single catalog needs to be generated.
@article{arxiv.1101.3765,
title = {Reduced basis catalogs for gravitational wave templates},
author = {Scott E. Field and Chad R. Galley and Frank Herrmann and Jan S. Hesthaven and Evan Ochsner and Manuel Tiglio},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.3765},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Minor changes in some of the phrasing to match the version as published in PRL