Use and Abuse of the Model Waveform Accuracy Standards
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2009-10-20 v2
Abstract
Accuracy standards have been developed to ensure that the waveforms used for gravitational-wave data analysis are good enough to serve their intended purposes. These standards place constraints on certain norms of the frequency-domain representations of the waveform errors. Examples are given here of possible misinterpretations and misapplications of these standards, whose effect could be to vitiate the quality control they were intended to enforce. Suggestions are given for ways to avoid these problems.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.0457,
title = {Use and Abuse of the Model Waveform Accuracy Standards},
author = {Lee Lindblom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.0457},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
v2: updated to version published in Phys. Rev. D; 10 pages, 7 figures