English
Related papers

Related papers: Exploring the Parameter Space of Compact Binary Po…

200 papers

We calculate the expected nHz--$\mu$Hz gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from coalescing Massive Black Hole (MBH) binaries resulting from mergers of their host galaxies. We consider detection of this spectrum by precision pulsar timing and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew H. Jaffe , Donald C. Backer

The Gravitational Wave (GW) universe contains a wealth of sources which, with the proper treatment, will open up the universe as never before. By observing massive black hole binaries to high redshifts, we should begin to explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Edward K. Porter

This document describes analytical and numerical techniques for the generation of Gaussian density fields, which represent cosmological density perturbations. The mathematical techniques involved in the generation of density harmonics in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hugo Martel

Gravitational-wave observations of quasicircular compact binary mergers imply complicated posterior measurements of their parameters. Though Gaussian approximations to the pertinent likelihoods have decades of history in the field, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-08 Vera Delfavero , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Daniel Wysocki , Anjali Yelikar

We analyze the distinguishability of populations of coalescing binary neutron stars, neutron-star black-hole binaries, and binary black holes, whose gravitational-wave signatures are expected to be observed by the advanced network of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-05 Ilya Mandel , Carl-Johan Haster , Michal Dominik , Krzysztof Belczynski

Gravitational wave transients, resulting from the merger of two stellar remnants, are now detectable. The properties and rates of these directly relates to the stellar population which gave rise to their progenitors, and thus to other,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 J. J. Eldridge , E. R. Stanway , Petra N. Tang

The observed distributions of the source properties from gravitational-wave detections are biased due to the selection effects and detection criteria in the detections, analogous to the Malmquist bias. In this work, this observation bias is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-15 Doğa Veske , Imre Bartos , Zsuzsa Márka , Szabolcs Márka

Within the next several years, pulsar-timing array programs will likely usher in the next era of gravitational-wave astronomy through the detection of a stochastic background of nanohertz-frequency gravitational waves, originating from a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Stephen R. Taylor , Rutger van Haasteren , Alberto Sesana

The improvements in the sensitivity of the gravitational wave (GW) network enable the detection of several large redshift GW sources by third-generation GW detectors. These advancements provide an independent method to probe the large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Xiaoyun Shao , Zhoujian Cao , Xilong Fan , Shichao Wu

Galactic binaries are expected to be the most numerous LISA sources and to produce a stochastic gravitational-wave foreground whose spectral shape encodes information about the underlying population. Extracting this information with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-12 Federico De Santi , Alessandro Santini , Alexandre Toubiana , Nikolaos Karnesis , Davide Gerosa

After the discovery of the gravitational waves and the observation of neutrinos of cosmic origin, we have entered a new and exciting era where cosmic rays, neutrinos, photons and gravitational waves will be used simultaneously to study the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-24 G. Torralba Elipe , R. A. Vazquez , E. Zas

Gravitational-wave parameter estimation for compact binary signals typically relies on sequential estimation of the properties of the detector Gaussian noise and of the binary parameters. This procedure assumes that the noise variance,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-14 Cailin Plunkett , Sophie Hourihane , Katerina Chatziioannou

The discovery of gravitational waves, first observed in September 2015 following the merger of a binary black hole system, has already revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. This was further enhanced in August 2017, when the…

High-precision and long-duration light curves from space telescopes have revolutionized the fields of asteroseismology and binary star systems. In particular, the number of pulsating systems in eclipsing binaries has drastically increased…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-11 John Southworth , Dominic Bowman

We assess the detectability of the gravitational wave signals from highly eccentric compact binaries. We use a simple model for the inspiral, merger, and ringdown of these systems. The model is based on mapping the binary to an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-14 William E. East , Sean T. McWilliams , Janna Levin , Frans Pretorius

Joint gravitational-wave detections of stellar-mass black-hole binaries by ground- and space-based observatories will provide unprecedented opportunities for fundamental physics and astronomy. We present a semianalytic method to estimate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-22 Davide Gerosa , Sizheng Ma , Kaze W. K. Wong , Emanuele Berti , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Yanbei Chen , Krzysztof Belczynski

Gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences (CBCs) offer insights into the universe expansion. The spectral siren method, used without electromagnetic counterparts (EMC), infers cosmic expansion (Hubble constant) by relating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-28 Grégoire Pierra

We present a robust and efficient methodology for parameter estimation of gravitational waves generated during the post-merger phase of binary neutron star mergers. Our approach leverages an analytic waveform model combined with empirical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Stamatis Vretinaris , Georgios Vretinaris , Christos Mermigkas , Minas Karamanis , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The stellar populations of galaxies contain a wealth of detailed information. From the youngest, most massive stars, to almost invisible remnants, the history of star formation is encoded in the stars that make up a galaxy. Extracting some,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jarle Brinchmann

We present a statistical study of pulsars and millisecond pulsars (MSPs) based on multiwavelength observations in the Galactic Field and Globular Clusters. We examine their emission properties, timing behavior, and spatial distributions,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Maria Rah , Areg Mickaelian , Francesco Flammini Dotti , Rainer Spurzem