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One key prediction of General Relativity is that gravitational waves are emitted with a pure spin-2 polarisation. Any extra polarisation mode, spin-1 or spin-0, is consequently considered a smoking gun for deviations from General…
I expand on the results of a recent work in which a novel weighting algorithm was shown to substantially increase the accuracy of an old, non-Bayesian computational approach for inferring the source direction of a gravitational wave from…