紧凑双星并合的贝叶斯推断与 BILBY：对首个 LIGO–Virgo 引力波暂现源星表的验证与应用
天体物理仪器与方法
2021-06-08 v4 广义相对论与量子宇宙学
摘要
引力波为观测天文学提供了一种独特的工具。虽然首个 LIGO–Virgo 引力波暂现源星表（GWTC-1）包含来自黑洞和中子星双星的十一个信号，但随着探测器灵敏度的提高，观测数量正在迅速增加。为了从观测信号中提取信息，迫切需要快速、灵活且可扩展的推断技术。在先前的一篇论文中，我们介绍了 BILBY：一个模块化且用户友好的贝叶斯推断库，经调整以满足引力波推断的需求。在这项工作中，我们证明了 BILBY 能为来自紧凑双星并合的模拟引力波信号产生可靠结果，并核实其准确复现了针对十一个 GWTC-1 信号所报告的结果。此外，我们提供了所有分析的配置和输出文件，以便于轻松复现、修改和未来使用。本工作确立了 BILBY 已准备就绪，可用于分析快速增长的紧凑双星并合引力波信号群体。
引用
@article{arxiv.2006.00714,
title = {Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with BILBY: Validation and application to the first LIGO--Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue},
author = {I. M. Romero-Shaw and C. Talbot and S. Biscoveanu and V. D'Emilio and G. Ashton and C. P. L. Berry and S. Coughlin and S. Galaudage and C. Hoy and M. Huebner and K. S. Phukon and M. Pitkin and M. Rizzo and N. Sarin and R. Smith and S. Stevenson and A. Vajpeyi and M. Arene and K. Athar and S. Banagiri and N. Bose and M. Carney and K. Chatziioannou and J. A. Clark and M. Colleoni and R. Cotesta and B. Edelman and H. Estelles and C. Garcia-Quiros and Abhirup Ghosh and R. Green and C. -J. Haster and S. Husa and D. Keitel and A. X. Kim and F. Hernandez-Vivanco and I. Magana Hernandez and C. Karathanasis and P. D. Lasky and N. De Lillo and M. E. Lower and D. Macleod and M. Mateu-Lucena and A. Miller and M. Millhouse and S. Morisaki and S. H. Oh and S. Ossokine and E. Payne and J. Powell and G. Pratten and M. Puerrer and A. Ramos-Buades and V. Raymond and E. Thrane and J. Veitch and D. Williams and M. J. Williams and L. Xiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.00714},
year = {2021}
}
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29 pages, 26 figures