Compact binary coalescences: gravitational-wave astronomy with ground-based detectors
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2024-09-04 v1 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract
The era of gravitational wave astronomy began in 2015 with the observation of the signal from the merger of two black holes by the LIGO detectors; by 2021, almost 100 more such transient signals from coalescences of compact binaries of black holes and neutron stars were catalogued. With improvements to the ground-based interferometer network consisting of LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA now promising to bring the total number of detections into the hundreds, we review the observational signatures and analysis methods for the most prolific gravitational-wave source: the coalescence of compact binaries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2409.02037,
title = {Compact binary coalescences: gravitational-wave astronomy with ground-based detectors},
author = {K. Chatziioannou and T. Dent and M. Fishbach and F. Ohme and M. Pürrer and V. Raymond and J. Veitch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.02037},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Invited review for Living Reviews in Relativity, 116 pages + 741 references