PIRSA:19050027

New Developments In Gravitational Wave Data Analysis For Compact Binary Mergers

Dai, L. (2019). New Developments In Gravitational Wave Data Analysis For Compact Binary Mergers. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19050027

Dai, Liang. New Developments In Gravitational Wave Data Analysis For Compact Binary Mergers. Perimeter Institute, May. 16, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19050027 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19050027,
            doi = {10.48660/19050027},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19050027},
            author = {Dai, Liang},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {New Developments In Gravitational Wave Data Analysis For Compact Binary Mergers},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:19050027 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Liang Dai

University of California, Berkeley

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Ground-based gravitational wave observatories have begun to uncover a large number of compact binary coalescences in the universe through gravitational wave signals. I will discuss novel and effective techniques we have developed recently to analyze the publicly available LIGO/Virgo bulk strain data from scratch. Built on simple ideas and easy to implement, those address the questions of template bank construction, signal processing, trigger ranking, and fast parameter estimation. Applying those techniques, we searched for compact binary mergers during the LIGO/Virgo O1 and O2 runs, and detected a few binary black hole mergers in addition to what have been reported in the literature.