2 code implementations • 22 May 2019 • Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field, Mark A. Scheel, Jonathan Blackman, Davide Gerosa, Leo C. Stein, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer
The final black hole model, \RemnantModel, models the mass, spin, and recoil kick velocity of the remnant black hole.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2 code implementations • 9 Apr 2019 • Michael Boyle, Daniel Hemberger, Dante A. B. Iozzo, Geoffrey Lovelace, Serguei Ossokine, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Leo C. Stein, Charles J. Woodford, Aaron B. Zimmerman, Nousha Afshari, Kevin Barkett, Jonathan Blackman, Katerina Chatziioannou, Tony Chu, Nicholas Demos, Nils Deppe, Scott E. Field, Nils L. Fischer, Evan Foley, Heather Fong, Alyssa Garcia, Matthew Giesler, Francois Hebert, Ian Hinder, Reza Katebi, Haroon Khan, Lawrence E. Kidder, Prayush Kumar, Kevin Kuper, Halston Lim, Maria Okounkova, Teresita Ramirez, Samuel Rodriguez, Hannes R. Rüter, Patricia Schmidt, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A. Teukolsky, Vijay Varma, Marissa Walker
Accurate models of gravitational waves from merging black holes are necessary for detectors to observe as many events as possible while extracting the maximum science.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
no code implementations • 19 Dec 2018 • Vijay Varma, Scott E. Field, Mark A. Scheel, Jonathan Blackman, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer
We present NRHybSur3dq8, a surrogate model for hybridized nonprecessing numerical relativity waveforms, that is valid for the entire LIGO band (starting at $20~\text{Hz}$) for stellar mass binaries with total masses as low as $2. 25\, M_{\odot}$.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
1 code implementation • 24 Aug 2018 • Prayush Kumar, Jonathan Blackman, Scott E. Field, Mark Scheel, Chad R. Galley, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Bela Szilagyi, Saul A. Teukolsky
In this paper we demonstrate the viability of these surrogate models as reliable parameter estimation tools, and show that within a fully Bayesian framework surrogates can help us extract more information from gravitational wave observations than traditional models.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 83C57, 83C35 J.2
1 code implementation • 19 May 2017 • Jonathan Blackman, Scott E. Field, Mark A. Scheel, Chad R. Galley, Christian D. Ott, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Béla Szilágyi
A generic, non-eccentric binary black hole (BBH) system emits gravitational waves (GWs) that are completely described by 7 intrinsic parameters: the black hole spin vectors and the ratio of their masses.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2016 • Alejandro Bohé, Lijing Shao, Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Stanislav Babak, Ian W. Harry, Ian Hinder, Serguei Ossokine, Michael Pürrer, Vivien Raymond, Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Prayush Kumar, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A. Scheel, Béla Szilágyi
After extrapolation of the calibrated model to arbitrary mass ratios and spins, the (dominant-mode) EOBNR waveforms have faithfulness --- at design Advanced-LIGO sensitivity --- above $99\%$ against all the NR waveforms, including 16 additional waveforms used for validation, when maximizing only on initial phase and time.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2015 • Tony Chu, Heather Fong, Prayush Kumar, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi
We find that numerical truncation error, error due to gravitational wave extraction, and errors due to the finite length of the numerical waveforms are of similar magnitude, with gravitational wave extraction errors somewhat dominating at noise-weighted mismatches of $\sim 3\times 10^{-4}$.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
1 code implementation • 15 Sep 2014 • Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Serguei Ossokine, Harald P. Pfeiffer
For strongly precessing systems, it accounts for at least 3% amplitude modulation for binaries in the sensitivity band of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, and can exceed 50% for massive systems.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 11 Nov 2013 • Andrea Taracchini, Alessandra Buonanno, Yi Pan, Tanja Hinderer, Michael Boyle, Daniel A. Hemberger, Lawrence E. Kidder, Geoffrey Lovelace, Abdul H. Mroue, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, Anil Zenginoglu
Gravitational waves emitted by black-hole binary systems have the highest signal-to-noise ratio in LIGO and Virgo detectors when black-hole spins are aligned with the orbital angular momentum and extremal.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
