2 code implementations • 23 Oct 2020 • Alexander H. Nitz, Collin D. Capano
For the uniform in mass-ratio prior, we find that the component masses are $m_1^{\mathrm{src}} = 168_{-61}^{+15}\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$ and $m_2^{\mathrm{src}} = 16_{-3}^{+33}\,\mathrm{M}_{\odot}$.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2020 • Dwyer S. Deighan, Scott E. Field, Collin D. Capano, Gaurav Khanna
Gravitational-wave detection strategies are based on a signal analysis technique known as matched filtering.
1 code implementation • 5 Aug 2020 • Collin D. Capano, Alexander H. Nitz
Using these events, we search for physics beyond GR by allowing the source parameters measured from the sub-dominant harmonics to deviate from that of the dominant mode.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
1 code implementation • 11 Oct 2019 • Alexander H. Nitz, Thomas Dent, Gareth S. Davies, Sumit Kumar, Collin D. Capano, Ian Harry, Simone Mazzon, Laura Nuttall, Andrew Lundgren, Marton Tápai
We identify a population of 14 binary black hole mergers with $p_{\mathrm{astro}} > 0. 5$ along with the GW170817 binary neutron star merger.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
1 code implementation • 27 Aug 2019 • Collin D. Capano, Ingo Tews, Stephanie M. Brown, Ben Margalit, Soumi De, Sumit Kumar, Duncan A. Brown, Badri Krishnan, Sanjay Reddy
The properties of neutron stars are determined by the nature of the matter that they contain.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Nuclear Theory
1 code implementation • 25 Feb 2019 • Alexander H. Nitz, Alex B. Nielsen, Collin D. Capano
By comparing the rate of binary neutron star mergers to our search-estimated rate of false alarms, we estimate that there is a 1 in 4 chance this candidate is astrophysical in origin.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
1 code implementation • 22 Nov 2018 • Soumi De, Collin D. Capano, Christopher M. Biwer, Alexander H. Nitz, Duncan A. Brown
This paper presents the first public data release of samples from the posterior probability density function for the three binary black hole mergers---GW170104, GW170608, and GW170814---detected during the second observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo observatories.
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
3 code implementations • 9 Nov 2018 • Alex B. Nielsen, Alexander H. Nitz, Collin D. Capano, Duncan A. Brown
We find that after subtracting the maximum likelihood waveform there are no statistically significant correlations between the residuals of the two detectors at the time of GW150914.
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
4 code implementations • 26 Jul 2018 • C. M. Biwer, Collin D. Capano, Soumi De, Miriam Cabero, Duncan A. Brown, Alexander H. Nitz, V. Raymond
We introduce new modules in the open-source PyCBC gravitational- wave astronomy toolkit that implement Bayesian inference for compact-object binary mergers.
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics