Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Wave Signals using Hybrid Sampling

Document #:

LIGO-T2100339-v1

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

The population of observed gravitational wave transients continues to grow, and with it, our ability to further constrain deviations from the signals predicted by general relativity. However, our current procedures for computing these constraints will not successfully scale with future transient catalogs. Thus, we leverage modern statistical methods into a new hybrid sampling method, in order to provide more efficient and more complete investigations of the parameter space of deviations from general relativity given gravitational wave observations of binary black hole mergers.

Files in Document:

• Final report to the SURF program (LIGO_SURF_Final(1).pdf, 3.9 MB)

Other Files:

• First interim report to the SURF program. (LIGO_SURF_Interim1.pdf, 399.2 kB)
• Initial proposal for the project. (LIGO_SURF_proposal.pdf, 193.5 kB)
• SURF final presentation (testing_gr_final.pdf, 1.8 MB)
• Second interim report to the SURF program (LIGO_SURF_Interim2.pdf, 781.7 kB)

Topics:

• Data Analysis

Authors:

• Noah Wolfe
• Jacob Golomb
• Colm Talbot

Keywords:

SURF21

Referenced by:

• LIGO-T2200101: Final reports from LIGO SURF program, Summer 2021