Searching for gravitational waves from the coalescence of high mass black hole binaries

Document #:

LIGO-T1500245-v2

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

Solutions to Einstein’s field equations predict gravitational waves: disturbances in space-time that propagate at the speed of light. The Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a pair of detectors that search for these disturbances by looking for small length changes caused by passing gravitational waves. One promising class of sources for gravitational wave is binary black holes. In this proposal, methods for optimizing the analysis pipelines for Advanced LIGO to detect binary black holes are discussed.

Files in Document:

• Final paper (LoweryFinalPaper.pdf, 2.0 MB)

Other Files:

• Final Presentation SURF 2015 (finalPresentationLowery.pdf, 1.3 MB)
• SURF15 Progress Report 1, Johnathon Lowery (LoweryProgressReport1-15-07-06.pdf, 1.8 MB)
• Second Progress Report (LoweryProgressReport2.pdf, 1.6 MB)
• Talk given at U Indian Physics Club, Jan 20, 2016 (physicsClubTalkLowery.pdf, 3.1 MB)

Topics:

• Compact Binaries

Authors:

• Johnathon Lowery
• Tjonnie Li
• Surabhi Sachdev
• Kent Blackburn
• Alan Weinstein

Keywords:

SURF15

Notes and Changes:

SURF15, Johnathon Lowery, Indiana U

Referenced by:

• LIGO-T1500587: Final reports from LIGO SURF program, Summer 2015