Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Data

by Piotr Jaranowski, Andrzej Krolak

Overview

Research in this field has grown considerably in recent years due to the commissioning of a world-wide network of large-scale detectors. This network collects a very large amount of data that is currently being analyzed and interpreted. This book introduces researchers entering the field, and researchers currently analyzing the data, to the field of gravitational-wave data analysis. An ideal starting point for studying the issues related to current gravitational-wave research, the book contains detailed derivations of the basic formula related to the detectors’ responses and maximum-likelihood detection. These derivations are much more complete and more pedagogical than those found in current research papers, and will enable readers to apply general statistical concepts to the analysis of gravitational-wave signals. It also discusses new ideas on devising the efficient algorithms needed to perform data analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521864596
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/27/2009
Series:	Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology , #29
Pages:	270
Product dimensions:	7.09(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Piotr Jaranowski is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Physics at the University of Białystok, Poland. He has been a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and the Friedrich Schiller University, both in Germany, and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France. He currently works in the field of gravitational-wave data analysis and general-relativistic problem of motion.

Andrzej Królak is a Professor in the Institute of Mathematics at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. He has twice been awarded the Second Prize by the Gravity Research Foundation (once with Bernard Schutz). He has been a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA. His field of research is gravitational-wave theory data analysis and general theory of relativity, and the phenomena predicted by this theory such as black holes and gravitational waves.

Table of Contents

1. Overview of the theory of gravitational radiation; 2. Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves; 3. Statistical theory of signal detection; Time series analysis; 5. Responses of detectors to gravitational waves; 6. Maximum likelihood detection in Gaussian noise; 7. Data analysis tools; Appendixes; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

"...a unique contribution to the field of gravitational-wave data analysis ... That it comes from the developers of the F static—quickly-computable power measure that sits at the heart of several current gravitational-wave search algorithms—adds greatly to the authority of this useful book." - Graham Woan, The Observatory

"This is a good overview of the foundations of gravitational wave data analysis. It makes a very pleasant reading for the expert and it is a good place to begin for a student who is not familiar with statistics." General Relativity and Gravitation

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