Gravitational waves: search results, data analysis and parameter estimation: Amaldi 10 Parallel session C2

• Published in: General relativity and gravitation 2015, Vol.47 (2), p.11, Article 11
• Main Authors: Astone, Pia, Weinstein, Alan, Agathos, Michalis, Bejger, Michał, Christensen, Nelson, Dent, Thomas, Graff, Philip, Klimenko, Sergey, Mazzolo, Giulio, Nishizawa, Atsushi, Robinet, Florent, Schmidt, Patricia, Smith, Rory, Veitch, John, Wade, Madeline, Aoudia, Sofiane, Bose, Sukanta, Calderon Bustillo, Juan, Canizares, Priscilla, Capano, Colin, Clark, James, Colla, Alberto, Cuoco, Elena, Da Silva Costa, Carlos, Dal Canton, Tito, Evangelista, Edgar, Goetz, Evan, Gupta, Anuradha, Hannam, Mark, Keitel, David, Lackey, Benjamin, Logue, Joshua, Mohapatra, Satyanarayan, Piergiovanni, Francesco, Privitera, Stephen, Prix, Reinhard, Pürrer, Michael, Re, Virginia, Serafinelli, Roberto, Wade, Leslie, Wen, Linqing, Wette, Karl, Whelan, John, Palomba, C., Prodi, G.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Astronomy; Astrophysics and Cosmology; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Differential Geometry; Mathematical and Computational Physics; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Physics; Relativity Theory; Review; Review Article; The First Century of General Relativity: GR20/Amaldi10; Theoretical
• ISSN: 0001-7701; 1572-9532
• DOI: 10.1007/s10714-014-1796-x

The Amaldi 10 Parallel Session C2 on gravitational wave (GW) search results, data analysis and parameter estimation included three lively sessions of lectures by 13 presenters, and 34 posters. The talks and posters covered a huge range of material, including results and analysis techniques for ground-based GW detectors, targeting anticipated signals from different astrophysical sources: compact binary inspiral, merger and ringdown; GW bursts from intermediate mass binary black hole mergers, cosmic string cusps, core-collapse supernovae, and other unmodeled sources; continuous waves from spinning neutron stars; and a stochastic GW background. There was considerable emphasis on Bayesian techniques for estimating the parameters of coalescing compact binary systems from the gravitational waveforms extracted from the data from the advanced detector network. This included methods to distinguish deviations of the signals from what is expected in the context of General Relativity.