Alessandra BUONANNO (University of Maryland and APC)

Gravitational Wave Analysis (II)

Dr. Alessandra Buonanno

Department of Physics, University of Maryland

2 lectures (5 hours): 2, 3 November 2006

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Lecture 1:

A. Basics of data-analysis for compact binaries

A1. Noise spectral density; pattern functions and angular sensitivity

A2. Matched filtering; intrinsic and extrinsic parameters; fitting factors

B. Templates in the adiabatic approximation for non-spinning and spinning, precessing binaries: low-mass binaries

B1. Stationary phase approximation

B2. Features of spinning, precessing dynamics

B3. Phenomenological templates

B4. Physical templates for single-spin and double-spin precessing binaries

Lecture 2:

C. Templates in the non-adiabatic approximation for non-spinning and spinning, precessing binaries: high-mass binaries

C1. The last cycles problem

C2. Effective-one-body and Pade resummation

C3. Transition from inspiral to plunge to ring-down

C4. Detection template families

D. First-order comparisons with numerical relativity

D1. Features of inspiral-merger(-plunge) and ring-down phases

D2. Comparison with PN adiabatic models

D3. Comparison with effective-one-body model