Lunch talk on Mar. 20, 2023

Gravitational waves and data processing

Speaker: Yi Gong (Wuhan University)

Venue: Video Conference

Time: 12:30 PM, Monday, Mar. 20, 2023

Abstract: 

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) opens a new window into understanding our universe. GWs are emitted from rapidly changing strong gravitational fields, such as compact binary coalescing (CBC), core-collapse supernovae,  rotating neutron stars, and cosmological phase transitions.  GWs are used to constrain the gravitational theory and probe cosmology. To date, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has detected 90 GW events. In this talk, I will briefly review GWs and GW detectors. Then, I will review the matched filtering method for searching GW signals. The Fisher matrix and Bayesian inference for estimating the parameters of the GW source will be reviewed at last.

Report PPT:  SWIFAR_Yi Gong.pdf