Error analysis of numerical gravitational waveforms from coalescing binary black holes

ORAL

Abstract

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (Advanced LIGO) has finished a successful first observation run and will commence its second run this summer. Detection of compact object binaries utilizes matched-filtering, which requires a vast collection of highly accurate gravitational waveforms. This talk will present a set of about 100 new aligned-spin binary black hole simulations. I will discuss their properties, including a detailed error analysis, which demonstrates that the numerical waveforms are sufficiently accurate for gravitational wave detection purposes, as well as for parameter estimation purposes.

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Authors

  • Heather Fong

    • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  • Tony Chu

    • Princeton University

  • Prayush Kumar

    • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  • Harald Pfeiffer

    • Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

  • Michael Boyle

    • Cornell University

  • Daniel Hemberger

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Lawrence Kidder

    • Cornell University

  • Mark Scheel

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Bela Szilagyi

    • California Institute of Technology