12–16 Sept 2016
CERN
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Parameter inference for compact binaries with the gravitational-wave observatory Advanced LIGO

15 Sept 2016, 16:50
20m
4/3-006 - TH Conference Room (CERN)

4/3-006 - TH Conference Room

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Oral Contributions Cosmology & Gravitational Waves Cosmology & Gravitational Waves

Speaker

Vivien RAYMOND (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

Description

Gravitational-wave astronomy has made a tremendous stride forward with detections during the first observing run of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The signals have been identified as originating from the merger of black holes, whose parameters it was possible to infer.
In this talk I will explain how the parameter inference from gravitational-wave signals is made, and discuss the results of this analysis for LIGO's first observations.

Primary author

Vivien RAYMOND (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

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