articleMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietySep 18, 2020GREEN OA

Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with bilby : validation and application to the first LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue

IMI. M. Romero-ShawCTC. TalbotSBS. BiscoveanuVDV. D’EmilioGAG. Ashton

ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery · Monash University · +35 more institutions

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Gravitational waves provide a unique tool for observational astronomy. While the first LIGO–Virgo catalogue of gravitational-wave transients (GWTC-1) contains 11 signals from black hole and neutron star binaries, the number of observations is increasing rapidly as detector sensitivity improves. To extract information from the observed signals, it is imperative to have fast, flexible, and scalable inference techniques. In a previous paper, we introduced bilby: a modular and user-friendly Bayesian inference library adapted to address the needs of gravitational-wave inference. In this work, we demonstrate that bilby produces reliable results for simulated gravitational-wave signals from compact binary…

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  • LIGO
  • Physics
  • Gravitational wave
  • Binary number
  • Transient (computer programming)
  • Inference
  • Astrophysics
  • Bayesian inference
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