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Parameter estimation on gravitational waves from multiple coalescing binaries

Ilya Mandel

  • Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA*

  • *ilyamandel@chgk.info
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Phys. Rev. D 81, 084029 – Published 15 April, 2010

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.81.084029

Abstract

Future ground-based and space-borne interferometric gravitational-wave detectors may capture between tens and thousands of binary coalescence events per year. There is a significant and growing body of work on the estimation of astrophysically relevant parameters, such as masses and spins, from the gravitational-wave signature of a single event. This paper introduces a robust Bayesian framework for combining the parameter estimates for multiple events into a parameter distribution of the underlying event population. The framework can be readily deployed as a rapid post-processing tool.

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Phys. Rev. D 81, 084029– Published 15 April, 2010
  • Received 30 December 2009

© 2010 American Physical Society

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