Studying the Properties of Higher Order Modes in Gravitational Wave Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger Events

Document #:

LIGO-T2000361-v2

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have condently detected gravitational wave signals from ten binary black hole mergers and one merger from a binary neutron star. Each observation contains encoded information about the physical properties of the binary system. As the detectors continue to improve their sensitivity, these developments will allow us to detect rarer systems and make more condent statements regarding their source properties. In order to fully characterize the gravitational wave observations, we rely on numerical and analytical models that approximate the signal waveforms from the emitted source as specied by the source parameters (masses, spins, sky location, etc). The dominant emission frequency of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence is at twice the orbital frequency; however, recently published events have demonstrated subdominant higher order harmonic contributions. The primary focus of this study is to explore higher order modes in gravitational wave signals with newly improved signal models.

Files in Document:

• Final Report for LIGO SURF.pdf (file is not accessible)
• Final presentation-08:21:2020.key (file is not accessible)

Other Files:

• JSanchez_LIGOSURF_Proposal_20200601.pdf (file is not accessible)
• JSanchez_SecondInterimReport-20200731.pdf (file is not accessible)
• Presentation_Draft.pdf (file is not accessible)
• LIGO SURF First Interim Report (JSanchez_FirstInterimReport.pdf, file is not accessible)

Topics:

• Compact Binaries
• Data Analysis

Authors:

• Jennifer Sanchez
• Alan Weinstein

Keywords:

SURF20

Notes and Changes:

LIGO SURF 2020 project, Jennifer Sanchez, CSU Fullerton

Referenced by:

• LIGO-T2000645: Final reports from LIGO SURF program, Summer 2020