Gravitational-wave astronomy
This is a web page for the 2012 MPAGS module on gravitational-wave astronomy. The
course will consist of 5 lectures with accompanying assignments:
- Lecture 1: Introduction, history, and back-of-the-envelope derivations
Assignment 1.
- Lecture 2: Detectors and detection
Assignment 2.
(Lecture notes for Lecture 2 are available --
warning, 16 MB file)
- Lecture 3: Sources
- Lecture 4: Compact binaries: waveforms and parameter estimation
Assignment 3.
- Lecture 5: The future of gravitational-wave astronomy
Useful references:
For use in sample exercises:
Advanced LIGO PSDs
Excercise description
Files: Sinusoid.dat, NoisySinusoid.dat,
Noise.dat, Data2013.dat, Challenge2013.dat
Last edited by Ilya
Mandel on August 2, 2013.