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Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves

Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe

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Authors:
  1. Tjonnie G. F. Li

    1. LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

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  • Nominated for Springer Theses by the Gravitational Waves International Committee (GWIC)
  • Winner of Stefano Braccini Thesis Prize 2014 awarded by the GWIC
  • Fills a gap by outlining the first data analysis pipeline for testing strong-field General Relativity in the case of a compact binary coalescence
  • Demonstrates that the Einstein Telescope will provide a completely independent test of the cosmological paradigm
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Introduction to Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Gravitational Waves in the Linearised Theory of General Relativity

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 3-21

    3. Gravitational Waves in the Post-Newtonian Formalism

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 23-46

    4. Gravitational Waves: Detection and Sources

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 47-57

    5. Bayesian Inference

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 59-71

    6. Computational Methods

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 73-91

  3. Testing the Strong-Field Dynamics of General Relativity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 93-93
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    2. Introduction

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 95-103

    3. Test Infrastructure for GEneral Relativity (TIGER)

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 105-119

    4. Results

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 121-163

    5. Discussion

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 165-171

  4. Inferring the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Introduction

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 175-189

    3. Cosmography

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 191-206

    4. Electromagnetic Counterpart as Redshift Measurement

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 207-222

    5. Concluding Remarks

      • Tjonnie G. F. Li
      Pages 223-225

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 227-235
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About this book

 Tjonnie Li's thesis covers two applications of Gravitational Wave astronomy: tests of General Relativity in the strong-field regime and cosmological measurements. The first part of the thesis focuses on the so-called TIGER, i.e. Test Infrastructure for General Relativity, an innovative Bayesian framework for performing hypothesis tests of modified gravity using ground-based GW data. After developing the framework, Li simulates a variety of General Relativity deviations and demonstrates the ability of the aforementioned TIGER to measure them. The advantages of the method are nicely shown and compared to other, less generic methods. Given the extraordinary implications that would result from any measured deviation from General Relativity, it is extremely important that a rigorous statistical approach for supporting these results would be in place before the first Gravitational Wave detections begin. In developing TIGER, Tjonnie Li shows a large amount of creativity and originality, and his contribution is an important step in the direction of a possible discovery of a deviation (if any) from General Relativity.
In another section, Li's thesis deals with cosmology, describing an exploratory study where the possibility of cosmological parameters measurement through gravitational wave compact binary coalescence signals associated with electromagnetic counterparts is evaluated. In particular, the study explores the capabilities of the future Einstein Telescope observatory. Although of very long term-only applicability, this is again a thorough investigation, nicely put in the context of the current and the future observational cosmology.

Authors and Affiliations

  • LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

    Tjonnie G. F. Li

About the author

Tjonnie Li is the winner of the 2013 Stefano Braccini Thesis Prize awarded by the Gravitational Wave International Committee. He received his PhD in Physics in 2013 from the University of Amsterdam. He then became a Postdoctoral Fellow at the LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (USA),  developing analyses for detecting binary black holes and explorations into the strong-field regime of gravity. Dr. Li is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration with focus on compact binary systems.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves

  • Book Subtitle: Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe

  • Authors: Tjonnie G. F. Li

  • Series Title: Springer Theses

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19273-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-19272-7Published: 15 July 2015

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36664-7Published: 15 October 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-19273-4Published: 03 July 2015

  • Series ISSN: 2190-5053

  • Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 235

  • Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Cosmology, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation

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