Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding PhD thesis by the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
- Explores diverse aspects of the new field of gravitational wave astrophysics
- Discusses the interface between the astrophysical processes that form, and the analysis of, gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This thesis presents valuable contributions to several aspects of the rapidly growing field of gravitational wave astrophysics. The potential sources of gravitational waves in globular clusters are analyzed using sophisticated dynamics simulations involving intermediate mass black holes and including, for the first time, high-order post-Newtonian corrections to the equations of motion. The thesis further demonstrates our ability to accurately measure the parameters of the sources involved in intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals of stellar-mass compact objects into hundred-solar-mass black holes. Lastly, it proposes new techniques for the computationally efficient inference on gravitational waves.
On 14 September 2015, the LIGO observatory reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of black holes. For a brief fraction of a second, the power emitted by this merger exceeded the combined output of all stars in the visible universe. This has since been followed by another confirmed detection and a third candidate binary black hole merger. These detections heralded the birth of an exciting new field: gravitational-wave astrophysics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Carl-Johan Haster is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, Ontario. He works at the interface between the analysis of observations of gravitational wave events, the theory which can describe these signals and the study of the astrophysical processes which can form them.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Globular Cluster Binaries and Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Efficient Solutions
Authors: Carl-Johan Haster
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63441-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-63440-1Published: 04 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87556-9Published: 11 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-63441-8Published: 27 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 92
Number of Illustrations: 28 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Astrophysics and Astroparticles, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation, Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory