Extending Searches for New Types of Gravitational-Wave Sources

扩大对新型引力波源的搜索

• 批准号: 2097556
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Portsmouth
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2097556
• 关键词: Extending; Searches; New; Types; Gravitational

This project will look at making the search for compact binary coalescences more sensitive, by understanding how the existing PyCBC pipeline reacts to different sources of detector noise and researching novel solutions to overcome the noise. This will extend the search down in frequency and open up the intermediate mass black hole space, answering the question of whether black holes can have a mass in the pair instability supernova region. The other aspect of their project will focus on analysing optical images taken in response to gravitational-wave signals, and understanding the range of optical signals present for different types of gravitational-wave sources.

该项目将通过了解现有的PyCBC管道如何对不同的检测器噪声源做出反应，并研究克服噪声的新解决方案，来使对紧凑二进制聚结的搜索更加敏感。这将在频率上向下扩展搜索，并打开中等质量黑洞空间，回答黑洞是否可以在对不稳定超新星区域中具有质量的问题。他们项目的另一个方面将侧重于分析响应引力波信号而拍摄的光学图像，并了解不同类型引力波源的光学信号范围。