An architecture for efficient gravitational wave parameter estimation with multimodal linear surrogate models

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AA7649zbMATH Open1373.83034arXiv1701.01137OpenAlexW2621276284WikidataQ59452690 ScholiaQ59452690MaRDI QIDQ4592639FDOQ4592639

Richard O'Shaughnessy, Jonathan Blackman, Scott E. Field

Publication date: 7 November 2017

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The recent direct observation of gravitational waves has further emphasized the desire for fast, low-cost, and accurate methods to infer the parameters of gravitational wave sources. Due to expense in waveform generation and data handling, the cost of evaluating the likelihood function limits the computational performance of these calculations. Building on recently developed surrogate models and a novel parameter estimation pipeline, we show how to quickly generate the likelihood function as an analytic, closed-form expression. Using a straightforward variant of a production-scale parameter estimation code, we demonstrate our method using surrogate models of effective-one-body and numerical relativity waveforms. Our study is the first time these models have been used for parameter estimation and one of the first ever parameter estimation calculations with multi-modal numerical relativity waveforms, which include all l <= 4 modes. Our grid-free method enables rapid parameter estimation for any waveform with a suitable reduced-order model. The methods described in this paper may also find use in other data analysis studies, such as vetting coincident events or the computation of the coalescing-compact-binary detection statistic.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.01137

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zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationsurrogate modelsgravitational wavescoalescing-compact-binary detection statistic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics to physics (62P35) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05) Gravitational waves (83C35)

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• Frequency-domain reduced order models for gravitational waves from aligned-spin compact binaries
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• Parameter estimation of gravitational waves with a quantum metropolis algorithm
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