Globular Cluster Binaries and Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation

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

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Nbody Dynamics of Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals.- Inference on Gravitational Waves from Coalescences of Stellar-mass Compact Objects and Intermediate-mass Black Holes.- Efficient Method for Measuring the Parameters Encoded in a Gravitational-wave Signal.- Conclusion.