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MCMC Exploration of Supermassive Black Hole Binary Inspirals
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will be able to detect the inspiral
and merger of Super Massive Black Hole Binaries (SMBHBs) anywhere in the
Universe. Standard matched filtering techniques can be used to detect and
characterize these systems. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are ideally
suited to this and other LISA data analysis problems as they are able to
efficiently handle models with large dimensions. Here we compare the posterior
parameter distributions derived by an MCMC algorithm with the distributions
predicted by the Fisher information matrix. We find excellent agreement for the
extrinsic parameters, while the Fisher matrix slightly overestimates errors in
the intrinsic parameters.Comment: Submitted to CQG as a GWDAW-10 Conference Proceedings, 9 pages, 5
figures, Published Versio
Ability of LISA to detect a gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin: The cosmic string case
We investigate the ability of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) to detect a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) produced by cosmic strings, and to subsequently estimate the string tension
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in the presence of instrument noise, an astrophysical background from compact binaries, and the galactic foreground from white dwarf binaries. Fisher Information and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods provide estimates of the LISA noise and the parameters for the different signal sources. We demonstrate the importance of including the galactic foreground as well as the astrophysical background for LISA to detect a cosmic string produced GWB and estimate the string tension. Considering the expected astrophysical background and a galactic foreground, a cosmic string tension in the
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range or bigger could be measured by LISA, with the galactic foreground affecting this limit more than the astrophysical background. The parameter estimation methods presented here can be applied to other cosmological backgrounds in the LISA observation band
Analyze This! A Cosmological Constraint Package for CMBEASY
We introduce a Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation and data analysis package
that extends the CMBEASY software. We have taken special care in implementing
an adaptive step algorithm for the Markov Chain Monte Carlo in order to improve
convergence. Data analysis routines are provided which allow to test models of
the Universe against measurements of the cosmic microwave background,
supernovae Ia and large scale structure. We present constraints on cosmological
parameters derived from these measurements for a CDM cosmology and
discuss the impact of the different observational data sets on the parameters.
The package is publicly available as part of the CMBEASY software at
www.cmbeasy.org.Comment: Published version, JCAP style, 16 pages, 7 figures. The software is
available at http://www.cmbeasy.or
Bayesian inference on compact binary inspiral gravitational radiation signals in interferometric data
Presented is a description of a Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) parameter
estimation routine for use with interferometric gravitational radiational data
in searches for binary neutron star inspiral signals. Five parameters
associated with the inspiral can be estimated, and summary statistics are
produced. Advanced MCMC methods were implemented, including importance
resampling and prior distributions based on detection probability, in order to
increase the efficiency of the code. An example is presented from an
application using realistic, albeit fictitious, data.Comment: submitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity. 14 pages, 5 figure
Using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for estimating parameters with gravitational radiation data
We present a Bayesian approach to the problem of determining parameters for
coalescing binary systems observed with laser interferometric detectors. By
applying a Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm, specifically the Gibbs
sampler, we demonstrate the potential that MCMC techniques may hold for the
computation of posterior distributions of parameters of the binary system that
created the gravity radiation signal. We describe the use of the Gibbs sampler
method, and present examples whereby signals are detected and analyzed from
within noisy data.Comment: 21 pages, 10 figure
Cosmological Constraints on Dissipative Models of Inflation
(Abridged) We study dissipative inflation in the regime where the dissipative
term takes a specific form, \Gamma=\Gamma(\phi), analyzing two models in the
weak and strong dissipative regimes with a SUSY breaking potential. After
developing intuition about the predictions from these models through analytic
approximations, we compute the predicted cosmological observables through full
numerical evolution of the equations of motion, relating the mass scale and
scale of dissipation to the characteristic amplitude and shape of the
primordial power spectrum. We then use Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques to
constrain a subset of the models with cosmological data from the cosmic
microwave background (WMAP three-year data) and large scale structure (SDSS
Luminous Red Galaxy power spectrum). We find that the posterior distributions
of the dissipative parameters are highly non-Gaussian and their allowed ranges
agree well with the expectations obtained using analytic approximations. In the
weak regime, only the mass scale is tightly constrained; conversely, in the
strong regime, only the dissipative coefficient is tightly constrained. A lower
limit is seen on the inflation scale: a sub-Planckian inflaton is disfavoured
by the data. In both weak and strong regimes, we reconstruct the limits on the
primordial power spectrum and show that these models prefer a {\it red}
spectrum, with no significant running of the index. We calculate the reheat
temperature and show that the gravitino problem can be overcome with large
dissipation, which in turn leads to large levels of non-Gaussianity: if
dissipative inflation is to evade the gravitino problem, the predicted level of
non-Gaussianity might be seen by the Planck satellite.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, Accepted by JCAP without text changes,
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Gravitational-Wave Astronomy with Inspiral Signals of Spinning Compact-Object Binaries
Inspiral signals from binary compact objects (black holes and neutron stars)
are primary targets of the ongoing searches by ground-based gravitational-wave
interferometers (LIGO, Virgo, GEO-600 and TAMA-300). We present
parameter-estimation simulations for inspirals of black-hole--neutron-star
binaries using Markov-chain Monte-Carlo methods. For the first time, we have
both estimated the parameters of a binary inspiral source with a spinning
component and determined the accuracy of the parameter estimation, for
simulated observations with ground-based gravitational-wave detectors. We
demonstrate that we can obtain the distance, sky position, and binary
orientation at a higher accuracy than previously suggested in the literature.
For an observation of an inspiral with sufficient spin and two or three
detectors we find an accuracy in the determination of the sky position of
typically a few tens of square degrees.Comment: v2: major conceptual changes, 4 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, submitted
to ApJ
Inference of proto-neutron star properties in core-collapse supernovae from a gravitational-wave detector network
The next Galactic core-collapse supernova (CCSN) will be a unique opportunity
to study within a fully multi-messenger approach the explosion mechanism
responsible for the formation of neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes.
State-of-the-art numerical simulations of those events reveal the complexity of
the gravitational-wave emission which is highly stochastic. This challenges the
possibility to infer the properties of the compact remnant and of its
progenitor using the information encoded in the waveforms. In this paper we
take further steps in a program we recently initiated to overcome those
difficulties. In particular we show how oscillation modes of the proto-neutron
star, highly visible in the gravitational-wave signal, can be used to
reconstruct the time evolution of their physical properties. Extending our
previous work where only the information from a single detector was used we
here describe a new data-analysis pipeline that coherently combines
gravitational-wave detectors' data and infers the time evolution of a
combination of the mass and radius of the compact remnant. The performance of
the method is estimated employing waveforms from 2D and 3D CCSN simulations
covering a progenitor mass range between 11\, and
40\, and different equations of state for both a network of
up to five second-generation detectors and the proposed third-generation
detectors Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer. Our study shows that it will
be possible to infer PNS properties for CCSN events occurring in the vicinity
of the Milky Way, up to the Large Magellanic Cloud, with the current generation
of gravitational-wave detectors
Multiple shades of grey: Opening the black box of public sector executives' hybrid role identities
Public sector reforms of recent decades in Europe have promoted managerialism and aimed at introducing private sector thinking and practices. However, with regard to public sector executives' self-understanding, managerial role identities have not replaced bureaucratic ones; rather, components from both paradigms have combined. In this article, we introduce a bi-dimensional approach (attitudes and practices) that allows for different combinations and forms of hybridity. Empirically, we explore the role identities of public sector executives across Europe, building on survey data from over 7,000 top public officials in 19 countries (COCOPS survey). We identify country-level profiles, as well as patterns across countries, and find that administrative traditions can account for these profiles and patterns only to a limited extent. Rather, they have to be complemented by factors such as stability of the institutional environment (indicating lower shares of hybrid combinations) or extent of reform pressures (indicating higher shares of hybrid combinations)
Gorenstein homological algebra and universal coefficient theorems
We study criteria for a ringâor more generally, for a small categoryâto be Gorenstein and for a module over it to be of finite projective dimension. The goal is to unify the universal coefficient theorems found in the literature and to develop machinery for proving new ones. Among the universal coefficient theorems covered by our methods we find, besides all the classic examples, several exotic examples arising from the KK-theory of C*-algebras and also Neemanâs BrownâAdams representability theorem for compactly generated categories
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