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Towards Rapid Parameter Estimation on Gravitational Waves from Compact Binaries using Interpolated Waveforms
Accurate parameter estimation of gravitational waves from coalescing compact
binary sources is a key requirement for gravitational-wave astronomy.
Evaluating the posterior probability density function of the binary's
parameters (component masses, sky location, distance, etc.) requires computing
millions of waveforms. The computational expense of parameter estimation is
dominated by waveform generation and scales linearly with the waveform
computational cost. Previous work showed that gravitational waveforms from
non-spinning compact binary sources are amenable to a truncated singular value
decomposition, which allows them to be reconstructed via interpolation at fixed
computational cost. However, the accuracy requirement for parameter estimation
is typically higher than for searches, so it is crucial to ascertain that
interpolation does not lead to significant errors. Here we provide a proof of
principle to show that interpolated waveforms can be used to recover posterior
probability density functions with negligible loss in accuracy with respect to
non-interpolated waveforms. This technique has the potential to significantly
increase the efficiency of parameter estimation.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure
Reducing the impact of source brightness fluctuations on spectra obtained by Fourier-transform spectrometry
We present a method to reduce the impact of source brightness fluctuations (SBFs) on spectra recorded by Fourier-transform spectrometry (FTS). Interferograms are recorded without AC coupling of the detector signal (DC mode). The SBF are determined by low-pass filtering of the DC interferograms, which are then reweighted by the low-pass, smoothed signal. Atmospheric solar absorption interferograms recorded in DC mode have been processed with and without this technique, and we demonstrate its efficacy in producing more consistent retrievals of atmospheric composition. We show that the reweighting algorithm improves retrievals from interferograms subject to both gray and nongray intensity fluctuations, making the algorithm applicable to atmospheric data contaminated by significant amounts of aerosol or cloud cover
Self-Consistent Data Analysis of the Proton Structure Function g1 and Extraction of its Moments
The reanalysis of all available world data on the longitudinal asymmetry A||
is presented. The proton structure function g1 was extracted within a unique
framework of data inputs and assumptions. These data allowed for a reliable
evaluation of moments of the structure function g1 in the Q2 range from 0.2 up
to 30 GeV2. The Q2 evolution of the moments was studied in QCD by means of
Operator Product Expansion (OPE).Comment: Proceeding of 3rd International Symposium on the
Gerasimov-Drell-Hearn Sum Rule and its extensions, Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Virginia June 2-5, 200
Nuclear corrections in neutrino-nucleus DIS and their compatibility with global NPDF analyses
We perform a global chi^2-analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions
using data from charged current neutrino-nucleus deep-inelastic scattering
(DIS), charged-lepton-nucleus DIS, and the Drell-Yan (DY) process. We show that
the nuclear corrections in nu-A DIS are not compatible with the predictions
derived from l^+A DIS and DY data. We quantify this result using a
hypothesis-testing criterion based on the chi^2 distribution which we apply to
the total chi^2 as well as to the chi^2 of the individual data sets. We find
that it is not possible to accommodate the data from nu-A and l^+A DIS by an
acceptable combined fit. Our result has strong implications for the extraction
of both nuclear and proton parton distribution functions using combined
neutrino and charged-lepton data sets.Comment: 5 page
Singular value decomposition applied to compact binary coalescence gravitational-wave signals
We investigate the application of the singular value decomposition to
compact-binary, gravitational-wave data-analysis. We find that the truncated
singular value decomposition reduces the number of filters required to analyze
a given region of parameter space of compact binary coalescence waveforms by an
order of magnitude with high reconstruction accuracy. We also compute an
analytic expression for the expected signal-loss due to the singular value
decomposition truncation.Comment: 4 figures, 6 page
Higher twist analysis of the proton g_1 structure function
We perform a global analysis of all available spin-dependent proton structure
function data, covering a large range of Q^2, 1 < Q^2 < 30 GeV^2, and calculate
the lowest moment of the g_1 structure function as a function of Q^2. From the
Q^2 dependence of the lowest moment we extract matrix elements of twist-4
operators, and determine the color electric and magnetic polarizabilities of
the proton to be \chi_E = 0.026 +- 0.015 (stat) + 0.021/-0.024 (sys) and \chi_B
= -0.013 -+ 0.007 (stat) - 0.010/+0.012 (sys), respectively.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, to appear in Phys. Lett.
Electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering in the impulse approximation regime
A quantitative understanding of the weak nuclear response is a prerequisite
for the analyses of neutrino experiments such as K2K and MiniBOONE, which
measure energy and angle of the muons produced in neutrino-nucleus interactions
in the energy range GeV and reconstruct the incident neutrino energy to
determine neutrino oscillations. In this paper we discuss theoretical
calculations of electron- and neutrino-nucleus scattering, carried out within
the impulse approximation scheme using realistic nuclear spectral
functions.Comparison between electron scattering data and the calculated
inclusive cross section off oxygen, at beam energies ranging between 700 and
1200 MeV, show that the Fermi gas model, widely used in the analysis of
neutrino oscillation experiments,fails to provide a satisfactory description of
the measured cross sections,and inclusion of nuclear dynamics is needed.Comment: 12 pages, 15 figure
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