Data product
Gravitational Waveform
The signal itself — the rising chirp of a compact binary as it spirals in, merges, and rings down. Matching the observed waveform against banks of theoretical templates is how a real signal is dug out of the detector noise and how its source is identified.
Detectors, messengers & sources
Across multi-messenger astronomy
Knowledge connections
- Associated withLaser Interferometry
- Associated withParameter Estimation
- Associated withParameter Estimation
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.