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Relative Binning and Fast Likelihood Evaluation for Gravitational Wave Parameter Estimation

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We present a method to accelerate the evaluation of the likelihood in gravitational wave parameter estimation. Parameter estimation codes compute likelihoods of similar waveforms, whose phases and amplitudes differ smoothly with frequency. We exploit this by precomputing frequency-binned overlaps of the best-fit waveform with the data. We show how these summary data can be used to approximate the likelihood of any waveform that is sufficiently probable within the required accuracy. We demonstrate that $\simeq 60$ bins suffice to accurately compute likelihoods for strain data at a sampling rate of $4096\,$Hz and duration of $T=2048\,$s around the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Relative binning speeds up parameter estimation for frequency domain waveform models by a factor of $\sim 10^4$ compared to naive matched filtering and $\sim 10$ compared to reduced order quadrature.

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Measurement prospects for the pair-instability mass cutoff with gravitational waves

astro-ph.HE · 2026-02-11 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Simulations show a 40-50 solar-mass black-hole cutoff is not guaranteed to be confidently recovered from GWTC-4-like catalogs, spurious detections are unlikely, and O4 data would reduce cutoff-mass uncertainty by at least 20 percent while yielding only a lower bound on the carbon-alpha reaction rate

Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs

gr-qc · 2023-03-28 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

The paper evaluates how triangular versus two-L-shaped geometries, arm lengths, and presence of low-frequency instruments affect the science reach of the Einstein Telescope for compact binaries, multi-messenger events, and stochastic backgrounds.

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