GW4 - Space GW Detection (LISA) |
Speaker_ |
Finn, Lee |
Co-autors |
Tiffany Summerscales |
Talk _ |
Waveforms from gravitational wave bursts: A Maximum Entropy Approach |
Abstract _ |
The detection of a gravitational wave burst leads inevitably to the question of the nature of the source itself. For this purpose, the actual structure of the burst - i.e., its waveform - is indispensable. The reconstruction of the waveform from detector observations is, however, fraught with challenges as many different waveforms may lead to the same noisy response of a given detector or detector network. Here we describe how the principle of maximum (information theoretic) entropy allows the determination of the most probable incident gravitational wave signal given the response of one or more gravitational wave detectors. |