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@LIGO@scicomm.xyz  ·  activity timestamp last week

The loudest #GravitationalWave in #GWTC4 is #GW230814

Detected with only Livingston, it was still about twice as loud as GW150914!

Being loud should enable precision tests of general relativity, but with only one detector, you need to be careful with the analysis

https://ligo.org/science-summaries/GW230814/

#Astrodon#Physics

The gravitational-wave signal GW230814. The top panel shows the time-frequency representation of the signal where brighter regions indicate larger amplitude. The CWT acronym points to the method used to construct this time-frequency representation, based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform. The bottom panel shows the signal represented as a time series. The blue and purple lines show two different methods of reconstruction for the signal waveform. It is clear that the signal is a compact binary coalescence and the data are in good agreement with the reconstructions until the ringdown part. Being such a loud signal allows us to make this wonderfully precise reconstruction!
The gravitational-wave signal GW230814. The top panel shows the time-frequency representation of the signal where brighter regions indicate larger amplitude. The CWT acronym points to the method used to construct this time-frequency representation, based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform. The bottom panel shows the signal represented as a time series. The blue and purple lines show two different methods of reconstruction for the signal waveform. It is clear that the signal is a compact binary coalescence and the data are in good agreement with the reconstructions until the ringdown part. Being such a loud signal allows us to make this wonderfully precise reconstruction!
The gravitational-wave signal GW230814. The top panel shows the time-frequency representation of the signal where brighter regions indicate larger amplitude. The CWT acronym points to the method used to construct this time-frequency representation, based on the Continuous Wavelet Transform. The bottom panel shows the signal represented as a time series. The blue and purple lines show two different methods of reconstruction for the signal waveform. It is clear that the signal is a compact binary coalescence and the data are in good agreement with the reconstructions until the ringdown part. Being such a loud signal allows us to make this wonderfully precise reconstruction!
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