Gravitational wave astronomy: Needle in a haystack

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1984, 2013, Pages

  Cornish, Neil J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Gravitational waves; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; GRAVITY WAVES; INFERENCE ENGINES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STARS;

ASTROPHYSICAL OBJECTS; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BLACK HOLES; DIRECT DETECTION; DYNAMICAL REGIME; EINSTEIN'S THEORY; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTION; GROUND BASED; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL MODELS; INSTRUMENT NOISE; NEUTRON STARS; NON-GAUSSIAN; NONSTATIONARY; SPACE-BASED DETECTOR; STRONG FIELD; TIME AND FREQUENCIES; WEAK SIGNALS;

GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84874142204     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0540     Document Type: Review

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