Center for Gravitational Wave Physics

Source Simulation and Gravitational Wave Data Analysis

Center for Gravitational Wave Physics
Penn State University
28-30 October, 2002

Organizers:

Lee Samuel Finn (Penn State Center for Gravitational Wave Physics)
Scott Hughes (Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Pablo Laguna (Penn State Center for Gravitational Wave Physics)
Fred Rasio (Northwestern University)
B. S. Sathyaprakash (Cardiff University)
S. A. Teukolsky (Cornell University)

Focus sessions are small, intense, expert meetings on a well-defined set of scientific questions. The emphasis is on discussion, understanding and future planning.

Topic:
This focus session's goal was the interplay between source simulations gravitational wave data analysis: how the results of source simulations can be used to design data analyses that extract more information, or information more efficiently, from gravitational wave detector data. The program dealt with the concrete, as opposed to the abstract: on developing analyses that make use of calculations relating to specific characteristics of specific sources.

Program and Proceedings:

The meeting program, with links to presentations as PDF files, follows.

Monday 28 October
9:00	Welcome and Introduction	Lee Samuel Finn

Session 1	Data Analysis	Chair: Pablo Laguna
9:15	Data Analysis in the Real World	Lee Samuel Finn
10:00	Discussion
10:30	Break
11:00	Linguistics of LISA Sources	Scott Hughes
11:45	Discussion
12:30	Lunch

Session 2	Neutron Star Physics	Chair: Nils Andersson
2:00	Probing the Equation of State of Neutron Stars with LIGO	Fred Rasio
2:30	Discussion
3:00	The Frequencies and Timescales Associated with Gravitational Wave Radiation from Compact Stars	Joel Tohline
3:30	Discussion
4:00	Break
4:30	Gravitational Waves from the Tidal Disruption of of Neutron Stars in Binaries	Michele Vallisneri
5:00	Discussion

Tuesday 29 October
Session 3	Black Hole Coalescence	Chair: B. S. Sathyaprakash
9:00	An Overview of 3D Black Hole Simulations	Pablo Laguna
9:30	Discussion
10:00	Break
10:30	Bothrodesy: The Promise and Challenges of Extreme Mass Inspirals	Teviet Creighton
11:00	Discussion
11:30	Gamma Ray Bursts and Gravitational Waves	Shiho Kobayashi
12:00	Discussion
12:30	Lunch

Session 4	Supernovae and Related Phenomena	Chair: Fred Rasio
2:00	Predicting the Gravitational Wave Signatures of Core Collapse Supernovae: The Road Ahead	Tony Mezzacappa
2:30	Discussion
3:00	Gravitational Waves from Supernova Core Collapse: What Could the Signal Tell Us	Harald Dimmelmeier
3:30	Discussion
4:00	Break

Wednesday 30 October
Session 5	LISA and the Low Frequency Band	Chair: Sam Finn
9:00	Low Frequency Gravitational Waves from the Galactic Halo	Shane Larson
9:30	Discussion
10:00	Break
10:30	Gravitational Wave Observations of Galactic Populations of Compact Binaries	Matthew Benacquista
11:00	Discussion
11:30	Binary Black Hole Coalescence in Galaxy Mergers	Steinn Sigurdsson
12:00	Discussion
12:30	Conclusion
1:00	Meeting Adjourns

Program and Proceedings:

Supernovae and Related Phenomena

Chair: Fred Rasio