Speaker
Anjana Ashok
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Hannover)
Description
Continuous gravitational wave (CW) searches targeted at known pulsars utilize electromagnetic observations of the sources to infer the phase-evolution parameters of the gravitational wave signal. We present a new method to perform Bayesian estimation of the amplitude parameters of a CW signal. The method leverages the well-established CW detection statistic, the F-statistic, and modern stochastic samplers to build Bayesian posteriors of the unknown signal parameters. After testing the method, we apply it on putative gravitational wave signals from PSR J1526-2744, a recently-discovered milli-second pulsar.
Primary author
Anjana Ashok
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (AEI), Hannover)
Co-authors
Prof.
Maria Alessandra Papa
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
Dr
Pep Covas Vidal
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
Dr
Reinhard Prix
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
