7–12 Jul 2024
Aurum, the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University and ICRANet
Europe/Rome timezone

How are the LVK gravitational wave searches doing, and where are they headed?

11 Jul 2024, 15:00
22m
M2 (Palazzo Micara of the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University)

M2

Palazzo Micara of the ‘Gabriele d’Annunzio’ University

Viale Pindaro, 42, Pescara
Invited talk in a parallel session Gravitational kHz waves - LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Gravitational kHz waves - LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

Speaker

Prathamesh Joshi (Pennsylvania State University)

Description

During the fourth observing run of the LVK collaboration, we have already seen large improvements in the results produced by the search pipelines in low-latency. We have reached new levels of sensitivity and reliability. In the quest to detect every gravitational wave out there, we are now more ready than ever to participate in the next multimessenger event. During this fourth observing run, we have seen the first glimpse of results from unmodeled or burst searches. As we start getting high-latency offline results, we will begin to explore gravitational waves from new parameter spaces. In the future, we are looking to incorporate precession and higher order modes of gravitational waves in these searches. These advancements will play a crucial role in obtaining a better scientific understanding of some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. In this talk, I will give an overview of the current status and performance of search pipelines, and what the future holds for them.

Primary author

Prathamesh Joshi (Pennsylvania State University)

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