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Principles of Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis

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Basic mathematical concepts of gravitational-wave data analysis are introduced. In particular statistical principles of detection of signals in noise and estimation of their parameters are presented. Applications to the main signals of gravitational waves that can be modeled as functions of time dependent on several unknown parameters are given.

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported in part by the Polish National Science Centre grant no. 2017/26/M/ST9/00978.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Andrzej Królak

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  1. Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Cosimo Bambi

  2. Université Paris Denis Diderot, Paris, France

    Stavros Katsanevas

  3. Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Konstantinos D. Kokkotas

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  1. School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, United States

    Laura Cadonati

  2. Université Paris Denis Diderot, Paris, France

    Edward Porter

  3. School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Patrick Sutton

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Królak, A. (2021). Principles of Gravitational-Wave Data Analysis. In: Bambi, C., Katsanevas, S., Kokkotas, K.D. (eds) Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4702-7_43-1

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