Testing general relativity with gravitational-wave catalogs: The insidious nature of waveform systematics

Summary: Gravitational-wave observations of binary black holes allow new tests of general relativity (GR) to be performed on strong, dynamical gravitational fields. These tests require accurate waveform models of the gravitational-wave signal; otherwise waveform errors can erroneously suggest eviden...

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Main Authors: Christopher J. Moore, Eliot Finch, Riccardo Buscicchio, Davide Gerosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004221005459