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Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves - Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
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Extracting Physics from Gravitational Waves - Testing the Strong-field Dynamics of General Relativity and Inferring the Large-scale Structure of the Universe (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Series: Springer Theses
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Tjonnie Li's thesis covers two applications of Gravitational Wave
astronomy: tests of General Relativity in the strong-field regime
and cosmological measurements. The first part of the thesis focuses
on the so-called TIGER, i.e. Test Infrastructure for General
Relativity, an innovative Bayesian framework for performing
hypothesis tests of modified gravity using ground-based GW data.
After developing the framework, Li simulates a variety of General
Relativity deviations and demonstrates the ability of the
aforementioned TIGER to measure them. The advantages of the method
are nicely shown and compared to other, less generic methods. Given
the extraordinary implications that would result from any measured
deviation from General Relativity, it is extremely important that a
rigorous statistical approach for supporting these results would be
in place before the first Gravitational Wave detections begin. In
developing TIGER, Tjonnie Li shows a large amount of creativity and
originality, and his contribution is an important step in the
direction of a possible discovery of a deviation (if any) from
General Relativity. In another section, Li's thesis deals with
cosmology, describing an exploratory study where the possibility of
cosmological parameters measurement through gravitational wave
compact binary coalescence signals associated with electromagnetic
counterparts is evaluated. In particular, the study explores the
capabilities of the future Einstein Telescope observatory. Although
of very long term-only applicability, this is again a thorough
investigation, nicely put in the context of the current and the
future observational cosmology.
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