PHYS 5387 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSICS
COURSE INFORMATION SHEET
- COURSE:
- PHYS 5391 - Special topics in Physics -Fall
2003
- Prerequisite: UTB-UTEP Master in Physics
- Description: Exploring parameter space for LISA
Capture Sources via Monte-Carlo Simulations
- INSTRUCTOR:
- Manuela Campanelli
- Office: SETB 2.258
- Phone: 574-6656
- E-mail: manuela@phys.utb.edu
- TEACHING ASSISTANT:
- Leor Barack
- Office: SETB 2.258
- Phone: 574-6762
- E-mail: leor@phys.utb.edu
- STUDENT:
- Santiago Peña
- CLASSES:
- T,TH 1:30am-16:00pm. Room SETB 2.258 (Office
Hrs by appointment).
- EXAMS:
- Final: December 9, 2003 (10:00am-12:30am).
- COURSE TOPICS:
- The course will aim at
developing skills in the field of data analysis techniques in gravitational
wave (GW) detection. A special focus will be put on data analysis of signals
from extreme mass-ratio inspirals, which are important potential sources
for the future space-based detector LISA. The material of the course includes:
Classification and characteristics of GW sources. Approximate models of waveforms
from captures of stellar mass objects by supermassive black holes. Search
techniques, in particular ``matched filtering'' \cite{Ben,Cutler}. Monte-Carlo
techniques (to be implemented in searching over the space of physical parameter).
- LITERATURE:
- 1) S. A. Hughes, Listening to the Universe with
Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Annals Phys. 303, 142-178 (2003).
- 2) P. C. Peters and J. Mathews, Gravitational
Radiation from Point Masses in a Keplerian Orbit, Phys.Rev.131, 435 (1963).
- 3) L. Barack and C. Cutler, LISA Capture Sources.
I. Approximate Waveforms, Signal-to-Noise Ratios, and Parameter Estimation
Accuracy (in preparation).
- 4) B. J. Owen, `Search templates from Gravitational
Waves from Inspiraling Binaries: Choice of Template Spacing', Phys. Rev.
D 53, 674.
- 5) C. Cutler, `Angular Resolution of the LISA
Gravitational Wave Detector', Phys. Rev.57, 7089 (1998).9 (1996).