Detecting Bursts of Gravitational Waves
Warren G. Anderson, The University of Texas at Brownsville

• What are gravitational waves?
• definition and properties of gravitational waves
• conceptual illustration of gravitational wave: still
• conceptual illustration of gravitational wave: moving
• motion due to gravitational waves
• How can we detect them?
• interferometer schematic
• noise sources
• graph of estimated LIGO I noise levels
• moving 40m noise clip
• Where might they come from?
• Continuous sources
• stochastic sources
• the big bang
• continuous sources
• pulsars
• Burst sources
• inspiralling compact binary systems
• binary inspiral clip
• binary inspiral waveform graph and sound
• supernova cores / neutron stars
• spinning core clip
• bar node graph and sound
• black hole coalescence (collision)
• How can we extract the waves from the noise when we know the waveform?
• noise and signals as vectors
• basics of matched filtering
• graphical demonstration of matched filtering
• is close good enough?
• How can we extract the waves from the noise when we don't know the waveform?
• how to construct a time-frequency map
• signals in a time-frequency map
• basics of finding curves in the time-frequency map
• examples of Wigner-Villes
• found lines