Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency domain

Davies, Gareth Stephen (2015) Bayesian searches for continuous gravitational waves in the frequency domain. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

Abstract

This thesis concerns the analysis of continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars with non-axisymmetric rotational motion using data from ground-based interferometric gravitational wave detectors, the development of a computationally efficient algorithm for analysis of this data and the use of this algorithm in follow up searches, which were previously too computationally expensive to consider.

• Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
• Qualification Level: Doctoral
• Keywords: Bayesian statistics, continuous gravitational waves, gravitational waves
• Subjects: Q Science > QB Astronomy; Q Science > QC Physics
• Colleges/Schools: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Supervisor's Name: Woan, Professor Graham
• Date of Award: 2015
• Depositing User: Dr GS Davies
• Unique ID: glathesis:2015-6862
• Copyright: Copyright of this thesis is held by the author.
• Date Deposited: 09 Nov 2015 11:52
• Last Modified: 22 Dec 2015 15:43
• URI: https://theses.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/6862