pith. sign in

arxiv: 1408.0740 · v2 · pith:XENW227Ynew · submitted 2014-08-04 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.HE

Gravitational-wave sensitivity curves

classification 🌀 gr-qc astro-ph.HE
keywords gravitational-wavecurvesdetectorssensitivityamplitudeamplitudesappscharacterizing
0
0 comments X
read the original abstract

There are several common conventions in use by the gravitational-wave community to describe the amplitude of sources and the sensitivity of detectors. These are frequently confused. We outline the merits of and differences between the various quantities used for parameterizing noise curves and characterizing gravitational-wave amplitudes. We conclude by producing plots that consistently compare different detectors. Similar figures can be generated on-line for general use at \url{http://rhcole.com/apps/GWplotter}.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet.

discussion (0)

Sign in with ORCID, Apple, or X to comment. Anyone can read and Pith papers without signing in.

Forward citations

Cited by 15 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score.

  1. Gravity Echoes from Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

    astro-ph.HE 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 8.0

    Future microhertz detections combined with nanohertz pulsar terms can serve as gravity echoes to measure supermassive black hole binary inspiral rates from hundreds to thousands of years in the past.

  2. Primary gravitational waves at high frequencies II: Emergence of the exponential cut-off in the power spectrum

    astro-ph.CO 2026-05 conditional novelty 7.0

    For infinitely differentiable effective potentials describing the post-inflation transition, the regularized power spectrum of primary gravitational waves exhibits exponential suppression at small scales.

  3. Detecting Parity-Violating Gravitational Wave Backgrounds with Pulsar Polarization Arrays

    gr-qc 2025-11 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Cross-correlating pulsar timing and polarimetry isolates the circular polarization of isotropic stochastic GW backgrounds and shares the Hellings-Downs angular pattern.

  4. Artificial Precision Timing Array: bridging the decihertz gravitational-wave sensitivity gap with clock satellites

    astro-ph.IM 2024-01 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Proposes APTA with 6 satellites and 10^{-18} relative clock uncertainty at 1s averaging to achieve sensitivity for observing 10^3-10^4 solar-mass black hole mergers in the decihertz band.

  5. New Sensitivity Curves for Gravitational-Wave Signals from Cosmological Phase Transitions

    hep-ph 2020-02 unverdicted novelty 7.0

    Defines peak-integrated sensitivity curves (PISCs) that fold in the expected spectral shape of gravitational waves from cosmological phase transitions and supplies semianalytical fits plus public data for major detectors.

  6. Inpainting over the cracks: challenges of applying pre-merger searches for massive black hole binaries to realistic LISA datasets

    astro-ph.IM 2026-05 conditional novelty 6.0

    Inpainting allows recovery of pre-merger massive black hole binary signals in LISA data despite gaps and overlaps.

  7. Inferring the population properties of galactic binaries from LISA's stochastic foreground

    astro-ph.HE 2026-02 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    A neural posterior estimator trained on simulated LISA foreground spectra recovers galactic binary population parameters, including total number, with good accuracy in validation tests.

  8. Extracting Properties of Dark Dense Environments around Black Holes from Gravitational Waves

    gr-qc 2025-10 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    A novel quantity derived from GW signals encodes the density profile of dark dense environments around black holes, allowing characterization of the condensate type and DM properties via multi-wavelength observations.

  9. Isotropy, anisotropies and non-Gaussianity in the scalar-induced gravitational-wave background: diagrammatic approach for primordial non-Gaussianity up to arbitrary order

    astro-ph.CO 2025-05 unverdicted novelty 6.0

    Extends diagrammatic approach for scalar-induced gravitational waves to arbitrary-order local PNG, deriving semi-analytic spectra for energy density, anisotropies, bispectrum and trispectrum up to quartic terms.

  10. Testing General Relativity Through Gravitational Wave Classification: A Convolutional Neural Network Framework

    gr-qc 2026-05 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    A CNN framework using response functions from gravitational wave mismatches classifies signals as GR or beyond-GR with 33 times better sensitivity than raw waveforms and detects massive gravity deviations at graviton ...

  11. Parameter-estimation bias induced by transient orbital resonances in extreme-mass-ratio inspirals

    gr-qc 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Neglecting transient orbital resonances in EMRIs causes significant SNR losses and biases in recovered parameters, with the sign and amplitude of resonance-induced changes to integrals of motion being critical.

  12. Anisotropic hybrid stars: Interplay of superconductivity and magnetic field leading to gravitational waves

    astro-ph.HE 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    New phenomenological anisotropy profiles in hybrid stars, driven by superconductivity and magnetic fields, lead to enhanced masses and continuous gravitational wave emission.

  13. Primary gravitational waves at high frequencies I: Origin of suppression in the power spectrum

    astro-ph.CO 2025-12 unverdicted novelty 5.0

    Adiabatic regularization combined with smoothed transitions suppresses the high-frequency oscillations in the power spectrum of primary gravitational waves about a zero mean.

  14. Sensitivity of Weak Lensing Surveys to Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

    astro-ph.CO 2025-12 unverdicted novelty 4.0

    Weak lensing surveys cannot detect nanohertz-microhertz gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries under realistic conditions; only unattainable idealized surveys could probe this band.

  15. Lectures on Reheating after Inflation

    astro-ph.CO 2019-07 unverdicted

    Lecture notes providing a generic introduction to reheating after inflation, covering its theoretical, phenomenological, and observational aspects.