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arxiv: 1402.5156 · v1 · pith:OC4WGTI7new · submitted 2014-02-20 · 🌀 gr-qc

Systematic and statistical errors in a bayesian approach to the estimation of the neutron-star equation of state using advanced gravitational wave detectors

Leslie Wade , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Evan Ochsner , Benjamin D. Lackey , Benjamin F. Farr , Tyson B. Littenberg , Vivien Raymond This is my paper
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Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are capable of measuring tidal influences in binary neutron-star systems. In this work, we report on the statistical uncertainties in measuring tidal deformability with a full Bayesian parameter estimation implementation. We show how simultaneous measurements of chirp mass and tidal deformability can be used to constrain the neutron-star equation of state. We also study the effects of waveform modeling bias and individual instances of detector noise on these measurements. We notably find that systematic error between post-Newtonian waveform families can significantly bias the estimation of tidal parameters, thus motivating the continued development of waveform models that are more reliable at high frequencies.

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