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Basics about gravitational-wave detectors

  • Measurement principle -- Concept of gravitational wave strain
  • Detector response to gravitational waves -- Antenna beam pattern
  • Calibration and systematics
  • Origin and characterization of major noise sources
  • Transient noise

Open data access, visualization and basic pre-processing

  • Access to open data
  • Visualization of gravitational-wave strain time-series
  • Filtering and whitening

Compact binary mergers

  • Gravitational waveform models from compact binary mergers
  • Matched filtering techniques
  • Characterization of the analysis background and transient noise rejection
  • Bayesian estimation of compact binary parameters
  • Source sky localization: principle and accuracy -- Gravitational-wave skymaps

Workflows

  • Run a workflow to search for compact binary mergers
  • Run a workflow to estimate compact binary merger parameters using gravitational wave open data