Parameter Estimation Using 3.5 post-Newtonian Inspiral Waveforms

GWDAW, December 15-18, 2004, Annecy

K. Arun, B.R. Iyer, B.S. Sathyaprakash and P. Sundarajan

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Sensitivity of the instruments

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Span of the interferometers

• Detectors have the best sensitivity to black hole binaries with mass in the range 10-200 M

• Initial LIGO and Virgo have similar sensitivities for binaries in the range 10-50 M

• Advanced LIGO has a span of 15 times greater than Initial LIGO/VIRGO or an event rate 3000 times larger

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Parameter Estimation at Constant SNR: Coalescence Time

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Parameter Estimation at Constant SNR: Chirp Mass

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Parameter Estimation at Constant SNR: Mass Ratio

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Parameter Estimation at Constant Distance: Coalescence Time

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Parameter Estimation at Constant Distance: Chirp Mass

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Parameter Estimation at Constant Distance: Mass Ratio