Speaker
Matteo Di Giovanni
Description
Searches for transient gravitational waves are performed
either by exploiting detailed knowledge of
the waveform - template based searches - or by making
minimal assumptions about the signal
morphology - generic burst searches. The latter are
sensitive to gravitational waves emitted by a
wider range of sources including compact binary coalescences
and isolated compact objects. This
type of search was the first to identify the binary black
hole merger GW150914. Dedicated low-
latency pipelines produce triggers a few minutes after the
arrival time at the detectors and the most
significant ones are shared with the electromagnetic
partners as well as neutrino observatories. I
will give a general overview of the coherent WaveBurst (cWB)
pipeline for generic burst searches
and briefly present my Ph.D. research project using cWB to
reconstruct neutron star fingerprints in
binary neutron star mergers.
