Guillaume Faye is Chargé de Recherche (researcher)

The gravitational-wave observatory Advanced LIGO is now in its commissioning stage and preparing for its first scientific runs in early 2015. It will be soon followed by the Advanced Virgo detector. Being reasonably optimistic, one can expect the first detections to occur by 2018. The most likely sources to be observed are coalescences of two compact objects. As both detection and
parameter estimation rely on matched filtering techniques, several programs to compute accurate waveform models using various approximation techniques are being pursued. Notably, the post-Newtonian perturbative approach, where all quantities of interest are expanded in powers of Continue reading →