Nonorthogonal wavelet transformation for reconstructing gravitational wave signals
arXiv:2201.01526 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033078
Abstract
Detections of gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences have enabled us to study extreme astrophysical phenomena and explore fundamental physics. A crucial requisite for these studies is to have accurate signal models with characteristic morphologies, which have been challenging for many decades, and researchers are still endeavoring to incorporate important physics. Therefore, morphology-independent methods have been developed for identifying a signal and its reconstruction. The reconstructed signal allows us to test the agreement between the observed signal and the waveform posterior samples from parameter estimation. These methods model observed signals using a nearly orthogonal wavelet basis in the frame of continuous wavelet transformation. Here, we propose log-uniform scales to construct the wavelets, which are are highly redundant (nonorthogonal) compared to the conventional octave scales but more efficient for reconstructing the signals at high frequencies. And we introduce a semi-model-dependent reconstruction method using the posterior samples of the events, where we model the signal using Gabor-Morlet wavelets with log-uniform scales. We demonstrate the ability to detect deviation using a numerical simulation of an eccentric binary black hole merger, where the signal in the data does not belong to the search template waveform manifold. Finally, we apply this method to each binary black hole merger event in GWTC-1. We have found that the signal produced by the GW150914 event has 96% agreement with the waveform posterior samples. As the detector sensitivity improves and the detected population of black hole mergers grows, we expect the proposed method will provide even stronger tests.
12 pages, 8 figures, revised version as accepted for publication Phys. Rev. Research, comments very welcome
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