MCMC Exploration of Supermassive Black Hole Binary Inspirals
arXiv:gr-qc/0605085 · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/19/S15
Abstract
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will be able to detect the inspiral and merger of Super Massive Black Hole Binaries (SMBHBs) anywhere in the Universe. Standard matched filtering techniques can be used to detect and characterize these systems. Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are ideally suited to this and other LISA data analysis problems as they are able to efficiently handle models with large dimensions. Here we compare the posterior parameter distributions derived by an MCMC algorithm with the distributions predicted by the Fisher information matrix. We find excellent agreement for the extrinsic parameters, while the Fisher matrix slightly overestimates errors in the intrinsic parameters.
Submitted to CQG as a GWDAW-10 Conference Proceedings, 9 pages, 5 figures, Published Version
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