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most citedGravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

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astro-ph.IM2026

LIGO A: Detector Design and Science Prospects Beyond A+

L. Sun, K. Kuns, B. J. J. Slagmolen +1153

We present the LIGO A detector concept, an upgrade for the LIGO observatories based on room-temperature interferometers beyond the fifth observing run (O5). Building on th…

astro-ph.IM2026★ 1 cited

Scalable Gaussian Processes for Integrated and Overlapping Measurements Via Augmented State Space Models

Ryan A. Rubenzahl, Soichiro Hattori, Simo Särkkä +4

Astronomical measurements are often integrated over finite exposures, which can obscure latent variability on comparable timescales. Correctly accounting for exposure integration w…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 8 cited

Precision Requirements for Monte Carlo Sums within Hierarchical Bayesian Inference

Reed Essick, Will Farr

Hierarchical Bayesian inference is often conducted with estimates of the target distribution derived from Monte Carlo sums over samples from separate analyses of parts of the hiera…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 90 cited

Inferring the properties of a population of compact binaries in presence of selection effects

Salvatore Vitale, Davide Gerosa, Will M. Farr +1

Shortly after a new class of objects is discovered, the attention shifts from the properties of the individual sources to the question of their origin: do all sources come from the…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 292 cited

emcee v3: A Python ensemble sampling toolkit for affine-invariant MCMC

Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Will M. Farr, Manodeep Sinha +10

emcee is a Python library implementing a class of affine-invariant ensemble samplers for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). This package has been widely applied to probabilistic mode…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 113 cited

Accuracy Requirements for Empirically-Measured Selection Functions

Will M. Farr

I give formulas for the accuracy to which a selection function must be measured via Monte-Carlo injections in order to have un-biased population inference. The number of found inje…