Accelerated parameter estimation in Bilby with relative binning

2023/12/10 by K. Murali Krishna, Krishna, Kruthi, A. Vijaykumar +13 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.06009

Abstract

We describe an implementation of the relative binning technique to speed up parameter estimation of gravitational-wave signals. We first give a pedagogical overview of relative binning, discussing also the expressions for the likelihood marginalized over phase and distance. Then, we describe the details of the code in Bilby, an open-source software package commonly used for parameter estimation of gravitational-wave sources. Our code is able to reproduce the parameters of GW170817 in 14 hours on a single-core CPU, performs well on simulated signals, and passes the percentile-percentile (p-p) tests. We also illustrate that relative binning is an ideal technique to estimate the parameters of signals in next-generation gravitational wave detectors.

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