Indistinguishability criterion and estimating the presence of biases

2024/01/12 by Alexandre Toubiana, J. R. Gair, Toubiana, Alexandre +1 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2401.06845

openalex publication_date 2024/01/12 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In these notes, we comment on the standard indistinguishability criterion often used in the gravitational wave community to set accuracy requirements on waveforms. Revisiting the hypotheses under which it is derived, we propose a correction to it. Moreover, we outline how the approach we proposed in a recent work in the context of tests of general relativity can be used for this same purpose.

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