A story about a tipsy kangaroo: Reversible jump MCMC for model selection in the analysis of gravitational-wave signals from the coalescence of compact objects
Anna Puecher, Tim Dietrich, Hauke Koehn, Jonathan Gair, Gregory Ashton, Luca Negri, Anuradha Samajdar
gr-qc, astro-ph.HE, astro-ph.IM
Submitted: 2026-07-23
Code: https://github.com/AnnaPuecher/t
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
Sources
- GWTC-5.0: Observations from the Second Part of the Fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Observing Run and Updates to the Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog
- GWTC-5.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
- Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
- A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
- Multi-messenger constraints on the neutron-star equation of state and the Hubble constant
- GWTC-5.0: Constraints on the Cosmic Expansion Rate and Modified Gravitational-wave Propagation
- Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3
- GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. I. Overview and General Tests
- GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. II. Parameterized Tests
- GWTC-4.0: Tests of General Relativity. III. Tests of the Remnants
- Advanced LIGO
- Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector
- dynesty: A Dynamic Nested Sampling Package for Estimating Bayesian Posteriors and Evidences
- Bilby-MCMC: An MCMC sampler for gravitational-wave inference
- Bilby: A user-friendly Bayesian inference library for gravitational-wave astronomy
- Understanding binary neutron star collisions with hypermodels
- Comparing gravitational waveform models for binary black hole mergers through a hypermodels approach
- GWTC-4.0: Population Properties of Merging Compact Binaries
- GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M$_\odot$ Black Hole with a 2.6 M$_\odot$ Compact Object
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