Abstract

We apply non-harmonic analysis (NHA) to analyze gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences. After investigating the general properties of NHA by using several test signals with amplitude and frequency modulation, we analyze gravitational wave signals from the inspiraling of compact binary coalescences. We find that the time–frequency property of the signal can be reproduced accurately. We analyze the signals from inspiraling binary black holes injected into simulated Gaussian noise. We find that we can identify the signal even if the signal-to-noise ratio in the sense of a matched filter is as low as 10. We investigate the accuracy of the instantaneous amplitude and frequency of the signal recovered with NHA. We analyze gravitational wave events detected by LIGO and Virgo, and find that gravitational wave signals with strong amplitude like GW150914 can be shown clearly on the time–frequency map by NHA. We also find that even in the case of a low-amplitude signal like GW170817, the signal can be clearly seen by choosing an appropriate window size that depends on the frequency band.

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Title
A time–frequency analysis of gravitational wave signals with non-harmonic analysis
Author
Yanagisawa, Kenta 1 ; Jia, Dongbao 2 ; Hirobayashi, Shigeki 1 ; Uchikata, Nami 3 ; Narikawa, Tatsuya 4 ; Ueno, Koh 5 ; Takahashi, Hirotaka 6 ; Tagoshi, Hideyuki 7 

 Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan 
 Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan; School of Computer Engineering, Huaihai Institute of Technology, Lianyungang, Jiangsu 222005, China 
 Graduate School of Science and Technology, Niigata University, Niigata 950-2181, Japan 
 Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan 
 Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan 
 Department of Information and Management Systems Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Kamitomika 1603-1, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2188, Japan 
 Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwanoha 5-1-5, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan 
Publication year
2019
Publication date
Jun 2019
Publisher
Oxford University Press
e-ISSN
20503911
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
3171483008
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Physical Society of Japan. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.