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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
卷 93, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.084031
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资金
- Sherman Fairchild Foundation
- NSF [PHY-1306125, AST-1333129]
- NSF MRI-R2 program
- GPC and GRAVITY clusters at the SciNet HPC Consortium
- Canada Foundation for Innovation under the auspices of Compute Canada
- Government of Ontario
- Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence
- University of Toronto
Gravitational-wave data is gauge dependent. While we can restrict the class of gauges in which such data may be expressed, there will still be an infinite-dimensional group of transformations allowed while remaining in this class, and almost as many different-though physically equivalent-waveforms as there are transformations. This paper presents a method for calculating the effects of the most important transformation group, the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group, consisting of rotations, boosts, and supertranslations (which include time and space translations as special cases). To a reasonable approximation, these transformations result in simple coupling between the modes in a spin-weighted spherical-harmonic decomposition of the waveform. It is shown that waveforms from simulated compact binaries in the publicly available SXS waveform catalog contain unmodeled effects due to displacement and drift of the center of mass, accounting for mode mixing at typical levels of 1%. However, these effects can be mitigated by measuring the average motion of the system's center of mass for a portion of the inspiral, and applying the opposite transformation to the waveform data. More generally, controlling the BMS transformations will be necessary to eliminate the gauge ambiguity inherent in gravitational-wave data for both numerical and analytical waveforms. Open-source code implementing BMS transformations of waveforms is supplied along with this paper in the supplemental materials.
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