Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project

• Published in: arXiv.org
• Main Authors: Aylott, Benjamin, Baker, John G, Boggs, William D, Boyle, Michael, Brady, Patrick R, Brown, Duncan A, Brügmann, Bernd, Buchman, Luisa T, Buonanno, Alessandra, Cadonati, Laura, Camp, Jordan, Campanelli, Manuela, Centrella, Joan, Chatterjis, Shourov, Christensen, Nelson, Chu, Tony, Diener, Peter, Dorband, Nils, Etienne, Zachariah B, Faber, Joshua, Fairhurst, Stephen, Farr, Benjamin, Fischetti, Sebastian, Guidi, Gianluca, Goggin, Lisa M, Hannam, Mark, Herrmann, Frank, Hinder, Ian, Husa, Sascha, Kalogera, Vicky, Keppel, Drew, Kidder, Lawrence E, Kelly, Bernard J, Krishnan, Badri, Laguna, Pablo, Lousto, Carlos O, Mandel, Ilya, Marronetti, Pedro, Matzner, Richard, McWilliams, Sean T, Matthews, Keith D, Mercer, R Adam, Mohapatra, Satyanarayan R P, Mroué, Abdul H, Nakano, Hiroyuki, Ochsner, Evan, Pan, Yi, Pekowsky, Larne, Pfeiffer, Harald P, Pollney, Denis, Pretorius, Frans, Raymond, Vivien, Reisswig, Christian, Rezzolla, Luciano, Rinne, Oliver, Robinson, Craig, Röver, Christian, Santamaría, Lucía, Sathyaprakash, Bangalore, Scheel, Mark A, Schnetter, Erik, Seiler, Jennifer, Shapiro, Stuart L, Shoemaker, Deirdre, Sperhake, Ulrich, Stroeer, Alexander, Sturani, Riccardo, Tichy, Wolfgang, Yuk Tung Liu, van der Sluys, Marc, van Meter, James R, Vaulin, Ruslan, Vecchio, Alberto, Veitch, John, Viceré, Andrea, Whelan, John T, Zlochower, Yosef
• Format: Paper Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 26.05.2009
• Subjects: Coalescing; Collaboration; Communities; Data analysis; Gravitational waves; Mathematical models; Numerical relativity; Physics - General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; Random noise; Relativity; Waveforms
• ISSN: 2331-8422
• DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.0905.4227

The 2008 NRDA conference introduced the Numerical INJection Analysis project (NINJA), a new collaborative effort between the numerical relativity community and the data analysis community. NINJA focuses on modeling and searching for gravitational wave signatures from the coalescence of binary system of compact objects. We review the scope of this collaboration and the components of the first NINJA project, where numerical relativity groups shared waveforms and data analysis teams applied various techniques to detect them when embedded in colored Gaussian noise.