title: Gravitational waves: search results, data analysis and parameter estimation: Amaldi 10 Parallel session C2.
abstract: The Amaldi 10 Parallel Session C2 on gravitational wave (GW) search results, data analysis and parameter estimation included three lively sessions of lectures by 13 presenters, and 34 posters. The talks and posters covered a huge range of material, including results and analysis techniques for ground-based GW detectors, targeting anticipated signals from different astrophysical sources: compact binary inspiral, merger and ringdown; GW bursts from intermediate mass binary black hole mergers, cosmic string cusps, core-collapse supernovae, and other unmodeled sources; continuous waves from spinning neutron stars; and a stochastic GW background. There was considerable emphasis on Bayesian techniques for estimating the parameters of coalescing compact binary systems from the gravitational waveforms extracted from the data from the advanced detector network. This included methods to distinguish deviations of the signals from what is expected in the context of General Relativity.
authors.affiliation: INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy.
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authors.lastname: Astone
authors.affiliation: LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
authors.forename: Alan
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authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.affiliation: Nikhef, Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Michalis
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authors.affiliation: N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Bartycka 18, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland.
authors.forename: Michał
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authors.lastname: Bejger
authors.affiliation: Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057 USA.
authors.forename: Nelson
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authors.lastname: Christensen
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Thomas
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authors.lastname: Dent
authors.affiliation: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA.
authors.forename: Philip
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authors.lastname: Graff
authors.affiliation: University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA.
authors.forename: Sergey
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authors.lastname: Klimenko
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany ; Leibniz Universitat Hannover, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Giulio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mazzolo
authors.affiliation: Kyoto University, 6068502 Kyoto, Japan.
authors.forename: Atsushi
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authors.lastname: Nishizawa
authors.affiliation: LAL Orsay, Universite Paris Sud, 91898 Orsay, France.
authors.forename: Florent
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authors.lastname: Robinet
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff, CF243AA UK.
authors.forename: Patricia
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authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, B15 2TT UK.
authors.forename: Rory
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authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Nikhef, Science Park 105, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: John
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authors.lastname: Veitch
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA.
authors.forename: Madeline
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authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 14476 Golm, Germany.
authors.forename: Sofiane
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authors.lastname: Aoudia
authors.affiliation: Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164 USA.
authors.forename: Sukanta
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authors.affiliation: University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan
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authors.lastname: Calderon Bustillo
authors.affiliation: Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0HA UK.
authors.forename: Priscilla
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authors.lastname: Canizares
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA.
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authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003 USA.
authors.forename: James
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.affiliation: University of Rome "Sapienza", 00185 Rome, Italy.
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authors.lastname: Colla
authors.affiliation: European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), 56021 Cascina, Pisa Italy.
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authors.lastname: Cuoco
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Avenida dos Astronautas 1758, 12227-010 Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.
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authors.lastname: Da Silva Costa
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Tito
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authors.lastname: Dal Canton
authors.affiliation: Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Avenida dos Astronautas 1758, 12227-010 Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil.
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authors.lastname: Evangelista
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Evan
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authors.lastname: Goetz
authors.affiliation: Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005 India.
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authors.lastname: Gupta
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff, CF243AA UK.
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authors.lastname: Hannam
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: David
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authors.lastname: Keitel
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Princeton University, Jadwin Hall, Princeton, 08544 NJ USA.
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authors.lastname: Lackey
authors.affiliation: School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ Glasgow, UK.
authors.forename: Joshua
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authors.lastname: Logue
authors.affiliation: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA.
authors.forename: Satyanarayan
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authors.lastname: Mohapatra
authors.affiliation: INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
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authors.lastname: Piergiovanni
authors.affiliation: LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA.
authors.forename: Stephen
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authors.lastname: Privitera
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Reinhard
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authors.lastname: Prix
authors.affiliation: Cardiff University School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff, CF243AA UK.
authors.forename: Michael
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authors.lastname: Pürrer
authors.affiliation: Universita' di Roma Tor Vergata and INFN sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, 00133 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Re
authors.affiliation: University of Rome "Sapienza", 00185 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Serafinelli
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA.
authors.forename: Leslie
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wade
authors.affiliation: University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth 6009 Australia.
authors.forename: Linqing
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wen
authors.affiliation: Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, 30167 Hannover, Germany.
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wette
authors.affiliation: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623 USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Whelan
authors.affiliation: INFN, Sezione di Roma, 00185 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: C
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authors.lastname: Palomba
authors.affiliation: INFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy ; Universit'a di Trento, 38050 Povo, Trento, Italy.
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authors.lastname: Prodi
keywords: Compact binary merger; Gravitational waves; Neutron stars ; Parameter estimation; Stochastic background; Tests of general relativity