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A professor from a UK university who is a member of LIGO kindly video called me the other day regarding potential PhD projects and said that a lot of gravitational research isn't about the dynamics and source-model nor application of general relativity but high performance computation and big data management; and that often minimal assumptions are made on the waveform since most objects are very unpredictable, an exemption for e.g being binary black holes.
I am just wondering whether anyone else can give me more guidance on what is generally involved in a gravitational wave research department; in particular the side that doesn't involve dynamics, predicted wave-forms or application of general relativity. What sorts of things are involved in the analysing gravitational wave data?
Many thanks in advance,
Apologies if the above doesn't make sense in some places.
I am just wondering whether anyone else can give me more guidance on what is generally involved in a gravitational wave research department; in particular the side that doesn't involve dynamics, predicted wave-forms or application of general relativity. What sorts of things are involved in the analysing gravitational wave data?
Many thanks in advance,
Apologies if the above doesn't make sense in some places.