PiTP 2025 - Pre-Reading Materials

Suggested PiTP 2025 pre-reading materials are now available.  Please check back frequently as we will update this list as new information becomes available.

Bruce Allen

(1) Bruce Allen. The stochastic gravity-wave background: sources and detection in Relativistic gravitation and gravitational radiation", J.A. Marck, J.P. Lasota. (Proceedings, Les Houches School of Physics: Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Radiation), Cambridge Contemporary Astrophysics, 1997, pages 373-417.  https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9604033

(2) Bruce Allen and Joseph D Romano.  Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: Signal processing strategies and sensitivities Phys. Rev. D 59, 102001, 1999. https://journals.aps.org/prd/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevD.59.102001

(3) Joseph D Romano and Bruce Allen.  Answers to frequently asked questions about the pulsar timing array Hellings and Downs curve Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 41, Number 17, 2024.  https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/ad4c4c

(4) Bruce Allen and Joseph D Romano.  Optimal Reconstruction of the Hellings and Downs Correlation Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 031401, 2025. 
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.031401
 

Adam Burrows

(1) "Physical Correlations and Predictions Emerging from Modern Core-collapse Supernova Theory"

(2) "Gravitational-wave signature of core-collapse supernovae"
 

Maya Fishbach

(1) "Observed Gravitational Wave Populations," by Callister: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19145

(2) "Merging Stellar-Mass Binary Black Holes," by Mandel & Farmer: https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.05820
 

Luis Lehner

(1) "Introduction to Finite Difference Approximations"

(2) "Lecture Notes on 3+1 Numerical Relativity", v0.1, S. Bernuzzi, 2021

Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella

Review papers on parameter inference (None are mandatory in particular, but it would be helpful to read at least one of them):

(1) Javier Roulet and Tejaswi Venumadhav: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11439
(2) Thrane and Talbot: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02293
(3) Christensen and Meyer: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.04449

General characteristics of gravitational-wave signals:

(1) Cutler and Flanagan: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9402014

Patricia Schmidt

(Note: Recommended literature to accompany the waveform lectures - not required pre-reading)

Books:
(1) Michele Maggiore: “Gravitational Waves - Volume 1: Theory and Experiments” (2008)
(2) Michele Maggiore: “Gravitational Waves - Volume 2: Astrophysics and Cosmology” (2018)
(3) Eric Poisson & Clifford M. Will: “Gravity” (2014)

Review articles:
(1) Eanna E. Flanagan & Scott A. Hughes: “The basics of gravitational wave theory”, arXiv:0501041
(2) Alessandra Buonanno: “Gravitational Waves”, arXiv:0709.4682
(3) Alessandra Buonanno & B. S. Sathyaprakash: “Sources of Gravitational Waves”, arXiv: 1410.7832
(4) Thibault Damour & Alessandro Nagar: “The effective one body description of the two-body problem” arXiv:0906.1769