Lecture Questions - Day 2 (2023)

Typically a rule of thumb to decide the value of the Q-transform is to know how many cycles you expect to see in your data. Binary black holes merge around 100 Hz and they last about 0.1 s in our data. This will give you ~ 10 cycles observed. So Q-range = (5,20) is a good range for binary black holes. Higher values are better for binary neutron stars (see GW170817)

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