You have decided to take a look at my research page. Great, thank you for your interest! Here I list all of my noteworthy research projects, starting with the most recently finished one.

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  • gw-signal-tools

    Melching, Ohme

    2026

    A Python package with tools centered around computations with gravitational waveforms as generated, e.g., from the LAL waveforms interface gwsignal. This includes the commonly used noise-weighted inner product, an optimization routine for said inner product, and most notably an implementation of Fisher matrices.

    Development began as part of my Master thesis.

    Source Code (GitLab)

    Source Code (GitHub)

  • PyCBC WFErrors Plugin

    Kumar, Melching, Ohme

    2025

    Plugin for the PyCBC library to incorporate systematic errors in gravitational waveforms models. Developed as part of the "Accounting for the known unknows" paper.

    Source Code

  • Accounting for the known unknowns: A parametric framework to incorporate systematic waveform errors in gravitational-wave parameter estimation

    Kumar, Melching, Ohme

    2025

    Proposes a new way to account for systematic errors in gravitational waveform models and thereby also mitigate the associated biases.

  • Systematic Errors in Gravitational Waveform Models

    Melching

    2025

    My Master thesis. It deals with ways to quantify systematic biases in source parameters induced by imperfections in gravitational waveforms. This is mostly investigated using the well-known Fisher matrix formalism.

    DOI

  • Systematic Differences in the Source Properties of the third Gravitational Wave Catalog

    Melching

    2023

    My Bachelor thesis. It deals with differences in the posterior samples obtained from different waveform models for all gravitational wave events from GWTC-3. This is done using different statistical techniques, such as the Jensen-Shannon divergence or a principal component analysis.

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