Numerical Relativity's Continued Impact on Gravitational Waves
As gravitational wave detectors improve in sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratios of compact binary coalescences will dramatically increase, reaching values in the hundreds and potentially thousands. Such strong signals offer exciting scientific opportunities and pose formidable challenges to the waveforms used for interpretation. The waveform models used for identifying and interpreting signals are informed by calibrating or fitting to numerical relativity (NR) waveforms and such strong signals may unveil computational errors in NR. In this talk, we will highlight the role of accurate NR waveforms in gravitational wave data analysis.