An entropy-based method for projecting population constraints

Observations of gravitational waves from merging compact binaries are beginning to provide insights into stellar astrophysics, cosmology, and relativity. However, many of these measurements have not reached the precision projected in the literature and the physical resolving power of current and next-generation instruments is widely discussed in the literature. Current methods for making projections about which physical phenomena can be distinguished from future catalogues are either extremely computationally intensive or require significant simplifying assumptions. In this talk, I will describe a novel information-theoretic approach for much more efficiently determining what size of population is needed to resolve features in the observed population without sacrificing the fidelity of the simulations.