1. Characterizing an Early-Warning Search for Binary Neutron Stars in the Presence of Non-Stationary Noise Open Access Author: Heckman, Collin Title: Characterizing an Early-Warning Search for Binary Neutron Stars in the Presence of Non-Stationary Noise Millennium Scholars Program: Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASTRO) Keywords: LIGOGravitational WavesNeutron StarsBNSGravity File: Download SchreyerThesisHeckman.pdf Thesis Supervisor: Chad Richard Hanna, Thesis Supervisor