Searching for gravitational waves from binary coalescence

Babak, S., Biswas, R., Brady, P. R., Brown, D. A., Cannon, K., Capano, C. D., Clayton, J. H., Cokelaer, T., Creighton, J. D. E., Dent, T., Dietz, A., Fairhurst, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-1961, Fotopoulos, N., González, G., Hanna, C., Harry, I. W., Jones, Gareth, Keppel, D., McKechan, D. J. A., Pekowsky, L., Privitera, S., Robinson, C., Rodriguez, A. C., Sathyaprakash, Bangalore Suryanarayana ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3845-7586, Sengupta, A. S., Vallisneri, M., Vaulin, R. and Weinstein, A. J. 2013. Searching for gravitational waves from binary coalescence. Physical Review D 87 (2) , 024033. 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.024033

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Abstract

We describe the implementation of a search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data. This all-sky, all-time, multidetector search for binary coalescence has been used to search data taken in recent LIGO and Virgo runs. The search is built around a matched filter analysis of the data, augmented by numerous signal consistency tests designed to distinguish artifacts of non-Gaussian detector noise from potential detections. We demonstrate the search performance using Gaussian noise and data from the fifth LIGO science run and demonstrate that the signal consistency tests are capable of mitigating the effect of non-Gaussian noise and providing a sensitivity comparable to that achieved in Gaussian noise.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy
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Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Funders:	STFC, Royal Society
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	17 May 2023 12:09
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/46586

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