Targeted coherent search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences

Harry, Ian William and Fairhurst, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8480-1961 2011. Targeted coherent search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences. Physical Review D 83 (8) , 084002. 10.1103/PhysRevD.83.084002

Full text not available from this repository.

Abstract

We introduce a method for conducting a targeted, coherent search for compact binary coalescences. The search is tailored to be used as a follow-up to electromagnetic transients such as gamma-ray bursts. We derive the coherent search statistic for Gaussian detector noise and discuss the benefits of a coherent, multidetector search over coincidence methods. To mitigate the effects of nonstationary data, we introduce a number of signal consistency tests, including the null signal-to-noise ratio, amplitude consistency, and several χ2 tests. We demonstrate the search performance on Gaussian noise and on data from LIGO’s fourth science run and verify that the signal consistency tests are capable of removing the majority of noise transients, giving the search an efficiency comparable to that achieved in Gaussian noise.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA) Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	American Physical Society
ISSN:	1550-7998
Related URLs:	Publisher
Last Modified:	24 Oct 2022 10:59
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/46598

Citation Data

Cited 68 times in Scopus. View in Scopus. Powered By Scopus® Data

Actions (repository staff only)

Edit Item