Searching for gravitational waves from binary coalescence

S. Babak, R. Biswas, P. R. Brady, D. A. Brown, K. Cannon, C. D. Capano, J. H. Clayton, T. Cokelaer, J. D.E. Creighton, T. Dent, A. Dietz, S. Fairhurst, N. Fotopoulos, G. González, C. Hanna, I. W. Harry, G. Jones, D. Keppel, D. J.A. McKechan, L. PekowskyS. Privitera, C. Robinson, A. C. Rodriguez, B. S. Sathyaprakash, A. S. Sengupta, M. Vallisneri, R. Vaulin, A. J. Weinstein

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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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number024033
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume87
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 22 2013

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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