A new waveform consistency test for gravitational wave inspiral searches

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/21/20/018zbMATH Open1107.83306arXivgr-qc/0404064OpenAlexW2066720065MaRDI QIDQ4674046FDOQ4674046

Authors: Peter Shawhan, Evan Ochsner 

Publication date: 9 May 2005

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Searches for binary inspiral signals in data collected by interferometric gravitational wave detectors utilize matched filtering techniques. Although matched filtering is optimal in the case of stationary Gaussian noise, data from real detectors often contains "glitches" and episodes of excess noise which cause filter outputs to ring strongly. We review the standard chi^2 statistic which is used to test whether the filter output has appropriate contributions from several different frequency bands. We then propose a new type of waveform consistency test which is based on the time history of the filter output. We apply one such test to the data from the first LIGO science run and show that it cleanly distinguishes between true inspiral waveforms and large-amplitude false signals which managed to pass the standard chi^2 test.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0404064

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gravitational waves (83C35)

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