1201.5599 (Michal Was et al.)

Performance of an externally triggered gravitational-wave burst search    [PDF]

Michal Was, Patrick J. Sutton, Gareth Jones, Isabel Leonor

We present the performance of searches for gravitational wave bursts
associated with external astrophysical triggers as a function of the search sky
region. We discuss both the case of Gaussian noise and real noise of
gravitational wave detectors for arbitrary detector networks. We demonstrate
the ability to reach Gaussian limited sensitivity in real non-Gaussian data,
and show the conditions required to attain it. We find that a single sky
position search is ~20% more sensitive than an all-sky search of the same data.

View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.5599