Thursday, April 26, 2012

1201.2964 (Rahul Biswas et al.)

Detecting transient gravitational waves in non-Gaussian noise with
partially redundant analysis methods
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Rahul Biswas, Patrick R. Brady, Jordi Burguet-Castell, Kipp Cannon, Jessica Clayton, Alexander Dietz, Nickolas Fotopoulos, Lisa M. Goggin, Drew Keppel, Chris Pankow, Larry R. Price, Ruslan Vaulin
There is a broad class of astrophysical sources that produce detectable, transient, gravitational waves. Some searches for transient gravitational waves are tailored to known features of these sources. Other searches make few assumptions about the sources. Typically events are observable with multiple search techniques. This work describes how to combine the results of searches that are not independent, treating each search as a classifier for a given event. This will be shown to improve the overall sensitivity to gravitational-wave events while directly addressing the problem of consistent interpretation of multiple trials.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2964

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