Session B10: Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Inspirals and Mergers

10:45 AM–12:21 PM, Saturday, April 12, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - St. Louis A

Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP
Chair: Duncan Brown, Syracuse University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.B10.2

Abstract: B10.00002 : Data quality and vetoes in searches for compact binary coalescences and bursts in LIGO's fifth science run

10:57 AM–11:09 AM

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Author:

  Jacob Slutsky
    (Louisiana State University)

Searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences (CBCs), as well as for unmodeled sources (Bursts), are hindered by the presence of transient detector noise, which can produce false alarms. Using auxiliary channels and the gravitational wave channel itself, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration has identified a variety of instrumental and environmental artifacts that lead to false signals. We find time intervals affected by these artifacts, and use them as vetoes for CBC and Burst searches in LIGO's fifth science run.

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