Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2016
Volume 61, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2016; Salt Lake City, Utah
Session L1: Poster Session II (2:00pm -5:00pm)
2:00 PM,
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Room: South Foyer
Abstract ID: BAPS.2016.APR.L1.29
Abstract: L1.00029 : An information-theoretic approach to the gravitational-wave burst detection problem*
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Authors:
E Katsavounidis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
R Lynch
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
S Vitale
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
R Essick
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
F Robinet
(LAL, Universit e Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, F-91898 Orsay, France)
The advanced era of gravitational-wave astronomy, with data collected in part by the LIGO gravitational-wave interferometers, has begun as of fall 2015. One potential type of detectable gravitational waves is short-duration gravitational-wave bursts, whose waveforms can be difficult to predict. We present the framework for a new detection algorithm -- called \textit{oLIB} -- that can be used in relatively low-latency to turn calibrated strain data into a detection significance statement. This pipeline consists of 1) a sine-Gaussian matched-filter trigger generator based on the Q-transform -- known as \textit{Omicron} --, 2) incoherent down-selection of these triggers to the most signal-like set, and 3) a fully coherent analysis of this signal-like set using the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Bayesian evidence calculator \textit{LALInferenceBurst} (LIB). We optimally extract this information by using a likelihood-ratio test (LRT) to map these search statistics into a significance statement. Using representative archival LIGO data, we show that the algorithm can detect gravitational-wave burst events of realistic strength in realistic instrumental noise with good detection efficiencies across different burst waveform morphologies.
*With support from the National Science Foundation under grant PHY-0757058.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2016.APR.L1.29
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