Title

Methods for Reducing False Alarms in Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in LIGO Data

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Duncan Brown, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
J. Slutsky

Document Type

Article

Date

4-8-2010

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

The LIGO detectors are sensitive to a variety of noise transients of non-astrophysical origin. Instrumental glitches and environmental disturbances increase the false alarm rate in the searches for gravitational waves. Using times already identified when the interferometers produced data of questionable quality, or when the channels that monitor the interferometer indicated non-stationarity, we have developed techniques to safely and effectively veto false triggers from the compact binary coalescences (CBCs) search pipeline.

Additional Information

More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0998

First author and Syracuse University authors listed, for additional authors see the article.

Recommended Citation

Brown, Duncan and Slutsky, J., "Methods for Reducing False Alarms in Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in LIGO Data" (2010). Physics - All Scholarship. 243.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/243

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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