Antony C Searle , Susan M Scott and David E McClelland
Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Science, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
antony.searle@anu.edu.au susan.scott@anu.edu.au david.mcclelland@anu.edu.au
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A C Searle et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 1465
Gravitational wave astronomy will require the coordinated analysis of data from the global network of gravitational wave observatories. Questions of how to optimally configure the global network arise in this context. We have elsewhere proposed a formalism which is employed here to compare different configurations of the network, using both the coincident network analysis method and the coherent network analysis method. We have constructed a network model to compute a figure-of-merit based on the detection rate for a population of standard-candle binary inspirals. We find that this measure of network quality is very sensitive to the geographic location of component detectors under a coincident network analysis, but comparatively insensitive under a coherent network analysis.
04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments
97.80.-d Binary and multiple stars
95.75.-z Observation and data reduction techniques; computer modeling and simulation
Issue 7 (7 April 2002)
Received 1 October 2001
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in final form 8 January 2002
Published 11 March 2002
A C Searle et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav. 19 1465
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