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Plans for the LIGO–TAMA joint search for gravitational wave bursts

Patrick J Sutton1, Masaki Ando2, Patrick Brady3, Laura Cadonati4, Alessandra Di Credico5, Stephen Fairhurst3, Lee Samuel Finn6, Nobuyuki Kanda7, Erik Katsavounidis4, Sergey Klimenko8, Albert Lazzarini1, Szabolcs Marka1, John W C McNabb6, Saikat Ray Majumder3, Peter R Saulson5, Hideyuki Tagoshi9, Hirotaka Takahashi9,10,11, Ryutaro Takahashi12, Daisuke Tatsumi12, Yoshiki Tsunesada12 and S E Whitcomb1

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We describe the plans for a joint search for unmodelled gravitational wave bursts being carried out by the LIGO and TAMA Collaborations using data collected during February–April 2003. We take a conservative approach to detection, requiring candidate gravitational wave bursts to be seen in coincidence by all four interferometers. We focus on some of the complications of performing this coincidence analysis, in particular the effects of the different alignments and noise spectra of the interferometers.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

95.55.Ym Gravitational radiation detectors; mass spectrometers; and other instrumentation and techniques

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 20 (21 October 2004)

Received 19 April 2004

Published 30 September 2004



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