F Beauville et al 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S1293 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/22/18/S43
F Beauville1, M-A Bizouard2, L Blackburn3, L Bosi4, P Brady5, L Brocco6, D Brown5,7, D Buskulic1, S Chatterji7, N Christensen8, A-C Clapson2, S Fairhurst5, D Grosjean1, G Guidi9,10, P Hello2, E Katsavounidis3, M Knight8, A Lazzarini7, F Marion1, B Mours1, F Ricci6, A Viceré9,10 and M Zanolin3 (The Joint LIGO/Virgo Working Group)
Show affiliationsWe present a comparative study of six search methods for gravitational wave bursts using simulated LIGO and Virgo noise data. The simulated data were generated according to the design sensitivity of the two 4 km LIGO interferometers and the 3 km Virgo interferometer. The searches were applied on replicas of the data sets to which eight different signals were injected. Three figures of merit were employed in this analysis: (a) receiver operator characteristic curves, (b) necessary signal-to-noise ratios for the searches to achieve 50% and 90% efficiencies and (c) variance and bias for the estimation of the arrival time of a gravitational wave burst.
04.80.-y Experimental studies of gravity
07.05.Kf Data analysis: algorithms and implementation; data management
Issue 18 (21 September 2005)
Received 13 April 2005, in final form 15 June 2005
Published 6 September 2005
F Beauville et al 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S1293
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