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First joint gravitational wave search by the AURIGA–EXPLORER–NAUTILUS–Virgo Collaboration

F Acernese1, M Alshourbagy2, P Amico3, F Antonucci4, S Aoudia5, P Astone4, S Avino1, D Babusci6, L Baggio7,31, G Ballardin8, F Barone1, L Barsotti2, M Barsuglia9, M Bassan10, Th S Bauer11, M Bignotto12,13, S Bigotta2, S Birindelli2, M A Bizouard9, C Boccara1, M Bonaldi14,15, F Bondu5, L Bosi3, S Braccini2, C Bradaschia2, A Brillet5, V Brisson9, D Buskulic7, G Cagnoli16, E Calloni1, M Camarda17, E Campagna16, F Carbognani8, P Carelli10, F Cavalier9, R Cavalieri8, G Cavallari18, G Cella2, M Cerdonio12,13, E Cesarini16, E Chassande-Mottin5, A Chincarini19, A-C Clapson9, F Cleva5, E Coccia10, L Conti12,13, C Corda2, A Corsi4, F Cottone3, J-P Coulon5, E Cuoco8, S D'Antonio10, A Dari3, V Dattilo8, M Davier9, R De Rosa1, M Del Prete2, L Di Fiore9, A Di Lieto2, M Di Paolo Emilio10, A Di Virgilio2, M Drago12,13, F Dubath20, M Evans8, V Fafone10, P Falferi14,15, I Ferrante2, F Fidecaro2, I Fiori8, R Flaminio5, S Foffa20, P Fortini21,22, J-D Fournier2, S Frasca4, F Frasconi2, L Gammaitoni3, F Garufi1, G Gemme19, E Genin8, A Gennai2, A Giazotto8,2, G Giordano6, L Giordano1, V Granata7, C Greverie5, D Grosjean7, G Guidi16, S Hamdani8, S Hebri8, H Heitmann5, P Hello9, D Huet8, S Kreckelbergh9, P La Penna8, M Laval5, N Leroy9, N Letendre7, N Liguori12,13, S Longo23, B Lopez8, M Lorenzini16, V Loriette24, G Losurdo16, J-M Mackowski25, M Maggiore20, E Majorana4, C N Man5, M Mantovani2, F Marchesoni3, A Marini6, F Marion7, J Marque8, F Martelli16, A Masserot7, F Menzinger8, R Mezzena15,26, L Milano1, Y Minenkov10, A Mion15,26, I Modena10, G Modestino6, C Moins8, A Moleti10, J Moreau24, N Morgado25, S Mosca1, B Mours7, I Neri3, F Nocera8, A Ortolan23, G Pagliaroli10, G V Pallottino4, C Palomba4, F Paoletti8,2, S Pardi1, R Parodi19, A Pasqualetti8, R Passaquieti2, D Passuello2, G Piano Mortari10,27, F Piergiovanni16, L Pinard25, G Pizzella10, S Poggi28, R Poggiani2, G A Prodi15,26, M Punturo3, P Puppo4, L Quintieri6, P Rapagnani4, V Re15,26, T Regimbau5, A Remillieux25, F Ricci4, I Ricciardi1, A Rocchi10, L Rolland7, R Romano1, F Ronga6, P Ruggi8, G Russo1, F Salemi15,26, S Solimeno1, A Spallicci5, R Sturani20, L Taffarello13, M Tarallo2, R Terenzi10, A Toncelli2, M Tonelli2, G Torrioli4,29, E Tournefier7, F Travasso3, C Tremola2, R Vaccarone19, G Vajente2, G Vandoni18, G Vedovato12, J F J van der Brand11, S van der Putten11, D Verkindt7, F Vetrano16, A Viceré16, A Vinante14,15, J-Y Vinet5, M Visco10,30, S Vitale15,26, H Vocca3, M Yvert7 and J P Zendri13

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We present a methodology of network data analysis applied to the search for coincident burst excitations over a 24 h long data set collected by AURIGA, EXPLORER, NAUTILUS and Virgo detectors during September 2005. The search of candidate triggers was performed independently on each of the data sets from single detectors. We looked for two-fold time coincidences between these candidates using an algorithm optimized for a given population of sources and we calculated the efficiency of detection through injections of templated signal waveforms into the streams of data. To this end we have considered the case of signals shaped as damped sinusoids coming from the galactic center direction. Our method targets an optimal balance between high efficiency and low false alarm rate, aiming at setting confidence intervals as stringent as possible in terms of the rate of the selected source models.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

98.35.Jk Galactic center, bar, circumnuclear matter, and bulge (including black hole and distance measurements)

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

MSC

85A15 Galactic and stellar structure

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 20 (21 October 2008)

Received 16 November 2007, in final form 30 June 2008

Published 30 September 2008



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