Exploiting Large-Scale Correlations to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves

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  • Holger J. Pletsch
  • Bruce Allen

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Externe Organisationen

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer181102
Seitenumfang4
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang103
Ausgabenummer18
Frühes Online-Datum27 Okt. 2009
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 30 Okt. 2009

Abstract

Fully coherent searches (over realistic ranges of parameter space and year-long observation times) for unknown sources of continuous gravitational waves are computationally prohibitive. Less expensive hierarchical searches divide the data into shorter segments which are analyzed coherently, then detection statistics from different segments are combined incoherently. The novel method presented here solves the long-standing problem of how best to do the incoherent combination. The optimal solution exploits large-scale parameter-space correlations in the coherent detection statistic. Application to simulated data shows dramatic sensitivity improvements compared with previously available (ad hoc) methods, increasing the spatial volume probed by more than 2 orders of magnitude at lower computational cost.

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Exploiting Large-Scale Correlations to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves. / Pletsch, Holger J.; Allen, Bruce.
in: Physical review letters, Jahrgang 103, Nr. 18, 181102, 30.10.2009.

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Pletsch HJ, Allen B. Exploiting Large-Scale Correlations to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves. Physical review letters. 2009 Okt 30;103(18):181102. Epub 2009 Okt 27. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.0906.0023, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.181102
Pletsch, Holger J. ; Allen, Bruce. / Exploiting Large-Scale Correlations to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves. in: Physical review letters. 2009 ; Jahrgang 103, Nr. 18.
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