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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 181102 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| Early online date | 27 Oct 2009 |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Oct 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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- Physics and Astronomy(all)
- General Physics and Astronomy
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In: Physical review letters, Vol. 103, No. 18, 181102, 30.10.2009.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploiting Large-Scale Correlations to Detect Continuous Gravitational Waves
AU - Pletsch, Holger J.
AU - Allen, Bruce
PY - 2009/10/30
Y1 - 2009/10/30
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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DO - 10.48550/arXiv.0906.0023
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JO - Physical review letters
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