A Bayesian coincidence test for noise rejection in a gravitational-wave burst search

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Cannon, Kipp C. [1 ]
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[1] CALTECH, LIGO Lab 1834, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
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10.1088/0264-9381/25/10/105024
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P1 [天文学];
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In searches for gravitational-wave bursts, a standard technique used to reject noise is to discard burst event candidates that are not seen in coincidence in multiple detectors. A coincidence test in which Bayesian inference is used to measure how noise-like a tuple of events appears is presented here. This technique is shown to yield higher detection efficiencies for a given false alarm rate than do techniques based on per-parameter thresholds when applied to a toy model covering a broad class of event candidate populations. Also presented is the real-world example of a use of the technique for noise rejection in a time-frequency burst search conducted on simulated gravitational-wave detector data. Besides achieving a higher detection efficiency, the technique is significantly less challenging to implement well than is a per-parameter threshold method.
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