This article reports on a project that is the first step the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have taken to prepare for the mutual search for inspiral signals. The project involved comparing the analysis pipelines of the two collaborations on data sets prepared by both sides, containing simulated noise and injected events. The ability of the pipelines to detect the injected events was checked, and a first comparison of how the parameters of the events were recovered has been completed.
@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0504050,
title = {A First Comparison Between LIGO and Virgo Inspiral Search Pipelines},
author = {L. Blackburn and F. Beauville and M. -A. Bizouard and L. Bosi and P. Brady and L. Brocco and D. Brown and D. Buskulic and S. Chatterji and N. Christensen and A. -C. Clapson and S. Fairhurst and D. Grosjean and G. Guidi and P. Hello and E. Katsavounidis and M. Knight and A. Lazzarini and F. Marion and B. Mours and F. Ricci and A. Vicere' and M. Zanolin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0504050},
year = {2007}
}