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Deep searches for broadband extended gravitational-wave emission bursts by heterogeneous computing

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics 2017-08-08 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We present a heterogeneous search algorithm for broadband extended gravitational-wave emission (BEGE), expected from gamma-ray bursts and energetic core-collapse supernovae. It searches the (f,f˙)(f,\dot{f})-plane for long duration bursts by inner engines slowly exhausting their energy reservoir by matched filtering on a {\em Graphics Processor Unit} (GPU) over a template bank of millions of one-second duration chirps. Parseval's Theorem is used to predict the standard deviation σ\sigma of filter output, taking advantage of near-Gaussian noise in LIGO S6 data over 350-2000 Hz. Tails exceeding a mulitple of σ\sigma are communicated back to a {\em Central Processing Unit} (CPU). This algorithm attains about 65\% efficiency overall, normalized to the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). At about one million correlations per second over data segments of 16 s duration (N=216(N=2^{16} samples), better than real-time analysis is achieved on a cluster of about a dozen GPUs. We demonstrate its application to the capture of high frequency hardware LIGO injections. This algorithm serves as a starting point for deep all-sky searches in both archive data and real-time analysis in current observational runs.

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@article{arxiv.1708.01609,
  title  = {Deep searches for broadband extended gravitational-wave emission bursts by heterogeneous computing},
  author = {Maurice H. P. M. van Putten},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.01609},
  year   = {2017}
}

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to appear in Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (PTEP), 16p., 9 fig