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Detection of gravitational wave bursts by interferometric detectors

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-12-30 v1

Abstract

We study in this paper some filters for the detection of burst-like signals in the data of interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. We present first two general (non-linear) filters with no {\it a priori} assumption on the waveforms to detect. A third filter, a peak correlator, is also introduced and permits to estimate the gain, when some prior information is known about the waveforms. We use the catalogue of supernova gravitational-wave signals built by Zwerger and M\"uller in order to have a benchmark of the performance of each filter and to compare to the performance of the optimal filter. The three filters could be a part of an on-line triggering in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, specialised in the selection of burst events.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9812015,
  title  = {Detection of gravitational wave bursts by interferometric detectors},
  author = {N. Arnaud and M. Davier and F. Cavalier and P. Hello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9812015},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 8 figures