We introduce a fully-coherent method for searching for gravitational wave signals generated by the merger of black hole and/or neutron star binaries. This extends the coherent analysis previously developed and used for targeted gravitational wave searches to an all-sky, all-time search. We apply the search to one month of data taken during the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. We demonstrate an increase in sensitivity of 25% over the coincidence search, which is commensurate with expectations. Finally, we discuss prospects for implementing and running a coherent search for gravitational wave signals from binary coalescence in the advanced gravitational wave detector data.
@article{arxiv.1509.03426,
title = {A fully-coherent all-sky search for gravitational-waves from compact binary coalescences},
author = {D. M. Macleod and I. W. Harry and S. Fairhurst},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.03426},
year = {2016}
}