Benefits of joint LIGO -- Virgo coincidence searches for burst and inspiral signals
/ Authors
F. Beauville, M. Bizouard, L. Blackburn, L. Bosi, P. Brady, L. Brocco, D. Brown, D. Buskulic, F. Cavalier, S. Chatterji
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N. Christensen, A. Clapson, S. Fairhurst, D. Grosjean, G. Guidi, P. Hello, E. Katsavounidis, M. Knight, A. Lazzarini, N. Leroy, F. Marion, B. Mours, F. Ricci, A. Viceré, M. Zanolin
/ Abstract
We examine the benefits of performing a joint LIGO–Virgo search for transient signals. We do this by adding burst and inspiral signals to 24 hours of simulated detector data. We find significant advantages to performing a joint coincidence analysis, above either a LIGO only or Virgo only search. These include an increased detection efficiency, at a fixed false alarm rate, to both burst and inspiral events and an ability to reconstruct the sky location of a signal.