Optimal combination of signals from co-located gravitational wave interferometers for use in searches for a stochastic background

Details Optimal combination of signals from co-located gravitational wave interferometers for use in searches for a stochastic background Optimal combination of signals from co-located gravitational wave interferometers for use in searches for a stochastic background

2004-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0403093v3

Phys.Rev.D70:062001,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Physical Review D Resubmitted after editing paper in response to referee comments. Removed a

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.70.062001

This article derives an optimal (i.e., unbiased, minimum variance) estimator for the pseudo-detector strain for a pair of co-located gravitational wave interferometers (such as the pair of LIGO interferometers at its Hanford Observatory), allowing for possible instrumental correlations between the two detectors. The technique is robust and does not involve any assumptions or approximations regarding the relative strength of gravitational wave signals in the detector pair with respect to other sources of correlated instrumental or environmental noise. An expression is given for the effective power spectral density of the combined noise in the pseudo-detector. This can then be introduced into the standard optimal Wiener filter used to cross-correlate detector data streams in order to obtain an optimal estimate of the stochastic gravitational wave background. In addition, a dual to the optimal estimate of strain is derived. This dual is constructed to contain no gravitational wave signature and can thus be used as on "off-source" measurement to test algorithms used in the "on-source" observation.

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