An excess power statistic for detection of burst sources of gravitational radiation

Details An excess power statistic for detection of burst sources of gravitational radiation An excess power statistic for detection of burst sources of gravitational radiation

2000-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0008066v1

Phys.Rev.D63:042003,2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

22 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.63.042003

We examine the properties of an excess power method to detect gravitational waves in interferometric detector data. This method is designed to detect short-duration (< 0.5 s) burst signals of unknown waveform, such as those from supernovae or black hole mergers. If only the bursts' duration and frequency band are known, the method is an optimal detection strategy in both Bayesian and frequentist senses. It consists of summing the data power over the known time interval and frequency band of the burst. If the detector noise is stationary and Gaussian, this sum is distributed as a chi-squared (non-central chi-squared) deviate in the absence (presence) of a signal. One can use these distributions to compute frequentist detection thresholds for the measured power. We derive the method from Bayesian analyses and show how to compute Bayesian thresholds. More generically, when only upper and/or lower bounds on the bursts duration and frequency band are known, one must search for excess power in all concordant durations and bands. Two search schemes are presented and their computational efficiencies are compared. We find that given reasonable constraints on the effective duration and bandwidth of signals, the excess power search can be performed on a single workstation. Furthermore, the method can be almost as efficient as matched filtering when a large template bank is required. Finally, we derive generalizations of the method to a network of several interferometers under the assumption of Gaussian noise.

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