Detection methods for non-Gaussian gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds

Details Detection methods for non-Gaussian gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds Detection methods for non-Gaussian gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds

2002-10-10

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0210032v2

Phys.Rev. D67 (2003) 082003

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

25 pages, 12 figures, submitted to physical review D, added revisions in response to reviewers comments

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.67.082003

We address the issue of finding an optimal detection method for a discontinuous or intermittent gravitational wave stochastic background. Such a signal might sound something like popcorn popping. We derive an appropriate version of the maximum likelihood detection statistic, and compare its performance to that of the standard cross-correlation statistic both analytically and with Monte Carlo simulations. The maximum likelihood statistic performs better than the cross-correlation statistic when the background is sufficiently non-Gaussian. For both ground and space based detectors, this results in a gain factor, ranging roughly from 1 to 3, in the minimum gravitational-wave energy density necessary for detection, depending on the duty cycle of the background. Our analysis is exploratory, as we assume that the time structure of the events cannot be resolved, and we assume white, Gaussian noise in two collocated, aligned detectors. Before this detection method can be used in practice with real detector data, further work is required to generalize our analysis to accommodate separated, misaligned detectors with realistic, colored, non-Gaussian noise.

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