Separating Gravitational Wave Signals from Instrument Artifacts

Details Separating Gravitational Wave Signals from Instrument Artifacts Separating Gravitational Wave Signals from Instrument Artifacts

2010-08-09

arxiv.org/abs/1008.1577v1

Phys.Rev.D82:103007,2010

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

21 pages, 18 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.82.103007

Central to the gravitational wave detection problem is the challenge of separating features in the data produced by astrophysical sources from features produced by the detector. Matched filtering provides an optimal solution for Gaussian noise, but in practice, transient noise excursions or ``glitches'' complicate the analysis. Detector diagnostics and coincidence tests can be used to veto many glitches which may otherwise be misinterpreted as gravitational wave signals. The glitches that remain can lead to long tails in the matched filter search statistics and drive up the detection threshold. Here we describe a Bayesian approach that incorporates a more realistic model for the instrument noise allowing for fluctuating noise levels that vary independently across frequency bands, and deterministic ``glitch fitting'' using wavelets as ``glitch templates'', the number of which is determined by a trans-dimensional Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. We demonstrate the method's effectiveness on simulated data containing low amplitude gravitational wave signals from inspiraling binary black hole systems, and simulated non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise comprised of a Gaussian component with the standard LIGO/Virgo spectrum, and injected glitches of various amplitude, prevalence, and variety. Glitch fitting allows us to detect significantly weaker signals than standard techniques.

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