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Published June 7, 2010 | public
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Gravitational-wave data analysis overview of compact binary searches using waveforms inspired by numerical relativity

Hanna, Chad

Abstract

Binary black holes with total masses between ~20 and 200 M_⊙ require numerical relativity to describe the detectable signal in ground-based, gravitational-wave detectors. The time–frequency properties of the signals suggest that both modeled, matched filter searches and unmodeled, burst searches can expect to detect high mass binary signals. This paper presents a comparison of a matched filter pipeline and two unmodeled burst pipelines on the inspiral, merger and ring-down phases of compact binary coalescence by evaluating the sensitivity to binaries with total masses between 25 and 100 M_⊙ at a fixed false alarm rate. All three algorithms provided an average range of ~250 Mpc for a 50,50 M_⊙ binary at 10^(−7) Hz false alarm rate.

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© 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 29 November 2009, in final form 24 January 2010 Published 10 May 2010. C Hanna would like to thank the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics for hosting a visit where part of this manuscript was written. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educaci´on y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaci´o of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation.

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