Detecting compact binary coalescences with seedless clustering
- Creators
- Coughlin, M.
- Thrane, E.
- Christensen, N.
Abstract
Compact binary coalescences are a promising source of gravitational waves for second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Although matched filtering is the optimal search method for well-modeled systems, alternative detection strategies can be used to guard against theoretical errors (e.g., involving new physics and/or assumptions about spin or eccentricity) while providing a measure of redundancy. In a previous paper, we showed how "seedless clustering" can be used to detect long-lived gravitational-wave transients in both targeted and all-sky searches. In this paper, we apply seedless clustering to the problem of low-mass (M_total≤10M_⊙) compact binary coalescences for both spinning and eccentric systems. We show that seedless clustering provides a robust and computationally efficient method for detecting low-mass compact binaries.
Additional Information
© 2014 American Physical Society. Published 14 October 2014; received 4 August 2014. M. C. is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, under NSF Grant No. DGE 1144152. E. T. is a member of the LIGO Laboratory, supported by funding from the United States National Science Foundation. N. C.'s work was supported by NSF Grant No. PHY-1204371. LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation and operates under Cooperative Agreement No. PHY-0757058. We would like to thank Thomas Dent and John Whelan for very useful comments on the paper. This paper has been assigned LIGO document number P1400110-v5.Attached Files
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- 52388
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20141204-112721364
- DGE-1144152
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- PHY-1204371
- NSF
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2014-12-04Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- LIGO document
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- P1400110-v5