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Published September 21, 2008 | Published
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Gravitational wave detection using multiscale chirplets

Abstract

A generic 'chirp' of the form h(t) = A(t)cos phi(t) can be closely approximated by a connected set of multiscale chirplets with quadratically-evolving phase. The problem of finding the best approximation to a given signal using chirplets can be reduced to that of finding the path of minimum cost in a weighted, directed graph, and can be solved in polynomial time via dynamic programming. For a signal embedded in noise we apply constraints on the path length to obtain a statistic for detection of chirping signals in coloured noise. In this paper we present some results from using this test to detect binary black hole coalescences in simulated LIGO noise.

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Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2008. Received 28 March 2008, in final form 18 June 2008. Published 2 September 2008. Print publication: Issue 18 (21 September 2008). EC was partially supported by National Science Foundation grants DMS 01-40698 (FRG) and ITR ACI-0204932. We thank Warren Anderson for supplying his Maple code for simulating BBH coalescence. This paper has LIGO document number LIGO-P080017-00-Z.

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