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IGEC toolbox for coincidence search

2002; IOP Publishing; Volume: 19; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/342

1361-6382

Lucio Baggio, M. Cerdonio, I. S. Heng, A. Ortolan, G. A. Prodi, Emanuele Rocco, G. Vedovato, S. Vitale,

Geophysics and Gravity Measurements

The standard IGEC approach to detection of gravitational waves with many detectors is a simple time coincidence search. We discuss the problems of false alarm and false dismissal assessment, in the case of both stationary and non-stationary noise. The significance of any cumulative excess of found coincidences over the background is determined by maximum likelihood methods.