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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, gr-qc,Astrophysics, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO
Abstract:
We describe the implementation of a search for gravitational waves from
compact binary coalescences in LIGO and Virgo data. This all-sky, all-time,
multi-detector search for binary coalescence has been used to search data taken
in recent LIGO and Virgo runs. The search is built around a matched filter
analysis of the data, augmented by numerous signal consistency tests designed
to distinguish artifacts of non-Gaussian detector noise from potential
detections. We demonstrate the search performance using Gaussian noise and data
from the fifth LIGO science run and demonstrate that the signal consistency
tests are capable of mitigating the effect of non-Gaussian noise and providing
a sensitivity comparable to that achieved in Gaussian noise.
