2013/07/16 by Drew Keppel, Keppel, Drew
Physics and Astronomy · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #astro-ph.IM #gr-qc #physics.data-an
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1307.4158
10 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2013/07/16 · arxiv updated 2013/07/17
Using the family of multi-detector F-statistic metrics for short duration, nonprecessing inspiral signals, we derive a marginalized metric that is directly applicable to the problem of generating template banks for coincident and coherent multi-detector searches for gravitational-waves. This metric is compared to other average metrics, such as that proposed for the case of searches associated with continuous signals from rotating neutron stars. We show how the four-dimensional metric can be separated into two two-dimensional metrics associated with the sky and mass parameter subspaces, allowing the creation of separate template banks for these subspaces. Finally, we present an algorithm for computing the mass space metric associated with both coincident and coherent multi-detector targeted or all-sky searches for short duration, nonprecessing inspiral gravitational-wave signals.