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Detecting a non-Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational radiation

2001/01/15 by Steve Drasco, Eanna E. Flanagan
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc #astro-ph

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published as Proceedings of the Ninth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, edited by V.G. Gurzadyan, R.T. Jantzen and R. Ruffini,World Scientific, Singapore, p. 1913 (2002) · 2 pages, submitted to the Proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, 2-8 July, 2000

arxiv created 2001/01/15 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We derive a detection method for a stochastic background of gravitational waves produced by events where the ratio of the average time between events to the average duration of an event is large. Such a signal would sound something like popcorn popping. Our derivation is based on the somewhat unrealistic assumption that the duration of an event is smaller than the detector time resolution.

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