Improved Binary Black Hole Search Discriminator from the Singular Value Decomposition of Non-Gaussian Noise Transients

Abstract

The sensitivity of current gravitational wave (GW) detectors to transient GW signals is severely affected by a variety of non-Gaussian and non-stationary noise transients, such as the blip, tomte, koi fish, and low-frequency blip 'glitches'. These glitches share some time-frequency resemblance with GW signals from binary black holes. In earlier works [Joshi et al., Phys. Rev. D 103, 044035 (2021); Choudhary et al., Phys. Rev. D 110, 044051 (2024)], the authors presented a method for constructing a ${\chi }^2$-distributed optimized statistic, based on the unified formalism of ${\chi }^2$ discriminators [Dhurandhar et al., Phys. Rev. D 96, 103018 (2017)], to distinguish the blip glitches from the compact binary coalescence (CBC) signals. Unlike past works, the new ${\chi }^2$ discriminator is constructed from the most significant singular vectors obtained from the singular value decomposition of different classes of glitches in real detector data. We find that the chi-square developed in this work performs as efficiently as in Choudhary et al. [Phys. Rev. D 110, 044051 (2024)], which used sine-Gaussian basis vectors. This result supports past empirical findings that these glitches are reasonably well-modeled by sine-Gaussians. It also introduces a method for constructing signal- and glitch-based ${\chi }^2$ discriminators by directly using real data containing the glitches and, thus, holds promise for extensions to glitches that are captured less well by sine-Gaussians or other analytical functions.

22 pages, 8 figures: Published in CQG

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