Detecting a non-Gaussian stochastic background of gravitational radiation

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.

2 pages, submitted to the Proceedings of the 9th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Rome, 2-8 July, 2000