Benefits of joint LIGO -- Virgo coincidence searches for burst and inspiral signals
arXiv:gr-qc/0509041 · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/32/1/032
Abstract
We examine the benefits of performing a joint LIGO--Virgo search for transient signals. We do this by adding burst and inspiral signals to 24 hours of simulated detector data. We find significant advantages to performing a joint coincidence analysis, above either a LIGO only or Virgo only search. These include an increased detection efficiency, at a fixed false alarm rate, to both burst and inspiral events and an ability to reconstruct the sky location of a signal.
11 pages 8 figures, Amaldi 6 proceedings