Benefits of joint LIGO -- Virgo coincidence searches for burst and inspiral signals

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.

arXiv comment11 pages 8 figures, Amaldi 6 proceedings

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