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Searching for Gravitational Waves fromBinary Inspirals with LIGO
Duncan BrownUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
for theLIGO Scientific Collaboration
Inspiral Working Group
LIGO-G030671-00-Z
LIGO-G030671-00-Z LIGO Scientific Collaboration - Inspiral Working Group 2
S1 Binary Neutron Star Search Results
• B. Abbott et. al. “Analysis of LIGO Data for Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars” gr-qc/0308069, submitted to PRD
• Searched total of 236 hours of LIGO data» Used LHO 4k and LLO 4k single IFO and double coincident data
• Average sensitivity to an optimal 2 x 1.4 Msun binary at r = 8» LLO 4k: 176 kpc, LHO 4k: 46 kpc
• No double coincident inspiral signals were found
• Loudest event found at r = 15.9 in LLO 4k» Not an inspiral signal: due to a photodiode saturation in the interferometer
Upper Limit: R90% < 1.7 x 102
per year per MWEG
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S2 Analysis Goals
• Binary Neutron Star Search» Well modeled waveforms and known population» Detection search for non-spinning binaries» In absence of detection place upper limit on rate
• Binary Black Hole Search» Waveforms not well known, no population model» Search using waveforms from non-spinning BCV detection family» See talks by Cokelaer and Messaritaki
• Binary Black Hole MACHO search» Proposed population of ~ 0.5 Msun binaries in galactic halo» Well modeled waveforms and theoretical population» Detection search and upper limit on rate
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S2 Binary Search Pipeline
• LIGO interferometers recorded data from Feb 14 – Apr 14 2003 (S2)
• Apply Data Quality cuts to raw data to obtain science segments
• Only use coincident data (either double or triple)
• Perform a triggered search of the coincident data
• Apply instrumental vetoes to inspiral triggers
• Demand coincidence between triggers from different interferometers
• Use time slides to determine threshold for desired background rate (Brady)
• Measure pipeline efficiency and set upper limit if no detection is made
• Tune the pipeline on playground data and then run the search on full data set
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S2 Binary Inspiral Search Sensitivity
• Average sensitivity to optimally oriented 2 x 1.4 Msun neutron star binary at r = 8 in playground data:
» LLO 4k: 1.81 Mpc» LHO 4k: 0.90 Mpc» LHO 2k: 0.60 Mpc
• Sensitive to inspirals in» Milky Way» Magellanic Clouds» Andromeda» M33, M32, M110
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Data Quality Cuts
• Good IFO data flagged as science mode by operators during run
• Extra information used in deciding what data to analyze:
» Exclude photodiode saturations» Exclude data without calibration lines» Exclude data with invalid timing» Exclude times with excess noise in LHO 4k
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Binary Neutron Star Templates
• Search for inspiral signals with matched filtering» Templates: 2 pN stationary phase waveforms 1.0 < (m1,m2) < 3.0 Msun
» Generate bank for each chunk with maximum 3% loss in signal-to-noise
» Apply a low frequency cutoff of 100 Hz to data
» 15 x 256 sec data segments overlapped by 128 sec
» Median power spectral estimate using 15 segments
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Generation of Inspiral Triggers
• Resample data to 4096 Hz and high pass above 90 Hz
• Compute median PSD for 15 segments of length 256 sec
• Matched filter templates to obtain signal-to-noise ρ
• If SNR ρ > ρ* compute template based veto, 2
» Small values of 2 indicate that ρ was accumulated in a manner consistent with an inspiral signal: If 2 < 2
* then record trigger at maximum ρ
• Triggers are clustered within duration of each template
• Multiple templates can trigger at same time
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Instrumental Vetoes
• Construct vetoes to remove spurious inspiral triggers» Some inspiral triggers are due to “obvious” instrumental glitches» Look for explanation of spurious inspiral triggers in other channels
– Glitch monitors on auxiliary interferometer channels– Physical environment monitoring channels
Gravitational Wave Channel
Beam SplitterPick off
• Tune vetoes on playground then apply to inspiral triggers» See talk by Christensen and Shawhan
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Trigger Coincidence Test
• Look for coincident triggers» Present in all interferometers» Coincident to within 11 ms between sites, 1 ms at the same site» Coincident in both mass parameters
• L and H detectors are not co-aligned, so ratio of effective distance varies
• Cannot use an amplitude cut on coincident signals
• Could use arrival time of signals» Obtain information about sky position
from time delay between sites» Will not be used in S2
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Threshold Selection
• Time slide the data from one interferometer and look for coincidences between shifted and un-shifted interferometer
» Slide by longer than a chirp length» Any coincidences must be due to background, not events
• Pick signal-to-noise threshold, ρ* , so only get a coincident trigger 1 in 100 times
• Look for coincidence in un-shifted data» Any event above threshold has 99% chance of being an event
• Best result of search would be a detection!
• Follow up candidate events in other interferometer channels (auxiliary interferometer, PEM, etc.)
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Upper Limit on the Rate
• In absence of detection, construct an upper limit on event rate
• Simulate a population of binary neutron stars
• Inject signals from population into data from all three LIGO interferometers
» Inject in software» Validated by hardware injections (Fairhurst)
• Determine efficiency, e, for detection of simulated signals at threshold ρ*
» Efficiency e = Ndet / Ninj
• Rate ] ( e(ρ*) T )-1
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Playground Results: Pipeline Efficiency
e = 0.3044
Detected Milky Way Injections
Detected Andromeda Injections
Missed Andromeda Injections
(Too far away)
Average L1 Sensitivity
Average H1 Sensitivity
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Conclusions
• S1 result: R90% < 1.7 x 102 per year per MWEG
• S2 binary neutron start search is almost complete» Final results will be under internal LSC review in January
• Two other searches underway that are not yet mature:» Non-spinning binary black hole search
» Search for binary black holes MACHOs in the galactic halo