Published October 7, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

A systematical veto by all monitor signals in a gravitational-wave detector

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-0033 (Japan)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Osaka 558-8585 (Japan)
  • 3. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, Albert-Einstein-Institut, Am Muehlenberg 1, D-14476 Golm bei Potsdam (Germany)

Description

We present the current state of veto studies in TAMA300 by monitor signals of the interferometer and its environment. In GW data analysis, fake GW events may bury real GW events or worse upper limits on the event rate. Thus, fake-event rejection is an important issue. In general, we can reject these fake events by the monitor signals, since these fake events are induced due to detector instabilities. However, using all monitor signals for the fake-event rejection would increase the accidental rejection probability and dead time without improving veto efficiency, since all monitor signals do not have correlations to the detector instabilities. Here, we analyze coincidences between the main and selected monitor signals with the optimal parameters for the fake-event rejection. Then, coincident events are rejected as the fake events. For the signal selection and parameter optimization, we systematically investigate the correlations with the detector instabilities. As a result, we achieved 30-99% veto efficiency using ten selected monitor signals with the 3.2% accidental rejection probability and 0.2% dead time

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/24/19/S04;
PII
S0264-9381(07)47248-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
19
Journal Page Range
p. S405-S413
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

Conference

Title
11. Gravitational wave data analysis workshop
Dates
18-21 Dec 2006
Place
Potsdam (Germany)

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39037092
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
CORRELATIONS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEAD TIME; EFFICIENCY; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; INSTABILITY; INTERFEROMETERS; MONITORS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNALS
Descriptors DEC
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; RADIATION DETECTORS; TIMING PROPERTIES

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Collaborations
TAMA Collaboration