Paper

Application of a Zero-latency Whitening Filter to Compact Binary Coalescence Gravitational-wave Searches

Messick, Cody, Tsukada, Leo, Keppel, Drew, Meacher, Duncan, Cannon, Kipp, Hanna, Chad

2017

Overview

Joint electromagnetic and gravitational-wave (GW) observation is a major goal of both the GW astronomy and electromagnetic astronomy communities for the coming decade. One way to accomplish this goal is to direct follow-up of GW candidates. Prompt electromagnetic emission may fade quickly, therefore it is desirable to have GW detection happen as quickly as possible. A leading source of latency in GW detection is the whitening of the data. We examine the performance of a zero-latency whitening filter in a detection pipeline for compact binary coalescence (CBC) GW signals. We find that the filter reproduces signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) sufficiently consistent with the results of the original high-latency and phase-preserving filter for both noise and artificial GW signals (called \"injections\"). Additionally, we demonstrate that these two whitening filters show excellent agreement in \\(\\chi^2\\) value, a discriminator for GW signals.

• Publisher: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
• Subject: Astronomy / Binary stars / Coalescing / Gravitation / Gravitational waves