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Article Dans Une Revue Classical and Quantum Gravity Année : 2011

Identification of long-duration noise transients in LIGO and Virgo

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The LIGO and Virgo detectors are sensitive to a variety of noise sources, such as instrumental artifacts and environmental disturbances. The Stochastic Transient Analysis Multi-detector Pipeline (STAMP) has been developed to search for long-duration (t$\gtrsim$1s) gravitational-wave (GW) signals. This pipeline can also be used to identify environmental noise transients. Here we present an algorithm to determine when long-duration noise sources couple into the interferometers, as well as identify what these noise sources are. We analyze the cross-power between a GW strain channel and an environmental sensor, using pattern recognition tools to identify statistically significant structure in cross-power time-frequency maps. We identify interferometer noise from airplanes, helicopters, thunderstorms and other sources. Examples from LIGO's sixth science run, S6, and Virgo's third scientific run, VSR3, are presented.

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hal-00695589 , version 1 (09-05-2012)

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M.W. Coughlin, François Bondu. Identification of long-duration noise transients in LIGO and Virgo. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2011, 28 (23), pp.235008. ⟨10.1088/0264-9381/28/23/235008⟩. ⟨hal-00695589⟩
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