Detection of gravitational waves from coalescing binaries in the time domain
Milano L., Barone F., Milano M., CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, 14, 6, 1531-1536, 1997
ABSTRACT
We propose a multistep procedure for the on-line detection and analysis of gravitational wave signals emitted during the coalescence of compact binaries. This procedure, based on a hierarchical strategy, consists of a rough analysis of the gravitational wave signal using adaptive line enhancers (ALE) filters and the controlled random search (CRS) optimization algorithm Followed by a refined analysis using the classic matched-filtering technique. The results of simulations far the rough analysis are quite promising both for the relatively small computational power needed and for the robustness of the algorithms used, so that it could be very helpful far gravitational wave detection with very large baseline interferometric detectors like LIGO and VIRGO.