Documents ------------ This page collects the relevant documentation on the CWB pipeline and the analyses conducted with it. **Observational papers** - B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), *Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger*, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016): `link to PRL `__, `link to arXiv `__ - B.P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), *Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions*, Phys. Rev. D 93, 122004 (2016): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - J. Aasi et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), *Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run*, Phys. Rev. D 89, 122003 (2014): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - J. Abadie et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), *All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run*, Phys. Rev. D 85, 122007 (2012): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - J. Abadie et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), *Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes*, Phys. Rev. D 85, 102004 (2012): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - J. Abadie et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), *All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run*, Phys. Rev. D 81, 102001 (2010): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ **Methodological papers** - S. Klimenko, G. Vedovato, M. Drago, F. Salemi, V. Tiwari, G.A. Prodi, C. Lazzaro, K. Ackley, S. Tiwari, C.F. Da Silva, and G. Mitselmakher, *Method for detection and reconstruction of gravitational wave transients with networks of advanced detectors*, Phys. Rev. D 93, 042004 (2016): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - Vaibhav Tiwari et al., *Regression of Environmental Noise in LIGO Data*, arXiv e-prints (2015): `link to arXiv `__ - Reed Essick et al., *Localization of Short Duration Gravitational-wave Transients with the Early Advanced LIGO and Virgo Detectors*, arXiv e-prints (2014): `link to arXiv `__ - G. Mazzolo et al., *Prospects for intermediate mass black hole binary searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors*, arXiv e-prints (2014): `link to arXiv `__ - S. Klimenko and C.Pankow, *Detection statistic for multiple algorithms, networks and data sets*, LIGO document number T-1300869 (2013): `link to DCC `__ - V. Necula et al., *Transient analysis with fast Wilson-Daubechies time-frequency transform*, J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 363, 01203 (2012): `link to JPCS `__ - S. Klimenko et al., *Localization of gravitational wave sources with networks of advanced detectors*, Phys. Rev. D 83, 102001 (2011): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - S. Klimenko et al., *Coherent method for detection of gravitational wave bursts*, Class. Quantum Grav. 25, 114029 (2008): `link to CQG `__, `link to arXiv `__ - S. Klimenko et al., *Constraint Likelihood analysis for a network of gravitational wave detectors*, Phys. Rev. D 72, 122002 (2005): `link to PRD `__, `link to arXiv `__ - S. Klimenko and G. Mitselmakher, *A wavelet method for detection of gravitational wave bursts*, Class. Quantum Grav. 21 S1819-S1830 (2004): `link to CQG `__ **PhD theses** - G. Mazzolo, *Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries with networks of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors* (2013): `link to thesis `__ - C. Pankow, *Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass black hole binaries* (2011): `link to thesis `__ - M. Drago, *Search for transient gravitational wave signals with unknown waveform in the LIGO Virgo network of interferometric detectors using a fully coherent algorithm* (2010): :download:`download thesis ` **cWB algorithm: status and infrastructure** - `Measurement of the signal polarization with the network of ground-based gravitational wave detectors `__, The APS April Meeting held on 11 Apr 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland - `Reconstruction of chirp mass and eccentricity of an eccentric binary from its signature on the time-frequency map `__, The APS April Meeting held on 11 Apr 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland - `Waveform reconstruction with coherent WaveBurst algorithm `__, The APS April Meeting held on 11 Apr 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland - `Results of the eccentric binary search on the S5/S6-VSR1/2/3 data `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Pasadena (2015) - `cWB2G polarization constraintsnd Sky Localization `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Pasadena (2015) - `Report on the development of the CWB2G pipeline `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Hannover (2013) - `Coincise tutorial on how to perform an analysis with CWB `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Washington (2013) - `Overview of the CWB2G pipeline `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Washington (2013) - `A Rule of Thumb for the Detectability of Gravitational-Wave Bursts `__, Patrick J. Sutton (2013) - `features and tools of the CWB2G pipeline `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Rome (2012) - `Status of the CWB pipeline `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Rome (2012) - `Upper limits from counting experiments with multiple pipelines `__, Patrick J. Sutton (2010) **Review documents** - `cWB2G Review Page `__ (2014/2015) - `Review document of the CWB version used for the S6-VSR2 all-sky analysis `__ (2011) - `Review readiness presentation for the CWB version used for the S6-VSR2 all-sky analysis `__, LVC meeting, Arcadia (2010) - :download:`Review document of the CWB version used for the S5-VSR1 all-sky analysis ` (2007) **Technical documentation** - `List of presentations on the Virgo Wiki page `__ - S. Klimenko, :download:`Coherent Network Analysis `, Florida (2014) - G. Vedovato, :download:`Waveform and Position Reconstruction `, presentation at GWDAW14, Rome (2010) - M. Drago, :download:`Note on the CWB likelihood formalism ` (2009) - S. Klimenko et al., :download:`Note on version 4.7.0 of the CWB WAT library `, LIGO document number 080011-00-Z (2008) - R. A. Mercer and S. Klimenko, :download:`Note on the CWB Coherent Event Display ` (2008) - G.Vedovato, :download:`Application of bi-spectral techniques to Virgo Data ` (2008) - S. Klimenko, :download:`Detection and reconstruction of burst signals with networks of gravitational wave detectors `, seminar in Padova (2007) .. _regression-documents: **Regression** - Theory - :download:`Coincise description of the method ` - :download:`Extended description of the method ` (2014) - Presentations - M. Drago, `Impact of noise canceling by regression on searches for continous gravitational waves `__, presentation at GWPAW, Hannover (2012) - M. Drago, `Regression of Virgo data `__, Noise meeting (2012) - S. Klimenko, `Regression of LIGO noise `__, CW group meeting (2012) - S. Klimenko, `Regression of LIGO/Virgo data `__, Burst f2f, LVC meeting, Boston (2012) - M. Drago, `Regression of Virgo data `__, LVC meeting, Boston (2012)