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 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)
• 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, Coherent Network Analysis, Florida (2014)
• G. Vedovato, Waveform and Position Reconstruction, presentation at GWDAW14, Rome (2010)
• M. Drago, Note on the CWB likelihood formalism (2009)
• S. Klimenko et al., Note on version 4.7.0 of the CWB WAT library, LIGO document number 080011-00-Z (2008)
• R. A. Mercer and S. Klimenko, Note on the CWB Coherent Event Display (2008)
• G.Vedovato, Application of bi-spectral techniques to Virgo Data (2008)
• S. Klimenko, Detection and reconstruction of burst signals with networks of gravitational wave detectors, seminar in Padova (2007)

Regression

• Theory
  • Coincise description of the method
  • 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)
  • 13. 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)