Lopez, D., Gayathri, V., Pai, A., Heng, I. S. , Messenger, C. and Gupta, S. K. (2022) Utilizing Gaussian mixture models in all-sky searches for short-duration gravitational wave bursts. Physical Review D, 105(6), 063024. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.105.063024)
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Abstract
Coherent WaveBurst is a generic, multidetector gravitational wave burst search based on the excess power approach. The coherent WaveBurst algorithm currently employed in the all-sky short-duration gravitational wave burst search uses a conditional approach on selected attributes in the multidimensional event attribute space to distinguish between noisy events from that of astrophysical origin. We have been developing a supervised machine learning approach based on the Gaussian mixture modeling to model the attribute space for signals as well as noise events to enhance the probability of burst detection [Gayathri et al.Phys. Rev. D 102, 104023 (2020)]. We further extend the Gaussian mixture model approach to the all-sky short-duration coherent WaveBurst search as a postprocessing step on events from the first half of the third observing run (O3a). We show an improvement in sensitivity to generic gravitational wave burst signal morphologies as well as the astrophysical source such as core-collapse supernova models due to the application of our Gaussian mixture model approach to coherent WaveBurst triggers. The Gaussian mixture model method recovers the gravitational wave signals from massive compact binary coalescences identified by coherent WaveBurst targeted for binary black holes in GWTC-2, with better significance than the all-sky coherent WaveBurst search. No additional significant gravitational wave bursts are observed.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Messenger, Dr Christopher and Heng, Professor Ik Siong |
| Authors: | Lopez, D., Gayathri, V., Pai, A., Heng, I. S., Messenger, C., and Gupta, S. K. |
| College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy |
| Research Centre: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research |
| Journal Name: | Physical Review D |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| ISSN: | 2470-0010 |
| ISSN (Online): | 2470-0029 |
| Published Online: | 28 March 2022 |
| Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2022 American Physical Society |
| First Published: | First published in Physical Review D 105(6): 063024 |
| Publisher Policy: | Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy |
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