LIGO-G W Gregory Mendell and Mike Landry LIGO Hanford Observatory The StackSlide Search Summary: November 2003 LSC Meeting
LIGO-G W The StackSlide Search An incoherent search method that stacks and slides power to search for periodic sources. (P. Brady & T. Creighton Phys. Rev. D61 (2000) ; gr-qc/ ) The periodic search is computationally bound. A hierarchical approach that combines coherent & incoherent methods is needed to optimize sensitivity. Sources like LXMBs with short coherence times (~ 2 weeks) require incoherent methods. Want to add StackSlide to the incoherent toolbag along with Hough transforms. Mike Landry and I proposed that we write a stackslide DSO in June 2003.
LIGO-G W StackSlide ABCs Blocks A. Input Blocks of data B. Make StacksC. Slide and output Sum Bins with frequency domain data, e.g., from SFTs. PSDs or F-statistic from SFTs (from coherent methods) (incoherent step)
LIGO-G W Progress to Date Implemented SLIDING since last LSC We have working code that stack & slides PSDs from SFTs on a flat parameter space!
LIGO-G W StackSlide Basic Statistics For A 2 N < 2 Detection if: PDF for gaussian noise, normalized to mean of 1. One stack: (Ave M stacks) M = number of SFTs. If F-statistic P(x) = Cx 2M-1 e -Mx for mean F = 2. (N samples) For A 2 N > 2
LIGO-G W Study of E10 Injected Pulsar 0.
LIGO-G W Study of E10 Injected Pulsar 2.
LIGO-G W Study of E10 Injected Pulsar 3.
LIGO-G W Study of E10 Injected Pulsar 4.
LIGO-G W Big “to do” list still exists… Next major effort is to debug on simple test data and S2/E10/S3 injections. Need to add code that handles thresholds, parameter space metric, stacks F-statistic, runs in parallel, etc…. Need to decide on windowing/overlapping/oversampling of SFTs etc… SET UP PIPELINE THAT LEAD TO DETECTION OR UPPER LIMIT! Set preliminary upper limit on S2/S3 data on same parameter space as Hough code. Goal: