Affiliation:
1. Department of Physics, University of Western Australia , Crawley WA 6009, Australia
2. OzGrav: The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational-wave Discovery , Australia
3. School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University , Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Gravitational waves from binary neutron star post-merger remnants have the potential to uncover the physics of the hot nuclear equation of state. These gravitational-wave signals are high frequency (∼kHz) and short-lived ($\mathcal {O}(10\, \mathrm{ms})$), which introduces potential problems for data analysis algorithms due to the presence of non-stationary and non-Gaussian noise artefacts in gravitational-wave observatories. We quantify the degree to which these noise features in LIGO data may affect our confidence in identifying post-merger gravitational-wave signals. We show that the combination of vetoing data with non-stationary glitches and the application of the Allen χ2 veto (usually reserved for long-lived lower frequency gravitational-wave signals), allows one to confidently detect post-merger signals with signal-to-noise ratio ρ ≳ 8. We discuss the need to incorporate the data quality checks and vetoes into realistic post-merger gravitational-wave searches, and describe their relevance to calculating realistic false-alarm and false-dismissal rates.
Funder
Australian Research Council
National Science Foundation
Swinburne University of Technology
Science and Technology Facilities Council
STFC
MPS
CNRS
INFN
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
MEXT
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
NRF
Ministry of Science and ICT
Academia Sinica
AS
National Science and Technology Council
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Space and Planetary Science,Astronomy and Astrophysics