Spectral line removal in the LIGO Data Analysis System (LDAS)

Antony C. Searle*, Susan M. Scott, David E. McClelland

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    Abstract

    High power in narrow frequency bands, spectral lines, are a feature of an interferometric gravitational wave detector's output. Some lines are coherent between interferometers, in particular, the 2 km and 4 km LIGO Hanford instruments. This is of concern to data analysis techniques, such as the stochastic background search, that use correlations between instruments to detect gravitational radiation. Several techniques of 'line removal' have been proposed. Where a line is attributable to a measurable environmental disturbance, a simple linear model may be fitted to predict, and subsequently subtract away, that line. This technique has been implemented (as the command oelslr) in the LIGO Data Analysis System (LDAS). We demonstrate its application to LIGO S1 data.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)S721-S730
    JournalClassical and Quantum Gravity
    Volume20
    Issue number17
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 7 Sept 2003

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