Power filters for gravitational wave bursts: network operation for source position estimation

TL;DR

This paper introduces a generalized power detection method for gravitational wave bursts that processes data from multiple interferometers to improve source position estimation, validated through numerical simulations.

Contribution

It extends existing power detectors to a network setting, enhancing the accuracy of gravitational wave source localization.

Findings

Method effectively estimates source position in simulated data.

Network processing improves detection sensitivity.

Numerical simulations confirm the method's viability.

Abstract

A method is presented to generalize the power detectors for short bursts of gravitational waves that have been developed for single interferometers so that they can optimally process data from a network of interferometers. The performances of this method for the estimation of the position of the source are studied using numerical simulations.