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How Many Templates for GW Chirp Detection? The Minimal-Match Issue Revisited

R. P. Croce, Th. Demma, M. Longo, S. Marano, V. Matta, V. Pierro, I. M. Pinto

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0404096

Abstract

In a recent paper dealing with maximum likelihood detection of gravitational wave chirps from coalescing binaries with unknown parameters we introduced an accurate representation of the no-signal cumulative distribution of the supremum of the whole correlator bank. This result can be used to derive a refined estimate of the number of templates yielding the best tradeoff between detector's performance (in terms of lost signals among those potentially detectable) and computational burden.

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