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Scribe: Eric Chassande-Mottin
Dr
Chad Finley
(UW Madison)
20/05/2009 09:30
I will review the triggers, event reconstructions, background rejection and analysis techniques in IceCube, and what they mean for HEN+GW coincidence searches. I will also describe near-term developments in IceCube which may significantly extend the reach of these searches.
Dr
Patrick Sutton
(Cardiff University)
20/05/2009 10:00
I will review the methods used in "externally triggered" searches for
gravitational wave transients. These are scenarios in which we search for a
gravitational wave associated with an event detected by an external
observatory, such as a gamma-ray burst (GRB), an optical supernova, or a
pulsar glitch. Particular emphasis will be placed on methods used in
GRB-triggered analyses, and...
Dr
Eric Thrane
(University of Minnesota)
20/05/2009 10:45
Searches for gravitational waves traditionally fall into one of four categories: sub-second bursts, inspirals, pulsars, and stochastic. Inspiral and pulsar searches tend to look for signals with highly constrained waveforms whereas burst and stochastic searches are typically more flexible. Intermediate-duration transients (lasting from a few seconds to a few weeks) represent a largely...
M.
Imre Bartos
(Columbia University)
20/05/2009 11:15
Cataclysmic cosmic events, e.g. gamma ray bursts (GRBs), can be plausible sources of both gravitational waves (GWs) and high-energy neutrinos (HENs). Identifying correlations between GW and HEN detection channels shall enable new searches, as one has significant additional information about the common source. Beyond the benefit of a potential discovery, coincident detection of GW and HEN...
