Stochastic Sources Upper Limit Group

Links to current information

Mail list:

• Stochastic Mailing List Archive (password protected)
• Stochastic Mailing List Subscription

Electronic Logs:

• LIGO Stochastic Background Search ilog
• ALLEGRO Data Analysis ELOG
• LIGO-Virgo Joint Working Group Notebook
• Hanford Detector ilog
• Livingston Detector ilog

Meetings

Review Pages (password protected)

Archival Information

Everything below this line may be out of date

Group members

Analyses: (password protected)

• S5 Online Analysis
• E7 analyses
• Analyses for S1 and beyond (in the LIGO Stochastic Background Search ELOG)

Documents:

• Proposal to LSC
• Burst/Stochastic MDC Document
• E7 report (password protected)
• Detecting a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Radiation - Background Information (generated from CVS; password protected)
• S1 paper: LIGO-P030009-A (password protected)
• S1 paper: LIGO-P030009-B (password protected)
• S1 paper: LIGO-P030009-C (password protected)
• S1 paper: LIGO-P030009-D (password protected)
• S1 paper: LIGO-P030009-E (password protected)

Presentations:

• E7 status report (5 July 2002; password protected)
• Proceeding for SPIE conference (August 2002): pdf (without figs), ps (with figs)
• Prospects for S1 (20 September 2002; password protected)
• S1 Preliminary Report (4 December 2002; password protected)
• APS Presentation (pdf) (6 April 2003; password protected)
• APS Presentation (ppt) (6 April 2003; password protected)
• GWDAW-8 status talk (pdf) (19 December 2003; password protected)

Papers, preprints, notes, etc:

• Rai Weiss's notes regarding the LSC upper limit groups
• Proposal Review Guidelines
• "Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with LIGO" (S4 paper preprint)
• "A technique for modulating the experimental signature of a cosmic gravitational wave background," by A. Lazzarini and L.S. Finn
• "Detecting a stochastic background of gravitational radiation: Signal processing strategies and sensitivities," by B. Allen and J.D. Romano
• "The stochastic gravity-wave background: sources and detection," by B. Allen
• "Automatic cross-talk removal from multi-channel data," by B. Allen, W. Hua, A.C. Ottewill
• "Observational Limit on Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars in the Galaxy," by B. Allen et al.
• "Issues in gravitational wave data analysis," by L.S. Finn
• "A Unified Approach to the Classical Statistical Analysis of Small Signals," by G.J. Feldman and R.D. Cousins
• Proceedings from the January 2000 CERN workshop on confidence limits

Links:

• LIGO Home Page
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) Home Page
• LIGO Data Analysis System (LDAS)
• LSC Astrophysical Source Indentification and Signatures (ASIS) Working Group
• LSC Detector Characterization Working Group
• LIGO/LSC Algorithm Library (LAL) Home Page
• lal and lalapps CVS repository
• lalwrapper and dsotest CVS repository