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Authors: Hideyuki Tagoshi, Himan Mukhopadhyay, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Norichika Sago, Hirotaka Takahashi, Nobuyuki Kanda

Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007

Abstract: We discuss the coherent search strategy to detect gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries by a network of correlated laser interferometric detectors. From the maximum likelihood ratio statistic, we obtain a coherent statistic which is slightly different from and generally better than what we obtained in our previous work. In the special case when the cross spectrum of two detectors normalized by the power spectrum density is constant, the new statistic agrees with the old one. The quantitative difference of the detection probability for a given false alarm rate is also evaluated in a simple case.

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