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CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/1/015005
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Time shifting the outputs of gravitational wave detectors operating in coincidence is a convenient way to estimate the background in a search for short-duration signals. However, this procedure is limited as increasing indefinitely the number of time shifts does not provide better estimates. We show that the false alarm rate estimation error saturates with the number of time shifts. In particular, for detectors with very different trigger rates, this error saturates at a large value. Explicit computations are done for two detectors, and for three detectors where the detection statistic relies on the logical 'OR' of the coincidences of the three couples in the network.
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