Using machine learning to autotune chi-squared tests for gravitational wave searches
| Autor: | Ian Harry, Connor McIsaac |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Physical Review D. 105 |
| ISSN: | 2470-0029 2470-0010 |
| DOI: | 10.1103/physrevd.105.104056 |
| Popis: | The sensitivity of gravitational wave searches is reduced by the presence of non-Gaussian noise in the detector data. These non-Gaussianities often match well with the template waveforms used in matched filter searches, and require signal-consistency tests to distinguish them from astrophysical signals. However, empirically tuning these tests for maximum efficacy is time consuming and limits the complexity of these tests. In this work we demonstrate a framework to use machine-learning techniques to automatically tune signal-consistency tests. We implement a new $\chi^2$ signal-consistency test targeting the large population of noise found in searches for intermediate mass black hole binaries, training the new test using the framework set out in this paper. We find that this method effectively trains a complex model to down-weight the noise, while leaving the signal population relatively unaffected. This improves the sensitivity of the search by $\sim 11\%$ for signals with masses $> 300 M_\odot$. In the future this framework could be used to implement new tests in any of the commonly used matched-filter search algorithms, further improving the sensitivity of our searches. Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures. Supplementary data: https://icg-gravwaves.github.io/chisqnet/ . Version accepted for publication in PRD. Various updates made during review process. Typos corrected |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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