Testing the LIGO Inspiral Analysis with Hardware Injections
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Injection of simulated binary inspiral signals into detector hardware provides an excellent test of the inspiral detection pipeline. By recovering the physical parameters of an injected signal, we test our understanding of both instrumental calibration and the data analysis pipeline. We describe an inspiral search code and results from hardware injection tests and demonstrate that injected signals can be recovered by the data analysis pipeline. The parameters of the recovered signals match those of the injected signals. PACS numbers: 04.80.Nn, 07.05.Kf, 97.80.–d, 01.30.Cc E-mail: [email protected] LIGO Inspiral Hardware Injections 2
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