Likelihood-ratio ranking of gravitational-wave candidates in a non-Gaussian background

Rahul Biswas, Patrick R. Brady, Jordi Burguet-Castell, Kipp Cannon, Jessica Clayton, Alexander Dietz, Nickolas Fotopoulos, Lisa M. Goggin, Drew Keppel, Chris Pankow, Larry R. Price, and Ruslan Vaulin University of Texas-Brownsville, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H8, Canada The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA LIGO California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 USA Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany LIGO Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA (Received 20 February 2012; published 25 June 2012)