Reconstructing the sky location of gravitational-wave detected compact binary systems: Methodology for testing and comparison

T. Sidery, B. Aylott, N. Christensen, B. Farr, W. Farr, F. Feroz, J. Gair, K. Grover, P. Graff, C. Hanna, V. Kalogera, I. Mandel, R. O’Shaughnessy, M. Pitkin, L. Price, V. Raymond, C. Röver, L. Singer, M. van der Sluys, R. J. E. Smith, A. Vecchio, J. Veitch, and S. Vitale School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, United Kingdom Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HA, United Kingdom NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53211, USA SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Callinsraßa 38, 30167 Hannover, Germany Department of Medical Statistics, University Medical Center, Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands Nikhef, Science Park 105, Amsterdam 1098 XG, The Netherlands Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 185 Albany Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA (Received 19 December 2013; published 18 April 2014)