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BURST SOURCES

Burst group Progress Reports and informal notes through May 2004

For Progress Reports and informal notes since May 2004, see
  • Burst working group S2 e-notebook
  • Burst working group S3 e-notebook

  • LIGO SNEWS (SuperNova Early Warning System) proposal, S. Marka et al, v 3.0 (8/00)
  • Notes on Burst Working Group tasks, Sam Finn, 10/00
  • Thoughts on Burst Working Group Task, Alan Weinstein, 12/14/00 (pdf).
  • Burst working group proposal, Final draft 2/19/01 (LIGO-T010014-00-Z).
  • Gantt chart of Burst UL working group Work Schedule, Finn, 2/22/01
  • Little note on LIGO antenna pattern, AJW, 4/1/01.
  • Progress report on simulation development, AJW, 4/3/01.
  • Burst Detector Characterization call for interest, Shoemaker, 4/13/01.
  • Thoughts on calibrating the burst upper limit effort, Peter Saulson, 4/20/01.
  • Notes on LIGO IFO calibration , AJW, 4/22/01.
  • Toy Monte Carlo taken through the whole analysis procedure, AJW, 4/22/01.
  • Calibration of bursts in LIGO E2 data, AJW, 4/25/01.
  • Draft proposal for work plan for Burst Upper Limits Working Group, AJW, 6/1/01.
  • Data Pipeline Design and test, PRS and AJW, 6/20/01.
  • TID transient ID filter for DMT, and report presented to GWDAW2000, from Julien Sylvestre (7/01).
  • A first design draft of an event analysis tool (for vetos, coincidences, etc), Daniel Sigg (7/5/01).
  • Models for unmodeled astrophysical waveforms, AJW, 7/16/01.
  • a library of general purpose wavelet routines , Erik Katsavounidis (7/26/01).
  • BURST MDC "Mock Data"
  • Simulation of Burst Waveforms and Burst Event Triggers, LIGO-G010326-00-R, AJW, talk given at Burst WG meeting, LSC meeting, 8/13/01.
  • BURST MDC (9/01) report (UWM cvs archive)
  • Burst Test Plan (AJW, Finn, 9/28/01) in doc or pdf
  • Suggested Channels For "Deep Mine" Investigations from Robert Schofield
  • Ed Daw on the Slope DSO, Presentation at the Science Interpretation Summit, U Maryland, 12/7/01
  • Julien Sylvestre on the tfclusters DSO, Presentation at the Science Interpretation Summit, U Maryland, 12/7/01
  • Patrick Brady on the Excess Power DSO, Presentation at the Science Interpretation Summit, U Maryland, 12/7/01
  • Tod Strohmayer on "super bursts" from neutron stars, Presentation at the Science Interpretation Summit, U Maryland, 12/7/01
  • Sam Finn's notes on the summit, Presentation at the Science Interpretation Summit, U Maryland, 12/7/01
  • BURST-STOCHASTIC MDC report (pdf, as of 12/7/01)
  • preliminary set of documentation for the slope detector library, Ed Daw (12/11/01)
  • LIGO E7 Web page.
  • Plot of Strain sensitivities of LIGO interferometers during E7, M. Landry, LHO eLog, 1/11/02.
  • PSU eNotes on Bursts, Filters, etc
  • Burst DSO and DMT Investigations during LIGO's E7, Erik Katsavounidis, 1/12/02.
  • E7 locked segments and Playground Data, Gaby Gonzalez, 1/29/02, and Summary of E7 locked segments, Gaby Gonzalez, 1/15/02.
  • Draft of plan for study of DSO filter efficiency using simulated bursts, AJW (1/15/02)
  • Event Tool Quick Start, Ito and Sigg, 1/22/02; Event Tool source code documentation; and and build instructions, Rahkola, 2/12/02.
  • TFCLUSTERS scripts, logs, etc for E7, Sylvestre, 1/14/02 (password required)
  • POWER scripts, logs, etc for E7, Brady, 1/14/02
  • Draft 0 of "Gravitational Wave Search Using GRB triggers", V. Kalogera, 1/28/02
  • Burst Working Group status report for "E7 Lessons Learned", AJW, 2/11/02.
  • Progress report on Burst simulation, AJW (2/12/02) and tcl command used to submit multiple LDAS jobs.
  • Draft outline of Technical Note for E7 "Instrumental" burst search, Saulson, 2/12/02.
  • final channel list for the E7 RDS (I. Leonor, 2/26/02)
  • Searching for Bursts: Algorithms, Vetoes, Upper Limits, Julien Sylvestre, 3/13/02.
  • Example of an LDAS job status page (just an idea), AJW, 3/23/02.
  • "Instrumental" Interpretation of the Burst Search, Peter Saulson, LSC, 3/02.
  • End-of-Meeting Report to the LSC For the Burst Group, Peter Saulson, LSC, 3/02.
  • PSL Glitches, Peter Saulson, LSC, 3/02.
  • Automated Classification of Bursts with LIGO E7 Data, Mukherjee, Soma, LSC, 3/20/02.
  • Progress on Burst Simulation, AJW, LSC, 3/20/02.
  • Discussion of Statistical Methods, Tools, and Simulations, AJW, LSC, 3/20/02.
  • flow chart on how vetoes will be integrated, Erik Katsavounidis, 4/9/02.
  • Status of simulations, AJW, 4/23/02.
  • "Knobs" in the Instrumental Burst Search Interpretation, Peter Saulson, LSC, 4/02.
  • Veto search activity status, Laura Cadonati & Stefan Ballmer, 4/19/02.
  • Burst Analysis Flowchart from Ed Daw, 4/25/02.
  • MIT Group Burst Analysis Web Page.
  • E7 Burst Search Status Report to the LSC, Peter Saulson, 6/21/02.
  • Proposal for burst injections during S1, Alan Weinstein, 6/22/02.
  • Draft report on Burst E7 pipeline from Laura Cadonati et al (7/16/02), and pdf version.
  • Report on Signal injections in E7 Playground and evaluation of dso efficiency; from Laura Cadonati et al (7/16/02).
  • WaveMon documentation, Plots and some results for E7 playground data, and WaveMon VETO for L1 and H2 E7 playground data, from Sergey Klimenko (7/18/02).
  • Upper Limits for Galactic Transient Sources of Gravitational Radiation from LIGO First Observations, Julien Sylvestre's PhD thesis (MIT, 6/02) (pdf, x MB).
  • burst, inspiral, and stochastic group reports to the LSC on E7 analysis.
  • Masaki Ando's talks at SPIE'02 on TAMA burst analysis: r020830.ppt, r020830.pdf, spie2002.ppt.
  • S1 Burst Tasks "bulleted lists".
  • S1 playground data segments list and S1 playground data plot(eps) and S1 playground data Zglitch rate plot(eps).
  • S1 burst group goals, for 9/20/02 LSC telecon.
  • Scripts for running DSOs: Note that these are continually being developed; you may find that the next time you click on a link, you get a different script!
    Scripts for S1 online running: burstloop.tcl is the main driver script, and dsoprocs.tcl contains all the bits and pieces.
    Scripts for simulations: burstprod.tcl contains all the code for submitting sets of simulation jobs, driven by a joblist file constructed using makejoblist.tcl.
  • First Science Run at Livingston LIGO Observatory: Data calibration and stability, talk by Gaby Gonzalez, 10/29/02.
  • More on calibration from Gaby, here.
  • Note on Burst network analysis by A. Weinstein, 10/29/02.
  • Working documents for S1 analysis:
  • LIGO seminar on Burst search, A. Weinstein, 11/12/02.
  • Background and upper limits in the S1 analysis, L. Cadonati, 11/18/02.
  • WaveMon/WaveBurst, new ETG by Sergey Klimenko and Igor Yakushin, 11/25/02.
  • Rate per unit volume for uniform distribution, A. Weinstein, 11/25/02.
  • Slides from Julien on coincidence processing and source position localization, J. Sylvestre, 12/2/02.
  • Talk on IGEC search at GWDAW, in pdf (1.5 MB) or ppt (770 kB), Giovanni Prodi, 12/20/02 .
  • Modeling Galactic Burst GW Sources, 1.5 MB, A. Weinstein, 12/28/02.
  • Thoughts for discussion on VETOS, S. Finn, 1/13/03, pdf.
  • LIGO BURST SEARCH E9 ONLINE STATUS web page.
  • Some results from the E9 online ETG running, L. Cadonati, 2/3/03.
  • Some results from the E9 online POWER ETG running, P. Brady, 2/6/03.
  • Memo on efficiency determination for burst search in S1 data, L. Cadonati & A. Weinstein, 2/4/03.
  • S2 Playground Selection (T030020), S. Finn and P. Saulson, 2/15/03.
  • BURST SEARCH S2 ONLINE STATUS page, A. Weinstein, 2/14/03.
  • Preliminary results from S2 injections, L. Cadonati, 2/20/03.
  • Note on high-pass vs baseband filtering, S. Finn, 2/23/03.
  • Notes on rate vs. strength upper limits, S. Finn, 2/23/03.
  • S1 burst search technical report, T020187-04, (pdf, 3 MB), Burst group, 2/25/03.
  • Results from S2 injections using Waveburst, Klimenko & Yakushin, 2/24/03, and preliminary results on S1 playground for WaveBurst, Klimenko & Yakushin, 3/3/03.
  • Quasi-real-time single and coincidence rates in S2 playground, J. Sylvestre, 3/4/03.
  • S2 online playground studies, L. Cadonati, 3/5/03.
  • Notes on an amplitude cut for TFCLUSTERS, P. Sutton, 3/9/03.
  • Study of frequency cuts in S1 pipeline, E. Katsavounidis, 3/8/03.
  • analysis of the S1 triggers and time lag analysis, E. Katsavounidis, 3/10/03.
  • S1 punchlist, S. Finn, 3/12/03.
  • background estimates for TFCLUSTERS in S1, E. Katsavounidis, 3/12/03.
  • Time series plots for most of the biggest S2 glitches, S. Ballmer, 3/12/03.
  • r-Statistics for Time-Domain Cross Correlation on Burst Candidate Events, L. Cadonati, LSC meeting, 3/19/03.
  • Analysing Event Data, S. Finn, LSC meeting, 3/19/03.
  • Burst Analysis in Wavelet Domain for Multiple Interferometers, S. Klimenko, LSC meeting, 3/19/03.
  • Hardware Burst Injections in Pre-S2 -> S2, A. Weinstein, LSC meeting, 3/19/03.
  • Use of Detector Calibration Information in the Burst Group, A. Weinstein, LSC meeting, 3/19/03.
  • APS presentation burst slides, Erik Katsavounidis, 3/31/03.
  • Revised S1 results L. Cadonati, 4/6/03.
  • preliminary results on the data around the GRB030329 HETE trigger, S. Marka et al, 4/6/03.
  • Targeted upper limits for burst searches, J. Sylvestre, 4/7/03.
  • S2 Time series and Histogram plots for GlitchMon, Mike Ashley, 4/17/03.
  • Comments on GRB030329, Web slides or pdf, Maurice Van Putten, 4/21/03.
  • S2 Data Quality plots, John Zweizig, 4/21/03.
  • Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts in the LIGO Science Run 1 Data, A. Weinstein, CaJAGWR seminar, April 22, 2003, in powerpoint (20 MB), and pdf (7 MB).
  • Burst ETG prodution around GRB030329, L. Cadonati, 4/28/03.
  • how the thresholds were tuned in slope, during S1, Laura Cadonati, 5/3/03.
  • http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~sn/"> LIGO External Triggers web page.
  • PROPOSALS for S2 data analysis, May 6, 2003:
  • External trigger search analysis methods, Soumya D. Mohanty, 6/2/03 (ppt).
  • rewrite of tfclusters, Julien Sylvestre, 6/9/03.
  • S2 glitch investigations, L. Cadonati et al, 6/03.
  • S2 Playground Selection, Finn and Saulson, 6/9/03.
  • Description of Julien's generic burst DSO, Julien Sylvestre, 6/13/03.
  • noiseChar: A Matlab Tool ool for or Characterizing Detector Noise and Stationarity, T030119.pdf, S. Finn, 6/16/03.
  • S2 glitch investigation report, E. Katsavounidis et al, 6/16/03.
  • S2 Data Quality Review, J.Zweizig, 6/16/03.
  • S2 Data Quality Review, J.Zweizig, 6/16/03.
  • Study of Non-stationarities in the S2 data, in ppt or pdf, S. Mukherjee, 6/24/03.
  • S2 intra-run injections analysis summary, L. Cadonati, 6/16/03, 6/24/03.
  • S2 Data Quality segment lists, K. Riles et al, 6/19/03.
  • Amaldi talks, D. Shoemaker et al, 6/20/03.
  • LSC colloquia web page, M. Diaz et al, 6/20/03.
  • First Upper Limits from LIGO on Gravitational wave bursts, Presentation at Amaldi5, Tirrenia, Italy, July 9, 2003, LIGO G030340-00-Z, Alan Weinstein, for the LSC, pdf and ppt.
  • Confidence test of waveform consistency in LIGO burst candidate events, Presentation at Amaldi5, Tirrenia, Italy, July 9, 2003, L. Cadonati, pdf.
  • Long bursts of GW from BH spin energy, Presentation at Amaldi5, Tirrenia, Italy, July 9, 2003, M. van Putten, pdf.
  • Convention for burst "amplitude": h_rss, Warren Johnson, pdf, 7/15/03.
  • Progress Report: PSU S2 Burst Analysis, S. Finn et al, pdf, 7/15/03.
  • Progress Report, Burst Analysis in Wavelet Domain, S.Klimenko et al, 7/23/03.
  • a relatively complete scan of all possible TFCLUSTERS threshold settings, on S2 playground data for the SG554 waveform, J. Sylvestre, 7/23/03.
  • Update on LIGO-TAMA working group status, P. Sutton, 7/23/03.
  • Parameters for Triggered Search, R. Frey, 7/30/03.
  • Status of the excess-power trigger generator, P. Brady, 7/30/03.
  • Status of the Burst DSO, J. Sylvestre, 7/30/03.
  • S2 data locations web page. P. Shawhan, 8/1/03.
  • Status of Triggered Burst Search on GRB030329, S. Marka, 8/6/03.
  • Burst Analysis Concerns, S. Finn, 8/6/03.
  • Update on search for ringdowns, Rana Adhikari, 8/13/03.
  • Study of veto safety for S2, P. Shawhan, 8/14/03.
  • slides of the burst group face to face meeting, Hannover, 8/17/03, E. Katsavounidis.
  • Detection discussion, E. Katsavounidis, 8/19/03 (pdf).
  • S2 glitch investigations, L. Cadonati et al, 8/03.
  • A Veto Selection Criteria for Gravitational Wave Burst Searches, LIGO-T030181-00-Z, S. Finn, 8/28/03.
  • S2 data quality segments, version 3, K. Riles and P. Shawhan, 8/31/03.
  • S2 on-line WaveMon veto triggers, S. Klimenko, 9/2/03.
  • TAMA data and the S2 externally triggered search, S. Marka, 9/3/03.
  • Reports on excess power ETG, P. Brady, 9/3/03.
  • Playground segments in triple coincidence data, for H1, H2, L1, Triple playground segments, T. Summerscales, 9/5/03.
  • S2 Playground glitch studies, L. Cadonati, 9/10/03.
  • S2 glitch studies at LLO Alessandra Di Credico, 9/10/03.
  • Stationarity and Linear Predictor Effectiveness, S. Chatterji, 9/17/03.
  • Progress on the external trigger S2 work, from Isabel and Szabi, 9/24/03.
  • Burst simulation waveform catalog, AJW, 9/26/03.
  • Angular Correlation of LIGO Hanford and Livingston Interferometers, M. Rakhmanov and S. Klimenko, 9/26/03.
  • Burst ETG tuning face to face meeting at MIT, 9/26/03.
  • PSU report on S2 burst search activities, 10/1/03, and main PSURG web page.
  • Hardware burst injections for S2 -> S3, A. Weinstein, 10/3/03.
  • Burst group face to face meeting at MIT, October 8, 9 and 10, 2003.
  • First thoughts on astrophysical implications of observed GW limits for external triggers, R. Frey, 10/8/03.
  • Joint LIGO-TAMA S2 analysis status, P. Sutton, 10/8/03.
  • GEO burst search update, Ik Siong Heng, 10/15/03.
  • Report on Veto F2F meeting at MIT (Oct 8-10, 2003), A. DiCredico, 10/15/03.
  • TFCLUSTERS Tuning: status report, J. Sylvestre, 10/15/03.
  • PSU progress reports on Mann Whitney statistic, Simulations, and Coincidence, 10/22/03.
  • Progress report on WaveBurst, S. Klimenko, 10/22/03, and WaveBurst S2 Triggers, S. Klimenko, 10/29/03.
  • Time-frequency methods for long burst detection, Torres & Anderson, 10/29/03.
  • Waveform injection study with the Excess Power ETG, Majumder & Brady, 10/29/03.
  • Pre-LSC Update on progress from MIT, Cadonati, 11/5/03.
  • Pre-LSC Update on progress with BlockNormal, Finn et al, 11/5/03.
  • Pre-LSC Update on progress with WaveBurst, Klimenko, 11/5/03.
  • Pre-LSC Update on progress on vetos, Di Credico, 11/5/03.
  • Pre-LSC Update on progress with TFCLUSTERS, Sylvestre, 11/5/03.
  • Nov 2003 LSC Burst talks and meetings.
  • GEO burst group activity outline, Ik Siong Heng, 11/19/03.
  • LSC Burst group's submitted presentation abstracts for the 8th GWDAW, 11/22/03.
  • First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts S1 paper posted to gr-qc/0312056, 12/9/03.
  • r statistic web page, L. Cadonati, 12/10/03.
  • Submissions to GWDAW 8, Millwaukee, 12/17/03 from: the burst group; the Inspiral group; the Stochastic group; the Pulsar group.
  • MDC report, Igor Yakushin, 1/7/04.
  • Online FOM definition, J. Sylvestre, 1/7/04.
  • Online FOM definition, S. Chatterjee, 1/7/04.
  • SNR as FOM for burst signals, P. Sutton, 1/14/04; (See also T040002).
  • HETE GRB / LIGO coincidence plots, K. Rawlins, 1/14/04.
  • U Florida BURST F2F web page, S. Klimenko, 1/8/04.
  • Status report on the S2 Playground analysis, L. Cadonati, 1/28/04.
  • Report on the Veto analysis in view of the Burst f2f Meeting, A. DiCredico, 1/28/04.
  • r-statistic analysis of the v3 waveburst triggers in the playground, L. Cadonati, 2/17/04.
  • Vetoes on WaveBurst events, A. DiCredico, 2/17/04.
  • Status of tfclusters, J. Sylvestre, 2/17/04.
  • BlockNormal ETG web page, S. Finn and PSU group, 2/17/04.
  • Timeline for LSC meeting results and presentations, Erik & Stan, 2/17/04.
  • Status of tfclusters, J. Sylvestre, 2/24/04.
  • BlockNormal status, PSU group, 2/24/04.
  • Waveburst status, S. Klimenko and I. Yakushin, 2/24/04.
  • Preliminary S3 sensitivity to GRBs, R. Rahkola, 3/2/04.
  • Summary of current playground results, L. Cadonati, 3/2/04.
  • Status of the TFClusters ETG, J. Sylvestre, 3/2/04.
  • Status of the Block Normal ETG, M. Ashley, 3/2/04.
  • Status of Power ETG, P. Brady, 3/2/04.
  • BlockNormal S2 Analysis Status page, K. Thorne, 3/8/04.
  • WaveBurst S2 analysis summary page, and final WaveBust LIGO note, S. Klimenko, 3/9/04.
  • Tfclusters S2 analysis summary page, J. Sylvestre, 3/9/04.
  • Power S2 Analysis summary page, S. Majumder, 3/12/04.
  • Latest results from all ETGs on Playground data, BlockNormal on full S2, Burst/tfclusters on full S2, Waveburst on full S2; Laura Cadonati, 3/11/04.
  • Description of MDC frames, Waveburst results on MDC frames, Waveburst results on playground simulations; I. Yakushin, 3/13/04.
  • comparison of the efficiency curves for different ETGs, Michele Zanolin, 3/13/04.
  • Burst F2F at LSU, 3/14/04, logistics, W. Johnson; and agenda, E. Katsavounidis, 3/13/04.
  • Latest draft of GRB paper, S. Marka et al, 3/13/04.
  • Report on MDC frame anomalies, I. Yakushin, 3/23/04.
  • Update on Simulations for the S2 Bursts Analyses, P. Sutton and I. Yakushin, 3/30/04.
  • LIGO Burst Search and the Rome Group claims, P. Saulson, 3/30/04.
  • summary of some work done on the Ringdown analysis, Rana Adhikari, 4/6/04.
  • Update on WB_review, Michele Zanolin, 4/6/04, 4/13/04.
  • Burst S2 review web page, Keith Riles, 4/6/04.
  • Some aspects of the false alarm rate studies, S. Marka, 4/6/04.
  • Some material for the discussion on the S2 paper, E. Katsavounidis, 4/6/04.
  • Updated S2 segment lists, J. Zweizig, 4/9/04.
  • Penn State S2 burst analysis Status, Keith Thorne, 4/13/04.
  • Update on GEO burst search, Siong Heng, 4/13/04.
  • Updated MDC status, Igor Yakushin, 4/13/04.
  • GravEn Simulation Engine Primer T040020 and talk at LSC G040062, A. Stuver, 4/04.
  • BlockNormal S2 Analysis status page, K. Thorne et al, 5/4/04.
  • Web cvs repository for S2 burst papers.
  • UWM LSC Group News: Burst face to face: 6-8 May 2004. Links to all talks are at bottom of page.
  • WaveBurst analysis of S2 data, Klimenko, Yakushin, 5/7/04.
  • WaveBurst S2 version 3 triggers, Klimenko, Yakushin, 5/8/04.
  • Patrick Sutton's APS talk on S2 burst analyses, P. Sutton, 5/1/04.
  • Highlights of UWM face to face meeting of May 6-8, E. Katsavounidis, 5/18/04.
  • waveburst GC>1.3 analysis by r-statistic, L. Cadonati, 5/18/04.
  • GEO S3 burst update, Siong Heng, 5/18/04.
  • burst event rate upper-limits using Bayesian statistics, Matt Pitkin, 5/24/04.
  • Main Bursts Page.
  • LIGO home page at Caltech
  • LIGO home page at MIT
  • LSC home page
    URL: http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~ajw/bursts/bursts_progressTill0405.html
    This page last modified October 2004.
    Questions? Contact Alan Weinstein.