1. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Searching for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of High Mass Black Hole Binaries 2014 LIGO SURF Summer Seminar August 21 st, 2014 Sophia Xiao, University of Virginia Mentors: Alan Weinstein, Tjonnie Li, Surabhi Sachdev 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory1

2. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Introduction Moving towards Advanced LIGO »Hardware: Optics, Lasers, Seismic Isolation, Suspensions »Software: Data Acquisition, Data Analysis CBC-BBH group is developing the GSTLAL analysis pipeline for BBH detection at aLIGO »iLIGO: iHOPE »aLIGO: aHOPE, GSTLAL 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory2

3. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Objectives Run high-statistics simulation to evaluate the sensitivity of the GSTLAL analysis pipeline Test the readiness of the GSTLAL analysis pipeline for advanced LIGO »Include aligned spins »Push down cut off frequency to 30 Hz »Expand the mass range 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory3

4. LIGO-G1400863-v1 GSTLAL Analysis Pipeline Distinguishing Feature: Low latency: compare with E&M searches Improvements: IMR waveforms rather than SpinTaylor Includes aligned spins (Future: To include precessing spins) 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory4

5. LIGO-G1400863-v1 GSTLAL Analysis Pipeline Flowchart 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory5

6. LIGO-G1400863-v1 GSTLAL Analysis Pipeline Flowchart 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory6

7. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Matched Filtering Motivation: optimal detection technique for known modulated sinusoidal data, with Gaussian and stationary detector noise Output: Signal-to-noise ratio 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory7

8. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Coping with “glitches” Not perfect detectors have “glitches”: non-Gaussian, non-stationary detector noise fluctuations test: compares data with template + Gaussian noise Computed simultaneously with SNR in GSTLAL 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory8

9. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Significance of Coincident Triggers Final discriminator: false alarm probability (FAP): probability of identifying noise as signals at a likelihood L when the data contain only noise FAP is calculated from SNR and In practice, use inverse false alarm rate (IFAR) 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory9

10. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Testing GSTLAL pipeline Stochastic template banks: specified mass range and spin range Injections: simulated signals + recolored S6 data Pipeline runs Evaluate the pipeline efficiency through injection accuracy, missed and found plots, horizon distance, SNR vs., FAP 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory10

11. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Pipeline Run Status – Banks 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory11

12. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Pipeline Run Status – Dailies 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory12

13. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Day 1 Run with Trape5 Bank 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory13

14. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Missed and Found 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory14 Aids in diagnosing the pipeline and providing the expected pipeline sensitivity to real signals

15. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Horizon Distance Useful search sanity check Horizon distance: where a CBC system will produce a signal with expected SNR of 8 Mean Sensitive Distance: horizon distance averaged over all sky position and orientation angles To evaluate the sensitivity: »Compute theoretical horizon distances »Compare with real pipeline run horizon distances 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory15

16. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Pipeline Efficiency 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory16 PSD function for horizon distance calculation

17. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Pipeline Efficiency 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory17 Theoretical mean sensitive distance Check: look at 15 solar masses

18. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Pipeline Efficiency 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory18 Mean sensitive distance from pipeline runs Check: look at 15 solar masses

19. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Expanding BBH Mass Range 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory19 Pushing up to 100 solar masses, down to 6 solar masses Had problems, need to adjust injection distance

20. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Timing Analysis A pipeline has many processes, which in turn have many jobs Different jobs of the same process take different time to finish 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory20

21. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Timing Analysis 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory21

22. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Timing Analysis 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory22 Histogram of gstlal_inspiral

23. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Conclusion We have successfully proved the effectiveness of the GSTLAL analysis pipeline, down to 30 Hz cut off frequency, with aligned spins included, and the whole mass range covered There is still optimization work to do regarding the pipeline’s performance and timeliness, but soon, GSTLAL will be ready for aLIGO 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory23

24. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Future Work Combine dailies into weeklies, weeklies into monthlies, etc. »Weeklies: combine daily coincident triggers and backgrounds together. Can better estimate backgrounds and separate them. »Monthlies, yearlies: collections of weeklies for better visualization Figure out reasons for outliers Compare existing runs with runs using Gaussian noise Tune the pipeline parameters for better accuracy and faster run time 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory24

25. LIGO-G1400863-v1 LIGO Laboratory25 Acknowledgements Prof. Alan Weinstein, Tjonnie Li, Surabhi Sachdev LIGO Scientific Collaboration Caltech SURF NSF 08/21/2014

26. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Thank you! 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory26

27. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Backup Slides 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory27

28. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Injection Accuracy 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory28 Successful recovery of mchirp

29. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Injection Accuracy 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory29 Successful recovery of time

30. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Injection Accuracy 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory30 Successful recovery of spins

31. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Missed and Found Table 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory31

32. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Detection Statistics 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory32 Well separated signals and backgrounds

33. LIGO-G1400863-v1 Ex: Detection Statistics 08/21/2014LIGO Laboratory33 FAP calculated from SNR and