Coherent line removal: Filtering out harmonically related line interference from experimental data, with application to gravitational wave detectors

Alicia M. Sintes and Bernard F. Schutz
Phys. Rev. D 58, 122003 – Published 18 November 1998
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Abstract

We describe a new technique for removing troublesome interference from external coherent signals present in the gravitational wave spectrum. The method works when the interference is present in many harmonics, as long as they remain coherent with one another. The method can remove interference even when the frequency changes. We apply the method to the data produced by the Glasgow laser interferometer in 1996 and the entire series of wide lines corresponding to the electricity supply frequency and its harmonics are removed, leaving the spectrum clean enough to detect possible signals previously masked by them. We also study the effects of the line removal on the statistics of the noise in the time domain. We find that this technique seems to reduce the level of non-Gaussian noise present in the interferometer and therefore, it can raise the sensitivity and duty cycle of the detectors.

  • Received 2 July 1998

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.122003

©1998 American Physical Society

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Alicia M. Sintes and Bernard F. Schutz

  • Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut), Schlaatzweg 1, D-14473 Potsdam, Germany

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Vol. 58, Iss. 12 — 15 December 1998

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