Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project
Creators: name: Aylott, Benjamin
name: Baker, John G.
name: Boggs, William D.
name: Boyle, Michael
name: Brady, Patrick R.
name: Brown, Duncan A.
name: Brügmann, Bernd
name: Buchman, Luisa T.
name: Buonanno, Alessandra
name: Cadonati, Laura
name: Camp, Jordan
name: Campanelli, Manuela
name: Centrella, Joan
name: Chatterji, Shourov
name: Christensen, Nelson
name: Chu, Tony
name: Diener, Peter
name: Dorband, Nils
name: Etienne, Zachariah B.
name: Faber, Joshua
name: Fairhurst, Stephen
name: Farr, Benjamin
name: Fischetti, Sebastian
name: Guidi, Gianluca
name: Goggin, Lisa M.
name: Hannam, Mark
name: Herrmann, Frank
name: Hinder, Ian
name: Husa, Sascha
name: Kalogera, Vicky
name: Keppel, Drew
name: Kidder, Lawrence E.
name: Kelly, Bernard J.
name: Krishnan, Badri
name: Laguna, Pablo
name: Lousto, Carlos O.
name: Mandel, Ilya
name: Marronetti, Pedro
name: Matzner, Richard
name: McWilliams, Sean T.
name: Matthews, Keith D.
name: Mercer, R. Adam
name: Mohapatra, Satyanarayan R. P.
name: Mroué, Abdul H.
name: Nakano, Hiroyuki
name: Ochsner, Evan
name: Pan, Yi
name: Pekowsky, Larne
name: Pfeiffer, Harald P.
name: Pollney, Denis
name: Pretorius, Frans
name: Raymond, Vivien
name: Reisswig, Christian
name: Rezzolla, Luciano
name: Rinne, Oliver
name: Robinson, Craig
name: Röver, Christian
name: Santamaría, Lucía
name: Sathyaprakash, Bangalore
name: Scheel, Mark A.
name: Schnetter, Erik
name: Seiler, Jennifer
name: Shapiro, Stuart L.
name: Shoemaker, Deirdre
name: Sperhake, Ulrich
name: Stroeer, Alexander
name: Sturani, Riccardo
name: Tichy, Wolfgang
name: Liu, Yuk Tung
name: van der Sluys, Marc
name: van Meter, James R.
name: Vaulin, Ruslan
name: Vecchio, Alberto
name: Veitch, John
name: Viceré, Andrea
name: Whelan, John T.
name: Zlochower, Yosef
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave data analysis communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the sensitivity of existing gravitational-wave search algorithms using numerically generated waveforms and to foster closer collaboration between the numerical relativity and data analysis communities. We describe the results of the first NINJA analysis which focused on gravitational waveforms from binary black hole coalescence. Ten numerical relativity groups contributed numerical data which were used to generate a set of gravitational-wave signals. These signals were injected into a simulated data set, designed to mimic the response of the Initial LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Nine groups analysed this data using search and parameter-estimation pipelines. Matched filter algorithms, un-modelled-burst searches and Bayesian parameter-estimation and model-selection algorithms were applied to the data. We report the efficiency of these search methods in detecting the numerical waveforms and measuring their parameters. We describe preliminary comparisons between the different search methods and suggest improvements for future NINJA analyses.
description: 56 pages, 25 figures; various clarifications; accepted to CQG