Interpreting the results of searches for gravitational waves from coalescing binaries

摘要: We describe a method to obtain an astrophysical result from the output of search for gravitational waves coalescing binaries. Specifically, we introduce based on loudest event statistic calculate upper limit or interval rate binary coalescence. The calculation depends upon sensitivity and noise background detectors, model distribution There are significant uncertainties in due both instrumental as well errors introduced by using post-Newtonian waveform approximate full signal. catalog these detail marginalizing over them. Throughout, provide example initial LIGO detectors.