Detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries using a network of interferometric detectors

Abstract

We formulate the data analysis problem for the detection of the Newtonian waveform from an inspiraling, compact binary by a network of arbitrarily oriented and arbitrarily located laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. We obtain for the first time the relation between the optimal statistic and the magnitude of the network correlation vector, which is constructed from the matched network-filter.