分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Ce Cai
Shao-Lin Xiong
Wang-Chen Xue
Yi Zhao
Shuo Xiao
Qi-Bin Yi
Zhi-Wei Guo
Jia-Cong Liu
Yan-Qiu Zhang
Chao Zheng
Sheng-Lun Xie
Yan-Qi Du
Xiao-Yun Zhao
Cheng-Kui Li
Ping Wang
Wen-Xi Peng
Shi-Jie Zheng
Li-Ming Song
Xin-Qiao Li
Xiang-Yang Wen
摘要： Searching for X-ray and gamma-ray bursts, including Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) and high energy transients associated with Gravitational wave (GW) events or Fast radio bursts (FRBs), is of great importance in the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength era. Although a coherent search based on the likelihood ratio and Gaussian statistics has been established and utilized in many studies, this Gaussian-based method could be problematic for weak and short bursts which usually have very few counts. To deal with all bursts including weak ones, here we propose the coherent search in Poisson statistics. We studied the difference between Poisson-based and Gaussian-based search methods by Monte Carlo simulations, and find that the Poisson-based search method has advantages compared to the Gaussian case especially for weak bursts. Our results show that, for very weak bursts with very low number of counts, the Poisson-based search can provide higher significance than the Gaussian-based search, and its likelihood ratio (for background fluctuation) still generally follows the chi2 distribution, making the significance estimation of searched bursts very convenient. Thus, we suggest that the coherent search based on Poisson likelihood ratio is more appropriate in the search for generic transients including very weak ones.
分类： 天文学 >> 天文学 提交时间： 2023-02-19
Ce Cai
Shao-Lin Xiong
Wang-Chen Xue
Yi Zhao
Shuo Xiao
Qi-Bin Yi
Zhi-Wei Guo
Jia-Cong Liu
Yan-Qiu Zhang
Chao Zheng
Sheng-Lun Xie
Yan-Qi Du
Xiao-Yun Zhao
Cheng-Kui Li
Ping Wang
Wen-Xi Peng
Shi-Jie Zheng
Li-Ming Song
Xin-Qiao Li
Xiang-Yang Wen
摘要： Searching for X-ray and gamma-ray bursts, including Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) and high energy transients associated with Gravitational wave (GW) events or Fast radio bursts (FRBs), is of great importance in the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength era. Although a coherent search based on the likelihood ratio and Gaussian statistics has been established and utilized in many studies, this Gaussian-based method could be problematic for weak and short bursts which usually have very few counts. To deal with all bursts including weak ones, here we propose the coherent search in Poisson statistics. We studied the difference between Poisson-based and Gaussian-based search methods by Monte Carlo simulations, and find that the Poisson-based search method has advantages compared to the Gaussian case especially for weak bursts. Our results show that, for very weak bursts with very low number of counts, the Poisson-based search can provide higher significance than the Gaussian-based search, and its likelihood ratio (for background fluctuation) still generally follows the chi2 distribution, making the significance estimation of searched bursts very convenient. Thus, we suggest that the coherent search based on Poisson likelihood ratio is more appropriate in the search for generic transients including very weak ones.
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