Detection methods for non-Gaussian gravitational wave stochastic backgrounds

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 8, 2003, Pages

  Drasco, Steve ^a   Flanagan, Éanna É ^a  

^a Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences   (United States)

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ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DENSITY; ENERGY; GRAVITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY;

EID: 0038780818     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.082003     Document Type: Article

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