If the GRBs are located at a cosmological distance, the associated GW
signal has to be very small. Because of this, in the next step
of the analysis we have selected only those events
that have an energy of mK.
So a list of 87177 GW candidate events with average energy of 100 mK
has been obtained, distributed over 652 non continuous days, with a mean
rate of
events per day.
The time distribution of these events relative to the trigger time of
each GRB in a window of
s is shown
in Fig. 1.
The total number of 393 GW candidate events found in the s
window, over the 441 GRBs analysed, indicates that the average density
of the GW events
around the trigger time, 128 events
per day,
is compatible with the mean rate of over the entire period.
Further
we notice that in the chosen window there are not significant
coincidence excesses either at the trigger time or at different instants.
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