Benefits of joint LIGO -- Virgo coincidence searches for burst and   inspiral signals
  We examine the benefits of performing a joint LIGO--Virgo search for transient signals. We do this by adding burst and inspiral signals to 24 hours of simulated detector data. We find significant advantages to performing a joint coincidence analysis, above either a LIGO only or Virgo only search. These include an increased detection efficiency, at a fixed false alarm rate, to both burst and inspiral events and an ability to reconstruct the sky location of a signal. 
F.Beauville, M.-A.Bizouard, L.Blackburn, L.Bosi, P.Brady, L.Brocco,   D.Brown, D.Buskulic, F.Cavalier, S.Chatterji, N.Christ...