Study of the coincidences between the gravitational wave detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS in 2001

We report the result from a search for bursts of gravitational waves using data collected by the cryogenic resonant detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS during 2001 for a total measuring time of 90 days. With these data we repeated the coincidence search performed on the 1998 data (which showed a small coincidence excess) applying data analysis algorithms based on known physical characteristics of the detectors. With the 2001 data, a new interesting coincidence excess is found when the detectors are favourably oriented with respect to the galactic disc.

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