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Gravitational wave (GW) signals were recently detected directly by LIGO fromthe coalescences of two black hole pairs. These detections have strengthenedour belief that compact binary coalescences (CBCs) are the most promising GWdetection prospects accessible to ground-based interferometric detectors. Fordetecting CBC signals it is of vital importance to characterize and identifynon-Gaussian and non-stationary noise in these detectors. In this work we modeltwo important classes of transient artifacts that contribute to this noise andadversely affect the detector sensitivity to CBC signals. One of them is thesine-Gaussian glitch, characterized by a central frequency $f_0$ and a qualityfactor $Q$ and the other is the chirping sine-Gaussian glitch, which ischaracterized by $f_0$, $Q$ as well as a chirp parameter. We study the responsea bank of compact binary inspiral templates has to these two families ofglitches when they are used to match-filter data containing any of theseglitches. Two important characteristics of this response are the distributionsof the signal-to-noise ratio and the timelag of individual templates. We showhow these distributions differ from those when the detector data has a real CBCsignal instead of a glitch. We argue that these distinctions can be utilized todevelop useful signal-artifact vetos that add negligibly to the computationalcost of a CBC search. Specifically, we show how $f_0$ of a glitch can be usedto set adaptive time-windows around it so that any template trigger occurringin that window can be quarantined for further vetting of its supposedastrophysical nature. Second, we recommend focusing efforts on reducing theincidence of glitches with low $f_0$ values because they create CBC triggerswith the longest timelags. This work allows us to associate such triggers withthe glitches which otherwise would have escaped attention.

Towards mitigating the effect of sine-Gaussian noise transients on searches for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences