Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run

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作者
Abbott, B. [1 ]
Abbott, R.
Adhikari, R.
Agresti, J.
Ajith, P.
Allen, B.
Amin, R.
Anderson, S. B.
Anderson, W. G.
Arain, M.
Araya, M.
Armandula, H.
Ashley, M.
Aston, S.
Aufmuth, P.
Aulbert, C.
Babak, S.
Ballmer, S.
Bantilan, H.
Barish, B. C.
Barker, C.
Barker, D.
Barr, B.
Barriga, P.
Barton, M. A.
Bayer, K.
Belczynski, K.
Betzwieser, J.
Beyersdorf, P. T.
Bhawal, B.
Bilenko, I. A.
Billingsley, G.
Biswas, R.
Black, E.
Blackburn, K.
Blackburn, L.
Blair, D.
Bland, B.
Bogenstahl, J.
Bogue, L.
Bork, R.
Boschi, V.
Bose, S.
Brady, P. R.
Braginsky, V. B.
Brau, J. E.
Brinkmann, M.
Brooks, A.
Brown, D. A.
Bullington, A.
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[4] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[5] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[6] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[7] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[8] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[10] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[11] Hanford Observ, LIGO, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[12] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[13] Univ Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia
[14] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[15] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[16] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[17] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[18] Livingston Observ, LIGO, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[19] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[20] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[21] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[22] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[23] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[24] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[25] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[26] Univ Sanniio Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
[27] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[28] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[29] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[30] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, Wales
[31] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[32] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[33] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 41007, Maharashtra, India
[34] Univ Texas Brownsville, Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[35] So Univ A&M Coll, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[36] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[37] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[38] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[39] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Chilton OX11 0QX, England
[40] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[41] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[42] Natl Astron Observ, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[43] Univ Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, Lanark, Scotland
[44] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[45] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[46] Univ Illes Balears, Dept Fis, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[47] Rochester Inst Technol, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[48] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[49] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[50] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
D O I
10.1088/0264-9381/24/22/002
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The fourth science run of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational-wave detectors, carried out in early 2005, collected data with significantly lower noise than previous science runs. We report on a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts with arbitrary waveform in the 64-1600 Hz frequency range appearing in all three LIGO interferometers. Signal consistency tests, data quality cuts and auxiliary-channel vetoes are applied to reduce the rate of spurious triggers. No gravitational-wave signals are detected in 15.5 days of live observation time; we set a frequentist upper limit of 0.15 day(-1) ( at 90% confidence level) on the rate of bursts with large enough amplitudes to be detected reliably. The amplitude sensitivity of the search, characterized using Monte Carlo simulations, is several times better than that of previous searches. We also provide rough estimates of the distances at which representative supernova and binary black hole merger signals could be detected with 50% efficiency by this analysis.
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页码:5343 / 5369
页数:27
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