Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run

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作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Ajith, P. [3 ]
Allen, B. [3 ,60 ]
Allen, G. [35 ]
Amin, R. S. [20 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [60 ]
Arain, M. A. [47 ]
Araya, M. [1 ]
Armandula, H. [1 ]
Armor, P. [60 ]
Aso, Y. [1 ]
Aston, S. [46 ]
Aufmuth, P. [16 ]
Aulbert, C. [3 ]
Babak, S. [2 ]
Baker, P. [23 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Barker, C. [17 ]
Barker, D. [17 ]
Barr, B. [48 ]
Barriga, P. [59 ]
Barsotti, L. [19 ]
Barton, M. A. [1 ]
Bartos, I. [10 ]
Bassiri, R. [48 ]
Bastarrika, M. [48 ]
Behnke, B. [2 ]
Benacquista, M. [42 ]
Betzwieser, J. [1 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [30 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [24 ]
Billingsley, G. [1 ]
Biswas, R. [60 ]
Black, E. [1 ]
Blackburn, J. K. [1 ]
Blackburn, L. [19 ]
Blair, D. [59 ]
Bland, B. [17 ]
Bodiya, T. P. [19 ]
Bogue, L. [18 ]
Bork, R. [1 ]
Boschi, V. [1 ]
Bose, S. [61 ]
Brady, P. R. [60 ]
Braginsky, V. B. [24 ]
Brau, J. E. [53 ]
Bridges, D. O. [18 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[4] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[5] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[6] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[8] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[9] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[10] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[11] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[12] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1053 Budapest, Hungary
[13] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[14] Inst Appl Phys, Nizhnii Novgorod 603950, Russia
[15] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[16] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[17] Hanford Observ, LIGO, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[18] Livingston Observ, LIGO, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[19] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[21] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[22] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[23] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[24] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[25] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[26] Natl Inst Nat Sci, Natl Astron Observ Japan, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[27] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[28] Rochester Inst Technol, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[29] Rutherford Appleton Lab, HSIC, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[30] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[31] Sonoma State Univ, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA
[32] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[33] Southern Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[34] A&M Coll, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[35] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[36] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[37] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[38] Univ Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
[39] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[40] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[41] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[42] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[43] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[44] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[45] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[46] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[47] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[48] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[49] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[50] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 80卷 / 10期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102001
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the results obtained from an all-sky search for gravitational-wave (GW) bursts in the 64-2000 Hz frequency range in data collected by the LIGO detectors during the first year (November 2005-November 2006) of their fifth science run. The total analyzed live time was 268.6 days. Multiple hierarchical data analysis methods were invoked in this search. The overall sensitivity expressed in terms of the root-sum-square (rss) strain amplitude h(rss) for gravitational-wave bursts with various morphologies was in the range of 6x10(-22) Hz(-1/2) to a fewx10(-21) Hz(-1/2). No GW signals were observed and a frequentist upper limit of 3.75 events per year on the rate of strong GW bursts was placed at the 90% confidence level. As in our previous searches, we also combined this rate limit with the detection efficiency for selected waveform morphologies to obtain event rate versus strength exclusion curves. In sensitivity, these exclusion curves are the most stringent to date.
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