Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S05

Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run

B Abbott et al 2006 Class. Quantum Grav. 23 S29-S39 doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S05

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¹ LIGO—California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
² Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³ University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
⁴ LIGO—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
⁵ Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
⁶ The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
⁷ Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
⁸ Cardiff University, Cardiff CF2 3YB, UK
⁹ Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA
¹⁰ LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
¹¹ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
¹² Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia
¹³ LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, LA 70754, USA
¹⁴ Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
¹⁵ University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
¹⁶ University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
¹⁷ University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
¹⁸ University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
¹⁹ NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
²⁰ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
²¹ University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
²² University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
²³ Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
²⁴ Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
²⁵ Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
²⁶ The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
²⁷ California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
²⁸ California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747, USA
²⁹ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ 86301, USA
³⁰ National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
³¹ Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³² Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
³³ Australian National University, Canberra 0200, Australia
³⁴ Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
³⁵ Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India
³⁶ Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, USA
³⁷ Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
³⁸ Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
³⁹ Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA
⁴⁰ Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA
⁴¹ Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
⁴² Present address: New Mexico State University, USA
⁴³ Present address: Charles Sturt University, Australia
⁴⁴ Present address: University of Southampton, UK
⁴⁵ Present address: New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology/Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer, USA
⁴⁶ Present address: University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
⁴⁷ Present address: Observatoire de la Cõte d'Azur, France
⁴⁸ Present address: Thirty Meter Telescope Project, Caltech, USA

Abstract. We report on a search for gravitational-wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets sub-second bursts in the frequency range 100–1100 Hz for which no waveform model is assumed and has a sensitivity in terms of the root-sum-square (rss) strain amplitude of h_rss ~ 10⁻²⁰ Hz^−1/2. No gravitational-wave signals were detected in the eight days of analysed data.

PACS numbers: 04.80.Nn, 07.05.Kf, 95.30.Sf, 95.85.Sz

Print publication: Issue 8 (21 April 2006)
Received 14 October 2005, in final form 29 November 2005
Published 22 March 2006

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