Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/22/002

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

B Abbott et al 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 5343-5369 doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/22/002

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Riles²⁹, B Rivera¹¹, N A Robertson^1,12, C Robinson³⁰, E L Robinson⁷, S Roddy¹⁸, A Rodriguez⁴, A M Rogan¹⁹, J Rollins³⁷, J D Romano³⁰, J Romie¹⁸, R Route²³, S Rowan¹², A Rüdiger², L Ruet¹⁴, P Russell¹, K Ryan¹¹, S Sakata⁴², M Samidi¹, L Sancho de la Jordana⁴⁶, V Sandberg¹¹, V Sannibale¹, S Saraf⁴⁷, P Sarin¹⁴, B S Sathyaprakash³⁰, S Sato⁴², P R Saulson³¹, R Savage¹¹, P Savov²², S Schediwy¹³, R Schilling², R Schnabel², R Schofield²⁰, B F Schutz^9,30, P Schwinberg¹¹, S M Scott⁶, A C Searle⁶, B Sears¹, F Seifert², D Sellers¹⁸, A S Sengupta³⁰, P Shawhan²⁴, D H Shoemaker¹⁴, A Sibley¹⁸, J A Sidles⁴⁸, X Siemens^1,22, D Sigg¹¹, S Sinha²³, A M Sintes^9,46, B J J Slagmolen⁶, J Slutsky⁴, J R Smith², M R Smith¹, K Somiya^2,9, K A Strain¹², D M Strom²⁰, A Stuver³², T Z Summerscales⁴⁹, K-X Sun²³, M Sung⁴, P J Sutton¹, H Takahashi⁹, D B Tanner⁵, M Tarallo¹, R Taylor¹, R Taylor¹², J Thacker¹⁸, K A Thorne³², K S Thorne²², A Thüring⁸, M Tinto¹, K V Tokmakov¹², C Torres³⁴, C Torrie¹², G Traylor¹⁸, M Trias⁴⁶, W Tyler¹, D Ugolini⁵⁰, C Ungarelli⁷, K Urbanek²³, H Vahlbruch⁸, M Vallisneri²², C Van Den Broeck³⁰, M Varvella¹, S Vass¹, A Vecchio⁷, J Veitch¹², P Veitch²¹, A Villar¹, C Vorvick¹¹, S P Vyachanin¹⁷, S J Waldman¹, L Wallace¹, H Ward¹², R Ward¹, K Watts¹⁸, D Webber¹, A Weidner², M Weinert², A Weinstein¹, R Weiss¹⁴, S Wen⁴, K Wette⁶, J T Whelan⁹, D M Whitbeck³², S E Whitcomb¹, B F Whiting⁵, C Wilkinson¹¹, P A Willems¹, L Williams⁵, B Willke^2,8, I Wilmut³⁹, W Winkler², C C Wipf¹⁴, S Wise⁵, A G Wiseman³, G Woan¹², D Woods³, R Wooley¹⁸, J Worden¹¹, W Wu⁵, I Yakushin¹⁸, H Yamamoto¹, Z Yan¹³, S Yoshida⁵¹, N Yunes³², M Zanolin¹⁴, J Zhang²⁹, L Zhang¹, C Zhao¹³, N Zotov⁵², M Zucker¹⁴, H zur Mühlen⁸ and J Zweizig¹ (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
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 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
⁵ University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
⁶ Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
⁷ University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
⁸ Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
⁹ Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
¹⁰ Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA
¹¹ LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
¹² University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK
¹³ University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
¹⁴ LIGO—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
¹⁵ Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
¹⁶ San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA
¹⁷ Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
¹⁸ LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, LA 70754, USA
¹⁹ Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
²⁰ University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
²¹ University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
²² Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
²³ Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
²⁴ University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
²⁵ NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
²⁶ University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
²⁷ Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
²⁸ University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
²⁹ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
³⁰ Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, UK
³¹ Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
³² The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
³³ Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
³⁴ The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
³⁵ Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA
³⁶ California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
³⁷ Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
³⁸ University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
³⁹ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK
⁴⁰ Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ 86301, USA
⁴¹ University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK
⁴² National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
⁴³ University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, UK
⁴⁴ Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
⁴⁵ Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
⁴⁶ Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
⁴⁷ Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
⁴⁸ University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
⁴⁹ Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104, USA
⁵⁰ Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA
⁵¹ Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA
⁵² Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
E-mail: pshawhan@umd.edu

Abstract. 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.

PACS numbers: 04.80.Nn, 95.75.−z, 95.85.Sz

An erratum for this article has been published in 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 039801

Print publication: Issue 22 (21 November 2007)
Received 3 May 2007, in final form 28 August 2007
Published 24 October 2007

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