1. Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts
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H. Ward, A. Chandler, Kevin M. Ryan, T. Regimbau, Ken'ichi Nakagawa, C. I. Torrie, John Veitch, A. Heptonstall, M. Malec, Jordan Camp, J. Dalrymple, M. Ashley, A. S. Sengupta, Norikatsu Mio, Shinji Miyoki, Jun'ichi Yokoyama, J. Allen, N. Hepler, Akira Okutomi, Phil Willems, D. M. Strom, A. Yamamoto, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Lindy Blackburn, Matthew Evans, L. Cardenas, Yi Pan, Takashi Kuwabara, Richard J. K. Taylor, Gianpietro Cagnoli, Shihori Sakata, C. Aulbert, M. MacInnis, Keita Kawabe, R. S. Amin, Chunglee Kim, Seiji Kawamura, Hiroyuki Nakano, Reinhard Prix, Juri Agresti, A. Rizzi, V. Sandberg, K. Rawlins, A. Bunkowski, Shuzo Takemoto, S. Klimenko, Ryutaro Takahashi, W. R. Johnston, Masa-Katsu Fujimoto, Osamu Miyakawa, David H. Reitze, Christian J. Killow, G. Mendell, J. Myers, Shourov Chatterji, Lindon J. Robison, Helena Armandula, E. J. Elliffe, Suvadeep Bose, A. Ageev, Daisuke Tatsumi, A. Wilson, Kazuyuki Miura, Roy Williams, Kenji Soida, K. S. Ganezer, J. S. Noel, Hiromi Mizusawa, Namio Matsuda, J. Castiglione, Lisa M. Goggin, D. Rose, Hideki Asada, Jan Harms, K. Watts, T. Summerscales, Michael Landry, Roman Schnabel, C. A. Shapiro, Masaru Shibata, Stefan Goßler, K. T. Reilly, Toru Tanji, T. Nakamura, B. F. Whiting, David H. Shoemaker, V. Re, Y. Ogawa, Norihiko Kamikubota, Y. Hefetz, Gerhard Heinzel, C. Hardham, M. R. Smith, Masatake Ohashi, H. Overmier, Robert J. McCarthy, Linqing Wen, Shuichi Sato, Joseph D. Romano, C. King, Shoken M. Miyama, Kasem Mossavi, P. Charlton, A. Di Credico, I. A. Bilenko, V. Dergachev, Ian Taylor, David J. Ottaway, Laura Cadonati, G. Billingsley, D. Sellers, Amber Stuver, Sanichiro Yoshida, A. Ivanov, Y. Saito, J. E. Brau, Subhasish Mitra, D. Churches, P. G. Murray, J. H. Hough, C. Parameswariah, J. Langdale, G. P. Newton, M. Fyffe, Sandra E. Wiley, Gabriela Gonzalez, M. Hrynevych, Peter H. Sneddon, Graham Woan, Zong Hong Zhu, Robert L. Byer, Stuart Reid, Kevin C. Schlaufman, Scott Koranda, Akitoshi Ueda, A. Gillespie, Susan M. Scott, Teviet Creighton, Herbert Welling, F. Mann, Rainer Weiss, Kiminori Kondo, Herbert Walther, Benno Willke, R. W. P. Drever, Nergis Mavalvala, H. Radkins, R. L. Savage, L. Ruet, S. P. Vyachanin, M. Coles, L. Matone, M. Guenther, Yasufumi Kojima, E. Rotthoff, Misao Sasaki, Naoko Ohishi, B. C. Barish, Takaharu Kaneyama, M. Rakhmanov, Michael D. Smith, Bernard F. Schutz, Chad Hanna, G. Stapfer, J. Hanson, C. Torres, A. Rodriguez, S. Meshkov, C. Barker, X. Siemens, K. Kötter, Douglas R. Cook, Michael E Zucker, W. Tyler, Michele Zanolin, S. Seel, C. Wilkinson, G. H. Sanders, R. Lawrence, Mitsuru Musha, W. W. Johnson, B. Johnson, S. Nagano, R. L. Ward, K. D. Zaleski, D. Redding, J. Garofoli, Alessandra Buonanno, R. DeSalvo, Patrick Brady, C. A. Cantley, A. Sibley, Raymond G. Beausoleil, R. Balasubramanian, Ryuichi Fujita, I. Leonor, John K. Cannizzo, C. Robinson, Benjamin William Allen, Alberto Vecchio, M. A. Barton, Rana X. Adhikari, Yoshitaka Nagayama, Guido Mueller, Gareth Jones, B. Machenschalk, R. Rahkola, Pankaj Sarin, Karsten Danzmann, M. C. Sumner, B. Lantz, J. Chapsky, H. Yamamoto, Hideo Iguchi, Tatsuru Yoshida, P. Hoang, Manuel Luna, J. H. Romie, K. Bayer, F. Nocera, F. J. Raab, D.B. DeBra, T. Etzel, K. Y. Franzen, Keisuke Goda, Gavin Davies, Marco G. Tarallo, I. Salzman, D. Farnham, D. Steussy, B. Sears, Akito Araya, V. Schmidt, R. M. S. Schofield, David Jones, Hideaki Kudoh, Benjamin J. Owen, A. M. Gretarsson, Tomiyoshi Haruyama, W. O. Hamilton, R. Gustafson, Erik Katsavounidis, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, B. J. Cusack, M. Hammond, Kimio Tsubono, Vicky Kalogera, J. Kern, Jeffrey A. Edlund, E. J. Daw, M. J. Lubinski, William E. Butler, D. B. Kozak, E. Myers, K. V. Tokmakov, Takayuki Tomaru, E. Messaritaki, S. Killbourn, Martin Hewitson, Koji Arai, R. Burgess, Daniel C. Woods, B. Rivera, D. Webber, Peter R. Saulson, Hisa-aki Shinkai, L. Jones, M. Lormand, H. Ding, R. Abbott, M. Fine, V. Quetschke, Sheila Rowan, James Whelan, P. Ajith, C. Vorvick, Takashi Uchiyama, Kunihito Ioka, M. Mageswaran, Peter Fritschel, S. Penn, Masao Tokunari, Vladimir B. Braginsky, K. Reithmaier, Andreas Freise, S. R. Rao, Robert Bennett, A. Libson, Marco Aurelio Diaz, D. I. Robertson, Erika D'Ambrosio, Pamela J. Russell, Souichi Telada, Junwei Cao, K. Riles, Martin P McHugh, M. H. P. M. van Putten, S. Tilav, Matthew Pitkin, J. Heefner, Toshitaka Yamazaki, Mayu Katsuki, P. Schwinberg, Yoshihide Kozai, Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash, E. Black, Martin M. Fejer, Hideyuki Tagoshi, J. R. Smith, R. Bork, T. Nash, K. C. Cannon, J. Zweizig, R. Wooley, Kazuhiro Hayama, A. Sazonov, J. Mason, Ken-ichi Nakao, W. G. Anderson, K. Oohara, E. Maros, Peter Shawhan, S. Richman, M. Tibbits, B. P. Abbott, Yousuke Itoh, Oliver Jennrich, K. A. Thorne, J. Betzwieser, Kazuaki Kuroda, Koichi Waseda, N. Sato, M. Kawamura, S. Wen, A. Bullington, Michele Vallisneri, I. Zawischa, Robert Spero, Soumya D. Mohanty, Fumiko Kawazoe, D. Ugolini, Carsten Fallnich, Stefan Hild, S. Vass, L. Bogue, A. J. Weinstein, Ik Siong Heng, Shantanu Desai, J. W C McNabb, W. Wu, P. T. Beyersdorf, N. Zotov, W. Kells, Soma Mukherjee, Taketoshi Kasai, K. Mason, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Kip S. Thorne, Badri Krishnan, Shigemi Otsuka, S. Ray-Majumder, D. Busby, Curt Cutler, T. Findley, C. Gray, Kentaro Somiya, Naoki Seto, D. Ouimette, M. C. Araya, Antony C. Searle, V. V. Frolov, Kevin M. Carter, Frank Seifert, C. N. Colacino, S. B. Anderson, A. Grant, S. Liu, V. Parameshwaraiah, L. Zhang, V. P. Mitrofanov, G. Traylor, Kenji Numata, Masaki Ando, Thomas Corbitt, Akiteru Takamori, Yusaku Hamuro, Joseph M. Kovalik, D. Chin, Stanislav Babak, Walid A. Majid, Yi Chen, M. Hennessy, Q. Z. Shu, David B. Tanner, M. W. Regehr, M. Sung, Duncan A. Brown, S. Wise, S. Grunewald, Brent Ware, Kouichi Sato, M. Pedraza, Maria Alessandra Papa, T. Akutsu, Kenneth G. Libbrecht, Kent Blackburn, N. A. Robertson, Carlo Ungarelli, Walter Winkler, Morag M. Casey, Harald Lück, P. R. Williams, M. Heurs, Toshikazu Suzuki, B. J. Winjum, A. Marin, Yoshio Nishi, A. C. Melissinos, B. Bochner, Massimo Tinto, David Crooks, Philippe Grandclément, P. J. Sutton, Haisheng Rong, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, N. Hindman, Toshifumi Futamase, P. Ehrens, K. Wette, Timothy Evans, R. Coldwell, D. Sigg, S. W. Ballmer, Y. Tsunesada, G. Moreno, J. Logan, R. K. Nayak, Yoshikazu Karasawa, R. J. Dupuis, Youhei Sato, H. Tariq, Shigenori Moriwaki, Vuk Mandic, Ken-ichi Ueda, J. A. Giaime, Katsuaki Kasahara, Eric K. Gustafson, T. T. Lyons, Albert Lazzarini, J. G. Rollins, T. Delker, F. Asiri, S. E. Whitcomb, Adrian C. Ottewill, K. Mailand, Krzysztof Belczynski, R. Mittleman, Kohei Takeno, B. Bland, Nelson Christensen, U. Weiland, Takahiro Tanaka, S. E. Seader, A. Hartunian, Stephen Fairhurst, O. Matherny, B. Barr, J. Worden, A. Rüdiger, Youhei Fujiki, R. Riesen, Roland Schilling, Nobuhiro Tsuda, Gregory M. Harry, M. Lei, I. Yakushin, Hirotaka Takahashi, T. Olson, Keisuke Taniguchi, Guenakh Mitselmakher, A. Khan, Virginio Sannibale, David E. McClelland, O. Spjeld, R. Zhu, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, C. Messenger, W. Hua, L. Sievers, Thomas Cokelaer, Yuriko Yanagi, Aya Sekido, Hideki Ishizuka, D. Barker, S. Chelkowski, S. Roddy, A. M. Sintes, Lee Samuel Finn, M. Barnes, Julien Sylvestre, Yoichi Aso, L. Wallace, R. Frey, S. Márka, Takakazu Shintomi, P. J. King, D. Grimmett, Philip Nutzman, Kenneth A. Strain, A. G. Wiseman, D. C. Coyne, A. Weidner, R. A. Mercer, B. O'Reilly, P. Csatorday, M. V. Plissi, Nobuyuki Kanda, Hartmut Grote, Yukiyoshi Iida, D. Jungwirth, P. E. Lindquist, Peter Aufmuth, V. Chickarmane, B. Bhawal, S. J. Berukoff, Keiko Kokeyama, M. Ito, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and TAMA Collaboration
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Nuclear and High Energy Physics ,noise ,Frequency band ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) ,01 natural sciences ,General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology ,Coincidence ,gravitational wave detectors ,Coincident ,0103 physical sciences ,black-hole coalescences ,ddc:530 ,010303 astronomy & astrophysics ,QC ,Physics ,010308 nuclear & particles physics ,Gravitational wave ,Bandwidth (signal processing) ,Detector ,LIGO ,Amplitude ,gravitational waves ,light interferometry ,network ,Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik - Abstract
We report on the first joint search for gravitational waves by the TAMA and LIGO collaborations. We looked for millisecond-duration unmodelled gravitational-wave bursts in 473 hr of coincident data collected during early 2003. No candidate signals were found. We set an upper limit of 0.12 events per day on the rate of detectable gravitational-wave bursts, at 90% confidence level. From simulations, we estimate that our detector network was sensitive to bursts with root-sum-square strain amplitude above approximately 1-3x10^{-19} Hz^{-1/2} in the frequency band 700-2000 Hz. We describe the details of this collaborative search, with particular emphasis on its advantages and disadvantages compared to searches by LIGO and TAMA separately using the same data. Benefits include a lower background and longer observation time, at some cost in sensitivity and bandwidth. We also demonstrate techniques for performing coincidence searches with a heterogeneous network of detectors with different noise spectra and orientations. These techniques include using coordinated signal injections to estimate the network sensitivity, and tuning the analysis to maximize the sensitivity and the livetime, subject to constraints on the background., Comment: 15 pages, 11 figures, to be submitted to Phys Rev D. Updated author list
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