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1. Aquatic Organic Matter in the Seine Basin: Sources, Spatio-Temporal Variability, Impact of Urban Discharges and Influence on Micro-pollutant Speciation

Author: Varrault, G., Parlanti, E., Matar, Z., Garnier, J., Nguyen, P. T., Derenne, S., Rocher, V., Muresan, B., Louis, Y., Soares-Pereira, C., Goffin, A., Benedetti, M. F., Bressy, A., Gelabert, A., Guo, Y., Cordier, M.-A., Hutzinger, Otto, Founding Editor, Barceló, Damià, Series Editor, Kostianoy, Andrey G., Series Editor, de Boer, Jacob, Editorial Board Member, Garrigues, Philippe, Editorial Board Member, Gu, Ji-Dong, Editorial Board Member, Jones, Kevin C., Editorial Board Member, Knepper, Thomas P., Editorial Board Member, Negm, Abdelazim M., Editorial Board Member, Newton, Alice, Editorial Board Member, Nghiem, Duc Long, Editorial Board Member, Garcia-Segura, Sergi, Editorial Board Member, Flipo, Nicolas, editor, Labadie, Pierre, editor, Lestel, Laurence, editor, Alligant, S., With Contri. by, Alliot, F., With Contri. by, Anglade, J., With Contri. by, Ansart, P., With Contri. by, Ayrault, S., With Contri. by, Azimi, S., With Contri. by, Baratelli, F., With Contri. by, Barjhoux, I., With Contri. by, Barles, S., With Contri. by, Beaudoin, N., With Contri. by, Belliard, J., With Contri. by, Benedetti, M. F., With Contri. by, Berthe, T., With Contri. by, Beslagic, S., With Contri. by, Bigot-Clivot, A., With Contri. by, Billen, G., With Contri. by, Blanchard, M., With Contri. by, Blanchoud, H., With Contri. by, Boé, J., With Contri. by, Bonnard, M., With Contri. by, Bonnet, R., With Contri. by, Boust, D., With Contri. by, Bressy, A., With Contri. by, Briand, C., With Contri. by, Brignon, J.-M., With Contri. by, Budzinski, H., With Contri. by, Carré, C., With Contri. by, Chevreuil, M., With Contri. by, Chong, N., With Contri. by, Collard, F., With Contri. by, Cordier, M.-A., With Contri. by, Dedourge-Geffard, O., With Contri. by, Derenne, S., With Contri. by, Deroubaix, J.-F., With Contri. by, Desportes, A., With Contri. by, Dris, R., With Contri. by, Eschbach, D., With Contri. by, Esculier, F., With Contri. by, Euzen, A., With Contri. by, Gallois, N., With Contri. by, Flipo, N., With Contri. by, Garnier, J., With Contri. by, Gasperi, J., With Contri. by, Gateuille, D., With Contri. by, Geffard, A., With Contri. by, Gelabert, A., With Contri. by, Gob, F., With Contri. by, Goffin, A., With Contri. by, Goutte, A., With Contri. by, Groleau, A., With Contri. by, Guigon, E., With Contri. by, Guillon, S., With Contri. by, Guo, Y., With Contri. by, Habets, F., With Contri. by, Haghe, J.-P., With Contri. by, Labadie, P., With Contri. by, Labarthe, B., With Contri. by, Le Noë, J., With Contri. by, Le Pichon, C., With Contri. by, Léonard, J., With Contri. by, Lestel, L., With Contri. by, Lorgeoux, C., With Contri. by, Louis, Y., With Contri. by, Lucas, F. S., With Contri. by, Marescaux, A., With Contri. by, Mary, B., With Contri. by, Matar, Z., With Contri. by, Meybeck, M., With Contri. by, Mignolet, C., With Contri. by, Moilleron, R., With Contri. by, Mouchel, J.-M., With Contri. by, Moulin, L., With Contri. by, Muresan, B., With Contri. by, Nguyen, P. T., With Contri. by, Oziol, L., With Contri. by, Palos-Ladeiro, M., With Contri. by, Parlanti, E., With Contri. by, Passy, P., With Contri. by, Petit, F., With Contri. by, Puech, T., With Contri. by, Queyrel, W., With Contri. by, Raimonet, M., With Contri. by, Riviére, A., With Contri. by, Rocher, V., With Contri. by, Schott, C., With Contri. by, Schuite, J., With Contri. by, Seguin, L., With Contri. by, Servais, P., With Contri. by, Silvestre, M., With Contri. by, Soares-Pereira, C., With Contri. by, Tales, E., With Contri. by, Tallec, G., With Contri. by, Tassin, B., With Contri. by, Teil, M.-J., With Contri. by, Théry, S., With Contri. by, Thevenot, D., With Contri. by, Thieu, V., With Contri. by, Tournebize, J., With Contri. by, Tramoy, R., With Contri. by, Treilles, R., With Contri. by, Varrault, G., With Contri. by, Viennot, P., With Contri. by, Vilmin, L., With Contri. by, and Wurtzer, S., With Contri. by
Published: 2021
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2. Raman tailored photonic-crystal-fiber for telecom band photon-pair generation

Author: Cordier, M., Orieux, A., Gabet, R., HarlÉ, T., Dubreuil, N., Diamanti, E., Delaye, P., and Zaquine, I.
Subjects: Physics - Optics, Quantum Physics
Abstract: We report on the experimental characterization of a novel nonlinear liquid-filled hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber for the generation of photon pairs at telecommunication wavelength through spontaneous four-wave-mixing. We show that the optimization procedure in view of this application links the choice of the nonlinear liquid to the design parameters of the fiber, and we give an example of such an optimization at telecom wavelengths. Combining the modeling of the fiber and classical characterization techniques at these wavelengths, we identify, for the chosen fiber and liquid combination, spontaneous four-wave-mixing phase matching frequency ranges with no Raman scattering noise contamination. This is a first step toward obtaining a telecom band fibered photon-pair source with a high signal-to-noise ratio., Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, journal
Published: 2017
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3. Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador., Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. 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L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., and Zucker, M. E.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: In 2009-2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observa- tory (LIGO) operated together with international partners Virgo and GEO600 as a network to search for gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. The sensitiv- ity of these detectors was limited by a combination of noise sources inherent to the instrumental design and its environment, often localized in time or frequency, that couple into the gravitational-wave readout. Here we review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the de- tectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of LIGO to a variety of astrophysical sources., Comment: 31 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2014
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4. Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two co-located LIGO Hanford detectors

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amado., Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderó., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Searches for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) using terrestrial detectors typically involve cross-correlating data from pairs of detectors. The sensitivity of such cross-correlation analyses depends, among other things, on the separation between the two detectors: the smaller the separation, the better the sensitivity. Hence, a co-located detector pair is more sensitive to a gravitational-wave background than a non-co-located detector pair. However, co-located detectors are also expected to suffer from correlated noise from instrumental and environmental effects that could contaminate the measurement of the background. Hence, methods to identify and mitigate the effects of correlated noise are necessary to achieve the potential increase in sensitivity of co-located detectors. Here we report on the first SGWB analysis using the two LIGO Hanford detectors and address the complications arising from correlated environmental noise. We apply correlated noise identification and mitigation techniques to data taken by the two LIGO Hanford detectors, H1 and H2, during LIGO's fifth science run. At low frequencies, 40 - 460 Hz, we are unable to sufficiently mitigate the correlated noise to a level where we may confidently measure or bound the stochastic gravitational-wave signal. However, at high frequencies, 460-1000 Hz, these techniques are sufficient to set a $95%$ confidence level (C.L.) upper limit on the gravitational-wave energy density of \Omega(f)<7.7 x 10^{-4} (f/ 900 Hz)^3, which improves on the previous upper limit by a factor of $\sim 180$. In doing so, we demonstrate techniques that will be useful for future searches using advanced detectors, where correlated noise (e.g., from global magnetic fields) may affect even widely separated detectors., Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables
Published: 2014
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5. Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo Data

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C., Colombini, M., Cominsky, L., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corpuz, A., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gravitational waves from a variety of sources are predicted to superpose to create a stochastic background. This background is expected to contain unique information from throughout the history of the universe that is unavailable through standard electromagnetic observations, making its study of fundamental importance to understanding the evolution of the universe. We carry out a search for the stochastic background with the latest data from LIGO and Virgo. Consistent with predictions from most stochastic gravitational-wave background models, the data display no evidence of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal. Assuming a gravitational-wave spectrum of Omega_GW(f)=Omega_alpha*(f/f_ref)^alpha, we place 95% confidence level upper limits on the energy density of the background in each of four frequency bands spanning 41.5-1726 Hz. In the frequency band of 41.5-169.25 Hz for a spectral index of alpha=0, we constrain the energy density of the stochastic background to be Omega_GW(f)<5.6x10^-6. For the 600-1000 Hz band, Omega_GW(f)<0.14*(f/900 Hz)^3, a factor of 2.5 lower than the best previously reported upper limits. We find Omega_GW(f)<1.8x10^-4 using a spectral index of zero for 170-600 Hz and Omega_GW(f)<1.0*(f/1300 Hz)^3 for 1000-1726 Hz, bands in which no previous direct limits have been placed. The limits in these four bands are the lowest direct measurements to date on the stochastic background. We discuss the implications of these results in light of the recent claim by the BICEP2 experiment of the possible evidence for inflationary gravitational waves., Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Published: 2014
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6. First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. 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H., Rhoades, E., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Scheuer, J., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Stebbins, J., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S., Stone, R., Stops, D., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S. S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the first results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown spinning neutron stars in binary systems using LIGO and Virgo data. Using a specially developed analysis program, the TwoSpect algorithm, the search was carried out on data from the sixth LIGO Science Run and the second and third Virgo Science Runs. The search covers a range of frequencies from 20 Hz to 520 Hz, a range of orbital periods from 2 to ~2,254 h and a frequency- and period-dependent range of frequency modulation depths from 0.277 to 100 mHz. This corresponds to a range of projected semi-major axes of the orbit from ~0.6e-3 ls to ~6,500 ls assuming the orbit of the binary is circular. While no plausible candidate gravitational wave events survive the pipeline, upper limits are set on the analyzed data. The most sensitive 95% confidence upper limit obtained on gravitational wave strain is 2.3e-24 at 217 Hz, assuming the source waves are circularly polarized. Although this search has been optimized for circular binary orbits, the upper limits obtained remain valid for orbital eccentricities as large as 0.9. In addition, upper limits are placed on continuous gravitational wave emission from the low-mass x-ray binary Scorpius X-1 between 20 Hz and 57.25 Hz., Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2014
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7. Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. 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A., Mavalvala, N., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McLin, K., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meinders, M., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyers, P., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Milde, S., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mishra, C., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Moesta, P., Moggi, A., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Kumar, D. Nanda, Nardecchia, I., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R. K., Necula, V., Nelemans, G., Neri, I., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E. N., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palashov, O., Palomba, C., Pan, H., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poteomkin, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Premachandra, S., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Qin, J., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quiroga, G., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Ramirez, K., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Read, J., Reed, C. M., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Rhoades, E., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Scheuer, J., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. 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S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009 - October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range up to $\sim 200$ Mpc, averaged over the possible sky positions and inclinations of the binaries with respect to the line of sight. No significant candidate was found. Upper limits on the coalescence-rate density of nonspinning IMBHBs with total masses between 100 and $450 \ \mbox{M}_{\odot}$ and mass ratios between $0.25$ and $1\,$ were placed by combining this analysis with an analogous search performed on data from the first LIGO-Virgo joint science run (November 2005 - October 2007). The most stringent limit was set for systems consisting of two $88 \ \mbox{M}_{\odot}$ black holes and is equal to $0.12 \ \mbox{Mpc}^{-3} \ \mbox{Myr}^{-1}$ at the $90\%$ confidence level. This paper also presents the first estimate, for the case of an unmodeled analysis, of the impact on the search range of IMBHB spin configurations: the visible volume for IMBHBs with nonspinning components is roughly doubled for a population of IMBHBs with spins aligned with the binary's orbital angular momentum and uniformly distributed in the dimensionless spin parameter up to 0.8, whereas an analogous population with antialigned spins decreases the visible volume by $\sim 20\%\,$., Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, data for plots and archived public version at https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1300158/public, see also the public announcement at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6IMBH/index.php, updated bibliography
Published: 2014
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8. Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M . G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Benacquista, M., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C., Colombini, M., Cominsky, L., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corpuz, A., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Dolique, V., Donath, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dossa, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Ducrot, M., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edo, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Eggenstein, H., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favata, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Gaonkar, S., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Gendre, B., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Goggin, L. M., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Gräf, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hart, M., Hartman, M. T., Haster, C. -J., Haughian, K., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hooper, S., Hopkins, P., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jaranowski, P., Ji, Y., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Haris, K., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Karlen, J., Kasprzack, M., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keiser, G. M., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, N. G., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D. B., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, D. Nanda, Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kuo, L., Kutynia, A., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Lazzaro, C., Leaci, P., Leavey, S., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Roux, A. Le, Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levin, Y., Levine, B., Lewis, J., Li, T. G. F., Libbrecht, K., Libson, A., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Luijten, E., Lundgren, A. P., Lynch, R., Ma, Y., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E. P., MacDonald, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Maglione, C., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mangini, N., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martinelli, L., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McLin, K., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meinders, M., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyers, P., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Milde, S., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mishra, C., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Moesta, P., Moggi, A., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Nardecchia, I., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R. K., Necula, V., Nelemans, G., Neri, I., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E. N., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The search was sensitive to astrophysical sources that produced damped sinusoid gravitational wave signals, also known as ringdowns, with frequency $50\le f_{0}/\mathrm{Hz} \le 2000$ and decay timescale $0.0001\lesssim \tau/\mathrm{s} \lesssim 0.1$ characteristic of those produced in mergers of IMBH pairs. No significant gravitational wave candidate was detected. We report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of IMBHs with total binary mass $50 \le M/\mathrm{M}_\odot \le 450$ and component mass ratios of either 1:1 or 4:1. For systems with total mass $100 \le M/\mathrm{M}_\odot \le 150$, we report a 90%-confidence upper limit on the rate of binary IMBH mergers with non-spinning and equal mass components of $6.9\times10^{-8}\,$Mpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$. We also report a rate upper limit for ringdown waveforms from perturbed IMBHs, radiating 1% of their mass as gravitational waves in the fundamental, $\ell=m=2$, oscillation mode, that is nearly three orders of magnitude more stringent than previous results., Comment: for the science summary, see http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5S6RD/index.php
Published: 2014
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9. Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data

Author: Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Borkowski, K., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C., Colombini, M., Cominsky, L., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corpuz, A., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Donath, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorosh, O., Dossa, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edo, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Eggenstein, H., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favata, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Gaonkar, S., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We present an implementation of the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic to carry out the first search in data from the Virgo laser interferometric gravitational wave detector for periodic gravitational waves from a priori unknown, isolated rotating neutron stars. We searched a frequency $f_0$ range from 100 Hz to 1 kHz and the frequency dependent spindown $f_1$ range from $-1.6\,(f_0/100\,{\rm Hz}) \times 10^{-9}\,$ Hz/s to zero. A large part of this frequency - spindown space was unexplored by any of the all-sky searches published so far. Our method consisted of a coherent search over two-day periods using the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic, followed by a search for coincidences among the candidates from the two-day segments. We have introduced a number of novel techniques and algorithms that allow the use of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm in the coherent part of the search resulting in a fifty-fold speed-up in computation of the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic with respect to the algorithm used in the other pipelines. No significant gravitational wave signal was found. The sensitivity of the search was estimated by injecting signals into the data. In the most sensitive parts of the detector band more than 90% of signals would have been detected with dimensionless gravitational-wave amplitude greater than $5 \times 10^{-24}$., Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to CQG, corrected affiliations and autors list; Science summary of results available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-VSR1CWAllSkyFstat/index.php
Published: 2014
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10. The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Collaboration, the NINJA-2, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. 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J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Stebbins, J., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S., Stone, R., Stops, D., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S. S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., Zweizig, J., Boyle, M., Brügmann, B., Buchman, L. T., Campanelli, M., Chu, T., Etienne, Z. B., Hannam, M., Healy, J., Hinder, I., Kidder, L. E., Laguna, P., Liu, Y. T., London, L., Lousto, C. O., Lovelace, G., MacDonald, I., Marronetti, P., Mösta, P., Müller, D., Mundim, B. C., Nakano, H., Paschalidis, V., Pekowsky, L., Pollney, D., Pfeiffer, H. P., Ponce, M., Pürrer, M., Reifenberger, G., Reisswig, C., Santamaría, L., Scheel, M. A., Shapiro, S. L., Shoemaker, D., Sopuerta, C. F., Sperhake, U., Szilágyi, B., Taylor, N. W., Tichy, W., Tsatsin, P., and Zlochower, Y.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astrophysics communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the ability to detect gravitational waves emitted from merging binary black holes and recover their parameters with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. We report here on the results of the second NINJA project, NINJA-2, which employs 60 complete binary black hole hybrid waveforms consisting of a numerical portion modelling the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown stitched to a post-Newtonian portion modelling the early inspiral. In a "blind injection challenge" similar to that conducted in recent LIGO and Virgo science runs, we added 7 hybrid waveforms to two months of data recolored to predictions of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo sensitivity curves during their first observing runs. The resulting data was analyzed by gravitational-wave detection algorithms and 6 of the waveforms were recovered with false alarm rates smaller than 1 in a thousand years. Parameter estimation algorithms were run on each of these waveforms to explore the ability to constrain the masses, component angular momenta and sky position of these waveforms. We also perform a large-scale monte-carlo study to assess the ability to recover each of the 60 hybrid waveforms with early Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo sensitivity curves. Our results predict that early Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will have a volume-weighted average sensitive distance of 300Mpc (1Gpc) for $10M_{\odot}+10M_{\odot}$ ($50M_{\odot}+50M_{\odot}$) binary black hole coalescences. We demonstrate that neglecting the component angular momenta in the waveform models used in matched-filtering will result in a reduction in sensitivity for systems with large component angular momenta. [Abstract abridged for ArXiv, full version in PDF], Comment: 52 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables
Published: 2014
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11. Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the 5th LIGO science run

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglia, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R. T., De Rosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endroczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kucharczyk, C., Kudla, S., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Leaci, P., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Roux, A. Le, Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levine, B., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Li, T. G. F., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lloyd, D., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martinelli, L., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., May, G., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Mokler, F., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Kumar, D. Nanda, Nardecchia, I., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R., Necula, V., Nelemans, G., Neri, I., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishida, E., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., Larcher, W. Ortega, O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Ou, J., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pindor, B., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poole, V., Poux, C., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Roever, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sanders, J., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Soden, K., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stevens, D., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. Y., Vitale, S., Vlcek, B., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vrinceanu, D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wibowo, S., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range $\mathrm{50-1000 Hz}$ with the first derivative of frequency in the range $-8.9 \times 10^{-10}$ Hz/s to zero in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run. Our results employ a Hough transform technique, introducing a $\chi^2$ test and analysis of coincidences between the signal levels in years 1 and 2 of observations that offers a significant improvement in the product of strain sensitivity with compute cycles per data sample compared to previously published searches. Since our search yields no surviving candidates, we present results taking the form of frequency dependent, 95$%$ confidence upper limits on the strain amplitude $h_0$. The most stringent upper limit from year 1 is $1.0\times 10^{-24}$ in the $\mathrm{158.00-158.25 Hz}$ band. In year 2, the most stringent upper limit is $\mathrm{8.9\times10^{-25}}$ in the $\mathrm{146.50-146.75 Hz}$ band. This improved detection pipeline, which is computationally efficient by at least two orders of magnitude better than our flagship Einstein$@$Home search, will be important for "quick-look" searches in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector era., Comment: Accepted in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Science summary of results available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5CWHough/index.php
Published: 2013
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12. Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavagliá, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endröczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. 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L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmic strings can give rise to a large variety of interesting astrophysical phenomena. Among them, powerful bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by cusps are a promising observational signature. In this Letter we present a search for GWs from cosmic string cusps in data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors between 2005 and 2010, with over 625 days of live time. We find no evidence of GW signals from cosmic strings. From this result, we derive new constraints on cosmic string parameters, which complement and improve existing limits from previous searches for a stochastic background of GWs from cosmic microwave background measurements and pulsar timing data. In particular, if the size of loops is given by the gravitational backreaction scale, we place upper limits on the string tension $G\mu$ below $10^{-8}$ in some regions of the cosmic string parameter space.
Published: 2013
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13. First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: During the LIGO and Virgo joint science runs in 2009-2010, gravitational wave (GW) data from three interferometer detectors were analyzed within minutes to select GW candidate events and infer their apparent sky positions. Target coordinates were transmitted to several telescopes for follow-up observations aimed at the detection of an associated optical transient. Images were obtained for eight such GW candidates. We present the methods used to analyze the image data as well as the transient search results. No optical transient was identified with a convincing association with any of these candidates, and none of the GW triggers showed strong evidence for being astrophysical in nature. We compare the sensitivities of these observations to several model light curves from possible sources of interest, and discuss prospects for future joint GW-optical observations of this type., Comment: 24 pages
Published: 2013
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14. Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. 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A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Roever, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Soden, K., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stevens, D., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vlcek, B., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vrinceanu, D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wibowo, S., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive stars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We investigate models of long-lived (~10-1000s) GW emission associated with the accretion disk of a collapsed star or with its protoneutron star remnant. Using data from LIGO's fifth science run, and GRB triggers from the swift experiment, we perform a search for unmodeled long-lived GW transients. Finding no evidence of GW emission, we place 90% confidence level upper limits on the GW fluence at Earth from long GRBs for three waveforms inspired by a model of GWs from accretion disk instabilities. These limits range from F<3.5 ergs cm^-2 to $F<1200 ergs cm^-2, depending on the GRB and on the model, allowing us to probe optimistic scenarios of GW production out to distances as far as ~33 Mpc. Advanced detectors are expected to achieve strain sensitivities 10x better than initial LIGO, potentially allowing us to probe the engines of the nearest long GRBs., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2013
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15. A directed search for continuous Gravitational Waves from the Galactic Center

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavagliá, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endröczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kucharczyk, C., Kudla, S., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Roux, A. Le, Leaci, P., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levine, B., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Li, T. G. F., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lloyd, D., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martinelli, L., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., May, G., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Mokler, F., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Kumar, D. Nanda, Nardecchia, I., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R., Necula, V., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishida, E., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., Larcher, W. Ortega, O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Ou, J., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pindor, B., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poole, V., Poux, C., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Roever, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Soden, K., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stevens, D., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vlcek, B., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vrinceanu, D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wibowo, S., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrony, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of a directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown, isolated neutron stars in the Galactic Center region, performed on two years of data from LIGO's fifth science run from two LIGO detectors. The search uses a semi-coherent approach, analyzing coherently 630 segments, each spanning 11.5 hours, and then incoherently combining the results of the single segments. It covers gravitational wave frequencies in a range from 78 to 496 Hz and a frequency-dependent range of first order spindown values down to -7.86 x 10^-8 Hz/s at the highest frequency. No gravitational waves were detected. We place 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic Center. Placing 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic Center, we reach ~3.35x10^-25 for frequencies near 150 Hz. These upper limits are the most constraining to date for a large-parameter-space search for continuous gravitational wave signals., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; PDFLaTeX; to be published in Phys.Rev.D; a science summary can be found at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GCSearch/index.php
Published: 2013
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16. Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kucharczyk, C., Kudla, S., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Roux, A. Le, Leaci, P., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levine, B., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Li, T. G. F., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lloyd, D., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper., Comment: Version accepted by The Astrophysical Journal. Science summary of results available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6VSR24KnownPulsar/
Published: 2013
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17. Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network

Author: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compact binary systems with neutron stars or black holes are one of the most promising sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Gravitational radiation encodes rich information about source physics; thus parameter estimation and model selection are crucial analysis steps for any detection candidate events. Detailed models of the anticipated waveforms enable inference on several parameters, such as component masses, spins, sky location and distance that are essential for new astrophysical studies of these sources. However, accurate measurements of these parameters and discrimination of models describing the underlying physics are complicated by artifacts in the data, uncertainties in the waveform models and in the calibration of the detectors. Here we report such measurements on a selection of simulated signals added either in hardware or software to the data collected by the two LIGO instruments and the Virgo detector during their most recent joint science run, including a "blind injection" where the signal was not initially revealed to the collaboration. We exemplify the ability to extract information about the source physics on signals that cover the neutron star and black hole parameter space over the individual mass range 1 Msun - 25 Msun and the full range of spin parameters. The cases reported in this study provide a snap-shot of the status of parameter estimation in preparation for the operation of advanced detectors., Comment: 23 pages, 18 figures. LIGO Document P1200021. See the announcement for this paper on ligo.org at: http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6PE/index.php. For a repository of data used in the publication, go to: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1200021/public; Modifications thanks to referee reports
Published: 2013
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18. Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. 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M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thuering, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20) Msun coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for non-spinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on component spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We find an upper limit at 90% confidence on the coalescence rate of BBH with non-spinning components of mass between 19 and 28 Msun of 3.3 \times 10^-7 mergers /Mpc^3 /yr., Comment: 15 pages PDFLaTeX, minor changes to correspond with published version. An archived version with data for plots and tables is at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1200024 . A Science Summary of the paper for education and public outreach is at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6CBCHM/index.php
Published: 2012
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19. Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endröczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Farr, B. F., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M. A., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gelencser, G., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Langley, A., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Lhuillier, V., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Lindquist, P. E., Litvine, V., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Logue, J., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow--Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Oldenberg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pihlaja, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pöld, J., Postiglione, F., Poux, C., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, M., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Röver, C., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sankar, S., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Saracco, E., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., and Anderson, D. P.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: This paper presents results of an all-sky searches for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range [50, 1190] Hz and with frequency derivative ranges of [-2 x 10^-9, 1.1 x 10^-10] Hz/s for the fifth LIGO science run (S5). The novelty of the search lies in the use of a non-coherent technique based on the Hough-transform to combine the information from coherent searches on timescales of about one day. Because these searches are very computationally intensive, they have been deployed on the Einstein@Home distributed computing project infrastructure. The search presented here is about a factor 3 more sensitive than the previous Einstein@Home search in early S5 LIGO data. The post-processing has left us with eight surviving candidates. We show that deeper follow-up studies rule each of them out. Hence, since no statistically significant gravitational wave signals have been detected, we report upper limits on the intrinsic gravitational wave amplitude h0. For example, in the 0.5 Hz-wide band at 152.5 Hz, we can exclude the presence of signals with h0 greater than 7.6 x 10^-25 with a 90% confidence level., Comment: 29 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables. Science summary page at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-FullS5EatH/index.php ; Public access area to figures and tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1200026
Published: 2012
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20. A First Search for coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007

Author: The ANTARES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Samarai, I. Al, Albert, A., André, M., Anghinolfi, M., Anton, G., Anvar, S., Ardid, M., Astraatmadja, T., Aubert, J-J., Baret, B., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bigongiari, C., Bogazzi, C., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouhou, B., Bouwhuis, M. C., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Cârloganu, C., Carr, J., Cecchini, S., Charif, Z., Charvis, Ph., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Core, L., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., Curtil, C., De Bonis, G., Decowski, M. P., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Eberl, T., Emanuele, U., Enzenhöfer, A., Ernenwein, J-P., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Fermani, P., Ferri, M., Ferry, S., Flaminio, V., Folger, F., Fritsch, U., Fuda, J-L., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geyer, K., Giacomelli, G., Giordano, V., Gómez-González, J. P., Graf, K., Guillard, G., Hallewell, G., Hamal, M., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herold, B., Hößl, J., Hsu, C. C., de Jong, M., Kadler, M., Kalekin, O., Kappes, A., Katz, U., Kavatsyuk, O., Kooijman, P., Kopper, C., Kouchner, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lambard, G., Larosa, G., Lattuada, D., Lefèvre, D., Lim, G., Presti, D. Lo, Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Louis, F., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Meli, A., Montaruli, T., Morganti, M., Moscoso, L., Motz, H., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Payet, K., Petrovic, J., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Presani, E., Racca, C., Reed, C., Riccobene, G., Richardt, C., Richter, R., Rivière, C., Robert, A., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Ruiz-Rivas, J., Rujoiu, M., Russo, G. V., Samtleben, D. F. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of the first search for gravitational wave bursts associated with high energy neutrinos. Together, these messengers could reveal new, hidden sources that are not observed by conventional photon astronomy, particularly at high energy. Our search uses neutrinos detected by the underwater neutrino telescope ANTARES in its 5 line configuration during the period January - September 2007, which coincided with the fifth and first science runs of LIGO and Virgo, respectively. The LIGO-Virgo data were analysed for candidate gravitational-wave signals coincident in time and direction with the neutrino events. No significant coincident events were observed. We place limits on the density of joint high energy neutrino - gravitational wave emission events in the local universe, and compare them with densities of merger and core-collapse events., Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures, science summary page at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5LV_ANTARES/index.php. Public access area to figures, tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1200006
Published: 2012
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21. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the results of a search for gravitational waves associated with 154 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments in 2009-2010, during the sixth LIGO science run and the second and third Virgo science runs. We perform two distinct searches: a modeled search for coalescences of either two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole; and a search for generic, unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts. We find no evidence for gravitational-wave counterparts, either with any individual GRB in this sample or with the population as a whole. For all GRBs we place lower bounds on the distance to the progenitor, under the optimistic assumption of a gravitational-wave emission energy of 10^-2 M c^2 at 150 Hz, with a median limit of 17 Mpc. For short hard GRBs we place exclusion distances on binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole progenitors, using astrophysically motivated priors on the source parameters, with median values of 16 Mpc and 28 Mpc respectively. These distance limits, while significantly larger than for a search that is not aided by GRB satellite observations, are not large enough to expect a coincidence with a GRB. However, projecting these exclusions to the sensitivities of Advanced LIGO and Virgo, which should begin operation in 2015, we find that the detection of gravitational waves associated with GRBs will become quite possible., Comment: Accepted by ApJ. 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, science summary page at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6GRB/index.php . Public access area to figures, tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1000121
Published: 2012
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22. Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events

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D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menendez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Muller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Oldenberg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pihlaja, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pold, J., Postiglione, F., Poux, C., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, M., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rover, C., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sankar, S., Sannibale, V., Santamaria, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thuring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the first multi-wavelength follow-up observations of two candidate gravitational-wave (GW) transient events recorded by LIGO and Virgo in their 2009-2010 science run. The events were selected with low latency by the network of GW detectors and their candidate sky locations were observed by the Swift observatory. Image transient detection was used to analyze the collected electromagnetic data, which were found to be consistent with background. Off-line analysis of the GW data alone has also established that the selected GW events show no evidence of an astrophysical origin; one of them is consistent with background and the other one was a test, part of a "blind injection challenge". With this work we demonstrate the feasibility of rapid follow-ups of GW transients and establish the sensitivity improvement joint electromagnetic and GW observations could bring. This is a first step toward an electromagnetic follow-up program in the regime of routine detections with the advanced GW instruments expected within this decade. In that regime multi-wavelength observations will play a significant role in completing the astrophysical identification of GW sources. We present the methods and results from this first combined analysis and discuss its implications in terms of sensitivity for the present and future instruments., Comment: Submitted for publication 2012 May 25, accepted 2012 October 25, published 2012 November 21, in ApJS, 203, 28 ( http://stacks.iop.org/0067-0049/203/28 ); 14 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables; LIGO-P1100038; Science summary at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6LVSwift/index.php ; Public access area to figures, tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1100038
Published: 2012
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23. The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballinger, T., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endrőczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Farr, B. F., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M. A., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gelencser, G., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardt, A., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Langley, A., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Roux, A. Le, Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Lhuillier, V., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Lindquist, P. E., Litvine, V., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Logue, J., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Oldenberg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pihlaja, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pöld, J., Postiglione, F., Poux, C., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, M., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Röver, C., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sankar, S., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Saracco, E., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Tucker, E., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: Between 2007 and 2010 Virgo collected data in coincidence with the LIGO and GEO gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. These data have been searched for GWs emitted by cataclysmic phenomena in the universe, by non-axisymmetric rotating neutron stars or from a stochastic background in the frequency band of the detectors. The sensitivity of GW searches is limited by noise produced by the detector or its environment. It is therefore crucial to characterize the various noise sources in a GW detector. This paper reviews the Virgo detector noise sources, noise propagation, and conversion mechanisms which were identified in the three first Virgo observing runs. In many cases, these investigations allowed us to mitigate noise sources in the detector, or to selectively flag noise events and discard them from the data. We present examples from the joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo GW searches to show how well noise transients and narrow spectral lines have been identified and excluded from the Virgo data. We also discuss how detector characterization can improve the astrophysical reach of gravitational-wave searches., Comment: 50 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables
Published: 2012
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24. All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run

Author: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belletoile, A., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet-Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglia, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, O., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clark, D. E., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Del Pozzo, W., del Prete, M., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Diaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endroczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gaspar, M. E., Gemme, G., Geng, R., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., Gonzalez, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, N., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Ha, T., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardt, A., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kranz, O., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Krolak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Liguori, N., Lindquist, P. E., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Luck, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marandi, A., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McKechan, D. J. A., McWilliams, S., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Muller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pold, J., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Redwine, K., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rover, C., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sainathan, P., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaria, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Soto, J., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thuring, A., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tseng, K., Tucker, E., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present results from a search for gravitational-wave bursts in the data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010: data are analyzed when at least two of the three LIGO-Virgo detectors are in coincident operation, with a total observation time of 207 days. The analysis searches for transients of duration < 1 s over the frequency band 64-5000 Hz, without other assumptions on the signal waveform, polarization, direction or occurrence time. All identified events are consistent with the expected accidental background. We set frequentist upper limits on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts by combining this search with the previous LIGO-Virgo search on the data collected between November 2005 and October 2007. The upper limit on the rate of strong gravitational-wave bursts at the Earth is 1.3 events per year at 90% confidence. We also present upper limits on source rate density per year and Mpc^3 for sample populations of standard-candle sources. As in the previous joint run, typical sensitivities of the search in terms of the root-sum-squared strain amplitude for these waveforms lie in the range 5 10^-22 Hz^-1/2 to 1 10^-20 Hz^-1/2. The combination of the two joint runs entails the most sensitive all-sky search for generic gravitational-wave bursts and synthesizes the results achieved by the initial generation of interferometric detectors., Comment: 15 pages, 7 figures: data for plots and archived public version at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=70814&version=19, see also the public announcement at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6BurstAllSky/
Published: 2012
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25. Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes

Author: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belletoile, A., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet-Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglia, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, O., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Del Pozzo, W., del Prete, M., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Diaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endroczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gaspar, M. E., Gemme, G., Geng, R., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., Gonzalez, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, N., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Ha, T., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kranz, O., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Krolak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Liguori, N., Lindquist, P. E., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Luck, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marandi, A., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McKechan, D. J. A., McWilliams, S., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Muller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pold, J., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Redwine, K., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rover, C., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sainathan, P., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaria, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Soto, J., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thuring, A., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of non-spinning intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in the total mass range 100--450 solar masses and with the component mass ratios between 1:1 and 4:1. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the IMBH mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on 88+88 solar masses, for non-spinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc^3 per Myr at the 90% confidence level., Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures: data for plots and archived public version at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=62326, see also the public announcement at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5IMBH/
Published: 2012
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26. Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz

Author: Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belletoile, A., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, O., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clark, D. E., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Del Pozzo, W., del Prete, M., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endrőczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gemme, G., Geng, R., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, N., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Ha, T., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kranz, O., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Liguori, N., Lindquist, P. E., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marandi, A., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McKechan, D. J. A., McWilliams, S., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow--Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pöld, J., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Redwine, K., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Röver, C., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sainathan, P., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Soto, J., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zadroźny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of many incoherent sources of gravitational waves, of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. This background is a target for the current generation of ground-based detectors. In this article we present the first joint search for a stochastic background using data from the LIGO and Virgo interferometers. In a frequency band of 600-1000 Hz, we obtained a 95% upper limit on the amplitude of $\Omega_{\rm GW}(f) = \Omega_3 (f/900 \mathrm{Hz})^3$, of $\Omega_3 < 0.33$, assuming a value of the Hubble parameter of $h_{100}=0.72$. These new limits are a factor of seven better than the previous best in this frequency band., Comment: 29 pages, 6 figures. For a repository of data used in the publication, please see https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=22210. Also see the announcement for this paper at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5VSR1StochIso/
Published: 2011
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27. Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3

Author: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G. S., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belletoile, A., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brummit, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, O., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., del Prete, M., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., DiGuglielmo, J., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endröczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Farr, W., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Ganija, M. R., Garcia, J., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gemme, G., Geng, R., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, N., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Ha, T., Hage, B., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardt, A., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., Jang, H., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kamaretsos, I., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B., Kim, C., Kim, D., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, P. J., Kinsey, M., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. M., Leindecker, N., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Liguori, N., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marandi, A., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menendez, D., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Moesta, P., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow--Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Nawrodt, R., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pöld, J., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C. R., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Redwine, K., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Röver, C., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Ryll, H., Sainathan, P., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Samblowski, A., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sankar, S., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schlamminger, S., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. 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G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zadroźny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries using LIGO and Virgo observations between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. We searched for signals from binaries with total mass between 2 and 25 solar masses; this includes binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and binaries consisting of a black hole and neutron star. The detectors were sensitive to systems up to 40 Mpc distant for binary neutron stars, and further for higher mass systems. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass, including the results from previous LIGO and Virgo observations. The cumulative 90%-confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of binary neutron star, neutron star- black hole and binary black hole systems are 1.3 x 10^{-4}, 3.1 x 10^{-5} and 6.4 x 10^{-6} Mpc^{-3}yr^{-1}, respectively. These upper limits are up to a factor 1.4 lower than previously derived limits. We also report on results from a blind injection challenge., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures. For a repository of data used in the publication, go to: . Also see the announcement for this paper on ligo.org at:
Published: 2011
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28. PDR Model Mapping of Physical Conditions via Spitzer/IRS Spectroscopy of H2: Theoretical Success toward NGC 2023-South

Author: Sheffer, Y., Wolfire, M. G., Hollenbach, D. J., Kaufman, M. J., and Cordier, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract: We use the IRS on Spitzer to observe the southern part of the reflection nebula NGC 2023, including the Southern Ridge, which is a photodissociation region par excellence excited by HD 37903. Five pure-rotational H2 emission lines are detected and mapped over and around the Southern Ridge in order to compare with predicted level column densities from theoretical PDR models. We find very good agreement between PDR model predictions and emission line intensities and ratios measured with Spitzer, leading us to conclude that grain photoelectric heating sufficiently warms the gas to produce the observed H2 line emission via collisional excitation. On the Southern Ridge, we infer a hydrogen nucleus density n_H approx 2x10^5 cm^-3 and radiation field strength \chi\ approx 10^4 relative to the local Galactic interstellar radiation field. This high value for \chi\ independently predicts a distance toward HD 37903 of 300 pc, and is consistent with the most recent HIPPARCOS results. Over the map we find that both n_H and \chi\ vary by a factor of sim 3. Such 2-D variations provide clues about the underlying 3-D structure of the Southern Ridge field, which appears to be the tip of a molecular cloud. We also map variations in excitation temperature and the ortho-to-para ratio, the latter attaining values of sim 1.5---2.0 on the Southern Ridge, and find that PDR modeling can readily reproduce observed ortho-to-para ratios that are < 3 for rotational excitation dominated by collisional processes. Last, the stars Sellgren C and G are discovered to be resolved on archival HST images into two point sources each, with separations of lesssim 0.5"., Comment: 16 pages, 13 figures, to be published in 2011 Nov 1 issue of ApJ
Published: 2011
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29. All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Full S5 LIGO Data

Author: Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G. S., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belletoile, A., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brummit, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Cain, J., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, O., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., del Prete, M., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endrőczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Farr, W., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Ganija, M. R., Garcia, J., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gemme, G., Geng, R., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 50-800 Hz and with the frequency time derivative in the range of 0 through -6e-9 Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly non-axisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. After recent improvements in the search program that yielded a 10x increase in computational efficiency, we have searched in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run and have obtained the most sensitive all-sky upper limits on gravitational wave strain to date. Near 150 Hz our upper limit on worst-case linearly polarized strain amplitude $h_0$ is 1e-24, while at the high end of our frequency range we achieve a worst-case upper limit of 3.8e-24 for all polarizations and sky locations. These results constitute a factor of two improvement upon previously published data. A new detection pipeline utilizing a Loosely Coherent algorithm was able to follow up weaker outliers, increasing the volume of space where signals can be detected by a factor of 10, but has not revealed any gravitational wave signals. The pipeline has been tested for robustness with respect to deviations from the model of an isolated neutron star, such as caused by a low-mass or long-period binary companion., Comment: 18 pages
Published: 2011
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30. Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G. S., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belletoile, A., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. 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R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schlamminger, S., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Smith, R. J. E., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Soto, J., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Stein, A. J., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tseng, K., Turner, L., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Wei, P., Weinert, M., We, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, H. R., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zadroźny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., Akerlof, C., Boer, M., Fender, R., Gehrels, N., Klotz, A., Ofek, E. O., Smith, M., Sokolowski, M., Stappers, B. W., Steele, I., Swinbank, J., Wijers, R. A. M. J., and Zheng, W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: Aims. A transient astrophysical event observed in both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) channels would yield rich scientific rewards. A first program initiating EM follow-ups to possible transient GW events has been developed and exercised by the LIGO and Virgo community in association with several partners. In this paper, we describe and evaluate the methods used to promptly identify and localize GW event candidates and to request images of targeted sky locations. Methods. During two observing periods (Dec 17 2009 to Jan 8 2010 and Sep 2 to Oct 20 2010), a low-latency analysis pipeline was used to identify GW event candidates and to reconstruct maps of possible sky locations. A catalog of nearby galaxies and Milky Way globular clusters was used to select the most promising sky positions to be imaged, and this directional information was delivered to EM observatories with time lags of about thirty minutes. A Monte Carlo simulation has been used to evaluate the low-latency GW pipeline's ability to reconstruct source positions correctly. Results. For signals near the detection threshold, our low-latency algorithms often localized simulated GW burst signals to tens of square degrees, while neutron star/neutron star inspirals and neutron star/black hole inspirals were localized to a few hundred square degrees. Localization precision improves for moderately stronger signals. The correct sky location of signals well above threshold and originating from nearby galaxies may be observed with ~50% or better probability with a few pointings of wide-field telescopes., Comment: 17 pages. This version (v2) includes two tables and 1 section not included in v1. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Published: 2011
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31. Border correlations, lattices, and the subgraph component polynomial

Author: Blanchet-Sadri, F., Cordier, M., and Kirsch, R.
Published: 2018
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32. Synthesis, structural characterization, and chiroptical properties of planarly and axially chiral boranils

Author: Mace, A., Hamrouni, K., Matozzo, P., Coehlo, M., Firlej, J., Aloui, F., Vanthuyne, N., Caytan, E., Cordier, M., Pieters, G., Srebro-Hooper, M., Berree, F., Carboni, B., and Crassous, J.
Subjects: Planar chirality, Density functional calculations, Optical activity, Boranil, Axial chirality
Abstract: 2-Amino[2.2]paracyclophanereactswithsalicylaldehydeor2-hydroxyacetophenone to yield imines that then give access to a new series ofboranils (8b–d) upon complexation with BF2. These novel boron-containingcompounds display both planar and axial chiralities and were examined exper-imentally and computationally. In particular, their photophysical and chiropti-cal properties were studied and compared to newly prepared, simpler boranils(9a–d) exhibiting axial chirality only. Less sophisticated chiral architectureswere shown to demonstrate overall stronger circularly polarized luminescence(CPL) activity.
Published: 2023

33. Bi-decadal changes in nutrient concentrations and ratios in marine coastal ecosystems: the case of the Arcachon bay, France

Author: Lheureux, A., David, V, Del Amo, Y., Soudant, Dominique, Auby, Isabelle, Ganthy, Florian, Blanchet, H., Cordier, M-a., Costes, L., Ferreira, S., Mornet, L., Nowaczyk, A., Parra, M., D'Amico, Florence, Gouriou, Laure, Meteigner, Claire, Oger-jeanneret, Helene, Rigouin, Loic, Rumebe, Myriam, Tournaire, Marie-pierre, Trut, Florence, Trut, Gilles, Savoye, N., Lheureux, A., David, V, Del Amo, Y., Soudant, Dominique, Auby, Isabelle, Ganthy, Florian, Blanchet, H., Cordier, M-a., Costes, L., Ferreira, S., Mornet, L., Nowaczyk, A., Parra, M., D'Amico, Florence, Gouriou, Laure, Meteigner, Claire, Oger-jeanneret, Helene, Rigouin, Loic, Rumebe, Myriam, Tournaire, Marie-pierre, Trut, Florence, Trut, Gilles, and Savoye, N.
Abstract: Large amounts of nutrients have been released to the coastal ecosystems during the 20th century. Since then, management policies have been implemented and these amounts decreased in the economically developed countries. We examined the bi-decadal changes in nutrients (nitrate + nitrite, ammonium, orthophosphate and silicic acid) in the Arcachon bay, a semi-enclosed lagoon that hosts one of the largest but declining seagrass meadow in Europe. Seven sites have been sampled for nutrients and biogeochemical parameters during twenty years at low and/or high tide. In addition, continental and climatic data as well as hydro-climatic indices were used. Dynamic linear models were used to assess the bi-decadal changes in nutrient concentrations and ratios, their seasonality, and the bi-decadal changes of their potential drivers. Partial least square path modeling were used to investigate the relationships between potential abiotic drivers and nutrients. During the study period, the concentration of N and Si nutrients increased whereas the concentration of orthophosphate decreased, leading to deep changes in nutrient ratios. Clear relationships between abiotic drivers (local climate, continental inputs and the bay hydrodynamism) and N, P and Si nutrients were highlighted. However, the bi-decadal change in nutrient concentrations and ratios was mainly ascribed to the seagrass meadow decline through direct (less nutrient consumption) and indirect (increase in phytoplankton biomass) processes. Changes in temperature and wind direction may also influenced the nutrients concentrations through processes of remineralisation and flushing time, respectively. This study illustrates (1) the top-down control of seagrass on the nutrients concentrations and stoichiometry, and (2) the competition between primary producers (seagrass vs phytoplankton) for their nutrients resource.
Published: 2022
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34. Genetic counselling difficulties and ethical implications of incidental findings from array-CGH: a 7-year national survey

Author: Lefebvre, M., Sanlaville, D., Marle, N., Thauvin-Robinet, C., Gautier, E., Chehadeh, S. E., Mosca-Boidron, A.-L., Thevenon, J., Edery, P., Alex-Cordier, M.-P., Till, M., Lyonnet, S., Cormier-Daire, V., Amiel, J., Philippe, A., Romana, S., Malan, V., Afenjar, A., Marlin, S., Chantot-Bastaraud, S., Bitoun, P., Heron, B., Piparas, E., Morice-Picard, F., Moutton, S., Chassaing, N., Vigouroux-Castera, A., Lespinasse, J., Manouvrier-Hanu, S., Boute-Benejean, O., Vincent-Delorme, C., Petit, F., Meur, N. L., Marti-Dramard, M., Guerrot, A.-M., Goldenberg, A., Redon, S., Ferrec, C., Odent, S., Caignec, C. L., Mercier, S., Gilbert-Dussardier, B., Toutain, A., Arpin, S., Blesson, S., Mortemousque, I., Schaefer, E., Martin, D., Philip, N., Sigaudy, S., Busa, T., Missirian, C., Giuliano, F., Benailly, H. K., Kien, P. K.V., Leheup, B., Benneteau, C., Lambert, L., Caumes, R., Kuentz, P., François, I., Heron, D., Keren, B., Cretin, E., Callier, P., Julia, S., and Faivre, L.
Published: 2016
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35. Fetal phenotypes in otopalatodigital spectrum disorders

Author: Naudion, S., Moutton, S., Coupry, I., Sole, G., Deforges, J., Guerineau, E., Hubert, C., Deves, S., Pilliod, J., Rooryck, C., Abel, C., Le Breton, F., Collardeau-Frachon, S., Cordier, M. P., Delezoide, A. L., Goldenberg, A., Loget, P., Melki, J., Odent, S., Patrier, S., Verloes, A., Viot, G., Blesson, S., Bessières, B., Lacombe, D., Arveiler, B., Goizet, C., and Fergelot, P.
Published: 2016
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36. Effects of eight neuropsychiatric copy number variants on human brain structure

Author: Modenato, C., Kumar, K., Moreau, C., Martin-Brevet, S., Huguet, G., Schramm, C., Jean-Louis, M., Martin, C. -O., Younis, N., Tamer, P., Douard, E., Thebault-Dagher, F., Cote, V., Charlebois, A. -R., Deguire, F., Maillard, A. M., Rodriguez-Herreros, B., Pain, A., Richetin, S., Addor, M. -C., Andrieux, J., Arveiler, B., Baujat, G., Sloan-Bena, F., Belfiore, M., Bonneau, D., Bouquillon, S., Boute, O., Brusco, A., Busa, T., Caberg, J. -H., Campion, D., Colombert, V., Cordier, M. -P., David, A., Debray, F. -G., Delrue, M. -A., Doco-Fenzy, M., Dunkhase-Heinl, U., Edery, P., Fagerberg, C., Faivre, L., Forzano, F., Genevieve, D., Gerard, M., Giachino, D., Guichet, A., Guillin, O., Heron, D., Isidor, B., Jacquette, A., Jaillard, S., Journel, H., Keren, B., Lacombe, D., Lebon, S., Le Caignec, C., Lemaitre, M. -P., Lespinasse, J., Mathieu-Dramart, M., Mercier, S., Mignot, C., Missirian, C., Petit, F., Pilekaer Sorensen, K., Pinson, L., Plessis, G., Prieur, F., Raymond, A., Rooryck-Thambo, C., Rossi, M., Sanlaville, D., Schlott Kristiansen, B., Schluth-Bolard, C., Till, M., Van Haelst, M., Van Maldergem, L., Alupay, H., Aaronson, B., Ackerman, S., Ankenman, K., Anwar, A., Atwell, C., Bowe, A., Beaudet, A. L., Benedetti, M., Berg, J., Berman, J., Berry, L. N., Bibb, A. L., Blaskey, L., Brennan, J., Brewton, C. M., Buckner, R., Bukshpun, P., Burko, J., Cali, P., Cerban, B., Chang, Y., Cheong, M., Chow, V., Chu, Z., Chudnovskaya, D., Cornew, L., Dale, C., Dell, J., Dempsey, A. G., Deschamps, T., Earl, R., Edgar, J., Elgin, J., Olson, J. E., Evans, Y. L., Findlay, A., Fischbach, G. D., Fisk, C., Fregeau, B., Gaetz, B., Gaetz, L., Garza, S., Gerdts, J., Glenn, O., Gobuty, S. E., Golembski, R., Greenup, M., Heiken, K., Hines, K., Hinkley, L., Jackson, F. I., Jenkins, J., Jeremy, R. J., Johnson, K., Kanne, S. M., Kessler, S., Khan, S. Y., Ku, M., Kuschner, E., Laakman, A. L., Lam, P., Lasala, M. W., Lee, H., Laguerre, K., Levy, S., Cavanagh, A. L., Llorens, A. V., Campe, K. L., Luks, T. L., Marco, E. J., Martin, S., Martin, A. J., Marzano, G., Masson, C., Mcgovern, K. E., Keehn, R. M. N., Miller, D. T., Miller, F. K., Moss, T. J., Murray, R., Nagarajan, S. S., Nowell, K. P., Owen, J., Paal, A. M., Packer, A., Page, P. Z., Paul, B. M., Peters, A., Peterson, D., Poduri, A., Pojman, N. J., Porche, K., Proud, M. B., Qasmieh, S., Ramocki, M. B., Reilly, B., Roberts, T. P. L., Shaw, D., Sinha, T., Smith-Packard, B., Gallagher, A. S., Swarnakar, V., Thieu, T., Triantafallou, C., Vaughan, R., Wakahiro, M., Wallace, A., Ward, T., Wenegrat, J., Wolken, A., Melie-Garcia, L., Kushan, L., Silva, A. I., van den Bree, M. B. M., Linden, D. E. J., Owen, M. J., Hall, J., Lippe, S., Chakravarty, M., Bzdok, D., Bearden, C. E., Draganski, B., Jacquemont, S., Human genetics, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Complex Trait Genetics, Amsterdam Reproduction & Development (AR&D), 16p11.2 European Consortium, Simons Searchlight Consortium, Psychiatrie & Neuropsychologie, RS: MHeNs - R2 - Mental Health, RS: MHeNs - R1 - Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, School for Mental Health & Neuroscience, RS: MHeNs - R3 - Neuroscience, Addor, M.C., Andrieux, J., Arveiler, B., Baujat, G., Sloan-Béna, F., Belfiore, M., Bonneau, D., Bouquillon, S., Boute, O., Brusco, A., Busa, T., Caberg, J.H., Campion, D., Colombert, V., Cordier, M.P., David, A., Debray, F.G., Delrue, M.A., Doco-Fenzy, M., Dunkhase-Heinl, U., Edery, P., Fagerberg, C., Faivre, L., Forzano, F., Genevieve, D., Gérard, M., Giachino, D., Guichet, A., Guillin, O., Héron, D., Isidor, B., Jacquette, A., Jaillard, S., Journel, H., Keren, B., Lacombe, D., Lebon, S., Le Caignec, C., Lemaître, M.P., Lespinasse, J., Mathieu-Dramart, M., Mercier, S., Mignot, C., Missirian, C., Petit, F., Pilekær Sørensen, K., Pinson, L., Plessis, G., Prieur, F., Raymond, A., Rooryck-Thambo, C., Rossi, M., Sanlaville, D., Schlott Kristiansen, B., Schluth-Bolard, C., Till, M., Van Haelst, M., Van Maldergem, L., Alupay, H., Aaronson, B., Ackerman, S., Ankenman, K., Anwar, A., Atwell, C., Bowe, A., Beaudet, A.L., Benedetti, M., Berg, J., Berman, J., Berry, L.N., Bibb, A.L., Blaskey, L., Brennan, J., Brewton, C.M., Buckner, R., Bukshpun, P., Burko, J., Cali, P., Cerban, B., Chang, Y., Cheong, M., Chow, V., Chu, Z., Chudnovskaya, D., Cornew, L., Dale, C., Dell, J., Dempsey, A.G., Deschamps, T., Earl, R., Edgar, J., Elgin, J., Olson, J.E., Evans, Y.L., Findlay, A., Fischbach, G.D., Fisk, C., Fregeau, B., Gaetz, B., Gaetz, L., Garza, S., Gerdts, J., Glenn, O., Gobuty, S.E., Golembski, R., Greenup, M., Heiken, K., Hines, K., Hinkley, L., Jackson, F.I., Jenkins, J., Jeremy, R.J., Johnson, K., Kanne, S.M., Kessler, S., Khan, S.Y., Ku, M., Kuschner, E., Laakman, A.L., Lam, P., Lasala, M.W., Lee, H., LaGuerre, K., Levy, S., Cavanagh, A.L., Llorens, A.V., Campe, K.L., Luks, T.L., Marco, E.J., Martin, S., Martin, A.J., Marzano, G., Masson, C., McGovern, K.E., Keehn, R.M., Miller, D.T., Miller, F.K., Moss, T.J., Murray, R., Nagarajan, S.S., Nowell, K.P., Owen, J., Paal, A.M., Packer, A., Page, P.Z., Paul, B.M., Peters, A., Peterson, D., Poduri, A., Pojman, N.J., Porche, K., Proud, M.B., Qasmieh, S., Ramocki, M.B., Reilly, B., Roberts, TPL, Shaw, D., Sinha, T., Smith-Packard, B., Gallagher, A.S., Swarnakar, V., Thieu, T., Triantafallou, C., Vaughan, R., Wakahiro, M., Wallace, A., Ward, T., Wenegrat, J., and Wolken, A.
Subjects: 0301 basic medicine, Simons Searchlight Consortium, Autism, 0302 clinical medicine, Gyrus, Gene duplication, 2.1 Biological and endogenous factors, Psychology, Copy-number variation, Aetiology, Genetics, Brain, Human brain, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Psychiatry and Mental health, Mental Health, medicine.anatomical_structure, Schizophrenia, Neurological, Public Health and Health Services, RC321-571, DNA Copy Number Variations, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Clinical Sciences, 16p11.2 European Consortium, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, Neuroimaging, Biology, Basic Behavioral and Social Science, Article, 03 medical and health sciences, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Clinical Research, Behavioral and Social Science, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, 22Q11.2 DELETION SYNDROME, Clinical genetics, AUTISM, COMMON, Biological Psychiatry, Prevention, Human Genome, Brain morphometry, Neurosciences, medicine.disease, DUPLICATION, Brain Disorders, 030104 developmental biology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Neuroscience
Abstract: Many copy number variants (CNVs) confer risk for the same range of neurodevelopmental symptoms and psychiatric conditions including autism and schizophrenia. Yet, to date neuroimaging studies have typically been carried out one mutation at a time, showing that CNVs have large effects on brain anatomy. Here, we aimed to characterize and quantify the distinct brain morphometry effects and latent dimensions across 8 neuropsychiatric CNVs. We analyzed T1-weighted MRI data from clinically and non-clinically ascertained CNV carriers (deletion/duplication) at the 1q21.1 (n = 39/28), 16p11.2 (n = 87/78), 22q11.2 (n = 75/30), and 15q11.2 (n = 72/76) loci as well as 1296 non-carriers (controls). Case-control contrasts of all examined genomic loci demonstrated effects on brain anatomy, with deletions and duplications showing mirror effects at the global and regional levels. Although CNVs mainly showed distinct brain patterns, principal component analysis (PCA) loaded subsets of CNVs on two latent brain dimensions, which explained 32 and 29% of the variance of the 8 Cohen’s d maps. The cingulate gyrus, insula, supplementary motor cortex, and cerebellum were identified by PCA and multi-view pattern learning as top regions contributing to latent dimension shared across subsets of CNVs. The large proportion of distinct CNV effects on brain morphology may explain the small neuroimaging effect sizes reported in polygenic psychiatric conditions. Nevertheless, latent gene brain morphology dimensions will help subgroup the rapidly expanding landscape of neuropsychiatric variants and dissect the heterogeneity of idiopathic conditions.
Published: 2021

37. Incidental findings on array comparative genomic hybridization: detection of carrier females of dystrophinopathy without any family history

Author: Nguyen, K., Putoux, A., Busa, T., Cordier, M. P., Sigaudy, S., Till, M., Chabrol, B., Michel-Calemard, L., Bernard, R., Julia, S., Malzac, P., Labalme, A., Missirian, C., Edery, P., Popovici, C., Philip, N., and Sanlaville, D.
Published: 2015
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38. Search for ReCQL4 mutations in 39 patients genotyped for suspected Rothmund–Thomson/Baller-Gerold syndromes

Author: Piard, J., Aral, B., Vabres, P., Holder-Espinasse, M., Mégarbané, A., Gauthier, S., Capra, V., Pierquin, G., Callier, P., Baumann, C., Pasquier, L., Baujat, G., Martorell, L., Rodriguez, A., Brady, A. F., Boralevi, F., González-Enseñat, M. A., Rio, M., Bodemer, C., Philip, N., Cordier, M.-P., Goldenberg, A., Demeer, B., Wright, M., Blair, E., Puzenat, E., Parent, P., Sznajer, Y., Francannet, C., DiDonato, N., Boute, O., Barlogis, V., Moldovan, O., Bessis, D., Coubes, C., Tardieu, M., Cormier-Daire, V., Sousa, A. B., Franques, J., Toutain, A., Tajir, M., Elalaoui, S. C., Geneviève, D., Thevenon, J., Courcet, J.-B., Rivière, J.-B., Collet, C., Gigot, N., Faivre, L., and Thauvin-Robinet, C.
Published: 2015
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39. Molecular characterization of 39 de novo sSMC: contribution to prognosis and genetic counselling, a prospective study

Author: Marle, N., Martinet, D., Aboura, A., Joly-Helas, G., Andrieux, J., Flori, E., Puechberty, J., Vialard, F., Sanlaville, D., Fert Ferrer, S., Bourrouillou, G., Tabet, A. C., Quilichini, B., Simon-Bouy, B., Bazin, A., Becker, M., Stora, H., Amblard, S., Doco-Fenzy, M., Molina Gomes, D., Girard-Lemaire, F., Cordier, M. P., Satre, V., Schneider, A., Lemeur, N., Chambon, P., Jacquemont, S., Fellmann, F., Vigouroux-Castera, A., Molignier, R., Delaye, A., Pipiras, E., Liquier, A., Rousseau, T., Mosca, A. L., Kremer, V., Payet, M., Rangon, C., Mugneret, F., Aho, S., Faivre, L., and Callier, P.
Published: 2014
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40. The enrichment of breakpoints in late-replicating chromatin provides novel insights into chromoanagenesis mechanisms

Author: Chatron, N., Giannuzzi, G., Rollat-Farnier, P., Diguet, F., Porcu, E., Yammine, T., Uguen, K., Bellil, Z., Zillhardt, J. Lauer, Sorlin, A., Ader, F., Afenjar, A., Andrieux, J., Bardel, Claire, Calpena, E., Chantot-Bastaraud, S., Callier, P., Chelloug, N., Chopin, E., Cordier, M., Dubourg, C., Faivre, L., Girard, F., Heide, S., Herenger, Y., Jaillard, S., Keren, B., Knight, S. J. L., Lespinasse, J., Lohmann, L., Marle, N., Maroofian, R., Masurel-Paulet, Alice, Mathieu-Dramard, M., Metay, C., Pagnamenta, A. T., Portnoi, M., Prieur, F., Rio, M., Siffroi, J., Valence, S., Taylor, J. C., Wilkie, A. O. M., Edery, P., Reymond, A., Sanlaville, D., Schluth-Bolard, C., Hôpital Edouard Herriot [CHU - HCL], Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hospices Civils de Lyon, Departement de Neurologie (HCL), Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Brest (CHRU Brest), Laboratoire de Diagnostic Génétique [CHU Strasbourg], Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-CHU Strasbourg, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Centre de génétique - Centre de référence des maladies rares, anomalies du développement et syndromes malformatifs (CHU de Dijon), Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris - Espace éthique (AP-HP Espace éthique), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), CHU Trousseau [APHP], Service de neurophysiologie clinique (CHRU Lille), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille] (CHRU Lille), The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU Tours), CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), CHU Strasbourg, The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics [Oxford], Centre Hospitalier Métropole Savoie [Chambéry], Laboratoire CERBA [Saint Ouen l'Aumône], University College of London [London] (UCL), CHU Amiens-Picardie, CHU Henri Mondor [Créteil], Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne [CHU Saint-Etienne] (CHU ST-E), CHU Necker - Enfants Malades [AP-HP], Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1), Chard-Hutchinson, Xavier, Service de Génétique Cytogénétique et Embryologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Service d'Hépato-Gastro-Entérologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière], CHU Henri Mondor, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne (CHU de Saint-Etienne), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lausanne (UNIL), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), University of Oxford [Oxford], Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP), Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Tours (CHRU TOURS), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), and Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )
Subjects: [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2020

41. Delineation of 15q13.3 microdeletions

Author: Masurel-Paulet, A, Andrieux, J, Callier, P, Cuisset, J M, Le Caignec, C, Holder, M, Thauvin-Robinet, C, Doray, B, Flori, E, Alex-Cordier, M P, Beri, M, Boute, O, Delobel, B, Dieux, A, Vallee, L, Jaillard, S, Odent, S, Isidor, B, Beneteau, C, Vigneron, J, Bilan, F, Gilbert-Dussardier, B, Dubourg, C, Labalme, A, Bidon, C, Gautier, A, Pernes, P, Pinoit, J M, Huet, F, Mugneret, F, Aral, B, Jonveaux, P, Sanlaville, D, and Faivre, L
Published: 2010
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42. A new highly penetrant form of obesity due to deletions on chromosome 16p11.2

Author: Walters, R. G., Jacquemont, S., Valsesia, A., de Smith, A. J., Martinet, D., Andersson, J., Falchi, M., Chen, F., Andrieux, J., Lobbens, S., Delobel, B., Stutzmann, F., El-Sayed Moustafa, J. S., Chèvre, J.-C., Lecoeur, C., Vatin, V., Bouquillon, S., Buxton, J. L., Boute, O., Holder-Espinasse, M., Cuisset, J.-M., Lemaitre, M.-P., Ambresin, A.-E., Brioschi, A., Gaillard, M., Giusti, V., Fellmann, F., Ferrarini, A., Hadjikhani, N., Campion, D., Guilmatre, A., Goldenberg, A., Calmels, N., Mandel, J.-L., Le Caignec, C., David, A., Isidor, B., Cordier, M.-P., Dupuis-Girod, S., Labalme, A., Sanlaville, D., Béri-Dexheimer, M., Jonveaux, P., Leheup, B., Õunap, K., Bochukova, E. G., Henning, E., Keogh, J., Ellis, R. J., MacDermot, K. D., van Haelst, M. M., Vincent-Delorme, C., Plessis, G., Touraine, R., Philippe, A., Malan, V., Mathieu-Dramard, M., Chiesa, J., Blaumeiser, B., Kooy, R. F., Caiazzo, R., Pigeyre, M., Balkau, B., Sladek, R., Bergmann, S., Mooser, V., Waterworth, D., Reymond, A., Vollenweider, P., Waeber, G., Kurg, A., Palta, P., Esko, T., Metspalu, A., Nelis, M., Elliott, P., Hartikainen, A.-L., McCarthy, M. I., Peltonen, L., Carlsson, L., Jacobson, P., Sjöström, L., Huang, N., Hurles, M. E., OʼRahilly, S., Farooqi, I. S., Männik, K., Jarvelin, M.-R., Pattou, F., Meyre, D., Walley, A. J., Coin, L. J. M., Blakemore, A. I. F., Froguel, P., and Beckmann, J. S.
Published: 2010
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43. Whole Genome Sequencing of 9 patients allowed a better understanding of complex chromosomal rearrangements

Author: Girard, F., Jaillard, S., Keren, B., Lespinasse, J., Marle, N., Masurel, A., Mathieu, M., Metay, C., Portnoi, M., Prieur, F., Rio, M., Siffroi, J., Schluth-Bolard, C., Sanlaville, D., Chatron, N., Diguet, F., Rollat-Farnier, P., Uguen, K., Zillhardt, J. Lauer, Sorlin, A., Andrieux, J., Chantot-Bastaraud, S., Callier, P., Cordier, M., Dubourg, C., CHU Pontchaillou [Rennes], Institut de recherche en santé, environnement et travail (Irset), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP], Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU), Laboratoire de cytogénétique (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), CHU Amiens-Picardie, Hôpital Henri Mondor, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne (CHU de Saint-Etienne), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon (CRNL), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet [Saint-Étienne] (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Hospices Civils de Lyon (HCL), Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche - CHRU Brest (CHU - BREST ), Equipe GAD (LNC - U1231), Lipides - Nutrition - Cancer [Dijon - U1231] (LNC), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Institut de Génétique et Développement de Rennes (IGDR), Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Rennes (UR)-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint-Etienne [CHU Saint-Etienne] (CHU ST-E), Centre de recherche en neurosciences de Lyon - Lyon Neuroscience Research Center (CRNL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Structure Fédérative de Recherche en Biologie et Santé de Rennes ( Biosit : Biologie - Santé - Innovation Technologique ), and Jonchère, Laurent
Subjects: [SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2019

44. Acromicric dysplasia: long term outcome and evidence of autosomal dominant inheritance

Author: Faivre, L, Le Merrer, M, Baumann, C, Polak, M, Chatelain, P, Sulmont, V, Cousin, J, Bost, M, Cordier, M P, Zackai, E, Russell, K, Finidori, G, Pouliquen, J C, Munnich, A, Maroteaux, P, and Cormier-Daire, V
Published: 2001

45. Temporal abstraction and inductive logic programming for arrhythmia recognition from electrocardiograms

Author: Carrault, G., Cordier, M.-O., Quiniou, R., and Wang, F.
Published: 2003
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46. Active engineering of four-wave mixing spectral correlations in multiband hollow-core fibers

Author: Cordier, M., primary, Orieux, A., additional, Debord, B., additional, Gérome, F., additional, Gorse, A., additional, Chafer, M., additional, Diamanti, E., additional, Delaye, P., additional, Benabid, F., additional, and Zaquine, I., additional
Published: 2019
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47. Aseptic meningoencephalitis mimicking transient ischaemic attacks

Author: Papavasileiou, V., Milionis, H., Cordier, M., Eskandari, A., Ntaios, G., Michel, P., Papavasileiou, V., Milionis, H., Cordier, M., Eskandari, A., Ntaios, G., and Michel, P.
Abstract: Purpose: To highlight meningoencephalitis as a transient ischaemic attack (TIA) mimic and suggest clinical clues for differential diagnosis. Methods: This was an observational study of consecutively admitted patients over a 9.75-year period presenting as TIAs at a stroke unit. Results: A total of 790 patients with TIAs and seven with TIA-like symptoms but a final diagnosis of viral meningoencephalitis were recognised. The most frequent presentations of meningoencephalitis patients were acute sensory hemisyndrome (6) and cognitive deficits (5). Signs of meningeal irritation were minor or absent on presentation. Predominantly lymphocytic pleocytosis, hyperproteinorachia and a normal cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)/serum glucose index (in 5 out of 6 documented patients) were present. Meningeal thickening on a brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan was the only abnormal imaging finding. Six patients received initial vascular treatment; one thrombolysed. Finally, six patients were treated with antivirals and/or antibiotics. Although neither bacterial nor viral agents were identified on extensive testing, viral meningoencephalitis was the best explanation for all clinical and laboratory findings. Conclusions: Aseptic meningoencephalitis should be part of the differential diagnosis in patients presenting as TIA. The threshold for a lumbar puncture in such patients should be set individually and take into account the presence of mild meningeal symptoms, age and other risk factors for vascular disease, the results of brain imaging and the basic diagnostic work-up for a stroke source
Published: 2018

48. Prestroke CHA2DS2-VASc Score and Severity of Acute Stroke in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: Findings from RAF Study

Author: Acciarresi, M. Paciaroni, M. Agnelli, G. Falocci, N. Caso, V. Becattini, C. Marcheselli, S. Rueckert, C. Pezzini, A. Morotti, A. Costa, P. Padovani, A. Csiba, L. Szabó, L. Sohn, S.-I. Tassinari, T. Abdul-Rahim, A.H. Michel, P. Cordier, M. Vanacker, P. Remillard, S. Alberti, A. Venti, M. D'Amore, C. Scoditti, U. Denti, L. Orlandi, G. Chiti, A. Gialdini, G. Bovi, P. Carletti, M. Rigatelli, A. Putaala, J. Tatlisumak, T. Masotti, L. Lorenzini, G. Tassi, R. Guideri, F. Martini, G. Tsivgoulis, G. Vadikolias, K. Liantinioti, C. Corea, F. Del Sette, M. Ageno, W. De Lodovici, M.L. Bono, G. Baldi, A. D'Anna, S. Sacco, S. Carolei, A. Tiseo, C. Imberti, D. Zabzuni, D. Doronin, B. Volodina, V. Consoli, D. Galati, F. Pieroni, A. Toni, D. Monaco, S. Baronello, M.M. Barlinn, K. Pallesen, L.-P. Kepplinger, J. Bodechtel, U. Gerber, J. Deleu, D. Melikyan, G. Ibrahim, F. Akhtar, N. Mosconi, M.G. Lees, K.R.
Subjects: cardiovascular diseases
Abstract: Background and Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate for a possible association between both prestroke CHA2DS2-VASc score and the severity of stroke at presentation, as well as disability and mortality at 90 days, in patients with acute stroke and atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods This prospective study enrolled consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke, AF, and assessment of prestroke CHA2DS2-VASc score. Severity of stroke was assessed on admission using the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS) score (severe stroke: NIHSS ≥10). Disability and mortality at 90 days were assessed by the modified Rankin Scale (mRS
Published: 2017

49. Sex-related differences in risk factors, type of treatment received and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation and acute stroke: Results from the RAF-study (Early Recurrence and Cerebral Bleeding in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation)

Author: Antonenko, K. Paciaroni, M. Agnelli, G. Falocci, N. Becattini, C. Marcheselli, S. Rueckert, C. Pezzini, A. Poli, L. Padovani, A. Csiba, L. Szabó, L. Sohn, S.-I. Tassinari, T. Abdul-Rahim, A.H. Michel, P. Cordier, M. Vanacker, P. Remillard, S. Alberti, A. Venti, M. Acciarresi, M. D’Amore, C. Scoditti, U. Denti, L. Orlandi, G. Chiti, A. Gialdini, G. Bovi, P. Carletti, M. Rigatelli, A. Putaala, J. Tatlisumak, T. Masotti, L. Lorenzini, G. Tassi, R. Guideri, F. Martini, G. Tsivgoulis, G. Vadikolias, K. Papageorgiou, S.G. Corea, F. Sette, M.D. Ageno, W. Lodovici, M.L.D. Bono, G. Baldi, A. D’Anna, S. Sacco, S. Carolei, A. Tiseo, C. Imberti, D. Zabzuni, D. Doronin, B. Volodina, V. Consoli, D. Galati, F. Pieroni, A. Toni, D. Monaco, S. Baronello, M.M. Barlinn, K. Pallesen, L.-P. Kepplinger, J. Bodechtel, U. Gerber, J. Deleu, D. Melikyan, G. Ibrahim, F. Akhtar, N. Mosconi, M.G. Lees, K.R. Caso, V.
Subjects: cardiovascular diseases
Abstract: Introduction: Atrial fibrillation is an independent risk factor of thromboembolism. Women with atrial fibrillation are at a higher overall risk for stroke compared to men with atrial fibrillation. The aim of this study was to evaluate for sex differences in patients with acute stroke and atrial fibrillation, regarding risk factors, treatments received and outcomes. Methods: Data were analyzed from the “Recurrence and Cerebral Bleeding in Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke and Atrial Fibrillation” (RAF-study), a prospective, multicenter, international study including only patients with acute stroke and atrial fibrillation. Patients were followed up for 90 days. Disability was measured by the modified Rankin Scale (0–2 favorable outcome, 3–6 unfavorable outcome). Results: Of the 1029 patients enrolled, 561 were women (54.5%) (p < 0.001) and younger (p < 0.001) compared to men. In patients with known atrial fibrillation, women were less likely to receive oral anticoagulants before index stroke (p = 0.026) and were less likely to receive anticoagulants after stroke (71.3% versus 78.4%, p = 0.01). There was no observed sex difference regarding the time of starting anticoagulant therapy between the two groups (6.4 ± 11.7 days for men versus 6.5 ± 12.4 days for women, p = 0.902). Men presented with more severe strokes at onset (mean NIHSS 9.2 ± 6.9 versus 8.1 ± 7.5, p < 0.001). Within 90 days, 46 (8.2%) recurrent ischemic events (stroke/TIA/systemic embolism) and 19 (3.4%) symptomatic cerebral bleedings were found in women compared to 30 (6.4%) and 18 (3.8%) in men (p = 0.28 and p = 0.74). At 90 days, 57.7% of women were disabled or deceased, compared to 41.1% of the men (p < 0.001). Multivariate analysis did not confirm this significance. Conclusions: Women with atrial fibrillation were less likely to receive oral anticoagulants prior to and after stroke compared to men with atrial fibrillation, and when stroke occurred, regardless of the fact that in our study women were younger and with less severe stroke, outcomes did not differ between the sexes. © 2016, © European Stroke Organisation 2016.
Published: 2017

50. Wiedemann‐Steiner syndrome as a major cause of syndromic intellectual disability: A study of 33 French cases

Author: Baer, S., primary, Afenjar, A., additional, Smol, T., additional, Piton, A., additional, Gérard, B., additional, Alembik, Y., additional, Bienvenu, T., additional, Boursier, G., additional, Boute, O., additional, Colson, C., additional, Cordier, M.‐P., additional, Cormier‐Daire, V., additional, Delobel, B., additional, Doco‐Fenzy, M., additional, Duban‐Bedu, B., additional, Fradin, M., additional, Geneviève, D., additional, Goldenberg, A., additional, Grelet, M., additional, Haye, D., additional, Heron, D., additional, Isidor, B., additional, Keren, B., additional, Lacombe, D., additional, Lèbre, A.‐S., additional, Lesca, G., additional, Masurel, A., additional, Mathieu‐Dramard, M., additional, Nava, C., additional, Pasquier, L., additional, Petit, A., additional, Philip, N., additional, Piard, J., additional, Rondeau, S., additional, Saugier‐Veber, P., additional, Sukno, S., additional, Thevenon, J., additional, Van‐Gils, J., additional, Vincent‐Delorme, C., additional, Willems, M., additional, Schaefer, E., additional, and Morin, G., additional
Published: 2018
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