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5. Standardization and quality control studies of ‘real-time’ quantitative reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction of fusion gene transcripts for residual disease detection in leukemia – A Europe Against Cancer Program

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Gabert, J, Beillard, E, van der Velden, V H J, Bi, W, Grimwade, D, Pallisgaard, N, Barbany, G, Cazzaniga, G, Cayuela, J M, Cavé, H, Pane, F, Aerts, J L E, De Micheli, D, Thirion, X, Pradel, V, González, M, Viehmann, S, Malec, M, Saglio, G, and van Dongen, J J M

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2003
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9. Standardized RT-PCR analysis of fusion gene transcripts from chromosome aberrations in acute leukemia for detection of minimal residual disease: Report of the BIOMED-1 Concerted Action: Investigation of minimal residual disease in acute leukemia

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van Dongen, JJM, Macintyre, EA, Gabert, JA, Delabesse, E, Rossi, V, Saglio, G, Gottardi, E, Rambaldi, A, Dotti, G, Griesinger, F, Parreira, A, Gameiro, P, Diáz, M González, Malec, M, Langerak, AW, San Miguel, JF, and Biondi, A

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1999
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14. Defining a SUV decrease cut-off in PET/CT response monitoring after one cycle of preoperative breast cancer chemotherapy

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Kubeczko, M., primary, Świderska, K., additional, d’Amico, A., additional, di Pietro, M., additional, Chrabański, O., additional, Polakiewicz-Gilowska, A., additional, Mianowska-Malec, M., additional, Bal, W., additional, Badora-Rybicka, A., additional, Leśniak, A., additional, Pasierbek, A., additional, Kuś, A., additional, Tarnawski, R., additional, Bobek-Billewicz, B., additional, and Jarzab, M., additional

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2019
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15. The efficacy of preoperative breast cancer chemotherapy without anti-HER2-targeted treatment: Single center experience in setting of no reimbursement in Poland (2011-2015)

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Badora-Rybicka, A., primary, Polakiewicz-Gilowska, A., additional, Leśniak, A., additional, Bal, W., additional, Kubeczko, M., additional, Świderska, K., additional, Mianowska-Malec, M., additional, Grandys, B.D., additional, Stobiecka, E., additional, Chmielik, E., additional, Kuś, A., additional, Tarnawski, R., additional, and Jarzab, M., additional

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2019
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19. Relationships between obesity, bipolar spectrum features, and personality traits : a case-control study

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Dudek, D., Marcin Siwek, Jaeschke, R., Dembinska-Kiec, A., Arciszewska, A., Hebal, F., Matlok, M., Major, P., Malczewska-Malec, M., Wnek, D., Pilecki, M., and Rybakowski, J.

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Adult, Male, Neuroticism, Bipolar Disorder, Mood Disorders, Middle Aged, Anxiety Disorders, Case-Control Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Prevalence, Humans, Female, Obesity, Personality
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Recently there has been widening stream of research on the relationships between obesity and mental disorders. Patients with obesity seem to be prone to developing bipolar spectrum disorders and they present with specific personality traits. The aim of this study was to analyze the associations between obesity, bipolarity features, and personality traits.A nested case-control study was performed. Patients with obesity constituted the sample of cases (N = 90), and healthy individuals were ascribed to the control group (N = 70). The lifetime presence of bipolarity features was analyzed with the Mood Disorder Questionnaire (MDQ), while personality traits were assessed with the NEO-Five Factor Inventory (NEO-FFI).Bipolarity features were more prevalent in the patients with obesity, as compared to healthy individuals. Patients with obesity had both higher mean value of MDQ score (p = 0.01) and a higher proportion of subjects with MDQ score ≥ 7 points (p = 0.012) as well as lower score on the NEO-FFI openness to experience (p0.001), compared to control subjects. Using multivariate model, in patients with obesity, a significant positive correlation between bipolarity and neuroticism, and negative with agreeableness and conscientiousness was established. Such relationship was not observed in control subjects.In the population of patients with obesity, there is a specific combination between bipolarity and personality traits (high-trait neuroticism, low-trait conscientiousness, and low-trait agreeableness). This may have some consequences for both pharmacological and psychological management of such patients.

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2015

23. White adipose tissue reference network: a knowledge resource for exploring potential health-relevant relations

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Kelder, T., Summer, G., Caspers, M., van Schothorst, E.M., Keijer, J., Duivenvoorde, Loes, Klaus, S., Volgt, A., Bohnert, L., Pico, C., Palou, A., Bonet, M.L., Dembinska-Kiec, A., Malczewska-Malec, M., Kieć-Wilk, Beata, del Bas, J.M., Caimari, A., Arola, L., van Erk, M., van Ommen, Ben, Radonjic, M., Kelder, T., Summer, G., Caspers, M., van Schothorst, E.M., Keijer, J., Duivenvoorde, Loes, Klaus, S., Volgt, A., Bohnert, L., Pico, C., Palou, A., Bonet, M.L., Dembinska-Kiec, A., Malczewska-Malec, M., Kieć-Wilk, Beata, del Bas, J.M., Caimari, A., Arola, L., van Erk, M., van Ommen, Ben, and Radonjic, M.

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Optimal health is maintained by interaction of multiple intrinsic and environmental factors at different levels of complexity-from molecular, to physiological, to social. Understanding and quantification of these interactions will aid design of successful health interventions. We introduce the reference network concept as a platform for multi-level exploration of biological relations relevant for metabolic health, by integration and mining of biological interactions derived from public resources and context-specific experimental data. A White Adipose Tissue Health Reference Network (WATRefNet) was constructed as a resource for discovery and prioritization of mechanism-based biomarkers for white adipose tissue (WAT) health status and the effect of food and drug compounds on WAT health status. The WATRefNet (6,797 nodes and 32,171 edges) is based on (1) experimental data obtained from 10 studies addressing different adiposity states, (2) seven public knowledge bases of molecular interactions, (3) expert's definitions of five physiologically relevant processes key to WAT health, namely WAT expandability, Oxidative capacity, Metabolic state, Oxidative stress and Tissue inflammation, and (4) a collection of relevant biomarkers of these processes identified by BIOCLAIMS ( http://bioclaims.uib.es ). The WATRefNet comprehends multiple layers of biological complexity as it contains various types of nodes and edges that represent different biological levels and interactions. We have validated the reference network by showing overrepresentation with anti-obesity drug targets, pathology-associated genes and differentially expressed genes from an external disease model dataset. The resulting network has been used to extract subnetworks specific to the above-mentioned expert-defined physiological processes. Each of these process-specific signatures represents a mechanistically supported composite biomarker for assessing and quantifying the effect of interventions on a physiologic

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2015

24. Obesity and body fat classification in the metabolic syndrome: Impact on cardiometabolic risk metabotype

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Phillips, C.M., Tierney, A.C., Perez Martinez, P., Defoort, C., Blaak, E.E., Gjelstad, I.M., Lopez Miranda, J., Kiec Klimczak, M., Malczewska-Malec, M., Drevon, C.A., Hall, W, Lovegrove, J.A., Karlstrom, B., Riserus, U., Roche, H.M., Humane Biologie, and RS: NUTRIM - R1 - Metabolic Syndrome

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OBJECTIVE: Obesity is a key factor in the development of the metabolic (MetS), which is associated with increased cardiometabolic risk. We whether obesity classification by BMI and body fat percentage (BF%) cardiometabolic profile and dietary responsiveness in 486 MetS subjects dietary intervention study). DESIGN AND METHODS: Anthropometric of inflammation and glucose metabolism, lipid profiles, adhesion hemostatic factors were determined at baseline and after 12 weeks of interventions (high saturated fat (SFA), high monounsaturated fat low fat high complex carbohydrate (LFHCC) diets, one supplemented with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC n-3 PUFAs)). RESULTS: About 39 and subjects classified as normal and overweight by BMI were obese according BF%. Individuals classified as obese by BMI (>/=30 kg/m(2) ) and BF% (men) and >/=35% (women)) (OO, n = 284) had larger waist and hip higher BMI and were heavier (P < 0.001) than those classified as but obese by BF% (NOO, n = 92). OO individuals displayed a more (higher C reactive protein (CRP) and leptin), prothrombotic (higher activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1)), proatherogenic (higher and more insulin resistant (higher HOMA-IR) metabolic profile relative group (P < 0.001). Interestingly, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF- concentrations were lower post-intervention in NOO individuals compared subjects (P < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS: In conclusion, assessing BF% and BMI of a metabotype may help to identify individuals at greater than BMI alone.

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2013

25. Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S., Anderson, W., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P., Braginsky, V., Brau, J., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Butler, W., Byer, R., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J., Creighton, T., Croce, R., Crooks, D., Cruise, A., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E., Drever, R., Dumas, J., Dupuis, R., Dwyer, J., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M., Finn, L., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Ganezer, K., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., Gonzalez, G., Goßler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Johnson, B., Johnson, W., Jones, D., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D., Khalili, F., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Marka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D., McGuire, S., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Müller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Numata, K., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B., Pan, Y., Papa, M., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameshwaraiah, C., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N., Robinson, C., Robinson, E., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., Sancho de la Jordana, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Sato, S., Saulson, P., Savage, R., Savov, P., Sazonov, A., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S., Searle, A., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D., Sibley, A., Sidles, J., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A., Slagmolen, B., Slutsky, J., Smith, J., Smith, M., Somiya, K., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sun, K., Sung, M., Sutton, P., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., van den Broeck, C., van Putten, M., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S., Waldman, S., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J., Whitbeck, D., Whitcomb, S., Whiting, B., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., zur Mühlen, H., Zweizig, J., Kramer, M., Lyne, A., and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Abstract

This paper was published online on 3 August 2007 with a formatting error in the fifty-first affiliation in the author list. The affiliation should read as ‘‘University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.’’ The affiliation has been corrected as of 4 March 2008. The affiliation is incorrect in the printed version of the journal.

Published
2008

26. Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B. C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M. A., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D. A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J. B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C. A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, Francesco, Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Coldwell, R., Conte, Roberto, Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J. D. E., Croce, R. P., Crooks, D. R. M., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Debra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., Desalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E. E., Drever, R. W. P., Dumas, J. C., Dupuis, R. J., Dwyer, J. G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M. M., Finn, L. S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K. Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A. M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S. H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Johnson, B., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalili, F. Y. a., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R. K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N. A., Longo, Maurizio, Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., Macinnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, Stefano, Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, Vincenzo, Mavalvala, N., Mccarthy, R., Mcclelland, D. E., Mcguire, S. C., Mchugh, M., Mckenzie, K., Mcwilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C. J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mowlowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D. J., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Pan, Y., Papa, M. A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M. V., Postiglione, Fabio, Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Ramsunder, M., Ray Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N. A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A. M., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., Sancho, de la Jordana L., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Somiya, K., Strain, K. A., Strom, D. M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T. Z., Sun, K. X., Sung, M., Sutton, P. J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D. B., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K. V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Van Den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., zur Mühlen, H., Zweizig, J., Hurley, K. C., LSC Collaboration, The, Castaldi, G., Galdi, V., Pierro, V., and Pinto, I. M.

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Physics, Spiral galaxy, Andromeda Galaxy, Gravitational wave, media_common.quotation_subject, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics (astro-ph), FOS: Physical sciences, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Astrophysics, Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), LIGO, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Black hole, Neutron star, Space and Planetary Science, Sky, Astrophysics::Solar and Stellar Astrophysics, Gamma-ray burst, Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics, media_common, QB
Abstract

We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short duration hard spectrum gamma-ray burst whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral arms of the Andromeda galaxy (M31). Possible progenitors of such short hard GRBs include mergers of neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, or soft gamma-ray repeater (SGR) flares. These events can be accompanied by gravitational-wave emission. No plausible gravitational wave candidates were found within a 180 s long window around the time of GRB 070201. This result implies that a compact binary progenitor of GRB 070201, with masses in the range 1 M_sun < m_1 < 3 M_sun and 1 M_sun < m_2 < 40 M_sun, located in M31 is excluded at >99% confidence. Indeed, if GRB 070201 were caused by a binary neutron star merger, we find that D < 3.5 Mpc is excluded, assuming random inclination, at 90% confidence. The result also implies that an unmodeled gravitational wave burst from GRB 070201 most probably emitted less than 4.4 x 10^(-4) M_sun c^2 (7.9 x 10^(50) ergs) in any 100 ms long period within the signal region if the source was in M31 and radiated isotropically at the same frequency as LIGO's peak sensitivity (f ~ 150 Hz). This upper limit does not exclude current models of SGRs at the M31 distance., 10 pages 5 figures 1 table to be submitted to ApJ Changes after GWIC review period: minor corrections, typographical tweaks

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2007
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27. Search for gravitational wave radiation associated with the pulsating tail of the SGR 1806-20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004 using LIGO

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S., Anderson, W., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P., Braginsky, V., Brau, J., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casey, M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J., Creighton, T., Croce, R., Crooks, D., Cruise, A., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E., Drever, R., Dumas, J., Dupuis, R., Dwyer, J., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M., Finn, L., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., Gonzalez, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Johnson, B., Johnson, W., Jones, D., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kamat, S., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D., Khalili, F., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Marka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D., McGuire, S., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B., Pan, Y., Papa, M., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N., Robinson, C., Robinson, E., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., Sancho de la Jordana, L., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Sato, S., Saulson, P., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S., Searle, A., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D., Sibley, A., Sidles, J., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A., Slagmolen, B., Slutsky, J., Smith, J., Smith, M., Somiya, K., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sun, K., Sung, M., Sutton, P., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K., Thüring, A., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S., Waldman, S., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J., Whitbeck, D., Whitcomb, S., Whiting, B., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., zur Mühlen, H., Zweizig, J., and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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search, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, dark-matter, vmsm, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, r-process, oscillation experiments, ddc:530, Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik, simulation, QB
Abstract

We have searched for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with the SGR 1806-20 hyperflare of 27 December 2004. This event, originating from a Galactic neutron star, displayed exceptional energetics. Recent investigations of the x-ray light curve's pulsating tail revealed the presence of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs) in the 30-2000 Hz frequency range, most of which coincides with the bandwidth of the LIGO detectors. These QPOs, with well-characterized frequencies, can plausibly be attributed to seismic modes of the neutron star which could emit GWs. Our search targeted potential quasimonochromatic GWs lasting for tens of seconds and emitted at the QPO frequencies. We have observed no candidate signals above a predetermined threshold, and our lowest upper limit was set by the 92.5 Hz QPO observed in the interval from 150 s to 260 s after the start of the flare. This bound corresponds to a (90% confidence) root-sum-squared amplitude hrss-det 90%=4.5×10-22strainHz-1/2 on the GW waveform strength in the detectable polarization state reaching our Hanford (WA) 4 km detector. We illustrate the astrophysical significance of the result via an estimated characteristic energy in GW emission that we would expect to be able to detect. The above result corresponds to 7.7×1046erg (=4.3×10-8M c2), which is of the same order as the total (isotropic) energy emitted in the electromagnetic spectrum. This result provides a means to probe the energy reservoir of the source with the best upper limit on the GW waveform strength published and represents the first broadband asteroseismology measurement using a GW detector. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

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2007
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28. First cross-correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant-bar gravitational-wave data for stochastic backgrounds

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S., Anderson, W., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P., Braginsky, V., Brau, J., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgamy, M., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casey, M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J., Creighton, T., Croce, R., Crooks, D., Cruise, A., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E., Drever, R., Dumas, J., Dupuis, R., Dwyer, J., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M., Finn, L., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., Gonzalez, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hamilton, W., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Johnson, B., Johnson, W., Jones, D., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D., Khalili, F., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Marka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McCaulley, B., McClelland, D., McGuire, S., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Miller, P., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moody, V., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Müller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B., Paik, H., Pan, Y., Papa, M., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Ramsuder, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N., Robinson, C., Robinson, E., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., Sancho de la Jordana, L., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Sato, S., Saulson, P., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S., Searle, A., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D., Sibley, A., Sidles, J., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A., Slagmolen, B., Slutsky, J., Smith, J., Smith, M., Somiya, K., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sun, K., Sung, M., Sutton, P., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., van den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S., Waldman, S., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Weaver, J., Webber, D., Weber, A., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J., Whitbeck, D., Whitcomb, S., Whiting, B., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhang, P., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., zur Mühlen, H., Zweizig, J., The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and ALLEGRO Collaboration

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2007

29. Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S., Anderson, W., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barnes, M., Barr, B., Barton, M., Bayer, K., Beausoleil, R., Belczynski, K., Bennett, R., Berukoff, S., Betzwieser, J., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P., Braginsky, V., Brau, J., Brown, D., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W., Byer, R., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J., Cantley, C., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M., Castiglione, J., Chandler, A., Chapsky, J., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chickarmane, V., Chin, D., Christensen, N., Churches, D., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J., Creighton, T., Crooks, D., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B., Cutler, C., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Diaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R., Dupuis, R., Edlund, J., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L., Franzen, K., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K., Garofoli, J., Giaime, J., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Gonzalez, G., Gossler, S., Grandclement, P., Grant, A., Gray, C., Gretarsson, A., Grimmett, D., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., Hough, J., Hrynevych, M., Hua, W., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jennrich, O., Johnson, B., Johnson, W., Johnston, W., Jones, D., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kotter, K., Kovalik, J., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Landry, M., Langdale, J., Lantz, B., Lawrence, R., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Libson, A., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Logan, J., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lyons, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mann, F., Marin, A., Marka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Mason, K., Matherny, O., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D., McHugh, M., McNabb, J., Mendell, G., Mercer, R., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Noel, J., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O'Reilly, B., Ottaway, D., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B., Pan, Y., Papa, M., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswaran, A., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D., Robertson, N., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rollins, J., Romano, J., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S., Seader, S., Searle, A., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., Sengupta, A., Shapiro, C., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D., Shu, Q., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sievers, L., Sigg, D., Sintes, A., Smith, J., Smith, M., Sneddon, P., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M., Sutton, P., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tanner, D., Tariq, H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Whelan, J., Whitcomb, S., Whiting, B., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P., Williams, P., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., and Zweizig, J.

Published
2005

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

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S., Anderson, W., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Ajith, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B., Barker, D., Barker, C., Allen, J., Bantilan, H., Barton, M., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P., Braginsky, V., Brau, J., Brown, D., Buonanno, A., Cannon, K., Busby, D., Butler, W., Cao, J., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J., Cannizzo, J., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chen, Y., Chin, D., Christensen, N., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J., Creighton, T., Dalrymple, J., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Desai, S., DeBra, D., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Di Credico, A., Drever, R., Dupuis, R., Ehrens, P., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Finn, L., Franzen, K., Fyffe, M., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Ganezer, K., Giaime, J., Goggin, L., Goda, K., Gonzalez, G., Gray, C., Gretarsson, A., Grimmett, D., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harry, G., Heefner, J., Heng, I., Hewitson, M., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., Hough, J., Hua, W., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jones, D., Johnson, W., Johnson, B., Jones, G., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kells, W., Khan, A., Kim, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Mitra, S., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Luna, M., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Mikhailov, E., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Messaritaki, E., Marka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Mercer, R., Melissinos, A., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D., McHugh, M., McNabb, J., Mendell, G., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Myers, E., Müller, G., Mukherjee, S., Myers, J., Nash, T., Noel, J., Nocera, F., O'Shaughnessy, R., O'Reilly, B., Ottaway, D., Pan, Y., Overmier, H., Owen, B., Papa, M., Parameswariah, C., Parameswariah, V., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, T., Regimbau, T., Reitze, D., Rivera, B., Riles, K., Rodriguez, A., Robertson, D., Robertson, N., Robinson, C., Roddy, S., Rollins, J., Romano, J., Romie, J., Sarin, P., Ruet, L., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schofield, R., Seader, S., Schutz, B., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S., Searle, A., Sears, B., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sintes, A., Smith, J., Smith, M., Spjeld, O., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sung, M., Sutton, P., Tanner, D., Tarallo, M., Thorne, K., Taylor, R., Veitch, J., Tokmakov, K., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Ungarelli, C., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wiley, S., Wette, K., Wen, S., Whelan, J., Whitcomb, S., Whiting, B., Willems, P., Wilkinson, C., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Woods, D., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Subjects
Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, Detector, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), 01 natural sciences, LIGO, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Interferometry, Amplitude, 0103 physical sciences, Range (statistics), Waveform, 010306 general physics, Sensitivity (electronics)
Abstract

We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets subsecond bursts in the frequency range 100-1100 Hz for which no waveform model is assumed, and has a sensitivity in terms of the root-sum-square (rss) strain amplitude of hrss ~ 10^{-20} / sqrt(Hz). No gravitational wave signals were detected in the 8 days of analyzed data., Comment: 12 pages, 6 figures. Amaldi-6 conference proceedings to be published in Classical and Quantum Gravity

Published
2005
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31. Commissioning, characterization and operation of the dual- recycled GEO 600

Author

Smith, J.R., Allen, B., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B., Berukoff, S., Bunkowski, A., Cagnoli, G., Cantley, C., Casey, M., Chelkowski, S., Churches, D., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Crooks, D., Cutler, C., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Dupuis, R.J., Elliffe, E., Fallnich, C., Franzen, A., Freise, A., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Harms, J., Heinzel, G., Heng, Ik., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hough, J., Itoh, Y., Jones, R., Huttner, S., Kawabe, K., Killow, C., Kotter, K., Krishnan, B., Leonhardt, V., Luck, H., Machenschalk, B., Malec, M., Mercer, R.A., Messenger, C., Mohanty, S., Mossavi, K., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Nagano, S., Newton, G., Papa, M.A., Perreur-Lloyd, M., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Quetschke, V., Re, V., Reid, S., Ribichini, L., Robertson, D., Robertson, N, Romano, J.D., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schutz, B.F., Seifert, F., Sintes, A.M., Sneddon, P., Strain, K., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thuring, A., Ungarelli, C., Vahlbruch, H., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Ward, H., Weiland, U., Welling, H., Williams, P., Willke, B., Winkler, W., Woan, G., and Zawischa, I.

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, QC
Abstract

The German-British laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detector GEO 600 is currently being commissioned as part of a worldwide network of gravitational-wave detectors. GEO 600 recently became the first kilometre-scale interferometer to employ dual recycling-an optical configuration that combines power recycling and signal recycling. We present a brief overview of the commissioning of this dual-recycled interferometer, the performance results achieved during a subsequent extended data-taking period, and the plans intended to bring GEO 600 to its final configuration.

Published
2004

32. The status of GEO 600

Author

Strain, K.A., Allen, B., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B.W., Berukoff, S., Bunkowski, A., Cagnoli, G., Cantley, C.A., Casey, M.M., Chelkowski, S., Churches, D., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Crooks, D.R.M., Cutler, C., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Dupuis, R.J., Elliffe, E., Fallnich, C., Franzen, A., Freise, A., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Harms, J., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hepstonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hough, J., Itoh, Y., Jones, R., Huttner, S.H., Kawabe, K., Killow, C.J., Koetter, K., Krishnan, B., Leonhardt, V., Lueck, H., Machenschalk, B., Malec, M., Mercer, R.A., Messenger, C., Mohanty, S., Mossavi, K., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Nagano, S., Newton, G.P., Papa, M.A., Perreur-Lloyd, M., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M.V., Quetschke, V., Re, V., Reid, S., Ribichini, L., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Romano, J.D., Rowan, S., Ruediger, A., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schutz, B.F., Seifert, F., Sintes, A.M., Smith, J.R., Sneddon, P.H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thuering, A., Ungarelli, C., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Ward, H., Weiland, U., Welling, H., Williams, P., Willke, B., Winkler, W., Woan, G., and Zawischa, I.

Subjects
Physics::Instrumentation and Detectors, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, QC
Abstract

The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. GEO 600 is unique in having advanced multiple pendulum suspensions with a monolithic last stage and in employing a signal recycled optical design. This paper describes the recent commissioning of the interferometer and its operation in signal recycled mode.

Published
2004

33. First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, Rana X., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barker-Patton, C., Barnes, M., Barr, B., Barton, M. A., Bayer, K., Beausoleil, R., Belczynski, K., Bennett, R., Berukoff, S. J., Betzwieser, J., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Bland-Weaver, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Brown, D. A., Brozek, S., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W. E., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J. B., Cantley, C. A., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M. M., Castiglione, J., Chandler, A., Chapsky, J., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chen, Y., Chickarmane, V., Chin, S., Christensen, N., Churches, D., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D. R. M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B. J., Cutler, C., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R. W. P., Dupuis, R. J., Ebeling, C., Edlund, J., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E. J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M. M., Fine, M., Finn, L. S., Flanagan, E., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K. S., Giaime, J. A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Gonzalez, G., Goßler, S., Grandclément, P., Grant, A., Gray, C., Gretarsson, A. M., Grimmett, D., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W. O., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I. S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., Hough, J., Hrynevych, M., Hua, W., Ingley, R., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jennrich, O., Johnson, W. W., Johnston, W., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C. J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Kloevekorn, P., Koranda, S., Kotter, K., Kovalik, J., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Landry, M., Langdale, J., Lantz, B., Lawrence, R., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Logan, J., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lyons, T. T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mann, F., Marin, A., Márka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Mason, K., Matherny, O., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McHugh, M., McNamara, P., Mendell, G., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Naundorf, H., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O'Reilly, B., Ottaway, D. J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Papa, M. A., Parameswariah, C., Parameswariah, V., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Pratt, M., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S. R., Redding, D., Regehr, M. W., Regimbau, T., Reilly, K. T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D. H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D. I., Robertson, N. A., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sanders, G. H., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schofield, R., Schrempel, M., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Sengupta, A. S., Shapiro, C. A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Shu, Q. Z., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sievers, L., Sigg, D., Sintes, A. M., Skeldon, K., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, M. R., Sneddon, P., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Strain, K. A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M. C., Sutton, P. J., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tanner, D. B., Tariq, H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K. S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K. V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traeger, S., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., Whiting, B. F., Willems, P. A., Williams, P. R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B. J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Weinstein, Alan J., Wilkes, B., and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Subjects
Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Gravitational-wave observatory, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Astrophysics, 01 natural sciences, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Particle detector, 0103 physical sciences, Astronomical interferometer, Waveform, ddc:530, 010306 general physics, QC, search, Physics, 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, Detector, LIGO, laser, Interferometry, network, Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik
Abstract

We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the LIGO detectors. Our search focuses on bursts with durations ranging from 4 ms to 100 ms, and with significant power in the LIGO sensitivity band of 150 to 3000 Hz. We bound the rate for such detected bursts at less than 1.6 events per day at 90% confidence level. This result is interpreted in terms of the detection efficiency for ad hoc waveforms (Gaussians and sine-Gaussians) as a function of their root-sum-square strain h_{rss}; typical sensitivities lie in the range h_{rss} ~ 10^{-19} - 10^{-17} strain/rtHz, depending on waveform. We discuss improvements in the search method that will be applied to future science data from LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors., Comment: 21 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Phys Rev D. Fixed a few small typos and updated a few references

Published
2004

34. Status of GEO 600

Author

Willke, B., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B., Berukoff, S., Cagnoli, G., Cantley, C.A., Casey, M.M., Chelkowski, S., Churches, D., Colacino, C.N., Crooks, D.R.M., Cutler, C., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Dupuis, R .J., Elliffe, E., Fallnich, C., Freise, A., Goßler, S., Grant, A., Grote, H., Grunewald, S, Harms, J., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hough, J., Ingley, R., Itoh, Y., Jennrich, O., Jones, R., Hutter, S.H., Kawabe, K., Killow, C., Kötter, K., Krishnan, B., Leonhardt, V., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., Malec, M., Mercer, R.A., Messenger, C., Mohanty, S., Mossavi, K., Mukherjee, S., Nagano, S., Newton, G.P., Papa, M.A., Perreur-Lloyd, M., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Quetschke, V., Re, V., Reid, S., Ribichini, L., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schutz, B.F., Seifert, F., Sintes, A.M., Smith, J.R., Sneddon, P.H., Strain, K.A., Taylor, I., Torrie, C., Ungarelli, C., Vecchio, A., Ward, H., Weiland, U., Welling, H., Williams, P., Winkler, W., Woan, G., and Zawischa, I.

Subjects
QC
Abstract

The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is currently being commissioned as a part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies such as signal recycling and multiple pendulum suspensions with a monolithic last stage the anticipated sensitivity of GEO 600 is close to the initial sensitivity of km baseline detectors. This paper describes the status of the detector as of November 2003 with special emphasis on its performance during the first serious data-taking periods and on the experimental challenges encountered during the commissioning of the dual-recycled detector.

Published
2004

35. The status of GEO 600

Author

Strain, Kenneth A., Allen, B., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B.W., Berukoff, S., Bunkowski, A., Cagnoli, Gianpietro, Cantley, C.A., Casey, M.M., Chelkowski, S., Churches, D., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Crooks, David R., Cutler, C., Danzmann, Karsten, Davies, R., Dupuis, Rejean J., Elliffe, E., Fallnich, Carsten, Franzen, A., Freise, A., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Harms, J., Heinzel, Gerhard, Heng, Ik S., Hepstonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hough, James, Itoh, Y., Jones, R., Huttner, S.H., Kawabe, K., Killow, Christian, Koetter, K., Krishnan, B., Leonhardt, V., Lück, Harald, Machenschalk, B., Malec, M., Mercer, R.A., Messenger, Christopher, Mohanty, S., Mossavi, Kasem, Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Nagano, S., Newton, G.P., Papa, M.A., Perreur-Lloyd, M., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M.V., Quetschke, V., Re, Virginia, Reid, S., Ribichini, L., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, Norna A., Romano, J.D., Rowan, Sheila, Ruediger, Albrecht, Sathyaprakash, Bangalore S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schutz, B.F., Seifert, F., Sintes, A.M., Smith, J.R., Sneddon, Peter H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thuering, A., Ungarelli, Carlo, Vahlbruch, H., Vecchio, Alberto, Veitch, J., Ward, Harry, Weiland, U., Welling, Herbert, Williams, P., Willke, Benno, Winkler, Walter, Woan, Graham, Zawischa, Ivo, and Sanders, Gary H.

Subjects
Binary neutron stars, Control signals, Vacuum, Interferometers, Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau, Optical design, Fused silica, Gravity waves, Astrophysics, GEO 600, Natural frequencies, Signaling, Signal recycled mode, ddc:620, Konferenzschrift, Probability
Abstract

The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. GEO 600 is unique in having advanced multiple pendulum suspensions with a monolithic last stage and in employing a signal recycled optical design. This paper describes the recent commissioning of the interferometer and its operation in signal recycled mode. © (2004) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)

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2004

36. Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, Rana X., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barker-Patton, C., Barnes, M., Barr, B., Barton, M. A., Bayer, K., Beausoleil, R., Belczynski, K., Bennett, R., Berukoff, S. J., Betzwieser, J., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Bland-Weaver, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Brown, D. A., Brozek, S., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W. E., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J. B., Cantley, C. A., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M. M., Castiglione, J., Chandler, A., Chapsky, J., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chen, Y., Chickarmane, V., Chin, D., Christensen, N., Churches, D., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crooks, D. R. M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B. J., Cutler, C., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R. W. P., Dupuis, R. J., Ebeling, C., Edlund, J., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E. J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M. M., Fine, M., Finn, L. S., Flanagan, É., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K. S., Giaime, J. A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., González, G., Goßler, S., Grandclément, P., Grant, A., Gray, C., Gretarsson, A. M., Grimmett, D., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W. O., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I. S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., Hough, J., Hrynevych, M., Hua, W., Ingley, R., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jennrich, O., Johnson, W. W., Johnston, W., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C. J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Kloevekorn, P., Koranda, S., Kötter, K., Kovalik, J., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Landry, M., Langdale, J., Lantz, B., Lawrence, R., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Logan, J., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lyons, T. T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mann, F., Marin, A., Márka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Mason, K., Matherny, O., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McHugh, M., McNamara, P., Mendell, G., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Naundorf, H., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D. J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Papa, M. A., Parameswariah, C., Parameswariah, V., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Pratt, M., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S. R., Redding, D., Regehr, M. W., Regimbau, T., Reilly, K. T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D. H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D. I., Robertson, N. A., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sanders, G. H., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schofield, R., Schrempel, M., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Sengupta, A. S., Shapiro, C. A., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Shu, Q. Z., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sievers, L., Sigg, D., Sintes, A. M., Skeldon, K., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, M. R., Sneddon, P., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Strain, K. A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M. C., Sutton, P. J., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tanner, D. B., Tariq, H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K. S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K. V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traeger, S., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., Whiting, B. F., Willems, P. A., Williams, P. R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B. J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Weinstein, Alan J., and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Subjects
radiation, search, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, millisecond pulsars, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, interferometer, Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, ddc:530, Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik
Abstract

Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939+2134 at twice its rotation frequency. Two independent analysis methods were used and are demonstrated in this paper: a frequency domain method and a time domain method. Both achieve consistent null results, placing new upper limits on the strength of the pulsar’s gravitational wave emission. A model emission mechanism is used to interpret the limits as a constraint on the pulsar’s equatorial ellipticity. © 2004 The American Physical Society.

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2004

38. The GEO600 gravitational wave detector: pulsar prospects

Author

Woan, G., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B.W., Berukoff, S., Bose, S., Cagnoli, G., Casey, M.M., Churches, D., Colacino, C.N., Crooks, D.R.M., Cutler, C., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Dupuis, R.J., Elliffe, E., Fallnich, C., Freise, A., Goßler, S., Grant, A., Grote, H., Heinzel, G., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hough, J., Jennrich, O., Kawabe, K., Kötter, K., Leonhardt, V., Lück, H., Malec, M., McNamara, P., Mossavi, K., Mohanty, S., Mukherjee, S., Nagano, S., Newton, G.P., Owen, B.J., Papa, M.A., Plissi, M.V., Quetschke, V., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Schilling, R., Schutz, B.F., Senior, R., Sintes, A.M., Skeldon, K.D., Sneddon, P., Stief, F., Strain, K.A., Taylor, I., Torrie, C.I., Vecchio, A., Ward, H., Weiland, U., Welling, H., Williams, P., Winkler, W., Wilke, B., and Zawischa, I.

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QB
Abstract

The GEO600 laser-interferometric gravitational wave detector near Hannover, Germany, is one of six such interferometers now close to operation worldwide. The UK/German GEO collaboration uses advanced technologies, including monolithic silica suspensions and signal recycling, to deliver a sensitivity comparable with much larger detectors in their initial configurations. Here we review the design and performance of GEO600 and consider the prospects for a direct detection of continuous gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars.

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2003

39. Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134

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Woan, G., Allen, B., Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., Anderson, S., Anderson, W., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B., Barker, D., Barker-Patton, C., Barnes, M., Barr, B., Barton, M., Bayer, K., Beausoleil, R., Belczynski, K., Bennett, R., Berukoff, S., Betzwieser, J., Bhawal, B., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Bland-Weaver, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P., Braginsky, V., Brau, J., Brown, D., Brozek, O., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W., Byer, R., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J., Cantley, C., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M., Castiglione, J., Chandler, A., Chapsky, J., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chen, Y., Chickarmane, V., Chin, D., Christensen, N., Churches, D., Colacino, C., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J., Creighton, T., Crooks, D., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B., Cutler, C., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, R., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R., Dupuis, R., Ebeling, C., Edlund, J., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M., Fine, M., Finn, L., Flanagan, E., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K., Giaime, J., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Gonzalez, G., Goßler, S., Grandclement, P., Grant, A., Gray, C., Gretarsson, A., Grimmett, D., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., Hough, J., Hrynevych, M., Hua, W., Ingley, R., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jennrich, O., Johnson, W., Johnston, W., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Kloevekorn, P., Koranda, S., Kötter, K., Kovalik, J., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Landry, M., Langdale, J., Lantz, B., Lawrence, R., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Logan, J., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Lyons, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mann, F., Marin, A., Marka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Matherny, O., Mason, K., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D., McHugh, M., McNamara, P., Mendell, G., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Müller, G., Mukherjee, S., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Naundorf, H., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O'Reilly, B., Ottaway, D., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B., Papa, M., Parameswariah, C., Parameswariah, V., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Pratt, M., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S., Redding, D., Regehr, M., Regimbau, T., Reilly, K., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D., Robertson, N., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rollins, J., Romano, J., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sanders, G., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schofield, R., Schrempel, M., Schutz, B., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S., Searle, A., Sears, B., Seel, S., Sengupta, A., Shapiro, C., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D., Shu, Q., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sievers, L., Sigg, D., Sintes, A., Skeldon, K., Smith, J., Smith, M., Sneddon, P., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Strain, K., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M., Sutton, P., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tanner, D., Tariq, H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traeger, S., Traylor, G., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Vallisneri, M., van Putten, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Whelan, J., Whitcomb, S., Whiting, B., Willems, P., Williams, P., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., and The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Subjects
Physics, Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous), 010308 nuclear & particles physics, Gravitational wave, Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, FOS: Physical sciences, Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc), Bayesian inference, 01 natural sciences, LIGO, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Amplitude, Pulsar, Frequentist inference, Frequency domain, 0103 physical sciences, Time domain, 010306 general physics, QC
Abstract

The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct upper limits on the strength of waves from the pulsar PSR J1939+2134 using two independent analysis methods, one in the frequency domain using frequentist statistics and one in the time domain using Bayesian inference. Both methods show that the strain amplitude at Earth from this pulsar is less than a few times $10^{-22}$., Comment: 7 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Tirrenia, Pisa, Italy, 6-11 July 2003

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2003
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40. Pro-inflammatory gene expression profile in obese adults with high plasma GIP levels

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Góralska, J, Raźny, U, Polus, A, Stancel-Możwiłło, J, Chojnacka, M, Gruca, A, Zdzienicka, A, Dembińska-Kieć, A, Kieć-Wilk, B, Solnica, B, and Malczewska-Malec, M

Abstract

Background:Glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) provides a novel link between the immune system and the gut, although results from different experimental and observational studies are contradictory, ranging from anti-inflammatory, through neutral to pro-inflammatory action of GIP. Thus, the aim of this study was to analyze inflammatory pathways on the level of gene expression and circulating inflammatory markers in relation to plasma GIP level.Subjects/Methods:The study included 128 obese adults. Two groups of obese subjects were created according to fasting GIP levels, with cutoff point at the 66th percentile and compared in respect with molecular and circulating markers of inflammation. GIP, interleukin (IL)-6 and adipokines: leptin, adiponectin, visfatin were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Inflammatory markers: monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), sE-Selectin, sVCAM-1, sPECAM-1 were studied at fasting and after nutrient challenges. Gene expression in blood cells was determined by human gene microarray.Results:Obese patients with high GIP levels had elevated fasting glucose (Q2 (Q1–Q3): 5.6 (5.0–6.0) vs 5.0 (4.8–5.4), P<0.001), homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (Q2 (Q1–Q3): 3.68 (2.72–5.42) vs 2.70 (2.13–4.33), P=0.021), thus increased markers of insulin resistance as well as elevated inflammatory markers Il-6 (Q2 (Q1–Q3): 1.34 (1.0–2.04) vs 1.12 (0.76–1.64), P=0.045), MCP-1 (Q2 (Q1–Q3): 363 (287–447) vs 323 (263–389), P=0.026). Leptin to adiponectin ratio was significantly associated with fasting plasma GIP levels (β (95% CI): 0.84 (0.10–1.59)) independently of glucose levels. sE-Selectin was found to be a factor influencing GIP response to oral glucose intake (β (95% CI): 0.47 (0.14–0.81)) and sVCAM was found to be a factor influencing GIP response to high-fat meal intake (β (95% CI): 0.19 (0.01–0.37)). We identified 32 genes of inflammatory pathways differentially expressed in subjects with a high plasma GIP level compared to low GIP. Most upregulated genes play a role in leukocyte chemotaxis and tissue infiltration.Conclusions:These findings support the hypothesis that increased GIP signaling has a role in chronic low-grade inflammation.

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2018
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41. Glucokinase regulatory protein genetic variant interacts with Omega-3 PUFA to influence insulin resistance and inflammation in metabolic syndrome

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Perez - Martinez, P., Perez - Martinez, P., Delgado - Lista, J., Garcia - Rios, A., Mc Monagle, J., Gulseth, H.L., Ordovas, J.M., Shaw, D.I., Karlstrom, B., Kiec - Wilk, B., Blaak, E.E., Helal, O., Malszewska - Malec, M., Defoort, C., Riserus, U., Saris, W.H., Lovegrove, J.A., Drevon, C.A., Roche, H.M., Lopez - Miranda, J., Perez - Martinez, P., Perez - Martinez, P., Delgado - Lista, J., Garcia - Rios, A., Mc Monagle, J., Gulseth, H.L., Ordovas, J.M., Shaw, D.I., Karlstrom, B., Kiec - Wilk, B., Blaak, E.E., Helal, O., Malszewska - Malec, M., Defoort, C., Riserus, U., Saris, W.H., Lovegrove, J.A., Drevon, C.A., Roche, H.M., and Lopez - Miranda, J.

Abstract

Glucokinase Regulatory Protein (GCKR) plays a central role regulating both hepatic triglyceride and glucose metabolism. Fatty acids are key metabolic regulators, which interact with genetic factors and influence glucose metabolism and other metabolic traits. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) have been of considerable interest, due to their potential to reduce metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk. OBJECTIVE: To examine whether genetic variability at the GCKR gene locus was associated with the degree of insulin resistance, plasma concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) and n-3 PUFA in MetS subjects. DESIGN: Homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR), HOMA-B, plasma concentrations of C-peptide, CRP, fatty acid composition and the GCKR rs1260326-P446L polymorphism, were determined in a cross-sectional analysis of 379 subjects with MetS participating in the LIPGENE dietary cohort. RESULTS: Among subjects with n-3 PUFA levels below the population median, carriers of the common C/C genotype had higher plasma concentrations of fasting insulin (P = 0.019), C-peptide (P = 0.004), HOMA-IR (P = 0.008) and CRP (P = 0.032) as compared with subjects carrying the minor T-allele (Leu446). In contrast, homozygous C/C carriers with n-3 PUFA levels above the median showed lower plasma concentrations of fasting insulin, peptide C, HOMA-IR and CRP, as compared with individuals with the T-allele. CONCLUSIONS: We have demonstrated a significant interaction between the GCKR rs1260326-P446L polymorphism and plasma n-3 PUFA levels modulating insulin resistance and inflammatory markers in MetS subjects. Further studies are needed to confirm this gene-diet interaction in the general population and whether targeted dietary recommendations can prevent MetS in genetically susceptible individuals. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00429195.

Published
2011

42. Relationships of learning and change between East European immigrant women and native Italians on their free day off from work

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Evans, R:Borjesson I, Crowther J, Hemmi A, Martin I, Scandrett E, Dore R, Ribeiro S, Evans R, Kurantowicz E, Figueira E, Kohenen T, Rosa V, Cordeiro A, Aldeia M, Fragoso A, Roque R, Giusti M, Golebniak M, Gomes I, Monteiro A, Gualda E, Lucio-Villegas E, Guvercin G, Haring S, Hussain S, Ligus R, Luci-Villegas E, Malec M, McIntosh P, Nizinska A, Parson C, Pilch-Ortega A, Pitulac T, Milson A, Nastuta S, Sabirh-Ozisikli I, Seckin O, Sokolowicz N, Tozowa K, Warren S, Roose J, Cadillon I, Santos S, Evans, R, Giusti, M, GIUSTI, MARIANGELA, Evans, R:Borjesson I, Crowther J, Hemmi A, Martin I, Scandrett E, Dore R, Ribeiro S, Evans R, Kurantowicz E, Figueira E, Kohenen T, Rosa V, Cordeiro A, Aldeia M, Fragoso A, Roque R, Giusti M, Golebniak M, Gomes I, Monteiro A, Gualda E, Lucio-Villegas E, Guvercin G, Haring S, Hussain S, Ligus R, Luci-Villegas E, Malec M, McIntosh P, Nizinska A, Parson C, Pilch-Ortega A, Pitulac T, Milson A, Nastuta S, Sabirh-Ozisikli I, Seckin O, Sokolowicz N, Tozowa K, Warren S, Roose J, Cadillon I, Santos S, Evans, R, Giusti, M, and GIUSTI, MARIANGELA

Abstract

In the places of leisure time in Italy (urban parks, city parks, large suburban parks) there are many immigrant people from several countries. The paper aims a qualitative research with in-dept interwiews to woman and girls immigrant in Italy from Eastern Europe. The search could constitute a form of mutual learning about the marginalization and training in the day of leisure time from the job.

Published
2009

43. Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, and fourth LIGO runs

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Berukoff, S.J., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Csatorday, P., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Delker, T., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Ding, H., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., González, 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Abstract

We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by gamma-ray satellite experiments during LIGO's S2, S3, and S4 science runs. The search involves calculating the crosscorrelation between two interferometer data streams surrounding the GRB trigger time. We search for associated gravitational radiation from single GRBs, and also apply statistical tests to search for a gravitational-wave signature associated with the whole sample. For the sample examined, we find no evidence for the association of gravitational radiation with GRBs, either on a single-GRB basis or on a statistical basis. Simulating gravitational-wave bursts with sine-Gaussian waveforms, we set upper limits on the root-sum-square of the gravitational-wave strain amplitude of such waveforms at the times of the GRB triggers. We also demonstrate how a sample of several GRBs can be used collectively to set constraints on population models. The small number of GRBs and the significant change in sensitivity of the detectors over the three runs, however, limits the usefulness of a population study for the S2, S3, and S4 runs. Finally, we discuss prospects for the search sensitivity for the ongoing S5 run, and beyond for the next generation of detectors. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

Published
2008

44. Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., 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Abstract

We report on a search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries during the third and fourth LIGO science runs. The search focused on gravitational waves generated during the inspiral phase of the binary evolution. In our analysis, we considered three categories of compact binary systems, ordered by mass: (i) primordial black hole binaries with masses in the range 0.35M

Published
2008

45. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., 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Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J.W.C., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I.M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M.V., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Ramsunder, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A.S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A.M., Slagmolen, B.J.J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J.R., Smith, M.R., Somiya, K., Strain, K.A., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D.B., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Van Den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitbeck, D.M., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C.C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Mühlen, H.zur, and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1000 Hz and with the frequency's time derivative in the range -1×10-8Hzs-1 to zero. Data from the fourth LIGO science run (S4) have been used in this search. Three different semicoherent methods of transforming and summing strain power from short Fourier transforms (SFTs) of the calibrated data have been used. The first, known as StackSlide, averages normalized power from each SFT. A "weighted Hough" scheme is also developed and used, which also allows for a multi-interferometer search. The third method, known as PowerFlux, is a variant of the StackSlide method in which the power is weighted before summing. In both the weighted Hough and PowerFlux methods, the weights are chosen according to the noise and detector antenna-pattern to maximize the signal-to-noise ratio. The respective advantages and disadvantages of these methods are discussed. Observing no evidence of periodic gravitational radiation, we report upper limits; we interpret these as limits on this radiation from isolated rotating neutron stars. The best population-based upper limit with 95% confidence on the gravitational-wave strain amplitude, found for simulated sources distributed isotropically across the sky and with isotropically distributed spin axes, is 4.28×10-24 (near 140 Hz). Strict upper limits are also obtained for small patches on the sky for best-case and worst-case inclinations of the spin axes. © 2008 The American Physical Society.

Published
2008

46. Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I.M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M.V., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Ramsunder, M., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A.S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Sibley, A., Sidles, J.A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A.M., Slagmolen, B.J.J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J.R., Smith, M.R., Somiya, K., Strain, K.A., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D.B., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Van Den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C.C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Mühlen, H.zur, Zweizig, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I.M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M.V., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Ramsunder, M., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A.S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Sibley, A., Sidles, J.A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A.M., Slagmolen, B.J.J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J.R., Smith, M.R., Somiya, K., Strain, K.A., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D.B., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Van Den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C.C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Mühlen, H.zur, and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We report on the methods and results of the first dedicated search for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries with spinning component bodies. We analyze 788 hours of data collected during the third science run (S3) of the LIGO detectors. We searched for binary systems using a detection template family specially designed to capture the effects of the spin-induced precession of the orbital plane. We present details of the techniques developed to enable this search for spin-modulated gravitational waves, highlighting the differences between this and other recent searches for binaries with nonspinning components. The template bank we employed was found to yield high matches with our spin-modulated target waveform for binaries with masses in the asymmetric range 1.0M

Published
2008

47. Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J.W.C., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I.M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M.V., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A.S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Sibley, A., Sidles, J.A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A.M., Slagmolen, B.J.J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J.R., Smith, M.R., Somiya, K., Strain, K.A., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D.B., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Van Den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitbeck, D.M., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C.C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Mühlen, H.zur, Zweizig, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Kim, C., King, P., Kissel, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J.W.C., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pierro, V., Pinto, I.M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H., Plissi, M.V., Postiglione, F., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Rabeling, D., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Schediwy, S., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A.S., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D.H., Sibley, A., Sidles, J.A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A.M., Slagmolen, B.J.J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J.R., Smith, M.R., Somiya, K., Strain, K.A., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Takahashi, H., Tanner, D.B., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K.V., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tyler, W., Ugolini, D., Ungarelli, C., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Van Den Broeck, C., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., Ward, H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitbeck, D.M., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkler, W., Wipf, C.C., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yunes, N., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Mühlen, H.zur, and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We searched for an anisotropic background of gravitational waves using data from the LIGO S4 science run and a method that is optimized for point sources. This is appropriate if, for example, the gravitational wave background is dominated by a small number of distinct astrophysical sources. No signal was seen. Upper limit maps were produced assuming two different power laws for the source strain power spectrum. For an f-3 power law and using the 50 Hz to 1.8 kHz band the upper limits on the source strain power spectrum vary between 1.2×10-48Hz-1 (100Hz/f)3 and 1.2×10-47Hz-1 (100Hz/f)3, depending on the position in the sky. Similarly, in the case of constant strain power spectrum, the upper limits vary between 8.5×10-49Hz-1 and 6.1×10-48Hz-1. As a side product a limit on an isotropic background of gravitational waves was also obtained. All limits are at the 90% confidence level. Finally, as an application, we focused on the direction of Sco-X1, the brightest low-mass x-ray binary. We compare the upper limit on strain amplitude obtained by this method to expectations based on the x-ray flux from Sco-X1. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Published
2007

48. Searches for periodic gravitational waves from unknown isolated sources and Scorpius X-1: Results from the second LIGO science run

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S, Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Berukoff, S.J., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, B., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, .P, Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Coles, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Csatorday, P., Cumming, A., Cutler, C., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Delker, T., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Ding, H., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hosken, D., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huttner, S.H., Ingram, D., Innerhofer, E., Ito, M., Itoh, Y., Ivanov, A., Jackrel, D., Jennrich, O., Johnson, B., Johnson, W.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D.G., Khalili, F.Ya., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, P., Kissell, J.S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R.K., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Kwee, P., Lam, P.K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lee, B., Lei, M., Leiner, J., Leonhardt, V., Leonor, I., Libbrecht, K., Libson, A., Lindquist, P., Lockerbie, N.A., Logan, J., Longo, M., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Malec, M., Mandic, V., Marano, S., Márka, S., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I., Marx, J.N., Mason, K., Matone, L., Matta, V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D.E., McGuire, S.C., McHugh, M., McKenzie, K., McNabb, J.W.C., McWilliams, S., Meier, T., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C.J., Meyers, D., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Moylan, A., Mudge, D., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Numata, K., Nutzman, P., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., 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Abstract

We carry out two searches for periodic gravitational waves using the most sensitive few hours of data from the second LIGO science run. Both searches exploit fully coherent matched filtering and cover wide areas of parameter space, an innovation over previous analyses which requires considerable algorithm development and computational power. The first search is targeted at isolated, previously unknown neutron stars, covers the entire sky in the frequency band 160-728.8 Hz, and assumes a frequency derivative of less than 4×10-10Hz/s. The second search targets the accreting neutron star in the low-mass x-ray binary Scorpius X-1 and covers the frequency bands 464-484 Hz and 604-624 Hz as well as the two relevant binary orbit parameters. Because of the high computational cost of these searches we limit the analyses to the most sensitive 10 hours and 6 hours of data, respectively. Given the limited sensitivity and duration of the analyzed data set, we do not attempt deep follow-up studies. Rather we concentrate on demonstrating the data analysis method on a real data set and present our results as upper limits over large volumes of the parameter space. In order to achieve this, we look for coincidences in parameter space between the Livingston and Hanford 4-km interferometers. For isolated neutron stars our 95% confidence level upper limits on the gravitational wave strain amplitude range from 6.6×10-23 to 1×10-21 across the frequency band; for Scorpius X-1 they range from 1.7×10-22 to 1.3×10-21 across the two 20-Hz frequency bands. The upper limits presented in this paper are the first broadband wide parameter space upper limits on periodic gravitational waves from coherent search techniques. The methods developed here lay the foundations for upcoming hierarchical searches of more sensitive data which may detect astrophysical signals. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Published
2007

49. Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Belczynski, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.M., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkey, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Chin, D., Chin, E., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C.N., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coward, D., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., 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Abstract

We present upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars based on data from the third and fourth science runs of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational wave detectors. The data from both runs have been combined coherently to maximize sensitivity. For the first time, pulsars within binary (or multiple) systems have been included in the search by taking into account the signal modulation due to their orbits. Our upper limits are therefore the first measured for 56 of these pulsars. For the remaining 22, our results improve on previous upper limits by up to a factor of 10. For example, our tightest upper limit on the gravitational strain is 2.6×10-25 for PSR J1603-7202, and the equatorial ellipticity of PSR J2124-3358 is less than 10-6. Furthermore, our strain upper limit for the Crab pulsar is only 2.2 times greater than the fiducial spin-down limit. © 2007 The American Physical Society.

Published
2007

50. Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134

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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, LIGO—California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, LIGO—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL 32611, USA, The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA, Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30157 Hannover, Germany, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA, LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, LA 70754, USA, California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747, USA, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA, Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA, LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, WA 99352, USA, Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA, Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, UK, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK, Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany; Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30157 Hannover, Germany, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan, Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30157 Hannover, Germany, Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL 60510, USA, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune - 411007, India, Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, MT 59855, USA, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA, Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, UK, Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA, LIGO—California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA, Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany, Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA, Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Albert Einstein Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30157 Hannover, Germany; Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany, Ann Arbor, Allen, B., Woan, G., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., Anderson, S. 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Abstract

The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct upper limits on the strength of waves from the pulsar PSR J1939+2134 using two independent analysis methods, one in the frequency domain using frequentist statistics and one in the time domain using Bayesian inference. Both methods show that the strain amplitude at Earth from this pulsar is less than a few times 10−22.

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2006

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