1. First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts
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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
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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
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- 2004