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5. Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO

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Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., 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., Dhurandar, S., Dı́az, 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., J. Ottaway, D., 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., Vyatchanin, S.P., 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.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., and Zweizig, J.

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2004
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7. Spectral Analysis in High Radiation Space Backgrounds with Robust Fitting

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Lasche, G. P, Coldwell, R. L, Nobel, L. A, Rester, A. C, and Trombka, J. I

Subjects
Space Radiation
Abstract

Spectral analysis software is tested for its ability to fit spectra from space. The approach, which emphasizes the background shape function, is uniquely suited to the identification of weak-strength nuclides in high-radiation background environments.

Published
1997

8. Analysis of Phobos mission gamma ray spectra from Mars

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Trombka, J. I, Evans, L. G, Starr, R, Floyd, S. R, Squyres, S. W, Whelan, J. T, Bamford, G. J, Coldwell, R. L, Rester, A. C, and Surkov, Iu. A

Subjects
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Abstract

The determination of the elemental composition of the surface of a planetary body can be achieved, in many cases, by remote-sensing gamma ray spectroscopy. A gamma ray spectrometer was carried on the Soviet spacecraft Phobos-2, and obtained data while in an elliptical orbit around Mars. Results of two independent approaches to data analysis, one by the Soviet group and one by an American group are reported. The results for five elements are given for two different orbits of Mars. Major geologic units that contribute to the signal for each orbit have been identified. The results from the two techniques are in general agreement and there appear to be no geologically significant differences between the results for each orbit.

Published
1992

9. Performance of bismuth germanate active shielding on a balloon flight over Antarctica

Author

Rester, A. C, Coldwell, R. L, Trombka, J. I, Starr, R, and Eichhorn, G

Subjects
Astronomy
Abstract

The GRAD (Gamma-Ray Advanced Detector) gamma-ray spectrometer was flown on a balloon at an altitude of 36.6 km over Antarctica on January 8-10, 1988, where it was used to make observations of SN 1987A. The performance of the bismuth germanate (BGO) active shielding in the near-space environment over Antarctica is examined. The promised effectiveness of this shielding in the suppression of unwanted background has been demonstrated. The BGO-shielded GRAD spectrometer detected gamma-ray lines with fluxes of 0.002/sq cm sec from SN 1987A in a radiation background approximately a factor of 4 more intense than that over Alice Springs, Australia. This level of sensitivity indicates that BGO is at least as effective as CsI when used as active shielding. Isomerism is common, both in the bismuth and germanium regions of the nuclear chart, but is found to be less of a problem for background suppression in the latter region than in the former.

Published
1990
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10. Fully nonadiabatic properties of all H2 isotopomers.

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Alexander, S. A. and Coldwell, R. L.

Subjects
*ELECTROSTATICS, *MONTE Carlo method, *FORCE & energy, *ADIABATIC invariants, *SURFACE chemistry, *POLARIZATION (Nuclear physics)
Abstract

Using variational Monte Carlo and simple explicitly correlated fully nonadiabatic wavefunctions we have computed the energy and 29 properties of the lowest rovibrational state of all the H2 isotopomers. Our results are in very good agreement with previous calculations on these systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2008
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11. Oscillator strengths of helium computed using Monte Carlo methods.

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Alexander, S. A. and Coldwell, R. L.

Subjects
*OSCILLATOR strengths, *HELIUM, *MONTE Carlo method, *NUMERICAL analysis, *STOCHASTIC processes, *PHYSICS
Abstract

We have optimized trial wave functions for the three lowest states of the helium atom with symmetry 1S, 1P, 1D, 3S, 3P, and 3D using variational Monte Carlo methods. With these wave functions we then computed dipole oscillator strengths for the 1S-1P, 1P-1D, 3S-3P, and 3P-3D transitions using the length, velocity, and acceleration forms. Our values are in good agreement with the best results found in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2006
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12. A ground state potential energy surface for H2 using Monte Carlo methods.

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Alexander, S. A. and Coldwell, R. L.

Subjects
*POTENTIAL energy surfaces, *MONTE Carlo method, *WAVE functions, *WAVE mechanics, *NUMERICAL analysis, *APPROXIMATION theory
Abstract

Using variational Monte Carlo and a simple explicitly correlated wave function we have computed the Born–Oppenheimer energy of the H2 ground state (X 1Σg+) at 24 internuclear distances. We have also calculated the diagonal correction to the Born–Oppenheimer approximation and the lowest-order relativistic corrections at each distance using variational Monte Carlo techniques. The nonadiabatic values are evaluated from numerical derivatives of the wave function with respect to the nuclear coordinates. With this potential energy surface we have computed several of the lowest vibrational-rotational energies for this system. Our results are in good agreement with the best values found in the literature. © 2004 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2004
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14. Calculating atomic properties using variational Monte Carlo.

Author

Alexander, S. A. and Coldwell, R. L.

Subjects
*WAVE functions, *MONTE Carlo method, *ATOMS
Abstract

Using variational Monte Carlo and the explicitly-correlated wave function forms optimized by Schmidt and Moskowitz, we compute a number of properties for the atoms He–Ne. The expectation value of the Hamiltonian using these wave functions contains between 70.0% and 99.8% of the correlation energy for the neutral atoms (17 parameters), 60.8% and 99.1% for selected cations (9 parameters), and 73.9% and 89.4% for selected anions (17 parameters). For those properties which sample the valence region, our results are in good agreement with previous calculations (where available). Because of a defect in the wave function form, a substantial error is found in those properties which two electrons that are in close proximity. © 1995 American Institute of Physics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1995
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15. Guiding-function optimization in biased-selection Monte Carlo calculations.

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Alexander, S. A., Coldwell, R. L., and Morgan, John D.

Subjects
*MONTE Carlo method, *EXCITED state chemistry
Abstract

We show that the guiding function, which is used to generate the Monte Carlo integration points in a biased-selection calculation, can be optimized so as to minimize the statistical error of an expectation value. For excited states we introduce an orthogonalizing part into the minimization functional to prevent ground and excited states from mixing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1992
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16. Monte Carlo eigenvalue and variance estimates from several functional optimizations.

Author

Alexander, S. A., Coldwell, R. L., Monkhorst, Hendrik J., and Morgan, J. D.

Subjects
*MONTE Carlo method, *EXCITED state chemistry, *EIGENVALUES, *WAVE functions
Abstract

Using several simple systems as examples, we show that the choice of optimization functional can have a significant influence on the accuracy of variational Monte Carlo calculations. In addition, we demonstrate that the Monte Carlo analog of the Rayleigh–Ritz procedure, which explicitly orthogonalizes ground and excited states, can be used to produce accurate eigenvalue and variance estimates of excited states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
1991
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18. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data - Physical Review D (2008) 77 (022001)

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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., 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., Diaz, 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., Gonzalez, 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., 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., Luck, 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. 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., Muller-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., Rudiger, 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., 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., Thuring, 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., Zur Muhlen, H., and Zweizig, J.

Published
2009

19. 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., 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, 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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.

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2008

20. Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2007) 76, (042001)

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., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Credico, Di, 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., Gonzalez, 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., 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., Luck, 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. N., Mason, K., and Matone, L.

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2008

21. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2008) 77, (022001)

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., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Credico, A. D., 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., Gonzalez, 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., 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., Luck, 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. 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., Muller-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., Rudiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., Sancho, De, Jordana, La, 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., Thuring, 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., Zur, Muhlen, and Zweizig, J.

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2008

22. Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2007) 76, (082003)

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., Diaz, 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., Gonzalez, 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., 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., Luck, 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. 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., Muller-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., Rudiger, 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., Sidles, J. 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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 Muhlen, H., and Zweizig, J.

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2008

23. 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. 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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.

Subjects
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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24. First cross correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant bar gravitational wave data for stochastic backgrounds - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology (2007) 76, (022001)

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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., 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., Burgamy, M., 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., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Credico, A. D., 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. 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2007

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

Author

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

Subjects
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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26. 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

Published
2007

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

Author

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

28. Properties of the finite-mass helium ground state.

Author

Alexander, S. A. and Coldwell, R. L.

Subjects
*GROUND state energy, *HELIUM, *MONTE Carlo method, *ATOMIC mass, *ALGORITHMS
Abstract

We describe a simple method of incorporating the finite mass of the nucleus directly into atomic variational Monte Carlo calculations. To test this algorithm we computed the energy and 20 other properties of4He. We then compared these values with those obtained from our earlier infinite nuclear mass algorithm. All of our expectation values are in excellent agreement with previous results on this system. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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2017
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29. 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

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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

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2005
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30. 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

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

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2004

31. 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

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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, 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

32. 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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33. Feynman-Kac path-integral calculations with high-quality trial wave functions

Author

Datta S., Fry J., Fazleev N., Alexander S., and Coldwell R.

Subjects
Physics::Atomic Physics
Abstract

We have computed the ground-state energies of the lithium and beryllium atoms using the Feynman-Kac path-integral method and high-quality trial wave functions. Our results are in excellent agreement with the best nonrelativistic values for these systems.

Published
2000

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

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, 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, 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., 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., 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., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., 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., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Richman, S., 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., Rong, H., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Sazonov, A., 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, 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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, 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., 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., 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., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., 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., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Richman, S., 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., Rong, H., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., 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H., Ward, R., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitbeck, D.M., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., 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., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Mühlen, H.zur, and Zweizig, J.

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

35. 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., 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., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., 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., Regimbau, T., 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., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Sazonov, A., 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., van Putten, M., 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., Wiley, S., 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., 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., 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., Nash, T., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Numata, K., O’Reilly, B., O’Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D.J., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., 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., Regimbau, T., 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., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B.S., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Sazonov, A., 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., van Putten, M., 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., Wiley, S., 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 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

36. 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., 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., 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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

37. 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., 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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

38. 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

39. 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., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., 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., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Sazonov, A., 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., Strand, N.E., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Takahashi, H., Takamori, A., Tanner, D.B., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tinto, M., 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., van Putten, M., 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, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitbeck, D..M., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., 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., Zaleski, K.D., 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., 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., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., 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., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D.H., Ribichini, L., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, E.L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rogan, A.M., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Route, R., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Samidi, M., de la Jordana, L.Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Sato, S., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Sazonov, A., 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., Strand, N.E., Strom, D.M., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T.Z., Sun, K.-X., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Takahashi, H., Takamori, A., Tanner, D.B., Tarallo, M., Taylor, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Thüring, A., Tinto, M., 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., van Putten, M., Varvella, M., Vass, S., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S.P., Waldman, S.J., Wallace, L., 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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

40. 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., 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, 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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

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

Author

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.

Published
2006

42. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data

Author

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W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Luna, M., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mandic, V., 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., McNabb, J.W.C., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Noel, J.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Spjeld, O., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., Strain, K.A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M.C., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tanner, D.B., Tarallo, M., Tariq, H., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ward, R., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component masses between 3 and 20M. Optimally oriented binaries with distances up to 1 Mpc could be detected with efficiency of at least 90%. We found no events that could be identified as gravitational waves in the 385.6 hours of data that we searched. © 2006 The American Physical Society.

Published
2006

43. Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, J., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Giaime, J.A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Goggin, L., 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., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Luna, M., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mandic, V., 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., McNabb, J.W.C., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Noel, J.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Spjeld, O., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., Strain, K.A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M.C., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Tanner, D.B., Tariq, H., Tarallo, M., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ward, R., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Akutsu, T., Ando, M., Arai, K., Araya, A., Asada, H., Aso, Y., Beyersdorf, P., Fujiki, Y., Fujimoto, M.-K., Fujita, R., Fukushima, M., Futamase, T., Hamuro, Y., Haruyama, T., Hayama, K., Iguchi, H., Iida, Y., Ioka, K., Ishitsuka, H., Kamikubota, N., Kanda, N., Kaneyama, T., Karasawa, Y., Kasahara, K., Kasai, T., Katsuki, M., Kawamura, S., Kawamura, M., Kawazoe, F., Kojima, Y., Kokeyama, K., Kondo, K., Kozai, Y., Kudoh, H., Kuroda, K., Kuwabara, T., Matsuda, N., Mio, N., Miura, K., Miyama, S., Miyoki, S., Mizusawa, H., Moriwaki, S., Musha, M., Nagayama, Y., Nakagawa, K., Nakamura, T., Nakano, H., Nakao, K., Nishi, Y., Numata, K., Ogawa, Y., Ohashi, M., Ohishi, N., Okutomi, A., Oohara, K., Otsuka, S., Saito, Y., Sakata, S., Sasaki, M., Sato, N., Sato, S., Sato, Y., Sato, K., Sekido, A., Seto, N., Shibata, M., Shinkai, H., Shintomi, T., Soida, K., Somiya, K., Suzuki, T., Tagoshi, H., Takahashi, H., Takahashi, R., Takamori, A., Takemoto, S., Takeno, K., Tanaka, T., Taniguchi, K., Tanji, T., Tatsumi, D., Telada, S., Tokunari, M., Tomaru, T., Tsubono, K., Tsuda, N., Tsunesada, Y., Uchiyama, T., Ueda, K., Ueda, A., Waseda, K., Yamamoto, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamazaki, T., Yanagi, Y., Yokoyama, J., Yoshida, T., Zhu, Z.-H., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, J., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Giaime, J.A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Goggin, L., 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., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Luna, M., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mandic, V., 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., McNabb, J.W.C., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Noel, J.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Spjeld, O., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., Strain, K.A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M.C., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Tanner, D.B., Tariq, H., Tarallo, M., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ward, R., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Akutsu, T., Ando, M., Arai, K., Araya, A., Asada, H., Aso, Y., Beyersdorf, P., Fujiki, Y., Fujimoto, M.-K., Fujita, R., Fukushima, M., Futamase, T., Hamuro, Y., Haruyama, T., Hayama, K., Iguchi, H., Iida, Y., Ioka, K., Ishitsuka, H., Kamikubota, N., Kanda, N., Kaneyama, T., Karasawa, Y., Kasahara, K., Kasai, T., Katsuki, M., Kawamura, S., Kawamura, M., Kawazoe, F., Kojima, Y., Kokeyama, K., Kondo, K., Kozai, Y., Kudoh, H., Kuroda, K., Kuwabara, T., Matsuda, N., Mio, N., Miura, K., Miyama, S., Miyoki, S., Mizusawa, H., Moriwaki, S., Musha, M., Nagayama, Y., Nakagawa, K., Nakamura, T., Nakano, H., Nakao, K., Nishi, Y., Numata, K., Ogawa, Y., Ohashi, M., Ohishi, N., Okutomi, A., Oohara, K., Otsuka, S., Saito, Y., Sakata, S., Sasaki, M., Sato, N., Sato, S., Sato, Y., Sato, K., Sekido, A., Seto, N., Shibata, M., Shinkai, H., Shintomi, T., Soida, K., Somiya, K., Suzuki, T., Tagoshi, H., Takahashi, H., Takahashi, R., Takamori, A., Takemoto, S., Takeno, K., Tanaka, T., Taniguchi, K., Tanji, T., Tatsumi, D., Telada, S., Tokunari, M., Tomaru, T., Tsubono, K., Tsuda, N., Tsunesada, Y., Uchiyama, T., Ueda, K., Ueda, A., Waseda, K., Yamamoto, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamazaki, T., Yanagi, Y., Yokoyama, J., Yoshida, T., and Zhu, Z.-H.

Abstract

We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an intercollaboration coincidence search during times when TAMA300 and only one of the LIGO sites were operational. We find no evidence of any gravitational wave signals. We place an observational upper limit on the rate of binary neutron star coalescence with component masses between 1 and 3M of 49 per year per Milky Way equivalent galaxy at a 90% confidence level. The methods developed during this search will find application in future network inspiral analyses. © 2006 The American Physical Society.

Published
2006

44. Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, J., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Giaime, J.A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Goggin, L., 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., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Luna, M., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mandic, V., 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., McNabb, J.W.C., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Noel, J.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Spjeld, O., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., Strain, K.A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M.C., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Tanner, D.B., Tariq, H., Tarallo, M., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ward, R., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Akutsu, T., Ando, M., Arai, K., Araya, A., Asada, H., Aso, Y., Beyersdorf, P., Fujiki, Y., Fujimoto, M.-K., Fujita, R., Fukushima, M., Futamase, T., Hamuro, Y., Haruyama, T., Hayama, K., Iguchi, H., Iida, Y., Ioka, K., Ishizuka, H., Kamikubota, N., Kanda, N., Kaneyama, T., Karasawa, Y., Kasahara, K., Kasai, T., Katsuki, M., Kawamura, S., Kawamura, M., Kawazoe, F., Kojima, Y., Kokeyama, K., Kondo, K., Kozai, Y., Kudoh, H., Kuroda, K., Kuwabara, T., Matsuda, N., Mio, N., Miura, K., Miyama, S., Miyoki, S., Mizusawa, H., Moriwaki, S., Musha, M., Nagayama, Y., Nakagawa, K., Nakamura, T., Nakano, H., Nakao, K., Nishi, Y., Numata, K., Ogawa, Y., Ohashi, M., Ohishi, N., Okutomi, A., Oohara, K., Otsuka, S., Saito, Y., Sakata, S., Sasaki, M., Sato, N., Sato, S., Sato, Y., Sato, K., Sekido, A., Seto, N., Shibata, M., Shinkai, H., Shintomi, T., Soida, K., Somiya, K., Suzuki, T., Tagoshi, H., Takahashi, H., Takahashi, R., Takamori, A., Takemoto, S., Takeno, K., Tanaka, T., Taniguchi, K., Tanji, T., Tatsumi, D., Telada, S., Tokunari, M., Tomaru, T., Tsubono, K., Tsuda, N., Tsunesada, Y., Uchiyama, T., Ueda, K., Ueda, A., Waseda, K., Yamamoto, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamazaki, T., Yanagi, Y., Yokoyama, J., Yoshida, T., Zhu, Z.-H., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, J., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Giaime, J.A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Goggin, L., 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., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kalogera, V., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kells, W., Kern, J., Khan, A., Killbourn, S., Killow, C.J., Kim, C., King, C., King, P., Klimenko, S., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Luna, M., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mandic, V., 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., McNabb, J.W.C., Melissinos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mikhailov, E., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V.P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Mohanty, S., Moreno, G., Mossavi, K., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Murray, P., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nagano, S., Nash, T., Nayak, R., Newton, G., Nocera, F., Noel, J.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Rizzi, A., Robertson, D.I., Robertson, N.A., Robinson, C., Robison, L., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, A., Rollins, J., Romano, J.D., Romie, J., Rong, H., Rose, D., Rotthoff, E., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruet, L., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Salzman, I., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Spjeld, O., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., Strain, K.A., Strom, D., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sumner, M.C., Sung, M., Sutton, P.J., Sylvestre, J., Tanner, D.B., Tariq, H., Tarallo, M., Taylor, I., Taylor, R., Thorne, K.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., Wallace, L., Walther, H., Ward, H., Ward, R., Ware, B., Watts, K., Webber, D., Weidner, A., Weiland, U., Weinstein, A., Weiss, R., Welling, H., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Akutsu, T., Ando, M., Arai, K., Araya, A., Asada, H., Aso, Y., Beyersdorf, P., Fujiki, Y., Fujimoto, M.-K., Fujita, R., Fukushima, M., Futamase, T., Hamuro, Y., Haruyama, T., Hayama, K., Iguchi, H., Iida, Y., Ioka, K., Ishizuka, H., Kamikubota, N., Kanda, N., Kaneyama, T., Karasawa, Y., Kasahara, K., Kasai, T., Katsuki, M., Kawamura, S., Kawamura, M., Kawazoe, F., Kojima, Y., Kokeyama, K., Kondo, K., Kozai, Y., Kudoh, H., Kuroda, K., Kuwabara, T., Matsuda, N., Mio, N., Miura, K., Miyama, S., Miyoki, S., Mizusawa, H., Moriwaki, S., Musha, M., Nagayama, Y., Nakagawa, K., Nakamura, T., Nakano, H., Nakao, K., Nishi, Y., Numata, K., Ogawa, Y., Ohashi, M., Ohishi, N., Okutomi, A., Oohara, K., Otsuka, S., Saito, Y., Sakata, S., Sasaki, M., Sato, N., Sato, S., Sato, Y., Sato, K., Sekido, A., Seto, N., Shibata, M., Shinkai, H., Shintomi, T., Soida, K., Somiya, K., Suzuki, T., Tagoshi, H., Takahashi, H., Takahashi, R., Takamori, A., Takemoto, S., Takeno, K., Tanaka, T., Taniguchi, K., Tanji, T., Tatsumi, D., Telada, S., Tokunari, M., Tomaru, T., Tsubono, K., Tsuda, N., Tsunesada, Y., Uchiyama, T., Ueda, K., Ueda, A., Waseda, K., Yamamoto, A., Yamamoto, K., Yamazaki, T., Yanagi, Y., Yokoyama, J., Yoshida, T., and Zhu, Z.-H.

Abstract

We report on the first joint search for gravitational waves by the TAMA and LIGO collaborations. We looked for millisecond-duration unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts in 473 hr of coincident data collected during early 2003. No candidate signals were found. We set an upper limit of 0.12 events per day on the rate of detectable gravitational-wave bursts, at 90% confidence level. From software simulations, we estimate that our detector network was sensitive to bursts with root-sum-square strain amplitude above approximately 1-3×10-19Hz-1/2 in the frequency band 700-2000 Hz. We describe the details of this collaborative search, with particular emphasis on its advantages and disadvantages compared to searches by LIGO and TAMA separately using the same data. Benefits include a lower background and longer observation time, at some cost in sensitivity and bandwidth. We also demonstrate techniques for performing coincidence searches with a heterogeneous network of detectors with different noise spectra and orientations. These techniques include using coordinated software signal injections to estimate the network sensitivity, and tuning the analysis to maximize the sensitivity and the livetime, subject to constraints on the background. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Published
2005

45. Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., 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., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hindman, N., Hoang, P., 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Abstract

We place direct upper limits on the amplitude of gravitational waves from 28 isolated radio pulsars by a coherent multidetector analysis of the data collected during the second science run of the LIGO interferometric detectors. These are the first direct upper limits for 26 of the 28 pulsars. We use coordinated radio observations for the first time to build radio-guided phase templates for the expected gravitational-wave signals. The unprecedented sensitivity of the detectors allows us to set strain upper limits as low as a few times 10-24. These strain limits translate into limits on the equatorial ellipticities of the pulsars, which are smaller than 10-5 for the four closest pulsars. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Published
2005

46. Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J.K., Cantley, C.A., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., 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.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., 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., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, Hewitson, M., Hild, S., 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Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E., Gustafson, R., Hamilton, W.O., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Hardham, C., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., 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., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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.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., McNabb, J.W.C., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V.P., 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.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Parameswariah, C., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Prix, R., Quetschke, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Rahkola, R., Rakhmanov, M., Rao, S.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., 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., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., 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.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., 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.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., 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., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We have performed a search for bursts of gravitational waves associated with the very bright gamma ray burst GRB030329, using the two detectors at the LIGO Hanford Observatory. Our search covered the most sensitive frequency range of the LIGO detectors (approximately 80 - 2048 Hz), and we specifically targeted signals shorter than 150ms. Our search algorithm looks for excess correlated power between the two interferometers and thus makes minimal assumptions about the gravitational waveform. We observed no candidates with gravitational-wave signal strength larger than a predetermined threshold. We report frequency-dependent upper limits on the strength of the gravitational waves associated with GRB030329. Near the most sensitive frequency region, around 250Hz, our root-sum-square (RSS) gravitational-wave strain sensitivity for optimally polarized bursts was better than hRSS 6×10-21Hz-1/2. Our result is comparable to the best published results searching for association between gravitational waves and gamma ray bursts. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

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2005

47. Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., 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., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., 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., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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.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., McNabb, J.W.C., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V.P., 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.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., 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.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., 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., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., 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.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., 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.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., Zweizig, J., Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, 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., 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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., 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., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., 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., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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.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., McNabb, J.W.C., Mendell, G., Mercer, R.A., Meshkov, S., Messaritaki, E., Messenger, C., Mitrofanov, V.P., 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.S., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D.J., Ottewill, A., Ouimette, D., Overmier, H., Owen, B.J., Pan, Y., Papa, M.A., 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.R., Rawlins, K., Ray-Majumder, S., Re, V., Redding, D., Regehr, M.W., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reilly, K.T., Reithmaier, K., Reitze, D.H., Richman, S., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., 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., Sandberg, V., Sanders, G.H., Sannibale, V., Sathyaprakash, B., Saulson, P.R., Savage, R., Sazonov, A., Schilling, R., Schlaufman, K., Schmidt, V., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schutz, B.F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, S.M., Seader, S.E., Searle, A.C., Sears, B., Seel, S., Seifert, F., 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., Smith, J.R., Smith, M., Smith, M.R., Sneddon, P.H., Spero, R., Stapfer, G., Steussy, D., 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.A., Thorne, K.S., Tibbits, M., Tilav, S., Tinto, M., Tokmakov, K.V., 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.P., 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.T., Whitcomb, S.E., Whiting, B.F., Wiley, S., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P.A., Williams, P.R., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wilson, A., Winjum, B.J., Winkler, W., Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We use 373 hours (≈15 days) of data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for signals from binary neutron star coalescences within a maximum distance of about 1.5 Mpc, a volume of space which includes the Andromeda Galaxy and other galaxies of the Local Group of galaxies. This analysis requires a signal to be found in data from detectors at the two LIGO sites, according to a set of coincidence criteria. The background (accidental coincidence rate) is determined from the data and is used to judge the significance of event candidates. No inspiral gravitational-wave events were identified in our search. Using a population model which includes the Local Group, we establish an upper limit of less than 47 inspiral events per year per Milky Way equivalent galaxy with 90% confidence for nonspinning binary neutron star systems with component masses between 1 and 3M. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

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2005

48. First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform

Author

Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, J., Allen, B., Allen, J., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Asiri, F., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Ballmer, S., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., 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., Blackburn, L., Bland, B., Bochner, B., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burgess, R., Busby, D., Butler, W.E., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cardenas, L., Carter, K., Casey, M.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.D.E., Creighton, T.D., Crooks, D.R.M., Csatorday, P., Cusack, B.J., Cutler, C., Dalrymple, J., D’Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., Daw, E., DeBra, D., Delker, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Credico, A., Díaz, M., Ding, H., Drever, R.W.P., Dupuis, R.J., Edlund, J.A., Ehrens, P., Elliffe, E.J., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fallnich, C., Farnham, D., Fejer, M.M., Findley, T., Fine, M., Finn, L.S., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Ganezer, K.S., Garofoli, J., Giaime, J.A., Gillespie, A., Goda, K., Goggin, L., 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., Harms, J., Harry, G., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hefetz, Y., Heinzel, G., Heng, I.S., Hennessy, M., Hepler, N., Heptonstall, A., Heurs, Michèle, 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.W., Johnston, W.R., Jones, D.I., Jones, G., 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., Koranda, S., Kötter, 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., Luna, M., Lyons, T.T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Malec, M., Mandic, V., 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., McNabb, J.W.C., Melissinos, A., Mendell, 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Wise, S., Wiseman, A.G., Woan, G., Woods, D., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yoshida, S., Zaleski, K.D., Zanolin, M., Zawischa, I., Zhang, L., Zhu, R., Zotov, N., Zucker, M., and Zweizig, J.

Abstract

We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method is based on the Hough transform, which is a semicoherent, computationally efficient, and robust pattern recognition technique. We apply this technique to data from the second science run of the LIGO detectors and our final results are all-sky upper limits on the strength of gravitational waves emitted by unknown isolated spinning neutron stars on a set of narrow frequency bands in the range 200-400 Hz. The best upper limit on the gravitational-wave strain amplitude that we obtain in this frequency range is 4.43×10-23. © 2005 The American Physical Society.

Published
2005

49. Upper limits on the strength of periodic graviational waves from PSR J1939-2134

Author

Allen, B, Cusack, B J, McClelland, David, Scott, Susan M, Searle, Antony, Woan, G, Abbott, Robert, Adhikari, R, Amin, R, Farnham, D, Chin, D, Mason, J, Mason, K, Barish, Barry, Barker, D, Delker, T, Hanson, J, Barker-Patton, C, Cadonati, L, Davies, Roger, Koranda, S, Barnes, M, Barr, B, Barton, Mark, Bayer, K, Christensen, N, Beausoleil, R, Finn, Lee, Byer, Robert L, Belczynski, K, Bland-Weaver, B, Gustafson, E, Bennett, R, Hennessy, M, Bochner, B, Bogue, L, Bork, R, Bose, S, DeBra, D, Brady, P, Brau, J E, Brown, D, Gustafson, R, Fritschel, Peter, Dhurandhar, S, Hepler, N, Brozek, S, Asiri, F, Cagnoli, G, Camp, J, Cantley, C, Cardenas, L, Carter, K, Hamilton, W O, Khan, A, Casey, Mary, Frey, R, Heptonstall, A, Diaz, M, Castiglione, J, Chandler, A, Colacino, C, Jennrich, O, Chapsky, J, Logan, J, King, C, Coldwell, R, Coles, Melvyn G, Cook, D, Corbitt, T, Heurs, M, Coyne, D, Creighton, J D E, Creighton, T D, Crooks, D R M, Hammond, M, Johnson, W W, Csatorday, P, Libbrecht, K, King, P, Frolov, V, Fyffe, M, Kottor, K, Ding, H, Dreuw, Andreas, Dupuis, R J, Jungwirth, D, Ebeling, C, Edlund, J, Johnston, W, Ehrens, P, Elliffe, E J, Etzel, T, Klimenko, S, Armandula, H, Evans, M D R, Lindquist, P, Flanagan, E, Evans, T, Fallnich, C, Ganezer, K, Giaime, J, Jones, L, Gillespie, A, Goda, Keisuke, Gobler, S, Hewitson, M, Kloevekorn, P, Balasubramanian, R, Grandclement, P, Grant, Alex, Gray, C, Gretarsson, A M, Anderson, W G, Luck, H, Grimmett, D, Grote, H, Hindman, N, Grunewald, S, Hardham, C, Guenther, M, Berukoff, S, Arazi, A, Harry, G, Aulbert, C, Hartunian, A, Heefner, J, Hefetz, Y, Heinzel, G, Kalogera, V, Heng, I, Hoang, P, Betzwieser, J, Lormand, M, Bullington, A, Hough, J, Hrynevych, M, Lubinski, M, Hua, W, Ingley, R, Ito, M, Kovalik, J, DeSalvo, R, Daw, E, Itoh, Y., Katsavounidis, E, Buonanno, A, Ivanov, A, Charlton, P, Kawabe, K, Kawamura, S, Kells, W, Aufmuth, P, Kern, J, Bhawal, B, Killbourn, S, Lyons, T T, Burgess, R, Killow, C, Chatterji, S, Kim, C, Cutler, C, Kozak, D, Krishnan, B, Billingsley, G, Landry, M, Langdale, J, Lantz, B, Freise, A, Lawrence, R, Lazzarini, A, Lei, M, Chen, Yong J, Babak, S, Leonhardt, V, Black, E, D'Ambrosio, E, Anderson, S B, Leonor, I, Machenschalk, B, Busby, D, Fekel, Francis C, MacInnis, M, Gonzalez, G, Mageswaran, M, Chickarmane, V, Churches, D, Mailand, K, Majid, W, Malec, M, Liu, S, Mann, F, Danzmann, Karsten, Butler, W, Marin, A, Marka, S, Maros, E, Blackburn, K, Ballmer, S, Fine, M, Allen, B, Cusack, B J, McClelland, David, Scott, Susan M, Searle, Antony, Woan, G, Abbott, Robert, Adhikari, R, Amin, R, Farnham, D, Chin, D, Mason, J, Mason, K, Barish, Barry, Barker, D, Delker, T, Hanson, J, Barker-Patton, C, Cadonati, L, Davies, Roger, Koranda, S, Barnes, M, Barr, B, Barton, Mark, Bayer, K, Christensen, N, Beausoleil, R, Finn, Lee, Byer, Robert L, Belczynski, K, Bland-Weaver, B, Gustafson, E, Bennett, R, Hennessy, M, Bochner, B, Bogue, L, Bork, R, Bose, S, DeBra, D, Brady, P, Brau, J E, Brown, D, Gustafson, R, Fritschel, Peter, Dhurandhar, S, Hepler, N, Brozek, S, Asiri, F, Cagnoli, G, Camp, J, Cantley, C, Cardenas, L, Carter, K, Hamilton, W O, Khan, A, Casey, Mary, Frey, R, Heptonstall, A, Diaz, M, Castiglione, J, Chandler, A, Colacino, C, Jennrich, O, Chapsky, J, Logan, J, King, C, Coldwell, R, Coles, Melvyn G, Cook, D, Corbitt, T, Heurs, M, Coyne, D, Creighton, J D E, Creighton, T D, Crooks, D R M, Hammond, M, Johnson, W W, Csatorday, P, Libbrecht, K, King, P, Frolov, V, Fyffe, M, Kottor, K, Ding, H, Dreuw, Andreas, Dupuis, R J, Jungwirth, D, Ebeling, C, Edlund, J, Johnston, W, Ehrens, P, Elliffe, E J, Etzel, T, Klimenko, S, Armandula, H, Evans, M D R, Lindquist, P, Flanagan, E, Evans, T, Fallnich, C, Ganezer, K, Giaime, J, Jones, L, Gillespie, A, Goda, Keisuke, Gobler, S, Hewitson, M, Kloevekorn, P, Balasubramanian, R, Grandclement, P, Grant, Alex, Gray, C, Gretarsson, A M, Anderson, W G, Luck, H, Grimmett, D, Grote, H, Hindman, N, Grunewald, S, Hardham, C, Guenther, M, Berukoff, S, Arazi, A, Harry, G, Aulbert, C, Hartunian, A, Heefner, J, Hefetz, Y, Heinzel, G, Kalogera, V, Heng, I, Hoang, P, Betzwieser, J, Lormand, M, Bullington, A, Hough, J, Hrynevych, M, Lubinski, M, Hua, W, Ingley, R, Ito, M, Kovalik, J, DeSalvo, R, Daw, E, Itoh, Y., Katsavounidis, E, Buonanno, A, Ivanov, A, Charlton, P, Kawabe, K, Kawamura, S, Kells, W, Aufmuth, P, Kern, J, Bhawal, B, Killbourn, S, Lyons, T T, Burgess, R, Killow, C, Chatterji, S, Kim, C, Cutler, C, Kozak, D, Krishnan, B, Billingsley, G, Landry, M, Langdale, J, Lantz, B, Freise, A, Lawrence, R, Lazzarini, A, Lei, M, Chen, Yong J, Babak, S, Leonhardt, V, Black, E, D'Ambrosio, E, Anderson, S B, Leonor, I, Machenschalk, B, Busby, D, Fekel, Francis C, MacInnis, M, Gonzalez, G, Mageswaran, M, Chickarmane, V, Churches, D, Mailand, K, Majid, W, Malec, M, Liu, S, Mann, F, Danzmann, Karsten, Butler, W, Marin, A, Marka, S, Maros, E, Blackburn, K, Ballmer, S, and Fine, M

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

Published
2004

50. 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

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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.

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2004

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