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1. Search for non-virialized axions with 3.3-4.2 $\mu$eV mass at selected resolving powers

Author: Hipp, A. T., Quiskamp, A., Caligiure, T. J., Gleason, J. R., Han, Y., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Solano, M. E., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Goryachev, M., Hartman, E., Tobar, M. E., McAllister, B. T., Duffy, L. D., Braine, T., Burns, E., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Goodman, C., Guzzetti, M., Hanretty, C., Lee, S., Korandla, H., Leum, G., Mohapatra, P., Nitta, T., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Sinnis, J., Zhang, D., Bartram, C., Dyson, T. A., Kuo, C. L., Ruppert, S., Withers, M. O., Awida, M. H., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Hollister, M., Knirck, S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Brodsky, J., Carosi, G., Du, N., Roberston, N., Woollett, N., Boutan, C., Jones, A. M., LaRoque, B. H., Lentz, E., Man, N. E., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Yang, J., Khatiwada, R., Clarke, John, Siddiqi, I., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Hoffman, J., Murch, K. W., and Russell, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment is sensitive to narrow axion flows, given axions compose a fraction of the dark matter with a non-negligible local density. Detecting these low-velocity dispersion flows requires a high spectral resolution and careful attention to the expected signal modulation due to Earth's motion. We report an exclusion on the local axion dark matter density in narrow flows of $\rho_a \gtrsim 0.03\,\mathrm{GeV/cm^3}$ and $\rho_a \gtrsim 0.004\,\mathrm{GeV/cm^3}$ for Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitski and Kim-Shifman-Vainshtein-Zakharov axion-photon couplings, respectively, over the mass range $3.3-4.2\,\mu\text{eV}$. Measurements were made at selected resolving powers to allow for a range of possible velocity dispersions., Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
Published: 2024

2. Axion Dark Matter eXperiment around 3.3 {\mu}eV with Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky Discovery Ability

Author: Bartram, C., Boutan, C., Braine, T., Buckley, J. H., Caligiure, T. J., Carosi, G., Chou, A. S., Cisneros, C., Clarke, John, Daw, E. J., Du, N., Duffy, L. D., Dyson, T. A., Gaikwad, C., Gleason, J. R., Goodman, C., Goryachev, M., Guzzetti, M., Hanretty, C., Hartman, E., Hipp, A. T., Hoffman, J., Hollister, M., Khatiwada, R., Knirck, S., Kuo, C. L., Lentz, E., McAllister, B. T., Mostyn, C., Murch, K., Oblath, N. S., Perry, M. G., Quiskamp, A., Robertson, N., Rosenberg, L. J, Ruppert, S., Rybka, G., Siddiqi, I., Sikivie, P., Sinnis, J., Solano, M. E., Sonnenschein, A., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Taubman, M. S., Tobar, M. E., Withers, M. O., Woollett, N., and Zhang, D.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the results of a QCD axion dark matter search with discovery ability for Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnitsky (DFSZ) axions using an axion haloscope. Sub-Kelvin noise temperatures are reached with an ultra low-noise Josephson parametric amplifier cooled by a dilution refrigerator. This work excludes (with a 90% confidence level) DFSZ axions with masses between 3.27 to 3.34 {\mu}eV, assuming a standard halo model with a local energy density of 0.45 GeV/cc made up 100% of axions.
Published: 2024

3. Axion Dark Matter eXperiment: Run 1A Analysis Details

Author: Boutan, C., LaRoque, B. H., Lentz, E., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Tedeschi, J., Yang, J., Jones, A. M., Braine, T., Crisosto, N., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Will, D., Zhang, D., Kimes, S., Ottens, R., Bartram, C., Bowring, D., Cervantes, R., Chou, A. S., Knirck, S., Mitchell, D. V., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Khatiwada, R., Carosi, G., Du, N., Durham, S., O'Kelley, S. R., Woollett, N., Duffy, L. D., Bradley, R., Clarke, J., Siddiqi, I., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Gleason, J. R., Hipp, A. T., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Henriksen, E. A., Hoffman, J., Murch, K. W., Harrington, P. M., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., and Hilton, G. C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The ADMX collaboration gathered data for its Run 1A axion dark matter search from January to June 2017, scanning with an axion haloscope over the frequency range 645-680 MHz (2.66-2.81 ueV in axion mass) at DFSZ sensitivity. The resulting axion search found no axion-like signals comprising all the dark matter in the form of a virialized galactic halo over the entire frequency range, implying lower bound exclusion limits at or below DFSZ coupling at the 90% confidence level. This paper presents expanded details of the axion search analysis of Run 1A, including review of relevant experimental systems, data-taking operations, preparation and interpretation of raw data, axion search methodology, candidate handling, and final axion limits., Comment: 27 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in PRD
Published: 2023

4. Non-Virialized Axion Search Sensitive to Doppler Effects in the Milky Way Halo

Author: Bartram, C., Braine, T., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Du, N., Goodman, C., Guzzetti, M., Hanretty, C., Lee, S., Leum, G., Rosenberg, L. J., Rybka, G., Sinnis, J., Zhang, D., Awida, M. H., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Hollister, M., Knirck, S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Khatiwada, R., Brodsky, J., Carosi, G., Duffy, L. D., Goryachev, M., McAllister, B., Quiskamp, A., Thomson, C., Tobar, M. E., Boutan, C., Jones, M., LaRoque, B. H., Lentz, E., Man, N. E., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Yang, J., Clarke, John, Siddiqi, I., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Gleason, J. R., Han, Y., Hipp, A. T., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Hoffman, J., Murch, K. W., and Russell, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) has previously excluded Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnisky (DFSZ) axions between 680-790 MHz under the assumption that the dark matter is described by the isothermal halo model. However, the precise nature of the velocity distribution of dark matter is still unknown, and alternative models have been proposed. We report the results of a non-virialized axion search over the mass range 2.81-3.31 {\mu}eV, corresponding to the frequency range 680-800 MHz. This analysis marks the most sensitive search for non-virialized axions sensitive to Doppler effects in the Milky Way Halo to date. Accounting for frequency shifts due to the detector's motion through the Galaxy, we exclude cold flow relic axions with a velocity dispersion of order 10^-7 c with 95% confidence.
Published: 2023

5. Search for a dark-matter induced Cosmic Axion Background with ADMX

Author: ADMX Collaboration, Nitta, T., Braine, T., Du, N., Guzzetti, M., Hanretty, C., Leum, G., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Sinnis, J., Clarke, John, Siddiqi, I., Awida, M. H., Chou, A. S., Hollister, M., Knirck, S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Gleason, J. R., Hipp, A. T., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Khatiwada, R., Carosi, G., Robertson, N., Duffy, L. D., Boutan, C., Lentz, E., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Yang, J., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Bartram, C., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Hoffman, J., Murch, K. W., Goryachev, M., Hartman, E., McAllister, B. T., Quiskamp, A., Thomson, C., Tobar, M. E., Dror, J. A., Murayama, H., and Rodd, N. L.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: We report the first result of a direct search for a Cosmic ${\it axion}$ Background (C$a$B) - a relativistic background of axions that is not dark matter - performed with the axion haloscope, the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). Conventional haloscope analyses search for a signal with a narrow bandwidth, as predicted for dark matter, whereas the C$a$B will be broad. We introduce a novel analysis strategy, which searches for a C$a$B induced daily modulation in the power measured by the haloscope. Using this, we repurpose data collected to search for dark matter to set a limit on the axion photon coupling of a C$a$B originating from dark matter cascade decay via a mediator in the 800-995 MHz frequency range. We find that the present sensitivity is limited by fluctuations in the cavity readout as the instrument scans across dark matter masses. Nevertheless, we suggest that these challenges can be surmounted using superconducting qubits as single photon counters, and allow ADMX to operate as a telescope searching for axions emerging from the decay of dark matter. The daily modulation analysis technique we introduce can be deployed for various broadband RF signals, such as other forms of a C$a$B or even high-frequency gravitational waves., Comment: 9 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2023
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6. Low Frequency (100-600 MHz) Searches with Axion Cavity Haloscopes

Author: Chakrabarty, S., Gleason, J. R., Han, Y., Hipp, A. T., Solano, M., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Goryachev, M., Hartman, E., McAllister, B. T., Quiskamp, A., Thomson, C., Tobar, M. E., Awida, M. H., Chou, A. S., Hollister, M., Knirck, S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Braine, T., Guzzetti, M., Hanretty, C., Leum, G., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Sinnis, J., Clarke, John, Siddiqi, I., Khatiwada, R., Carosi, G., Du, N., Robertson, N., Duffy, L. D., Boutan, C., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Yang, J., Lentz, E., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Bartram, C., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Hoffman, J., Murch, K. W., and Nitta, T.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We investigate reentrant and dielectric loaded cavities for the purpose of extending the range of axion cavity haloscopes to lower masses, below the range where the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) has already searched. Reentrant and dielectric loaded cavities were simulated numerically to calculate and optimize their form factors and quality factors. A prototype reentrant cavity was built and its measured properties were compared with the simulations. We estimate the sensitivity of axion dark matter searches using reentrant and dielectric loaded cavities inserted in the existing ADMX magnet at the University of Washington and a large magnet being installed at Fermilab., Comment: 33 pages, 24 figures
Published: 2023

7. Dark Matter Axion Search Using a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier

Author: Bartram, C., Braine, T., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Du, N., Leum, G., Mohapatra, P., Nitta, T., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Yang, J., Clarke, John, Siddiqi, I., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Awida, M. H., Chou, A. S., Hollister, M., Knirck, S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Gleason, J. R., Hipp, A. T., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Hoof, S., Lentz, E., Khatiwada, R., Carosi, G., Cisneros, C., Robertson, N., Woollett, N., Duffy, L. D., Boutan, C., Jones, M., LaRoque, B. H., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Hoffman, J., Murch, K., Goryachev, M., McAllister, B. T., Quiskamp, A., Thomson, C., and Tobar, M. E.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We present a new exclusion bound of axion-like particle dark matter with axion-photon couplings above $\mathrm{10^{-13}}$ $\mathrm{GeV^{-1}}$ over the frequency range 4796.7--4799.5 MHz, corresponding to a narrow range of axion masses centered around 19.84 $\mu$eV. This measurement represents the first implementation of a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier (JTWPA) in a dark matter search. The JTWPA was operated in the insert of the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) as part of an independent receiver chain that was attached to a 0.588-liter cavity. The ability of the JTWPA to deliver high gain over a wide (3 GHz) bandwidth has engendered interest from those aiming to perform broadband axion searches, a longstanding goal in this field.
Published: 2021
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8. Search for 'Invisible' Axion Dark Matter in the $3.3\text{-}4.2~{\mu}$eV Mass Range

Author: ADMX Collaboration, Bartram, C., Braine, T., Burns, E., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Du, N., Korandla, H., Leum, G., Mohapatra, P., Nitta, T., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Yang, J., Clarke, John, Siddiqi, I., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Awida, M. H., Chou, A. S., Hollister, M., Knirck, S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Gleason, J. R., Hipp, A. T., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Lentz, E., Khatiwada, R., Carosi, G., Robertson, N., Woollett, N., Duffy, L. D., Boutan, C., Jones, M., LaRoque, B. H., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Buckley, J. H., Gaikwad, C., Hoffman, J., Murch, K. W., Goryachev, M., McAllister, B. T., Quiskamp, A., Thomson, C., and Tobar, M. E.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We report the results from a haloscope search for axion dark matter in the $3.3\text{-}4.2~{\mu}$eV mass range. This search excludes the axion-photon coupling predicted by one of the benchmark models of "invisible" axion dark matter, the KSVZ model. This sensitivity is achieved using a large-volume cavity, a superconducting magnet, an ultra low noise Josephson parametric amplifier, and sub-Kelvin temperatures. The validity of our detection procedure is ensured by injecting and detecting blind synthetic axion signals., Comment: 6 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2021
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9. Axion Dark Matter eXperiment: Run 1B Analysis Details

Author: ADMX Collaboration, Bartram, C., Braine, T., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Du, N., Leum, G., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Yang, J., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Khatiwada, R., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Carosi, G., Woollett, N., Duffy, L. D., Goryachev, M., McAllister, B., Tobar, M. E., Boutan, C., Jones, M., Laroque, B. H., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Clarke, John, Dove, A., Eddins, A., O'Kelley, S. R., Nawaz, S., Siddiqi, I., Stevenson, N., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Gleason, J. R., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Solomon, J. A., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Lentz, E., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Buckley, J. H., Harrington, P. M., Henriksen, E. A., and Murch, K. W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Searching for axion dark matter, the ADMX collaboration acquired data from January to October 2018, over the mass range 2.81--3.31 $\mu$eV, corresponding to the frequency range 680--790 MHz. Using an axion haloscope consisting of a microwave cavity in a strong magnetic field, the ADMX experiment excluded Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnisky (DFSZ) axions at 100% dark matter density over this entire frequency range, except for a few gaps due to mode crossings. This paper explains the full ADMX analysis for Run 1B, motivating analysis choices informed by details specific to this run., Comment: 17 pages, 17 figures
Published: 2020
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10. Axion Dark Matter eXperiment: Detailed Design and Operations

Author: Khatiwada, R., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Mitchell, D. V., Braine, T., Bartram, C., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Du, N., Kimes, S., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Yang, J., Will, D., Carosi, G., Woollett, N., Durham, S., Duffy, L. D., Bradley, R., Boutan, C., Jones, M., LaRoque, B. H., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Tedeschi, J., Clarke, John, Dove, A., Eddins, A., Hashim, A., O'Kelley, S. R., Nawaz, S., Siddiqi, I., Stevenson, N., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Gleason, J. R., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Solomon, J. A., Lentz, E., Daw, E. J., Perry, M. G., Buckley, J. H., Harrington, P. M., Henriksen, E. A., Murch, K. W., and Hilton, G. C.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, Quantum Physics
Abstract: Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) ultra low noise haloscope technology has enabled the successful completion of two science runs (1A and 1B) that looked for dark matter axions in the $2.66$ to $3.1$ $\mu$eV mass range with Dine-Fischler-Srednicki-Zhitnisky (DFSZ) sensitivity Ref. [1,2]. Therefore, it is the most sensitive axion search experiment to date in this mass range. We discuss the technological advances made in the last several years to achieve this sensitivity, which includes the implementation of components, such as state-of-the-art quantum limited amplifiers and a dilution refrigerator. Furthermore, we demonstrate the use of a frequency tunable Microstrip Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID) Amplifier (MSA), in Run 1A, and a Josephson Parametric Amplifier (JPA), in Run 1B, along with novel analysis tools that characterize the system noise temperature., Comment: 23 pages, 28 figures
Published: 2020
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11. Design of the ALPS II Optical System

Author: Ortiz, M. Diaz, Gleason, J., Grote, H., Hallal, A., Hartman, M. T., Hollis, H., Isleif, K. S., James, A., Karan, K., Kozlowski, T., Lindner, A., Messineo, G., Mueller, G., Poeld, J. H., Smith, R. C. G., Spector, A. D., Tanner, D. B., Wei, L. -W., and Willke, B.
Subjects: Physics - Optics, High Energy Physics - Experiment, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Any Light Particle Search II (ALPS II) is an experiment currently being built at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, that will use a light-shining-through-a-wall (LSW) approach to search for axion-like particles. ALPS II represents a significant step forward for these types of experiments as it will use 24 superconducting dipole magnets, along with dual, high-finesse, 122 m long optical cavities. This paper gives the first comprehensive recipe for the realization of the idea, proposed over 30 years ago, to use optical cavities before and after the wall to increase the power of the regenerated photon signal. The experiment is designed to achieve a sensitivity to the coupling between axion-like particles and photons down to g=2e-11 1/GeV for masses below 0.1 meV, more than three orders of magnitude beyond the sensitivity of previous laboratory experiments. The layout and main components that define ALPS II are discussed along with plans for reaching design sensitivity. An accompanying paper (Hallal, et al [1]) offers a more in-depth description of the heterodyne detection scheme, the first of two independent detection systems that will be implemented in ALPS II., Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures
Published: 2020

12. Extended Search for the Invisible Axion with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

Author: Braine, T., Cervantes, R., Crisosto, N., Du, N., Kimes, S., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Yang, J., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Khatiwada, R., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Carosi, G., Woollett, N., Duffy, L. D., Bradley, R., Boutan, C., Jones, M., LaRoque, B. H., Oblath, N. S., Taubman, M. S., Clarke, J., Dove, A., Eddins, A., O'Kelley, S. R., Nawaz, S., Siddiqi, I., Stevenson, N., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Gleason, J. R., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Lentz, E., Daw, E. J., Buckley, J. H., Harrington, P. M., Henriksen, E. A., and Murch, K. W.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: This paper reports on a cavity haloscope search for dark matter axions in the galactic halo in the mass range $2.81$-$3.31$ ${\mu}eV$. This search excludes the full range of axion-photon coupling values predicted in benchmark models of the invisible axion that solve the strong CP problem of quantum chromodynamics, and marks the first time a haloscope search has been able to search for axions at mode crossings using an alternate cavity configuration. Unprecedented sensitivity in this higher mass range is achieved by deploying an ultra low-noise Josephson parametric amplifier as the first stage signal amplifier.
Published: 2019
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13. Piezoelectrically Tuned Multimode Cavity Search for Axion Dark Matter

Author: Boutan, C., Jones, M., LaRoque, B. H., Oblath, N. S., Cervantes, R., Du, N., Force, N., Kimes, S., Ottens, R., Rosenberg, L. J., Rybka, G., Yang, J., Carosi, G., Woollett, N., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Khatiwada, R., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Bradley, R., Daw, E. J., Agrawal, A., Dixit, A. V., Clarke, J., O'Kelley, S. R., Crisosto, N., Gleason, J. R., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Stern, I., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Harrington, P. M., and Lentz, E.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The $\mu$eV axion is a well-motivated extension to the standard model. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) collaboration seeks to discover this particle by looking for the resonant conversion of dark-matter axions to microwave photons in a strong magnetic field. In this Letter, we report results from a pathfinder experiment, the ADMX "Sidecar," which is designed to pave the way for future, higher mass, searches. This testbed experiment lives inside of and operates in tandem with the main ADMX experiment. The Sidecar experiment excludes masses in three widely spaced frequency ranges (4202-4249, 5086-5799, and 7173-7203 MHz). In addition, Sidecar demonstrates the successful use of a piezoelectric actuator for cavity tuning. Finally, this publication is the first to report data measured using both the TM$_{010}$ and TM$_{020}$ modes., Comment: 7 Pages, 4 figures
Published: 2019
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14. Modulation Sensitive Search for Non-Virialized Dark-Matter Axions

Author: Hoskins, J., Crisosto, N., Gleason, J., Sikivie, P., Stern, I., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., Boutan, C., Hotz, M., Khatiwada, R., Lyapustin, D., Malagon, A., Ottens, R., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Sloan, J., Wagner, A., Will, D., Carosi, G., Carter, D., Duffy, L. D., Bradley, R., Clarke, J., O'Kelley, S., van Bibber, K., and Daw, E. J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Non-virialized dark-matter axions may be present in the Milky Way halo in the form of low-velocity-dispersion flows. The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment performed a search for the conversion of these axions into microwave photons using a resonant cavity immersed in a strong, static magnetic field. The spread of photon energy in these measurements was measured at spectral resolutions of the order of 1 Hz and below. If the energy variation were this small, the frequency modulation of any real axion signal due to the orbital and rotational motion of the Earth would become non-negligible. Conservative estimates of the expected signal modulation were made and used as a guide for the search procedure. The photon frequencies covered by this search are 812$-$852 and 858$-$892 MHz, which correspond to an axion mass of 3.36$-$3.52 and 3.55$-$3.69 {\mu}eV. No axion signal was found, and limits were placed on the maximum local density of non-virialized axions of these masses., Comment: 12 pages, 12 figures
Published: 2018
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15. A Search for Invisible Axion Dark Matter with the Axion Dark Matter Experiment

Author: Du, N., Force, N., Khatiwada, R., Lentz, E., Ottens, R., Rosenberg, L. J, Rybka, G., Carosi, G., Woolett, N., Bowring, D., Chou, A. S., Sonnenschein, A., Wester, W., Boutan, C., Oblath, N. S., Bradley, R., Daw, E. J., Dixit, A. V., Clarke, J., O'Kelley, S. R., Crisosto, N., Gleason, J. R., Jois, S., Sikivie, P., Stern, I., Sullivan, N. S., Tanner, D. B., and Hilton, G. C.
Subjects: High Energy Physics - Experiment, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: This Letter reports results from a haloscope search for dark matter axions with masses between 2.66 and 2.81 $\mu$eV. The search excludes the range of axion-photon couplings predicted by plausible models of the invisible axion. This unprecedented sensitivity is achieved by operating a large-volume haloscope at sub-kelvin temperatures, thereby reducing thermal noise as well as the excess noise from the ultra-low-noise SQUID amplifier used for the signal power readout. Ongoing searches will provide nearly definitive tests of the invisible axion model over a wide range of axion masses., Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2018
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16. Design of the ALPS II optical system

Author: Diaz Ortiz, M., Gleason, J., Grote, H., Hallal, A., Hartman, M.T., Hollis, H., Isleif, K.-S., James, A., Karan, K., Kozlowski, T., Lindner, A., Messineo, G., Mueller, G., Põld, J.H., Smith, R.C.G., Spector, A.D., Tanner, D.B., Wei, L.-W., and Willke, B.
Published: 2022
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17. Trends of Freestanding Emergency Department Visits in Florida

Author: Christian, B. R., Gleason, J. M., and Dowdye, C.
Published: 2018

18. The Advanced LIGO Photon Calibrators

Author: Karki, S., Tuyenbayev, D., Kandhasamy, S., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, T. D., Anders, E. H., Berliner, J., Betzwieser, J., Daveloza, H. P., Cahillane, C., Canete, L., Conley, C., Gleason, J. R., Goetz, E., Kissel, J. S., Izumi, K., Mendell, G., Quetschke, V., Rodruck, M., Sachdev, S., Sadecki, T., Schwinberg, P. B., Sottile, A., Wade, M., Weinstein, A. J., West, M., and Savage, R. L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The two interferometers of the Laser Interferometry Gravitaional-wave Observatory (LIGO) recently detected gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black hole systems. Accurate calibration of the output of these detectors was crucial for the observation of these events, and the extraction of parameters of the sources. The principal tools used to calibrate the responses of the second-generation (Advanced) LIGO detectors to gravitational waves are systems based on radiation pressure and referred to as Photon Calibrators. These systems, which were completely redesigned for Advanced LIGO, include several significant upgrades that enable them to meet the calibration requirements of second-generation gravitational wave detectors in the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy. We report on the design, implementation, and operation of these Advanced LIGO Photon Calibrators that are currently providing fiducial displacements on the order of $10^{-18}$ m/$\sqrt{\textrm{Hz}}$ with accuracy and precision of better than 1 %., Comment: 14 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2016
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19. Small optic suspensions for Advanced LIGO input optics and other precision optical experiments

Author: Ciani, G., Arain, M. A., Aston, S. M., Feldbaum, D., Fulda, P., Gleason, J., Heintze, M., Martin, R. M., Mueller, C. L., Kumar, D. M. Nanda, Pele, A., Reitze, D. H., Sainathan, P., Tanner, D. B., Williams, L. F., and Mueller, G.
Subjects: Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: We report on the design and performance of small optic suspensions developed to suppress seismic motion of out-of-cavity optics in the Input Optics subsystem of the Advanced LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detector. These compact single stage suspensions provide isolation in all six degrees of freedom of the optic, local sensing and actuation in three of them, and passive damping for the other three.
Published: 2016
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20. The Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO Detectors at the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Author: Martynov, D. V., Hall, E. D., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Adams, C., Adhikari, R. X., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Aston, S. M., Austin, L., Ballmer, S. W., Barbet, M., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Batch, J. C., Bell, A. S., Belopolski, I., Bergman, J., Betzwieser, J., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Biwer, C., Black, E., Blair, C. D., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bork, R., Bridges, D. O., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. D., Carbone, L., Celerier, C., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Cook, D., Countryman, S. T., Cowart, M. J., Coyne, D. C., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Damjanic, M., Dannenberg, R., Danzmann, K., Costa, C. F. Da Silva, Daw, E. J., DeBra, D., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Driggers, J. C., Dwyer, S. E., Effler, A., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Factourovich, M., Fair, H., Feldbaum, D., Fisher, R. P., Foley, S., Frede, M., Freise, A., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Gleason, J. R., Goetz, R., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Grote, H., Guido, C. J., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanson, J., Hardwick, T., Harry, G. M., Haughian, K., Heefner, J., Heintze, M. C., Heptonstall, A. W., Hoak, D., Hough, J., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jones, R., Kandhasamy, S., Karki, S., Kasprzack, M., Kaufer, S., Kawabe, K., Kells, W., Kijbunchoo, N., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Kokeyama, K., Korth, W. Z., Kuehn, G., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Roux, A. Le, Levine, B. M., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Lockerbie, N. A., Lormand, M., Lubinski, M. J., Lundgren, A. P., MacDonald, T., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., M'arka, S., M'arka, Z., Markosyan, A. S., Maros, E., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Merilh, E. L., Meyer, M. S., Meyers, P. M., Miller, J., Mittleman, R., Moreno, G., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nuttall, L. K., Oberling, J., O'Dell, J., Oppermann, P., Oram, Richard J., O'Reilly, B., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Overmier, H., Palamos, J. R., Paris, H. R., Parker, W., Patrick, Z., Pele, A., Penn, S., Phelps, M., Pickenpack, M., Piero, V., Pinto, I., Poeld, J., Principe, M., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E. A., Raab, F. J., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Ramet, C. R., Reed, C. M., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Robertson, N. A., Rollins, J. G., Roma, V. J., Romie, J. H., Rowan, S., Ryan, K., Sadecki, T., Sanchez, E. J., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Savage, R. L., Schofield, R. M. S., Schultz, B., Schwinberg, P., Sellers, D., Sevigny, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shao, Z., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sigg, D., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Sorazu, B., Staley, A., Stein, A. J., Stochino, A., Strain, K. A., Taylor, R., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thrane, E., Tokmakov, K. V., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., van Veggel, A. A., Vargas, M., Vecchio, A., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Vo, T., Vorvick, C., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Weaver, B., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wessels, P., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkelmann, L., Wipf, C. C., Worden, J., Wu, G., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yu, H., Zhang, L., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated 4 km laser interferometers designed to detect gravitational waves from distant astrophysical sources in the frequency range from 10 Hz to 10 kHz. The first observation run of the Advanced LIGO detectors started in September 2015 and ended in January 2016. A strain sensitivity of better than $10^{-23}/\sqrt{\text{Hz}}$ was achieved around 100 Hz. Understanding both the fundamental and the technical noise sources was critical for increasing the observable volume in the universe. The average distance at which coalescing binary black hole systems with individual masses of 30 $M_\odot$ could be detected was 1.3 Gpc. Similarly, the range for binary neutron star inspirals was about 75 Mpc. With respect to the initial detectors, the observable volume of Universe increased respectively by a factor 69 and 43. These improvements allowed Advanced LIGO to detect the gravitational wave signal from the binary black hole coalescence, known as GW150914.
Published: 2016
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21. First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V. B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D. V., Andersen, M., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C. C., Areeda, J. S., Arnaud, N., Ashton, G., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barclay, S. E., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Berger, B. K., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. L., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Bhagwat, S., Bhandare, R., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birney, R., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Biwer, C., Bizouard, M. A., Blackburn, J. K., Blair, C. D., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bojtos, P., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Branco, V., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brockill, P., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D., Brown, D. D., Brown, N. M., Buchanan, C. C., Buikema, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Capocasa, E., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Diaz, J. Casanueva, Casentini, C., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Baiardi, L. Cerboni, Cerretani, G., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Cheng, C., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Cho, M., Chow, J. H., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C. G., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conti, L., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S. B., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S. T., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M. J., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Cripe, J., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M. D., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Darman, N. S., Dattilo, V., Dave, I., Daveloza, H. P., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., De Laurentis, M., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M. C., Di Fiore, L., Di Giovanni, M., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Dojcinoski, G., Dolique, V., Dominguez, E., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Ducrot, M., Dwyer, S. E., Edo, T. B., Edwards, M. C., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Eggenstein, H. -B., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J. M., Eikenberry, S. S., Essick, R. C., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Everett, R., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favata, M., Fays, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferreira, E. C., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gabbard, H. A. G., Gair, J. R., Gammaitoni, L., Gaonkar, S. G., Garufi, F., Gatto, A., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Gendre, B., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Germain, V., Ghosh, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gleason, J. R., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gonzalez, J., Gopakumar, A., Gordon, N. A., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S. E., Gosselin, M., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greco, G., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C. J., Guo, X., Gupta, A., Gupta, M. K., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hacker, J. J., Hall, B. R., Hall, E. D., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Haney, M., Hanke, M. M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hannam, M. D., Hanson, J., Hardwick, T., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Hart, M. J., Hartman, M. T., Haster, C. -J., Haughian, K., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Hennig, J., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Hoelscher-Obermaier, J., Hofman, D., Hollitt, S. E., Holt, K., Hopkins, P., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Houston, E. A., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y. M., Huang, S., Huerta, E. A., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Idrisy, A., Indik, N., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Islas, G., Isler, J. C., Isogai, T., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M. B., Jang, H., Jaranowski, P., Jawahar, S., Ji, Y., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Karki, S., Karlen, J. L., Kasprzack, M., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, S., Kaur, T., Kawabe, K., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Kehl, M. S., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Kerrigan, J., Key, J. S., Khalili, F. Y., Khan, Z., Khazanov, E. A., Kijbunchoo, N., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N. G., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J. T., Koehlenbeck, S. M., Kokeyama, K., Koley, S., Kondrashov, V., Korobko, M., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D. B., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Krueger, C., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kuo, L., Kutynia, A., Lackey, B. D., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lasky, P. D., Lazzarini, A., Lazzaro, C., Leaci, P., Leavey, S., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Lee, J. P., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levin, Y., Levine, B. M., Lewis, J. B., Li, T. G. F., Libson, A., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J. D., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Luo, J., Lynch, R., Ma, Y., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E. P., MacDonald, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Madden-Fong, D. X., Magaña-Sandoval, F., Magee, R. M., Mageswaran, M., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mangini, N. M., Mansell, G. L., Manske, M., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A. S., Maros, E., Martelli, F., Martellini, L., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martynov, D. V., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Mastrogiovanni, S., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McWilliams, S. T., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meinders, M., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Merzougui, M., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Messick, C., Meyers, P. M., Mezzani, F., Miao, H., Michel, C., Middleton, H., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Miller, J., Millhouse, M., Minenkov, Y., Ming, J., Mirshekari, S., Mishra, C., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Moggi, A., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Montani, M., Moore, B. C., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, A., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy IV, D. J., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Nardecchia, I., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R. K., Necula, V., Nedkova, K., Nelemans, G., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T. T., Nielsen, A. B., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E. N., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Okounkova, M., Oppermann, P., Oram, R., O'Reilly, B., Ortega, W. E., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C. T., Pai, A., Pai, S. A., Palamos, J. R., Palashov, O., Palomba, C., Pal-Singh, A., Pan, H., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Pannarale, F., Pant, B. C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Paris, H. R., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patrick, Z., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Pele, A., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Piccinni, O., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pillant, G., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J. H., Poggiani, R., Post, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Predoi, V., Premachandra, S. S., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Pürrer, M., Qin, J., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E. A., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rakhmanov, M., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Razzano, M., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Regimbau, T., Rei, L., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robie, R., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodger, A. S., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Roma, V. J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sachdev, S., Sadecki, T., Sadeghian, L., Saleem, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sanchez, E., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Santiago-Prieto, I., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Sawadsky, A., Schale, P., Schilling, R., Schmidt, P., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schönbeck, A., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Serna, G., Sevigny, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaffery, P., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shao, Z., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Silva, A. D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L. P., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, J. R., Smith, N. D., Smith, R. J. E., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Srivastava, A. K., Staley, A., Steinke, M., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steinmeyer, D., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S. P., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strauss, N. A., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sun, L., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B. L., Szczepanczyk, M. J., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tápai, M., Tarabrin, S. P., Taracchini, A., Taylor, R., Theeg, T., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, S., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Tonelli, M., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trifirò, D., Tringali, M. C., Tse, M., Turconi, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Usman, S. A., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., van Bakel, N., van Beuzekom, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. van den, van der Schaaf, L., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vardaro, M., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A. R., Wade, M., Wade IV, L. E., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Walsh, S., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Weßels, P., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Williams, K. J., Williams, L., Williams, R. D., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M. H., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yam, W., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zangrando, L., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., Zhou, M., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: In this paper we present the results of the first low frequency all-sky search of continuous gravitational wave signals conducted on Virgo VSR2 and VSR4 data. The search covered the full sky, a frequency range between 20 Hz and 128 Hz with a range of spin-down between $-1.0 \times 10^{-10}$ Hz/s and $+1.5 \times 10^{-11}$ Hz/s, and was based on a hierarchical approach. The starting point was a set of short Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT), of length 8192 seconds, built from the calibrated strain data. Aggressive data cleaning, both in the time and frequency domains, has been done in order to remove, as much as possible, the effect of disturbances of instrumental origin. On each dataset a number of candidates has been selected, using the FrequencyHough transform in an incoherent step. Only coincident candidates among VSR2 and VSR4 have been examined in order to strongly reduce the false alarm probability, and the most significant candidates have been selected. Selected candidates have been subject to a follow-up by constructing a new set of longer FFTs followed by a further incoherent analysis, still based on the FrequencyHough transform. No evidence for continuous gravitational wave signals was found, therefore we have set a population-based joint VSR2-VSR4 90$\%$ confidence level upper limit on the dimensionless gravitational wave strain in the frequency range between 20 Hz and 128 Hz. This is the first all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves conducted, on data of ground-based interferometric detectors, at frequencies below 50 Hz. We set upper limits in the range between about $10^{-24}$ and $2\times 10^{-23}$ at most frequencies. Our upper limits on signal strain show an improvement of up to a factor of $\sim$2 with respect to the results of previous all-sky searches at frequencies below $80~\mathrm{Hz}$., Comment: 27 pages, 19 figures
Published: 2015
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22. A search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a 'loosely coherent' algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers

Author: Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V. B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D. V., Andersen, M., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C. C., Areeda, J. S., Arnaud, N., Ashton, G., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barclay, S. E., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Berger, B. K., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. L., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Bhagwat, S., Bhandare, R., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birney, R., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Biwer, C., Bizouard, M. A., Blackburn, J. K., Blair, C. D., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bojtos, P., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Branco, V., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brockill, P., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D., Brown, D. D., Brown, N. M., Buchanan, C. C., Buikema, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Capocasa, E., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Diaz, J. Casanueva, Casentini, C., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Baiardi, L. Cerboni, Cerretani, G., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Cheng, C., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Cho, M., Chow, J. H., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C. G., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conti, L., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S. B., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S. T., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M. J., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T., Cripe, J., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M. D., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Darman, N. S., Dattilo, V., Dave, I., Daveloza, H. P., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., De Laurentis, M., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M. C., Di Fiore, L., Di Giovanni, M., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Dojcinoski, G., Dolique, V., Dominguez, E., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Ducrot, M., Dwyer, S. E., Edo, T. B., Edwards, M. C., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Eggenstein, H. -B., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J. M., Eikenberry, S. S., Essick, R. C., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Everett, R., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favata, M., Fays, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferreira, E. C., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gabbard, H. A. G., Gair, J. R., Gammaitoni, L., Gaonkar, S. G., Garufi, F., Gatto, A., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Gendre, B., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Germain, V., Ghosh, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gleason, J. R., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gonzalez, J., Gopakumar, A., Gordon, N. A., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S. E., Gosselin, M., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greco, G., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C. J., Guo, X., Gupta, A., Gupta, M. K., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hacker, J. J., Hall, B. R., Hall, E. D., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Haney, M., Hanke, M. M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hannam, M. D., Hanson, J., Hardwick, T., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Hart, M. J., Hartman, M. T., Haster, C. -J., Haughian, K., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Hennig, J., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Hoelscher-Obermaier, J., Hofman, D., Hollitt, S. E., Holt, K., Hopkins, P., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Houston, E. A., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y. M., Huang, S., Huerta, E. A., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Idrisy, A., Indik, N., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Islas, G., Isler, J. C., Isogai, T., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M. B., Jang, H., Jaranowski, P., Jawahar, S., Ji, Y., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Karki, S., Karlen, J. L., Kasprzack, M., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, S., Kaur, T., Kawabe, K., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Kehl, M. S., Keitel, D., Kelecsenyi, N., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Kerrigan, J., Key, J. S., Khalili, F. Y., Khan, Z., Khazanov, E. A., Kijbunchoo, N., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N. G., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J. T., Koehlenbeck, S. M., Kokeyama, K., Koley, S., Kondrashov, V., Korobko, M., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D. B., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Krueger, C., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kuo, L., Kutynia, A., Lackey, B. D., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lasky, P. D., Lazzarini, A., Lazzaro, C., Leaci, P., Leavey, S., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Lee, J. P., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levin, Y., Levine, B. M., Lewis, J. B., Li, T. G. F., Libson, A., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J. D., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Luo, J., Lynch, R., Ma, Y., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E. P., MacDonald, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Madden-Fong, D. X., na-Sandoval, F. Maga\, Magee, R. M., Mageswaran, M., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mangini, N. M., Mansell, G. L., Manske, M., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A. S., Maros, E., Martelli, F., Martellini, L., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martynov, D. V., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Mavalvala, N., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McWilliams, S. T., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meinders, M., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Merzougui, M., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Messick, C., Meyers, P. M., Mezzani, F., Miao, H., Michel, C., Middleton, H., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Miller, J., Millhouse, M., Minenkov, Y., Ming, J., Mirshekari, S., Mishra, C., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Moggi, A., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Montani, M., Moore, B. C., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, A., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy IV, D. J., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Nardecchia, I., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R. K., Necula, V., Nedkova, K., Nelemans, G., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T. T., Nielsen, A. B., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E. N., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Okounkova, M., Oppermann, P., Oram, R., O'Reilly, B., Ortega, W. E., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C. T., Pai, A., Pai, S. A., Palamos, J. R., Palashov, O., Palomba, C., Pal-Singh, A., Pan, H., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Pannarale, F., Pant, B. C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Paris, H. R., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patrick, Z., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Pele, A., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Piccinni, O., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pillant, G., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J. H., Poggiani, R., Post, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Predoi, V., Premachandra, S. S., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Pürrer, M., Qin, J., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E. A., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rakhmanov, M., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Razzano, M., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Regimbau, T., Rei, L., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robie, R., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodger, A. S., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Roma, V. J., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sachdev, S., Sadecki, T., Sadeghian, L., Saleem, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sanchez, E., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Santiago-Prieto, I., Sassolas, B., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Sawadsky, A., Schale, P., Schilling, R., Schmidt, P., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schönbeck, A., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Serna, G., Sevigny, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaffery, P., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shao, Z., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Silva, A. D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L. P., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, J. R., Smith, N. D., Smith, R. J. E., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Srivastava, A. K., Staley, A., Stebbins, J., Steinke, M., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steinmeyer, D., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S. P., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strauss, N. A., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sun, L., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B. L., Szczepanczyk, M. J., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tápai, M., Tarabrin, S. P., Taracchini, A., Taylor, R., Theeg, T., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, S., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Tonelli, M., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trifirò, D., Tringali, M. C., Tse, M., Turconi, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Usman, S. A., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., van Bakel, N., van Beuzekom, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. van den, van der Schaaf, L., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vansuch, G., Vardaro, M., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A. R., Wade, M., Wade IV, L. E., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Walsh, S., Wang, G., Wang, H., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Weßels, P., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Williams, K. J., Williams, L., Williams, R. D., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M. H., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yam, W., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zangrando, L., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., Zhou, M., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S. E., Zweizig, J., Collaboration, LIGO Scientific, and Collaboration, Virgo Scientific
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report results of a wideband search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars within the Orion spur towards both the inner and outer regions of our Galaxy. As gravitational waves interact very weakly with matter, the search is unimpeded by dust and concentrations of stars. One search disk (A) is $6.87^\circ$ in diameter and centered on $20^\textrm{h}10^\textrm{m}54.71^\textrm{s}+33^\circ33'25.29"$, and the other (B) is $7.45^\circ$ in diameter and centered on $8^\textrm{h}35^\textrm{m}20.61^\textrm{s}-46^\circ49'25.151"$. We explored the frequency range of 50-1500 Hz and frequency derivative from $0$ to $-5\times 10^{-9}$ Hz/s. A multi-stage, loosely coherent search program allowed probing more deeply than before in these two regions, while increasing coherence length with every stage. Rigorous followup parameters have winnowed initial coincidence set to only 70 candidates, to be examined manually. None of those 70 candidates proved to be consistent with an isolated gravitational wave emitter, and 95% confidence level upper limits were placed on continuous-wave strain amplitudes. Near $169$ Hz we achieve our lowest 95% CL upper limit on worst-case linearly polarized strain amplitude $h_0$ of $6.3\times 10^{-25}$, while at the high end of our frequency range we achieve a worst-case upper limit of $3.4\times 10^{-24}$ for all polarizations and sky locations., Comment: Fixed minor typo - duplicate name in the author list
Published: 2015
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23. Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants

Author: Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J. S., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barclay, S., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauer, Th. S., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Benacquista, M., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. L., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Bhagwat, S., Bhandare, R., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Biwer, C., Bizouard, M. A., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, C. D., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bojtos, P., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brown, N. M., Buchman, S., Buikema, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves in data from the sixth LIGO science data run. The targets were nine young supernova remnants not associated with pulsars; eight of the remnants are associated with non-pulsing suspected neutron stars. One target's parameters are uncertain enough to warrant two searches, for a total of ten. Each search covered a broad band of frequencies and first and second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky direction. The searches coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over time spans from 5.3-25.3 days using the matched-filtering F-statistic. We found no credible gravitational-wave signals. We set 95% confidence upper limits as strong (low) as $4\times10^{-25}$ on intrinsic strain, $2\times10^{-7}$ on fiducial ellipticity, and $3\times10^{-6}$ on r-mode amplitude. These beat the indirect limits from energy conservation and are within the range of theoretical predictions for neutron-star ellipticities and r-mode amplitudes., Comment: Updated following erratum. Science summary available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6DirectedSNR/index.php
Published: 2014
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24. A directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J. S., Ashton, G., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barclay, S., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauer, Th. S., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Benacquista, M., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present results of a search for continuously-emitted gravitational radiation, directed at the brightest low-mass X-ray binary, Scorpius X-1. Our semi-coherent analysis covers 10 days of LIGO S5 data ranging from 50-550 Hz, and performs an incoherent sum of coherent $\mathcal{F}$-statistic power distributed amongst frequency-modulated orbital sidebands. All candidates not removed at the veto stage were found to be consistent with noise at a 1% false alarm rate. We present Bayesian 95% confidence upper limits on gravitational-wave strain amplitude using two different prior distributions: a standard one, with no a priori assumptions about the orientation of Scorpius X-1; and an angle-restricted one, using a prior derived from electromagnetic observations. Median strain upper limits of 1.3e-24 and 8e-25 are reported at 150 Hz for the standard and angle-restricted searches respectively. This proof of principle analysis was limited to a short observation time by unknown effects of accretion on the intrinsic spin frequency of the neutron star, but improves upon previous upper limits by factors of ~1.4 for the standard, and 2.3 for the angle-restricted search at the sensitive region of the detector., Comment: 19 pages, 8 figures
Published: 2014
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25. Low frequency, 100–600 MHz, searches with axion cavity haloscopes

Author: Chakrabarty, S., primary, Gleason, J. R., additional, Han, Y., additional, Hipp, A. T., additional, Solano, M., additional, Sikivie, P., additional, Sullivan, N. S., additional, Tanner, D. B., additional, Goryachev, M., additional, Hartman, E., additional, McAllister, B. T., additional, Quiskamp, A., additional, Thomson, C., additional, Tobar, M. E., additional, Awida, M. H., additional, Chou, A. S., additional, Hollister, M., additional, Knirck, S., additional, Sonnenschein, A., additional, Wester, W., additional, Braine, T., additional, Guzzetti, M., additional, Hanretty, C., additional, Leum, G., additional, Rosenberg, L. J, additional, Rybka, G., additional, Sinnis, J., additional, Clarke, John, additional, Siddiqi, I., additional, Khatiwada, R., additional, Carosi, G., additional, Du, N., additional, Robertson, N., additional, Duffy, L. D., additional, Boutan, C., additional, Oblath, N. S., additional, Taubman, M. S., additional, Yang, J., additional, Lentz, E., additional, Daw, E. J., additional, Perry, M. G., additional, Bartram, C., additional, Buckley, J. H., additional, Gaikwad, C., additional, Hoffman, J., additional, Murch, K. W., additional, and Nitta, T., additional
Published: 2024
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26. Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Adya, V., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J. S., Ashton, G., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Baldaccini, F., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barclay, S., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Bartlett, J., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauer, Th. S., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Benacquista, M., Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. 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M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Post, A., Poteomkin, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Predoi, V., Premachandra, S., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Pürrer, M., Qin, J., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quiroga, G., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramirez, K., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Razzano, M., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Regimbau, T., Rei, L., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Reula, O., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robie, R., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Roma, V., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sachdev, S., Sadecki, T., Sadeghian, L., Saleem, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Sawadsky, A., Scheuer, J., Schilling, R., Schmidt, P., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Serafinelli, R., Sergeev, A., Serna, G., Sevigny, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shao, Z., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Silva, A. D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Staley, A., Stebbins, J., Steinke, M., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steinmeyer, D., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szczepanczyk, M., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tápai, M., Tarabrin, S. P., Taracchini, A., Taylor, R., Tellez, G., Theeg, T., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tomlinson, C., Tonelli, M., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Tshilumba, D., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Usman, S. A., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., van Bakel, N., van Beuzekom, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. van den, van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A. R., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Walsh, S., Wang, H., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Xie, S., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yam, W., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, Q., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Zhao, C., Zhou, M., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: In this paper we present the results of a coherent narrow-band search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the Crab and Vela pulsars conducted on Virgo VSR4 data. In order to take into account a possible small mismatch between the gravitational wave frequency and two times the star rotation frequency, inferred from measurement of the electromagnetic pulse rate, a range of 0.02 Hz around two times the star rotational frequency has been searched for both the pulsars. No evidence for a signal has been found and 95$\%$ confidence level upper limits have been computed both assuming polarization parameters are completely unknown and that they are known with some uncertainty, as derived from X-ray observations of the pulsar wind torii. For Vela the upper limits are comparable to the spin-down limit, computed assuming that all the observed spin-down is due to the emission of gravitational waves. For Crab the upper limits are about a factor of two below the spin-down limit, and represent a significant improvement with respect to past analysis. This is the first time the spin-down limit is significantly overcome in a narrow-band search., Comment: 17 pages, 11 figures
Published: 2014
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27. Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador., Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Bruckner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderon., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglia, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio, Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deleeuw, E., Deleglise, S., Pozzo, W. Del., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., Rosa, R. De., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Dietz, A., Fiore, L. Di., Lieto, A. Di., Palma, I. Di., Virgilio, A. Di., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endroczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., Gonzalez, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jimenez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kefelian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Krolak, A., Kucharczyk, C., Kudla, S., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, D. Nanda., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Roux, A. Le., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levine, B., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Li, T. G. F., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lloyd, D., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M. J., Luck, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martellini, L., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., May, G., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Mokler, F., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Nardecchia, I., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R., Necula, V., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishida, E., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., Larcher, W. Ortega., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Ou, J., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pindor, B., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poole, V., Poux, C., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Roever, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Soden, K., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stevens, D., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., Braack, A. P. M. ter., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van. den., Broeck, C. Van. Den., Putten, S. van. der., Sluys, M. V. van. der., Heijningen, J. van., Veggel, A. A. van., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vlcek, B., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vrinceanu, D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wibowo, S., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., and Zucker, M. E.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: In 2009-2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observa- tory (LIGO) operated together with international partners Virgo and GEO600 as a network to search for gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. The sensitiv- ity of these detectors was limited by a combination of noise sources inherent to the instrumental design and its environment, often localized in time or frequency, that couple into the gravitational-wave readout. Here we review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the de- tectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of LIGO to a variety of astrophysical sources., Comment: 31 pages, 13 figures
Published: 2014
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28. Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two co-located LIGO Hanford detectors

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amado., Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderó., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constanci. Jr., M., Conte, A., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Da., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Pozzo, W. De., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R. T., Rosa, R. D., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Fiore, L. D., Lieto, A. D., Palma, I. D., Virgilio, A. D., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. 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Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kucharczyk, C., Kudla, S., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, D. Nand., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J. J., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Roux, A. L., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levine, B., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Li, T. G. F., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lloyd, D., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. 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R., Prijatelj, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Roever, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Searches for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) using terrestrial detectors typically involve cross-correlating data from pairs of detectors. The sensitivity of such cross-correlation analyses depends, among other things, on the separation between the two detectors: the smaller the separation, the better the sensitivity. Hence, a co-located detector pair is more sensitive to a gravitational-wave background than a non-co-located detector pair. However, co-located detectors are also expected to suffer from correlated noise from instrumental and environmental effects that could contaminate the measurement of the background. Hence, methods to identify and mitigate the effects of correlated noise are necessary to achieve the potential increase in sensitivity of co-located detectors. Here we report on the first SGWB analysis using the two LIGO Hanford detectors and address the complications arising from correlated environmental noise. We apply correlated noise identification and mitigation techniques to data taken by the two LIGO Hanford detectors, H1 and H2, during LIGO's fifth science run. At low frequencies, 40 - 460 Hz, we are unable to sufficiently mitigate the correlated noise to a level where we may confidently measure or bound the stochastic gravitational-wave signal. However, at high frequencies, 460-1000 Hz, these techniques are sufficient to set a $95%$ confidence level (C.L.) upper limit on the gravitational-wave energy density of \Omega(f)<7.7 x 10^{-4} (f/ 900 Hz)^3, which improves on the previous upper limit by a factor of $\sim 180$. In doing so, we demonstrate techniques that will be useful for future searches using advanced detectors, where correlated noise (e.g., from global magnetic fields) may affect even widely separated detectors., Comment: 21 pages, 10 figures, 5 tables
Published: 2014
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29. Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

Author: The IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aartsen, M. G., Ackermann, M., Adams, J., Aguilar, J. A., Ahlers, M., Ahrens, M., Altmann, D., Anderson, T., Arguelles, C., Arlen, T. C., Auffenberg, J., Bai, X., Barwick, S. W., Baum, V., Beatty, J. J., Tjus, J. Becker, Becker, K. -H., BenZvi, S., Berghaus, P., Berley, D., Bernardini, E., Bernhard, A., Besson, D. Z., Binder, G., Bindig, D., Bissok, M., Blaufuss, E., Blumenthal, J., Boersma, D. J., Bohm, C., Bos, F., Bose, D., Böser, S., Botner, O., Brayeur, L., Bretz, H. -P., Brown, A. M., Casey, J., Casier, M., Chirkin, D., Christov, A., Christy, B., Clark, K., Classen, L., Clevermann, F., Coenders, S., Cowen, D. F., Silva, A. H. Cruz, Danninger, M., Daughhetee, J., Davis, J. C., Day, M., de André, J. P. A. M., De Clercq, C., De Ridder, S., Desiati, P., de Vries, K. D., de With, M., DeYoung, T., Díaz-Vélez, J. C., Dunkman, M., Eagan, R., Eberhardt, B., Eichmann, B., Eisch, J., Euler, S., Evenson, P. A., Fadiran, O., Fazely, A. R., Fedynitch, A., Feintzeig, J., Felde, J., Feusels, T., Filimonov, K., Finley, C., Fischer-Wasels, T., Flis, S., Franckowiak, A., Frantzen, K., Fuchs, T., Gaisser, T. K., Gallagher, J., Gerhardt, L., Gier, D., Gladstone, L., Glüsenkamp, T., Goldschmidt, A., Golup, G., Gonzalez, J. G., Goodman, J. A., Góra, D., Grandmont, D. T., Grant, D., Gretskov, P., Groh, J. C., Groß, A., Ha, C., Haack, C., Ismail, A. Haj, Hallen, P., Hallgren, A., Halzen, F., Hanson, K., Hebecker, D., Heereman, D., Heinen, D., Helbing, K., Hellauer, R., Hellwig, D., Hickford, S., Hill, G. C., Hoffman, K. D., Hoffmann, R., Homeier, A., Hoshina, K., Huang, F., Huelsnitz, W., Hulth, P. O., Hultqvist, K., Hussain, S., Ishihara, A., Jacobi, E., Jacobsen, J., Jagielski, K., Japaridze, G. S., Jero, K., Jlelati, O., Jurkovic, M., Kaminsky, B., Kappes, A., Karg, T., Karle, A., Kauer, M., Kelley, J. L., Kheirandish, A., Kiryluk, J., Kläs, J., Klein, S. R., Köhne, J. -H., Kohnen, G., Kolanoski, H., Koob, A., Köpke, L., Kopper, C., Kopper, S., Koskinen, D. J., Kowalski, M., Kriesten, A., Krings, K., Kroll, G., Kroll, M., Kunnen, J., Kurahashi, N., Kuwabara, T., Labare, M., Larsen, D. T., Larson, M. J., Lesiak-Bzdak, M., Leuermann, M., Leute, J., Lünemann, J., Macías, O., Madsen, J., Maggi, G., Maruyama, R., Mase, K., Matis, H. S., McNally, F., Meagher, K., Medici, M., Meli, A., Meures, T., Miarecki, S., Middell, E., Middlemas, E., Milke, N., Miller, J., Mohrmann, L., Montaruli, T., Morse, R., Nahnhauer, R., Naumann, U., Niederhausen, H., Nowicki, S. C., Nygren, D. R., Obertacke, A., Odrowski, S., Olivas, A., Omairat, A., O'Murchadha, A., Palczewski, T., Paul, L., Penek, Ö., Pepper, J. A., Heros, C. Pérez de los, Pfendner, C., Pieloth, D., Pinat, E., Posselt, J., Price, P. B., Przybylski, G. T., Pütz, J., Quinnan, M., Rädel, L., Rameez, M., Rawlins, K., Redl, P., Rees, I., Reimann, R., Resconi, E., Rhode, W., Richman, M., Riedel, B., Robertson, S., Rodrigues, J. P., Rongen, M., Rott, C., Ruhe, T., Ruzybayev, B., Ryckbosch, D., Saba, S. M., Sander, H. -G., Sandroos, J., Santander, M., Sarkar, S., Schatto, K., Scheriau, F., Schmidt, T., Schmitz, M., Schoenen, S., Schöneberg, S., Schönwald, A., Schukraft, A., Schulte, L., Schulz, O., Seckel, D., Sestayo, Y., Seunarine, S., Shanidze, R., Sheremata, C., Smith, M. W. E., Soldin, D., Spiczak, G. M., Spiering, C., Stamatikos, M., Stanev, T., Stanisha, N. A., Stasik, A., Stezelberger, T., Stokstad, R. G., Stößl, A., Strahler, E. A., Ström, R., Strotjohann, N. L., Sullivan, G. W., Taavola, H., Taboada, I., Tamburro, A., Tepe, A., Ter-Antonyan, S., Terliuk, A., Tešić, G., Tilav, S., Toale, P. A., Tobin, M. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neutrino detector, including periods of joint operation between 2007-2010. These include parts of the 2005-2007 run and the 2009-2010 run for LIGO-Virgo, and IceCube's observation periods with 22, 59 and 79 strings. We find no significant coincident events, and use the search results to derive upper limits on the rate of joint sources for a range of source emission parameters. For the optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of $10^{-2}$\,M$_\odot$c$^2$ at $\sim 150$\,Hz with $\sim 60$\,ms duration, and high-energy neutrino emission of $10^{51}$\,erg comparable to the isotropic gamma-ray energy of gamma-ray bursts, we limit the source rate below $1.6 \times 10^{-2}$\,Mpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$. We also examine how combining information from gravitational waves and neutrinos will aid discovery in the advanced gravitational-wave detector era.
Published: 2014
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30. Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo Data

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Gravitational waves from a variety of sources are predicted to superpose to create a stochastic background. This background is expected to contain unique information from throughout the history of the universe that is unavailable through standard electromagnetic observations, making its study of fundamental importance to understanding the evolution of the universe. We carry out a search for the stochastic background with the latest data from LIGO and Virgo. Consistent with predictions from most stochastic gravitational-wave background models, the data display no evidence of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal. Assuming a gravitational-wave spectrum of Omega_GW(f)=Omega_alpha*(f/f_ref)^alpha, we place 95% confidence level upper limits on the energy density of the background in each of four frequency bands spanning 41.5-1726 Hz. In the frequency band of 41.5-169.25 Hz for a spectral index of alpha=0, we constrain the energy density of the stochastic background to be Omega_GW(f)<5.6x10^-6. For the 600-1000 Hz band, Omega_GW(f)<0.14*(f/900 Hz)^3, a factor of 2.5 lower than the best previously reported upper limits. We find Omega_GW(f)<1.8x10^-4 using a spectral index of zero for 170-600 Hz and Omega_GW(f)<1.0*(f/1300 Hz)^3 for 1000-1726 Hz, bands in which no previous direct limits have been placed. The limits in these four bands are the lowest direct measurements to date on the stochastic background. We discuss the implications of these results in light of the recent claim by the BICEP2 experiment of the possible evidence for inflationary gravitational waves., Comment: 11 pages, 2 figures, 1 table
Published: 2014
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31. First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. 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H., Rhoades, E., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Scheuer, J., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. 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J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S. S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the first results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown spinning neutron stars in binary systems using LIGO and Virgo data. Using a specially developed analysis program, the TwoSpect algorithm, the search was carried out on data from the sixth LIGO Science Run and the second and third Virgo Science Runs. The search covers a range of frequencies from 20 Hz to 520 Hz, a range of orbital periods from 2 to ~2,254 h and a frequency- and period-dependent range of frequency modulation depths from 0.277 to 100 mHz. This corresponds to a range of projected semi-major axes of the orbit from ~0.6e-3 ls to ~6,500 ls assuming the orbit of the binary is circular. While no plausible candidate gravitational wave events survive the pipeline, upper limits are set on the analyzed data. The most sensitive 95% confidence upper limit obtained on gravitational wave strain is 2.3e-24 at 217 Hz, assuming the source waves are circularly polarized. Although this search has been optimized for circular binary orbits, the upper limits obtained remain valid for orbital eccentricities as large as 0.9. In addition, upper limits are placed on continuous gravitational wave emission from the low-mass x-ray binary Scorpius X-1 between 20 Hz and 57.25 Hz., Comment: 16 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2014
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32. Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J. S., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Augustus, H., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Bilenko, I. 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M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shao, Z., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Staley, A., Stebbins, J., Steinke, M., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S., Stone, R., Stops, D., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tao, J., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., Tellez, G., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Tonelli, M., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Tshilumba, D., Tuennermann, H., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Usman, S. A., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., van Beuzekom, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A. R., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Walsh, S., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T. D., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wolovick, N., Worden, J., Wu, Y., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yam, W., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., Zweizig, J., Cain, J., Fotopoulos, N., Gill, C., Jones, G., Patel, P., Rogstad, S., and Trias, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: In this paper we report on a search for short-duration gravitational wave bursts in the frequency range 64 Hz-1792 Hz associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), using data from GEO600 and one of the LIGO or Virgo detectors. We introduce the method of a linear search grid to analyse GRB events with large sky localisation uncertainties such as the localisations provided by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). Coherent searches for gravitational waves (GWs) can be computationally intensive when the GRB sky position is not well-localised, due to the corrections required for the difference in arrival time between detectors. Using a linear search grid we are able to reduce the computational cost of the analysis by a factor of O(10) for GBM events. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our analysis pipeline can improve upon the sky localisation of GRBs detected by the GBM, if a high-frequency GW signal is observed in coincidence. We use the linear search grid method in a search for GWs associated with 129 GRBs observed satellite-based gamma-ray experiments between 2006 and 2011. The GRBs in our sample had not been previously analysed for GW counterparts. A fraction of our GRB events are analysed using data from GEO600 while the detector was using squeezed-light states to improve its sensitivity; this is the first search for GWs using data from a squeezed-light interferometric observatory. We find no evidence for GW signals, either with any individual GRB in this sample or with the population as a whole. For each GRB we place lower bounds on the distance to the progenitor, assuming a fixed GW emission energy of $10^{-2} M_{\odot}c^{2}$, with a median exclusion distance of 0.8 Mpc for emission at 500 Hz and 0.3 Mpc at 1 kHz. The reduced computational cost associated with a linear search grid will enable rapid searches for GWs associated with Fermi GBM events in the Advanced detector era., Comment: 18 pages, 6 figures, 1 table. For a science summary, see http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GEOGRB/ . For the public data release of GW search results for each GRB in the paper, see https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1300086/public
Published: 2014
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33. Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C., Colombini, M., Cominsky, L., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corpuz, A., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Donath, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dossa, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Ducrot, M., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edo, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Eggenstein, H., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favata, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Gaonkar, S., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Gräf, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hart, M., Hartman, M. T., Haster, C. -J., Haughian, K., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hooper, S., Hopkins, P., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Huerta, E., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jaranowski, P., Ji, Y., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Haris, K, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Karlen, J., Kasprzack, M., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keiser, G. M., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N. G., Kim, N., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D. B., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kuo, L., Kutynia, A., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Lazzaro, C., Leaci, P., Leavey, S., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Roux, A. Le, Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levin, Y., Levine, B., Lewis, J., Li, T. G. F., Libbrecht, K., Libson, A., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Luijten, E., Lundgren, A. P., Lynch, R., Ma, Y., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E. P., MacDonald, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Maglione, C., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mangini, N., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martinelli, L., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McLin, K., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meinders, M., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyers, P., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Milde, S., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mishra, C., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Moesta, P., Moggi, A., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Kumar, D. Nanda, Nardecchia, I., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R. K., Necula, V., Nelemans, G., Neri, I., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E. N., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palashov, O., Palomba, C., Pan, H., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poteomkin, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Premachandra, S., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Qin, J., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quiroga, G., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Ramirez, K., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Read, J., Reed, C. M., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Rhoades, E., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Scheuer, J., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. 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S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009 - October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range up to $\sim 200$ Mpc, averaged over the possible sky positions and inclinations of the binaries with respect to the line of sight. No significant candidate was found. Upper limits on the coalescence-rate density of nonspinning IMBHBs with total masses between 100 and $450 \ \mbox{M}_{\odot}$ and mass ratios between $0.25$ and $1\,$ were placed by combining this analysis with an analogous search performed on data from the first LIGO-Virgo joint science run (November 2005 - October 2007). The most stringent limit was set for systems consisting of two $88 \ \mbox{M}_{\odot}$ black holes and is equal to $0.12 \ \mbox{Mpc}^{-3} \ \mbox{Myr}^{-1}$ at the $90\%$ confidence level. This paper also presents the first estimate, for the case of an unmodeled analysis, of the impact on the search range of IMBHB spin configurations: the visible volume for IMBHBs with nonspinning components is roughly doubled for a population of IMBHBs with spins aligned with the binary's orbital angular momentum and uniformly distributed in the dimensionless spin parameter up to 0.8, whereas an analogous population with antialigned spins decreases the visible volume by $\sim 20\%\,$., Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, data for plots and archived public version at https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1300158/public, see also the public announcement at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6IMBH/index.php, updated bibliography
Published: 2014
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34. Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the InterPlanetary Network

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J. S., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Augustus, H., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Baune, C., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Biwer, C., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Buikema, A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castaldi, G., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the results of a search for gravitational waves associated with 223 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the InterPlanetary Network (IPN) in 2005-2010 during LIGO's fifth and sixth science runs and Virgo's first, second and third science runs. The IPN satellites provide accurate times of the bursts and sky localizations that vary significantly from degree scale to hundreds of square degrees. We search for both a well-modeled binary coalescence signal, the favored progenitor model for short GRBs, and for generic, unmodeled gravitational wave bursts. Both searches use the event time and sky localization to improve the gravitational-wave search sensitivity as compared to corresponding all-time, all-sky searches. We find no evidence of a gravitational-wave signal associated with any of the IPN GRBs in the sample, nor do we find evidence for a population of weak gravitational-wave signals associated with the GRBs. For all IPN-detected GRBs, for which a sufficient duration of quality gravitational-wave data is available, we place lower bounds on the distance to the source in accordance with an optimistic assumption of gravitational-wave emission energy of $10^{-2}M_{\odot}c^2$ at 150 Hz, and find a median of 13 Mpc. For the 27 short-hard GRBs we place 90% confidence exclusion distances to two source models: a binary neutron star coalescence, with a median distance of 12Mpc, or the coalescence of a neutron star and black hole, with a median distance of 22 Mpc. Finally, we combine this search with previously published results to provide a population statement for GRB searches in first-generation LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors, and a resulting examination of prospects for the advanced gravitational-wave detectors., Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables; for the science summary, see http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-IPNS56VSR123grb/index.php
Published: 2014
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35. Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bavigadda, V., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M . G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Benacquista, M., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The search was sensitive to astrophysical sources that produced damped sinusoid gravitational wave signals, also known as ringdowns, with frequency $50\le f_{0}/\mathrm{Hz} \le 2000$ and decay timescale $0.0001\lesssim \tau/\mathrm{s} \lesssim 0.1$ characteristic of those produced in mergers of IMBH pairs. No significant gravitational wave candidate was detected. We report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of IMBHs with total binary mass $50 \le M/\mathrm{M}_\odot \le 450$ and component mass ratios of either 1:1 or 4:1. For systems with total mass $100 \le M/\mathrm{M}_\odot \le 150$, we report a 90%-confidence upper limit on the rate of binary IMBH mergers with non-spinning and equal mass components of $6.9\times10^{-8}\,$Mpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$. We also report a rate upper limit for ringdown waveforms from perturbed IMBHs, radiating 1% of their mass as gravitational waves in the fundamental, $\ell=m=2$, oscillation mode, that is nearly three orders of magnitude more stringent than previous results., Comment: for the science summary, see http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5S6RD/index.php
Published: 2014
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36. Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data

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J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S. S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: We present an implementation of the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic to carry out the first search in data from the Virgo laser interferometric gravitational wave detector for periodic gravitational waves from a priori unknown, isolated rotating neutron stars. We searched a frequency $f_0$ range from 100 Hz to 1 kHz and the frequency dependent spindown $f_1$ range from $-1.6\,(f_0/100\,{\rm Hz}) \times 10^{-9}\,$ Hz/s to zero. A large part of this frequency - spindown space was unexplored by any of the all-sky searches published so far. Our method consisted of a coherent search over two-day periods using the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic, followed by a search for coincidences among the candidates from the two-day segments. We have introduced a number of novel techniques and algorithms that allow the use of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm in the coherent part of the search resulting in a fifty-fold speed-up in computation of the $\mathcal{F}$-statistic with respect to the algorithm used in the other pipelines. No significant gravitational wave signal was found. The sensitivity of the search was estimated by injecting signals into the data. In the most sensitive parts of the detector band more than 90% of signals would have been detected with dimensionless gravitational-wave amplitude greater than $5 \times 10^{-24}$., Comment: 27 pages, 10 figures, submitted to CQG, corrected affiliations and autors list; Science summary of results available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-VSR1CWAllSkyFstat/index.php
Published: 2014
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37. The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Collaboration, the NINJA-2, Aasi, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Alemic, A., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Amariutei, D., Andersen, M., Anderson, R., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barbet, M., Barish, B. C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J. C., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Belczynski, C., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Bergmann, G., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biscans, S., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bloemen, S., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogaert, G., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, Sukanta, Bosi, L., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Buchman, S., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burman, R., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Celerier, C., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Collette, C., Colombini, M., Cominsky, L., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corpuz, A., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coughlin, S., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Deléglise, S., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., De Rosa, R., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Donath, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dossa, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edo, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Eggenstein, H., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W. M., Favata, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M., Feldbaum, D., Feroz, F., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Gaonkar, S., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Gräf, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hart, M., Hartman, M. T., Haster, C. -J., Haughian, K., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hooper, S., Hopkins, P., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jaranowski, P., Ji, Y., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Karlen, J., Kasprzack, M., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kawabe, K., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keiser, G. M., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, N. G., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D. B., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kuo, L., Kutynia, A., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Lazzaro, C., Leaci, P., Leavey, S., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Roux, A. Le, Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levin, Y., Levine, B., Lewis, J., Li, T. G. F., Libbrecht, K., Libson, A., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M. J., Lück, H., Luijten, E., Lundgren, A. P., Lynch, R., Ma, Y., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E. P., MacDonald, T., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Maglione, C., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mangini, N., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martinelli, L., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., McLin, K., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meinders, M., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyers, P., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Milde, S., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mishra, C., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Moesta, P., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Kumar, D. Nanda, Nardecchia, I., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R. K., Necula, V., Nelemans, G., Neri, I., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E. N., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palashov, O., Palomba, C., Pan, H., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poteomkin, A., Powell, J., Prasad, J., Premachandra, S., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Qin, J., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quiroga, G., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Ramirez, K., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Read, J., Reed, C. M., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Rhoades, E., Ricci, F., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J. R., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Scheuer, J., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schutz, B. F., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sequino, V., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Singh, R., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Stebbins, J., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Stephens, B. C., Steplewski, S., Stevenson, S., Stone, R., Stops, D., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Urban, A. L., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S. S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wang, M., Wang, X., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, K., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Williamson, A. R., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yang, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, Fan, Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, X. J., Zucker, M. E., Zuraw, S., Zweizig, J., Boyle, M., Brügmann, B., Buchman, L. T., Campanelli, M., Chu, T., Etienne, Z. B., Hannam, M., Healy, J., Hinder, I., Kidder, L. E., Laguna, P., Liu, Y. T., London, L., Lousto, C. O., Lovelace, G., MacDonald, I., Marronetti, P., Mösta, P., Müller, D., Mundim, B. C., Nakano, H., Paschalidis, V., Pekowsky, L., Pollney, D., Pfeiffer, H. P., Ponce, M., Pürrer, M., Reifenberger, G., Reisswig, C., Santamaría, L., Scheel, M. A., Shapiro, S. L., Shoemaker, D., Sopuerta, C. F., Sperhake, U., Szilágyi, B., Taylor, N. W., Tichy, W., Tsatsin, P., and Zlochower, Y.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astrophysics communities. The purpose of NINJA is to study the ability to detect gravitational waves emitted from merging binary black holes and recover their parameters with next-generation gravitational-wave observatories. We report here on the results of the second NINJA project, NINJA-2, which employs 60 complete binary black hole hybrid waveforms consisting of a numerical portion modelling the late inspiral, merger, and ringdown stitched to a post-Newtonian portion modelling the early inspiral. In a "blind injection challenge" similar to that conducted in recent LIGO and Virgo science runs, we added 7 hybrid waveforms to two months of data recolored to predictions of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo sensitivity curves during their first observing runs. The resulting data was analyzed by gravitational-wave detection algorithms and 6 of the waveforms were recovered with false alarm rates smaller than 1 in a thousand years. Parameter estimation algorithms were run on each of these waveforms to explore the ability to constrain the masses, component angular momenta and sky position of these waveforms. We also perform a large-scale monte-carlo study to assess the ability to recover each of the 60 hybrid waveforms with early Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo sensitivity curves. Our results predict that early Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo will have a volume-weighted average sensitive distance of 300Mpc (1Gpc) for $10M_{\odot}+10M_{\odot}$ ($50M_{\odot}+50M_{\odot}$) binary black hole coalescences. We demonstrate that neglecting the component angular momenta in the waveform models used in matched-filtering will result in a reduction in sensitivity for systems with large component angular momenta. [Abstract abridged for ArXiv, full version in PDF], Comment: 52 pages, 11 figures, 7 tables
Published: 2014
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38. Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the 5th LIGO science run

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range $\mathrm{50-1000 Hz}$ with the first derivative of frequency in the range $-8.9 \times 10^{-10}$ Hz/s to zero in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run. Our results employ a Hough transform technique, introducing a $\chi^2$ test and analysis of coincidences between the signal levels in years 1 and 2 of observations that offers a significant improvement in the product of strain sensitivity with compute cycles per data sample compared to previously published searches. Since our search yields no surviving candidates, we present results taking the form of frequency dependent, 95$%$ confidence upper limits on the strain amplitude $h_0$. The most stringent upper limit from year 1 is $1.0\times 10^{-24}$ in the $\mathrm{158.00-158.25 Hz}$ band. In year 2, the most stringent upper limit is $\mathrm{8.9\times10^{-25}}$ in the $\mathrm{146.50-146.75 Hz}$ band. This improved detection pipeline, which is computationally efficient by at least two orders of magnitude better than our flagship Einstein$@$Home search, will be important for "quick-look" searches in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector era., Comment: Accepted in Classical and Quantum Gravity. Science summary of results available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S5CWHough/index.php
Published: 2013
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39. Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavagliá, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endröczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: Cosmic strings can give rise to a large variety of interesting astrophysical phenomena. Among them, powerful bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by cusps are a promising observational signature. In this Letter we present a search for GWs from cosmic string cusps in data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors between 2005 and 2010, with over 625 days of live time. We find no evidence of GW signals from cosmic strings. From this result, we derive new constraints on cosmic string parameters, which complement and improve existing limits from previous searches for a stochastic background of GWs from cosmic microwave background measurements and pulsar timing data. In particular, if the size of loops is given by the gravitational backreaction scale, we place upper limits on the string tension $G\mu$ below $10^{-8}$ in some regions of the cosmic string parameter space.
Published: 2013
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40. First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. 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M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Soden, K., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stevens, D., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasúth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vlcek, B., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vrinceanu, D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wibowo, S., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., Akerlof, C., Baltay, C., Bloom, J. S., Cao, Y., Cenko, S. B., Ćwiek, A., Ćwiok, M., Dhillon, V., Fox, D. B., Gal-Yam, A., Kasliwal, M. M., Klotz, A., Laas-Bourez, M., Laher, R. R., Law, N. M., Majcher, A., Małek, K., Mankiewicz, L., Nawrocki, K., Nissanke, S., Nugent, P. E., Ofek, E. O., Opiela, R., Piotrowski, L., Poznanski, D., Rabinowitz, D., Rapoport, S., Richards, J. W., Schmidt, B., Siudek, M., Sokołowski, M., Steele, I. A., Sullivan, M., Żarnecki, A. F., and Zheng, W.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: During the LIGO and Virgo joint science runs in 2009-2010, gravitational wave (GW) data from three interferometer detectors were analyzed within minutes to select GW candidate events and infer their apparent sky positions. Target coordinates were transmitted to several telescopes for follow-up observations aimed at the detection of an associated optical transient. Images were obtained for eight such GW candidates. We present the methods used to analyze the image data as well as the transient search results. No optical transient was identified with a convincing association with any of these candidates, and none of the GW triggers showed strong evidence for being astrophysical in nature. We compare the sensitivities of these observations to several model light curves from possible sources of interest, and discuss prospects for future joint GW-optical observations of this type., Comment: 24 pages
Published: 2013
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41. Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Br, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderon, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavagli, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deleglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Diaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., EndrH, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., Gonzalez, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Go, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Groot, P., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jimenez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kefelian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kremin, A., Kringel, V., Krolak, A., Kucharczyk, C., Kudla, S., Kuehn, G., Kumar, A., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Larson, S., Lasky, P. D., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Roux, A. Le, Leaci, P., Lebigot, E. O., Lee, C. -H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, J., Leonardi, M., Leong, J. R., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Levine, B., Lewis, J. B., Lhuillier, V., Li, T. G. F., Lin, A. C., Littenberg, T. B., Litvine, V., Liu, F., Liu, H., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lloyd, D., Lockerbie, N. A., Lockett, V., Lodhia, D., Loew, K., Logue, J., Lombardi, A. L., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Luan, J., Lubinski, M. J., L, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Magana-Sandoval, F., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Manca, G. M., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mangano, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., M, S., M, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Martinelli, L., Martynov, D., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Massinger, T. J., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., May, G., Mazumder, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meacher, D., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meidam, J., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Mendell, G., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Mikhailov, E. E., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Mokler, F., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nagy, M. F., Kumar, D. Nanda, Nardecchia, I., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Nayak, R., Necula, V., Nelemans, G., Neri, I., Neri, M., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishida, E., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L. K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Ohme, F., Oppermann, P., O'Reilly, B., Larcher, W. Ortega, O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Ou, J., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Padilla, C., Pai, A., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Paris, H., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Peiris, P., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pinard, L., Pindor, B., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Poeld, J., Poggiani, R., Poole, V., Poux, C., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raja, S., Rajalakshmi, G., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Roever, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romanov, G., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sanders, J., Sannibale, V., Santiago-Prieto, I., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schreiber, E., Schuette, D., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shah, S., Shahriar, M. S., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L., Siellez, K., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Soden, K., Son, E. J., Sorazu, B., Souradeep, T., Sperandio, L., Staley, A., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stevens, D., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Straniero, N., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thirugnanasambandam, M. P., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Tiwari, V., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Unnikrishnan, C. S., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Heijningen, J., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Verma, S., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Vincent-Finley, R., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vlcek, B., Vo, T., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vousden, W. D., Vrinceanu, D., Vyachanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Walker, M., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, J., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weaver, B., Wei, L. -W., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wibowo, S., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Williams, L., Williams, R., Williams, T., Willis, J. L., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yum, H., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zhu, H., Zhu, X. J., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive stars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We investigate models of long-lived (~10-1000s) GW emission associated with the accretion disk of a collapsed star or with its protoneutron star remnant. Using data from LIGO's fifth science run, and GRB triggers from the swift experiment, we perform a search for unmodeled long-lived GW transients. Finding no evidence of GW emission, we place 90% confidence level upper limits on the GW fluence at Earth from long GRBs for three waveforms inspired by a model of GWs from accretion disk instabilities. These limits range from F<3.5 ergs cm^-2 to $F<1200 ergs cm^-2, depending on the GRB and on the model, allowing us to probe optimistic scenarios of GW production out to distances as far as ~33 Mpc. Advanced detectors are expected to achieve strain sensitivities 10x better than initial LIGO, potentially allowing us to probe the engines of the nearest long GRBs., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures
Published: 2013
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42. A directed search for continuous Gravitational Waves from the Galactic Center

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavagliá, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endröczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gordon, N., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossan, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hall, B., Hall, E., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanke, M., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Horrom, T., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hu, Y., Hua, Z., Huang, V., Huerta, E. A., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh, M., Huynh-Dinh, T., Iafrate, J., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Iyer, B. R., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, H., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., K, Haris, Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kéfélian, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D. B., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, W., Kim, Y. -M., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Koehlenbeck, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. 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Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We present the results of a directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown, isolated neutron stars in the Galactic Center region, performed on two years of data from LIGO's fifth science run from two LIGO detectors. The search uses a semi-coherent approach, analyzing coherently 630 segments, each spanning 11.5 hours, and then incoherently combining the results of the single segments. It covers gravitational wave frequencies in a range from 78 to 496 Hz and a frequency-dependent range of first order spindown values down to -7.86 x 10^-8 Hz/s at the highest frequency. No gravitational waves were detected. We place 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic Center. Placing 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic Center, we reach ~3.35x10^-25 for frequencies near 150 Hz. These upper limits are the most constraining to date for a large-parameter-space search for continuous gravitational wave signals., Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; PDFLaTeX; to be published in Phys.Rev.D; a science summary can be found at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-GCSearch/index.php
Published: 2013
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43. Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T., Abernathy, M. R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Adhikari, R. X., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, R. A., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Arceneaux, C., Areeda, J., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Austin, L., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P. T., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S. W., Barayoga, J. C., Barker, D., Barnum, S. H., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Bergmann, G., Berliner, J. M., Bersanetti, D., Bertolini, A., Bessis, D., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbhade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Boer, M., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bowers, J., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brannen, C. A., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brown, D. D., Brückner, F., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Bustillo, J. Calderón, Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Castiglia, A., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Constancio Jr., M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M. W., Coulon, J. -P., Countryman, S., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Crowder, S. G., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Canton, T. Dal, Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Davies, G. S., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Deleeuw, E., Deléglise, S., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dereli, H., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Dmitry, K., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S., Endrőczi, G., Essick, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fang, Q., Farinon, S., Farr, B., Farr, W., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R., Flaminio, R., Foley, E., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gehrels, N., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. 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Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper., Comment: Version accepted by The Astrophysical Journal. Science summary of results available at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6VSR24KnownPulsar/
Published: 2013
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44. Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network

Author: the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. 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S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: Compact binary systems with neutron stars or black holes are one of the most promising sources for ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Gravitational radiation encodes rich information about source physics; thus parameter estimation and model selection are crucial analysis steps for any detection candidate events. Detailed models of the anticipated waveforms enable inference on several parameters, such as component masses, spins, sky location and distance that are essential for new astrophysical studies of these sources. However, accurate measurements of these parameters and discrimination of models describing the underlying physics are complicated by artifacts in the data, uncertainties in the waveform models and in the calibration of the detectors. Here we report such measurements on a selection of simulated signals added either in hardware or software to the data collected by the two LIGO instruments and the Virgo detector during their most recent joint science run, including a "blind injection" where the signal was not initially revealed to the collaboration. We exemplify the ability to extract information about the source physics on signals that cover the neutron star and black hole parameter space over the individual mass range 1 Msun - 25 Msun and the full range of spin parameters. The cases reported in this study provide a snap-shot of the status of parameter estimation in preparation for the operation of advanced detectors., Comment: 23 pages, 18 figures. LIGO Document P1200021. See the announcement for this paper on ligo.org at: http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6PE/index.php. For a repository of data used in the publication, go to: https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1200021/public; Modifications thanks to referee reports
Published: 2013
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45. Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet-Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglia, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Diaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endroczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Farr, B. F., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M. A., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gaspar, M. E., Gelencser, G., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Gonzalez, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Krolak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Langley, A., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Roux, A. Le, Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Lhuillier, V., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Lindquist, P. E., Litvine, V., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Logue, J., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M., Lueck, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menendez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Mueller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Oldenberg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pihlaja, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Poeld, J., Postiglione, F., Poux, C., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, M., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Roever, C., Rowan, S., Ruediger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sankar, S., Sannibale, V., Santamaria, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thuering, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20) Msun coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for non-spinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on component spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We find an upper limit at 90% confidence on the coalescence rate of BBH with non-spinning components of mass between 19 and 28 Msun of 3.3 \times 10^-7 mergers /Mpc^3 /yr., Comment: 15 pages PDFLaTeX, minor changes to correspond with published version. An archived version with data for plots and tables is at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1200024 . A Science Summary of the paper for education and public outreach is at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6CBCHM/index.php
Published: 2012
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46. Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Endröczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Farr, B. F., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M. A., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gelencser, G., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. Á., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. 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C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., and Anderson, D. P.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: This paper presents results of an all-sky searches for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range [50, 1190] Hz and with frequency derivative ranges of [-2 x 10^-9, 1.1 x 10^-10] Hz/s for the fifth LIGO science run (S5). The novelty of the search lies in the use of a non-coherent technique based on the Hough-transform to combine the information from coherent searches on timescales of about one day. Because these searches are very computationally intensive, they have been deployed on the Einstein@Home distributed computing project infrastructure. The search presented here is about a factor 3 more sensitive than the previous Einstein@Home search in early S5 LIGO data. The post-processing has left us with eight surviving candidates. We show that deeper follow-up studies rule each of them out. Hence, since no statistically significant gravitational wave signals have been detected, we report upper limits on the intrinsic gravitational wave amplitude h0. For example, in the 0.5 Hz-wide band at 152.5 Hz, we can exclude the presence of signals with h0 greater than 7.6 x 10^-25 with a 90% confidence level., Comment: 29 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables. Science summary page at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-FullS5EatH/index.php ; Public access area to figures and tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1200026
Published: 2012
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47. A First Search for coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007

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

Author: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. 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S., Schreiber, E., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Soto, J., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Tucker, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wang, Z., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhang, W., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., Briggs, M. S., Connaughton, V., Hurley, K. C., Jenke, P. A., von Kienlin, A., Rau, A., and Zhang, X. -L.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the results of a search for gravitational waves associated with 154 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments in 2009-2010, during the sixth LIGO science run and the second and third Virgo science runs. We perform two distinct searches: a modeled search for coalescences of either two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole; and a search for generic, unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts. We find no evidence for gravitational-wave counterparts, either with any individual GRB in this sample or with the population as a whole. For all GRBs we place lower bounds on the distance to the progenitor, under the optimistic assumption of a gravitational-wave emission energy of 10^-2 M c^2 at 150 Hz, with a median limit of 17 Mpc. For short hard GRBs we place exclusion distances on binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole progenitors, using astrophysically motivated priors on the source parameters, with median values of 16 Mpc and 28 Mpc respectively. These distance limits, while significantly larger than for a search that is not aided by GRB satellite observations, are not large enough to expect a coincidence with a GRB. However, projecting these exclusions to the sensitivities of Advanced LIGO and Virgo, which should begin operation in 2015, we find that the detection of gravitational waves associated with GRBs will become quite possible., Comment: Accepted by ApJ. 19 pages, 8 figures, 2 tables, science summary page at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6GRB/index.php . Public access area to figures, tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1000121
Published: 2012
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49. Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events

Author: Evans, P. A., Fridriksson, J. K., Gehrels, N., Homan, J., Osborne, J. P., Siegel, M., Beardmore, A., Handbauer, P., Gelbord, J., Kennea, J. A., Smith, M., Zhu, Q., Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet-Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglia, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, D. E., Clark, J. A., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cohadon, P. -F., Colacino, C. N., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, A., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cordier, M., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coughlin, M., Coulon, J. -P., Couvares, P., Coward, D. M., Cowart, M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Cutler, R. M., Dahl, K., Damjanic, M., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Daveloza, H., Davier, M., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., Del Pozzo, W., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Diaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Dorsher, S., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Du, Z., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, S., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Eikenberry, S., Endroczi, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, K., Evans, M., Evans, T., Factourovich, M., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Farr, B. F., Favata, M., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Ferrini, F., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Fisher, R. P., Flaminio, R., Foley, S., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franco, S., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M. A., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fulda, P. J., Fyffe, M., Gair, J., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garcia, J., Garufi, F., Gaspar, M. E., Gelencser, G., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gergely, L. A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gil-Casanova, S., Gill, C., Gleason, J., Goetz, E., Gonzalez, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Graff, P. B., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Griffo, C., Grote, H., Grover, K., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Guido, C., Gupta, R., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Hartman, M. T., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Heefner, J., Heidmann, A., Heintze, M. C., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Hemming, G., Hendry, M. A., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Herrera, V., Heurs, M., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Holtrop, M., Hong, T., Hooper, S., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Izumi, K., Jacobson, M., James, E., Jang, Y. J., Jaranowski, P., Jesse, E., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, R., Jonker, R. J. G., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B., Kasprzack, M., Kasturi, R., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, H., Kaufman, K., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Keitel, D., Kelley, D., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Keresztes, Z., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, B. K., Kim, C., Kim, H., Kim, K., Kim, N., Kim, Y. M., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kline, J., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Koranda, S., Korth, W. Z., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Krolak, A., Kuehn, G., Kumar, P., Kumar, R., Kurdyumov, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Langley, A., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lawrie, C., Lazzarini, A., Roux, A. Le, Leaci, P., Lee, C. H., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Leong, J. R., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Lhuillier, V., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Lindquist, P. E., Litvine, V., Liu, Y., Liu, Z., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Logue, J., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lough, J., Lubinski, M., Luck, H., Lundgren, A. P., Macarthur, J., Macdonald, E., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Macleod, D. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Maksimovic, I., Malvezzi, V., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Marka, S., Marka, Z., Markosyan, A., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., Mazzolo, G., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McDaniel, P., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIver, J., Meadors, G. D., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menendez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mingarelli, C. M. F., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mori, T., Morriss, S. R., Mosca, S., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, C. L., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Muller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murphy, D., Murray, P. G., Mytidis, A., Nash, T., Naticchioni, L., Necula, V., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nguyen, T., Nishizawa, A., Nitz, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Normandin, M. E., Nuttall, L., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Oelker, E., Ogin, G. H., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. H., Oldenberg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ott, C. D., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Paoletti, R., Papa, M. A., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Phelps, M., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pihlaja, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Pold, J., Postiglione, F., Poux, C., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Prestegard, T., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Quitzow-James, R., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Racz, I., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Ramet, C., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, M., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rodriguez, C., Rodruck, M., Rolland, L., Rollins, J. G., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Rover, C., Rowan, S., Rudiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., Sandberg, V., Sankar, S., Sannibale, V., Santamaria, L., Santiago-Prieto, I., Santostasi, G., Saracco, E., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R. L., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shaltev, M., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sidery, T. L, Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Simakov, D., Singer, A., Singer, L., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G. R., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, R. J. E., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stefszky, M., Steinert, E., Steinlechner, J., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S. E., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szeifert, G., Tacca, M., Taffarello, L., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, R., ter Braack, A. P. M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thuring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Tomlinson, C., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C. V., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Tse, M., Ugolini, D., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Vicere, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vitale, S., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyatchanin, S. P., Wade, A., Wade, L., Wade, M., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wan, Y., Wang, M., Wang, X., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Welborn, T., Wen, L., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wiesner, K., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Williams, R., Willke, B., Wimmer, M., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Wittel, H., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yablon, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yancey, C. C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrozny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: We present the first multi-wavelength follow-up observations of two candidate gravitational-wave (GW) transient events recorded by LIGO and Virgo in their 2009-2010 science run. The events were selected with low latency by the network of GW detectors and their candidate sky locations were observed by the Swift observatory. Image transient detection was used to analyze the collected electromagnetic data, which were found to be consistent with background. Off-line analysis of the GW data alone has also established that the selected GW events show no evidence of an astrophysical origin; one of them is consistent with background and the other one was a test, part of a "blind injection challenge". With this work we demonstrate the feasibility of rapid follow-ups of GW transients and establish the sensitivity improvement joint electromagnetic and GW observations could bring. This is a first step toward an electromagnetic follow-up program in the regime of routine detections with the advanced GW instruments expected within this decade. In that regime multi-wavelength observations will play a significant role in completing the astrophysical identification of GW sources. We present the methods and results from this first combined analysis and discuss its implications in terms of sensitivity for the present and future instruments., Comment: Submitted for publication 2012 May 25, accepted 2012 October 25, published 2012 November 21, in ApJS, 203, 28 ( http://stacks.iop.org/0067-0049/203/28 ); 14 pages, 3 figures, 6 tables; LIGO-P1100038; Science summary at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6LVSwift/index.php ; Public access area to figures, tables at https://dcc.ligo.org/cgi-bin/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=p1100038
Published: 2012
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50. The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches

Author: Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allocca, A., Ceron, E. Amador, Amariutei, D., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arai, K., Araya, M. C., Ast, S., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Aylott, B. E., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballinger, T., Ballmer, S., Bao, Y., Barayoga, J. C. B., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Basti, A., Batch, J., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Bebronne, M., Beck, D., Behnke, B., Bejger, M., Beker, M. G., Bell, A. S., Bell, C., Belopolski, I., Benacquista, M., Berliner, J. M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bhadbade, T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bogan, C., Bond, C., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Branchesi, M., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Briant, T., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Carbone, L., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chen, W., Chen, X., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Chiummo, A., Cho, H. S., Chow, J., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. 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C., Yang, H., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zadrożny, A., Zanolin, M., Zendri, J. -P., Zhang, F., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract: Between 2007 and 2010 Virgo collected data in coincidence with the LIGO and GEO gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. These data have been searched for GWs emitted by cataclysmic phenomena in the universe, by non-axisymmetric rotating neutron stars or from a stochastic background in the frequency band of the detectors. The sensitivity of GW searches is limited by noise produced by the detector or its environment. It is therefore crucial to characterize the various noise sources in a GW detector. This paper reviews the Virgo detector noise sources, noise propagation, and conversion mechanisms which were identified in the three first Virgo observing runs. In many cases, these investigations allowed us to mitigate noise sources in the detector, or to selectively flag noise events and discard them from the data. We present examples from the joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo GW searches to show how well noise transients and narrow spectral lines have been identified and excluded from the Virgo data. We also discuss how detector characterization can improve the astrophysical reach of gravitational-wave searches., Comment: 50 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables
Published: 2012
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