Upper limits on a stochastic background of gravitational waves -: art. no. 221101

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abbott, R
Adhikari, R
Agresti, J
Ajith, P
Allen, B
Allen, J
Amin, R
Anderson, SB
Anderson, WG
Araya, M
Armandula, H
Ashley, M
Aulbert, C
Babak, S
Balasubramanian, R
Ballmer, S
Barish, BC
Barker, C
Barker, D
Barton, MA
Bayer, K
Belczynski, K
Betzwieser, J
Bhawal, B
Bilenko, IA
Billingsley, G
Black, E
Blackburn, K
Blackburn, L
Bland, B
Bogue, L
Bork, R
Bose, S
Brady, PR
Braginsky, VB
Brau, JE
Brown, DA
Buonanno, A
Busby, D
Butler, WE
Cadonati, L
Cagnoli, G
Camp, JB
Cannizzo, J
Cannon, K
Cardenas, L
Carter, K
Casey, MM
Charlton, P
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[3] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[4] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[5] CALTECH, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[7] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[8] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF2 3YB, Wales
[9] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[10] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[11] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[12] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[13] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[15] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[16] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[17] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[18] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[19] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[20] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[21] Natl Astron Observ, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[22] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[23] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[24] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[25] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[26] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[27] Univ Texas, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[28] Tesas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[29] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[30] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[31] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[32] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[33] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[34] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[35] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[36] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[37] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[38] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[39] Vassar Coll, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 USA
[40] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.221101
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has performed a third science run with much improved sensitivities of all three interferometers. We present an analysis of approximately 200 hours of data acquired during this run, used to search for a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. We place upper bounds on the energy density stored as gravitational radiation for three different spectral power laws. For the flat spectrum, our limit of Omega(0)< 8.4x10(-4) in the 69-156 Hz band is similar to 10(5) times lower than the previous result in this frequency range.
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