First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts -: art. no. 102001

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abbott, R
Adhikari, R
Ageev, A
Allen, B
Amin, R
Anderson, SB
Anderson, WG
Araya, M
Armandula, H
Asiri, F
Aufmuth, P
Aulbert, C
Babak, S
Balasubramanian, R
Ballmer, S
Barish, BC
Barker, D
Barker-Patton, C
Barnes, M
Barr, B
Barton, MA
Bayer, K
Beausoleil, R
Belczynski, K
Bennett, R
Berukoff, SJ
Betzwieser, J
Bhawal, B
Bilenko, IA
Billingsley, G
Black, E
Blackburn, K
Bland-Weaver, B
Bochner, B
Bogue, L
Bork, R
Bose, S
Brady, PR
Braginsky, VB
Brau, JE
Brown, DA
Brozek, S
Bullington, A
Buonanno, A
Burgess, R
Busby, D
Butler, WE
Byer, RL
Cadonati, L
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[4] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[5] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[6] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF2 3YB, S Glam, Wales
[8] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[9] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
[10] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[11] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[12] Interuniv 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] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[20] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[21] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[22] Natl Astron Observ Japan, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[23] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[24] Salish Kootenai Coll, Pablo, MT 59855 USA
[25] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[26] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[27] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[28] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[29] Univ Texas, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[30] Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[31] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[32] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[33] Univ Illes Balears, E-07071 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[34] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[35] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[36] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[37] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[38] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[39] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[40] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[41] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[42] HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA USA
[43] CNRS, Inst Astrophys Paris, GReCO, F-75700 Paris, France
[44] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res, Tokyo, Japan
[45] Univ Coll Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland
[46] NASA, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA USA
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.69.102001
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学科分类号
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摘要
We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors. Our search focuses on bursts with durations ranging from 4 to 100 ms, and with significant power in the LIGO sensitivity band of 150 to 3000 Hz. We bound the rate for such detected bursts at less than 1.6 events per day at a 90% confidence level. This result is interpreted in terms of the detection efficiency for ad hoc waveforms (Gaussians and sine Gaussians) as a function of their root-sum-square strain h(rss); typical sensitivities lie in the range h(rss)similar to10(-19)-10(-17) strain/rootHz, depending on the waveform. We discuss improvements in the search method that will be applied to future science data from LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors.
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