Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors

被引：67

作者：

Aasi, J. ^{[1
]}

Abadie, J. ^{[1
]}

Abbott, B. P. ^{[1
]}

Abbott, R. ^{[1
]}

Abbott, T. ^{[2
]}

Abernathy, M. R. ^{[1
]}

Accadia, T. ^{[3
]}

Acernese, F. ^{[4
,5
]}

Adams, C. ^{[6
]}

Adams, T. ^{[7
]}

Adhikari, R. X. ^{[1
]}

Affeldt, C. ^{[8
]}

Agathos, M. ^{[9
]}

Aggarwal, N. ^{[10
]}

Aguiar, O. D. ^{[11
]}

Ajith, P. ^{[1
]}

Allen, B. ^{[8
,12
,13
]}

Allocca, A. ^{[14
,15
]}

Ceron, E. Amador ^{[12
]}

Amariutei, D. ^{[16
]}

Anderson, R. A. ^{[1
]}

Anderson, S. B. ^{[1
]}

Anderson, W. G. ^{[12
]}

Arai, K. ^{[1
]}

Araya, M. C. ^{[1
]}

Arceneaux, C. ^{[17
]}

Areeda, J. ^{[18
]}

Ast, S. ^{[13
]}

Aston, S. M. ^{[6
]}

Astone, P. ^{[19
]}

Aufmuth, P. ^{[13
]}

Aulbert, C. ^{[8
]}

Austin, L. ^{[1
]}

Aylott, B. E. ^{[20
]}

Babak, S. ^{[21
]}

Baker, P. T. ^{[22
]}

Ballardin, G. ^{[23
]}

Ballmer, S. W. ^{[24
]}

Barayoga, J. C. ^{[1
]}

Barker, D. ^{[25
]}

Barnum, S. H. ^{[10
]}

Barone, F. ^{[4
,5
]}

Barr, B. ^{[26
]}

Barsotti, L. ^{[10
]}

Barsuglia, M. ^{[27
]}

Barton, M. A. ^{[25
]}

Bartos, I. ^{[28
]}

Bassiri, R. ^{[26
,29
]}

Basti, A. ^{[14
,30
]}

Batch, J. ^{[25
]}

机构：

[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA

[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA

[3] Univ Savoie, CNRS IN2P3, LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France

[4] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy

[5] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy

[6] Livingston Observ, LIGO, Livingston, LA 70754 USA

[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales

[8] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

[9] Nikhef, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands

[10] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA

[11] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil

[12] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA

[13] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

[15] Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy

[16] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA

[17] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA

[18] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA

[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy

[20] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England

[21] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany

[22] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA

[23] EGO, I-56021 Pisa, Italy

[24] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA

[25] Hanford Observ, LIGO, Richland, WA 99352 USA

[26] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland

[27] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Observ Paris, APC,CNRS,IN2P3,CEA Irfu, F-75205 Paris 13, France

[28] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA

[29] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

[30] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy

[31] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland

[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy

[33] Univ Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy

[34] Univ Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA

[35] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA

[36] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia

[37] Univ Paris 11, NASA, IN2P3, CNRS, F-91898 Orsay, France

[38] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[39] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

[40] Univ Rennes 1, Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, F-06304 Nice, France

[41] Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Rennes, F-35042 Rennes, France

[42] Univ Lyon, IN2P3 CNRS, LMA, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France

[43] Washington State Univ, Washington, DC 99164 USA

[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy

[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Florence, Italy

[46] Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, I-61029 Urbino, Italy

[47] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA

[48] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, ENS, Lab Kastler Brossel, F-75005 Paris, France

[49] Warsaw Univ, Astron Observ, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland

[50] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2014年 / 112卷 / 13期

基金：

美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;

关键词：

INFLATION; LIMITS;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.131101

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

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.

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