Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

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作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Ackley, K. [6 ]
Adams, C. [7 ]
Adams, T. [8 ]
Addesso, P. [9 ,10 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [11 ]
Affeldt, C. [11 ]
Agathos, M. [12 ]
Agatsuma, K. [12 ]
Aggarwal, N. [13 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [14 ]
Aiello, L. [15 ,16 ]
Ain, A. [17 ]
Ajith, P. [18 ]
Allen, B. [11 ,19 ,20 ]
Allocca, A. [21 ,22 ]
Altin, P. A. [23 ]
Ananyeva, A. [1 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [19 ]
Appert, S. [1 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Areeda, J. S. [24 ]
Arnaud, N. [25 ]
Arun, K. G. [26 ]
Ascenzi, S. [16 ,27 ]
Ashton, G. [11 ]
Ast, M. [28 ]
Aston, S. M. [7 ]
Astone, P. [29 ]
Aufmuth, P. [20 ]
Aulbert, C. [11 ]
Avila-Alvarez, A. [24 ]
Babak, S. [30 ]
Bacon, P. [31 ]
Bader, M. K. M. [12 ]
Baker, P. T. [32 ]
Baldaccini, F. [33 ,34 ]
Ballardin, G. [35 ]
Ballmer, S. W. [36 ]
Barayoga, J. C. [1 ]
Barclay, S. E. [37 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, D. [38 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Amer Univ, Washington, DC 20016 USA
[4] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[5] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, INFN, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[6] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[7] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[8] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[9] Univ Sannio, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
[10] INFN, Sez Napoli, I-80100 Naples, Italy
[11] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[12] Nikhef, Sci Pk, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[13] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
[15] Gran Sasso Sci Inst, INFN, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[16] INFN, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[17] Inter Univ, Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[18] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bengaluru 560089, Karnataka, India
[19] Univ Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[20] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[21] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[22] INFN, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[23] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[24] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[25] Univ Paris Sud, Univ Paris Saclay, CNRS, IN2P3,LAL, F-91898 Orsay, France
[26] Chennai Math Inst, Madras 603103, Tamil Nadu, India
[27] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[28] Univ Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[29] INFN, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[30] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
[31] Univ Paris Diderot, Astro Particle & Cosmol, Observ Paris, CNRS,IN2P3,CEA,Irfu, Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[32] West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
[33] Univ Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[34] INFN, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[35] European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[36] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[37] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[38] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[39] RMKI, Wigner RCP, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 9-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
[40] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[41] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[42] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[43] INFN, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[44] Polish Acad Sci, Nicolaus Copernicus Astron Ctr, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[45] Georgia Inst Technol, Ctr Relativist Astrophys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[46] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Phys, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
[47] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[48] Univ Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[49] INFN, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[50] RRCAT, Indore 452013, Madhya Pradesh, India
基金
俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121101
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW151226, the rate and mass of coalescing binary black holes appear to be greater than many previous expectations. As a result, the stochastic background from unresolved compact binary coalescences is expected to be particularly loud. We perform a search for the isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using data from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory's (aLIGO) first observing run. The data display no evidence of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal. We constrain the dimensionless energy density of gravitational waves to be Omega(0) < 1.7 x 10(-7) with 95% confidence, assuming a flat energy density spectrum in the most sensitive part of the LIGO band (20-86 Hz). This is a factor of similar to 33 times more sensitive than previous measurements. We also constrain arbitrary power-law spectra. Finally, we investigate the implications of this search for the background of binary black holes using an astrophysical model for the background.
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