All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

BP Abbott; R Abbott; TD Abbott; MR Abernathy; F Acernese; K Ackley; C Adams; T Adams; P Addesso; RX Adhikari; VB Adya; C Affeldt; M Agathos; K Agatsuma; N Aggarwal; OD Aguiar; L Aiello; A Ain; P Ajith; B Allen; A Allocca; PA Altin; A Ananyeva; SB Anderson; WG Anderson; S Appert; K Arai; MC Araya; JS Areeda; N Arnaud; KG Arun; S Ascenzi; G Ashton; M Ast; SM Aston; P Astone; P Aufmuth; C Aulbert; A Avila-Alvarez; S Babak; P Bacon; MKM Bader; PT Baker; F Baldaccini; G Ballardin; SW Ballmer; JC Barayoga; SE Barclay; BC Barish; D Barker; F Barone; B Barr; L Barsotti; M Barsuglia; D Barta; J Bartlett; I Bartos; R Bassiri; A Basti; JC Batch; C Baune; V Bavigadda; M Bazzan; C Beer; M Bejger; I Belahcene; M Belgin; AS Bell; BK Berger; G Bergmann; CPL Berry; D Bersanetti; A Bertolini; J Betzwieser; S Bhagwat; R Bhandare; IA Bilenko; G Billingsley; CR Billman; J Birch; R Birney; O Birnholtz; S Biscans; A Bisht; M Bitossi; C Biwer; MA Bizouard; JK Blackburn; J Blackman; CD Blair; DG Blair; RM Blair; S Bloemen; O Bock; M Boer; G Bogaert; A Bohe; F Bondu; R Bonnand; BA Boom

Journal article

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, P Addesso, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, C Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, B Allen Show all

Classical and Quantum Gravity | Published : 2018

DOI: 10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76

Abstract

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between September 2015 and January 2016, with a total observational time of 49 d. The search targets gravitational wave transients of 10500 s duration in a frequency band of 242048 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. As a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources i..

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University of Melbourne Researchers

Andrew Melatos Author

Pat Meyers Author

Grants

Awarded by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India

Funding Acknowledgements

The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO consortium. The authors also gratefully acknowledge research support from these agencies as well as by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigacion, the Vicepresidencia i Conselleria d'Innovacio, Recerca i Turisme and the Conselleria d'Educacio i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears, the Conselleria d'Educacio, Investigacio, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, the European Commission, the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the Paris Ile-de-France Region, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFI), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Research Corporation, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan and the Kavli Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF, STFC, MPS, INFN, CNRS and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for provision of computational resources.