Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run

BP Abbott; R Abbott; R Adhikari; P Ajith; B Allen; G Allen; RS Amin; SB Anderson; WG Anderson; MA Arain; M Araya; H Armandula; P Armor; Y Aso; S Aston; P Aufmuth; C Aulbert; S Babak; P Baker; S Ballmer; C Barker; D Barker; B Barr; P Barriga; L Barsotti; MA Barton; I Bartos; R Bassiri; M Bastarrika; B Behnke; M Benacquista; J Betzwieser; PT Beyersdorf; IA Bilenko; G Billingsley; R Biswas; E Black; JK Blackburn; L Blackburn; D Blair; B Bland; TP Bodiya; L Bogue; R Bork; V Boschi; S Bose; PR Brady; VB Braginsky; JE Brau; DO Bridges; M Brinkmann; AF Brooks; DA Brown; A Brummit; G Brunet; A Bullington; A Buonanno; O Burmeister; RL Byer; L Cadonati; JB Camp; J Cannizzo; KC Cannon; J Cao; L Cardenas; S Caride; G Castaldi; S Caudill; M Cavaglià; C Cepeda; T Chalermsongsak; E Chalkley; P Charlton; S Chatterji; S Chelkowski; Y Chen; N Christensen; CTY Chung; D Clark; J Clark; JH Clayton; T Cokelaer; CN Colacino; R Conte; D Cook; TRC Corbitt; N Cornish; D Coward; DC Coyne; A Di Credico; JDE Creighton; TD Creighton; AM Cruise; RM Culter; A Cumming; L Cunningham; SL Danilishin; K Danzmann; B Daudert; G Davies

Journal article

Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run

BP Abbott, R Abbott, R Adhikari, P Ajith, B Allen, G Allen, RS Amin, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, MA Arain, M Araya, H Armandula, P Armor, Y Aso, S Aston, P Aufmuth, C Aulbert, S Babak, P Baker, S Ballmer Show all

Physical Review D Particles Fields Gravitation and Cosmology | Published : 2009

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102002

Abstract

We present an all-sky search for gravitational waves in the frequency range 1 to 6 kHz during the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run. This is the first untriggered LIGO burst analysis to be conducted above 3 kHz. We discuss the unique properties of interferometric data in this regime. 161.3 days of triple-coincident data were analyzed. No gravitational events above threshold were observed and a frequentist upper limit of 5.4year-1 on the rate of strong gravitational-wave bursts was placed at a 90% confidence level. Implications for specific theoretical models of gravitational-wave emission are also discussed. © 2009 The American Physical Society.