Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO 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; JDE Creighton; TD Creighton; AM Cruise; RM Culter; A Cumming; L Cunningham; SL Danilishin; K Danzmann; B Daudert; G Davies; EJ Daw

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Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO 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 | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | Published : 2009

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102001

Abstract

We present the results obtained from an all-sky search for gravitational-wave (GW) bursts in the 64-2000 Hz frequency range in data collected by the LIGO detectors during the first year (November 2005-November 2006) of their fifth science run. The total analyzed live time was 268.6 days. Multiple hierarchical data analysis methods were invoked in this search. The overall sensitivity expressed in terms of the root-sum-square (rss) strain amplitude hrss for gravitational-wave bursts with various morphologies was in the range of 6×10-22Hz-1/2 to a few×10-21Hz-1/2. No GW signals were observed and a frequentist upper limit of 3.75 events per year on the rate of strong GW bursts was placed at the ..

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