Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run
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Author(s)
Wipf, Christopher C.
Weiss, Rainer
Waldman, Samuel J.
Villadsen, J.
Stein, Leo Chaim
Stein, Andrew J.
Smith, Nicolas de Mateo
Shapiro, B.
Sarin, P.
Mavalvala, Nergis
Date Issued
November 2009
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. “Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run.” Physical Review D 80.10 (2009): 102002. © 2009 The American Physical Society
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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 5.4 year[superscript -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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102002
