Constraints on Cosmic Strings Using Data from the Third Advanced LIGO–Virgo Observing Run
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Author(s)
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Virgo Collaboration
KAGRA Collaboration
Barnum, Sam
Barsotti, Lisa
Biscans, Sebastien
Biscoveanu, Sylvia
Buikema, Aaron
Demos, Nicholas
Donovan, Frederick J
Date Issued
2021
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Citation
2021. "Constraints on Cosmic Strings Using Data from the Third Advanced LIGO–Virgo Observing Run." Physical Review Letters, 126 (24).
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Final published version
Abstract
We search for gravitational-wave signals produced by cosmic strings in the
Advanced LIGO and Virgo full O3 data set. Search results are presented for
gravitational waves produced by cosmic string loop features such as cusps,
kinks and, for the first time, kink-kink collisions.cA template-based search
for short-duration transient signals does not yield a detection. We also use
the stochastic gravitational-wave background energy density upper limits
derived from the O3 data to constrain the cosmic string tension, $G\mu$, as a
function of the number of kinks, or the number of cusps, for two cosmic string
loop distribution models.cAdditionally, we develop and test a third model which
interpolates between these two models. Our results improve upon the previous
LIGO-Virgo constraints on $G\mu$ by one to two orders of magnitude depending on
the model which is tested. In particular, for one loop distribution model, we
set the most competitive constraints to date, $G\mu\lesssim 4\times 10^{-15}$.
MIT Department
LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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