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

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Wipf, Christopher C.; Weiss, Rainer; Waldman, Samuel J.; Villadsen, J.; Stein, Leo Chaim; ... Show more
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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.
Date issued
2009-11
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/52746
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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
Version: Final published version
Other identifiers
LIGO Laboratory document No. LIGO-P080080
ISSN
1550-2368
1550-7998
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