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First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts

Abbott, B. and Abbott, R. and Adhikari, Rana X. and Ageev, A. and Allen, B. and Amin, R. and Anderson, S. B. and Anderson, W. G. and Araya, M. and Armandula, H. and Asiri, F. and Aufmuth, P. and Aulbert, C. and Babak, S. and Balasubramanian, R. and Ballmer, S. and Barish, B. C. and Barker, D. and Barker-Patton, C. and Barnes, M. and Barr, B. and Barton, M. A. and Bayer, K. and Beausoleil, R. and Belczynski, K. and Bennett, R. and Berukoff, S. J. and Betzwieser, J. and Bhawal, B. and Bilenko, I. A. and Billingsley, G. and Black, E. and Blackburn, K. and Bland-Weaver, B. and Bochner, B. and Bogue, L. and Bork, R. and Bose, S. and Brady, P. R. and Braginsky, V. B. and Brau, J. E. and Brown, D. A. and Brozek, S. and Bullington, A. and Buonanno, A. and Burgess, R. and Busby, D. and Butler, W. E. and Byer, R. L. and Cadonati, L. and Cagnoli, G. and Camp, J. B. and Cantley, C. A. and Cardenas, L. and Carter, K. and Casey, M. 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J. and Winkler, W. and Wise, S. and Wiseman, A. G. and Woan, G. and Wooley, R. and Worden, J. and Yakushin, I. and Yamamoto, H. and Yoshida, S. and Zawischa, I. and Zhang, L. and Zotov, N. (2004) First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts. Physical Review D, 69 (10). Art. No. 102001. ISSN 2470-0010. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.082004. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:ABBprd04b

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Abstract

We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors. Our search focuses on bursts with durations ranging from 4 to 100 ms, and with significant power in the LIGO sensitivity band of 150 to 3000 Hz. We bound the rate for such detected bursts at less than 1.6 events per day at a 90% confidence level. This result is interpreted in terms of the detection efficiency for ad hoc waveforms (Gaussians and sine Gaussians) as a function of their root-sum-square strain h(rss); typical sensitivities lie in the range h(rss) ~10^(-19)-10^(-17) strain/√Hz, depending on the waveform. We discuss improvements in the search method that will be applied to future science data from LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors.


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Adhikari, Rana X.0000-0002-5731-5076
Billingsley, G.0000-0002-4141-2744
Bose, S.0000-0002-3445-4479
Brady, P. R.0000-0002-4611-9387
Brown, D. A.0000-0002-9180-5765
Byer, R. L.0000-0003-1331-0318
Chen, Y.0000-0002-9730-9463
Corbitt, T.0000-0002-5520-8541
Coyne, D.0000-0002-6427-3222
Fejer, M. M.0000-0002-5512-1905
Freise, A.0000-0001-6586-9901
Kalogera, V.0000-0001-9236-5469
Kozak, D.0000-0003-3118-8950
Libbrecht, K.0000-0002-8744-3298
Mueller, G.0000-0001-8010-742X
Ottaway, D. J.0000-0001-6794-1591
Quetschke, V.0000-0002-8012-4868
Smith, M.0000-0002-3321-1432
Tanner, D. B.0000-0003-1940-4710
Tinto, M.0000-0002-8107-5148
Vallisneri, M.0000-0002-4162-0033
Vecchio, A.0000-0002-6254-1617
Whiting, B. F.0000-0002-8501-8669
Williams, R.0000-0002-9145-8580
Zhang, L.0000-0002-0898-787X
Zucker, M.0000-0002-2544-1596
Zweizig, J.0000-0002-1521-3397
Weinstein, Alan J.0000-0002-0928-6784
Whiting, B. F.0000-0002-8501-8669
Wilkes, B.0000-0003-1809-2364
Zhang, L.0000-0002-0898-787X
Additional Information:© 2004 American Physical Society. (Received 7 January 2004; published 7 May 2004) The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology of India, the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnologia, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This document has been assigned LIGO Laboratory document number LIGO-P030011.
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Classification Code:PACS number~s!: 04.80.Nn, 07.05.Kf, 95.30.Sf, 95.85.Sz
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.082004
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