Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

Creators: Aasi, J.; Abadie, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abernathy, M. R.; Adhikari, R. X.; Ajith, P.; Anderson, R. A.; Arai, K.; Araya, M. C.; Austin, L.; Barayoga, J. C.; Billingsley, G.; Black, E.; Blackburn, J. K.; Bork, R.; Brooks, A. F.; Cepeda, C.; Chakraborty, R.; Chalermsongsak, T.; Chen, Y.; Coyne, D. C.; Daudert, B.; Dergachev, V.; Drever, R. W. P.; Driggers, J. C.; Ehrens, P.; Etzel, T.; Fotopoulos, N.; Gossan, S.; Gushwa, K. E.; Gustafson, E. K.; Hall, E.; Harms, J.; Heefner, J.; Heptonstall, A. W.; Hodge, K. A.; Hong, T.; Ivanov, A.; Jacobson, M.; James, E.; Kalmus, P.; Kaufman, K.; Kells, W.; King, P. J.; Kondrashov, V.; Korth, W. Z.; Kozak, D.; Lazzarini, A.; Lewis, J. B.; Lloyd, D.; Luan, J.; Mageswaran, M.; Mailand, K.; Maros, E.; Martynov, D.; Marx, J. N.; McIntyre, G.; Meshkov, S.; Miao, H.; Nash, T.; Ogin, G. H.; Osthelder, C.; Ott, C. D.; Pedraza, M.; Phelps, M.; Poux, C.; Price, L. R.; Privitera, S.; Quintero, E.; Raymond, V.; Rollins, J. G.; Sannibale, V.; Seifert, F.; Singer, A.; Singer, L.; Smith, M. R.; Smith-Lefebvre, N. D.; Taylor, R.; Thirugnanasambandam, M. P.; Thrane, E.; Thorne, K. S.; Vass, S.; Vallisneri, M.; Wallace, L.; Weinstein, A. J.; Williams, R.; Yamamoto, H.; Yang, H.; Yeaton-Massey, D.; Zhang, L.; Zweizig, J.; Anderson, S. B.; Robertson, N. A.; Torrie, C. I.; LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration

Abstract

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massivestars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We investigate models of long-lived (~10–1000 s) GW emission associated with the accretion disk of a collapsed star or with its protoneutron star remnant. Using data from LIGO's fifth science run, and GRB triggers from the Swift experiment, we perform a search for unmodeled long-lived GW transients. Finding no evidence of GW emission, we place 90% confidence-level upper limits on the GW fluence at Earth from long GRBs for three waveforms inspired by a model of GWs from accretion disk instabilities. These limits range from F < 3:5 ergs cm^(-2) to F < 1200 ergs cm^(-2), depending on the GRB and on the model, allowing us to probe optimistic scenarios of GW production out to distances as far as ≈ 33 Mpc. Advanced detectors are expected to achieve strain sensitivities 10x better than initial LIGO, potentially allowing us to probe the engines of the nearest long GRBs.

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© 2013 American Physical Society. Received 9 October 2013; published 13 December 2013. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities 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, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Economı´a y Competitividad, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovacio´ of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, OTKA of Hungary, the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the National Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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