Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters

被引:72
作者
Abbott, B. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Ajith, P. [2 ]
Allen, B. [2 ,53 ]
Allen, G. [31 ]
Amin, R. [18 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [53 ]
Arain, M. A. [40 ]
Araya, M. [1 ]
Armandula, H. [1 ]
Armor, P. [53 ]
Aso, Y. [9 ]
Aston, S. [39 ]
Aufmuth, P. [14 ]
Aulbert, C. [2 ]
Babak, S. [57 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Bantilan, H. [7 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, C. [16 ]
Barker, D. [16 ]
Barr, B. [41 ]
Barriga, P. [52 ]
Barton, M. A. [41 ]
Bartos, I. [9 ]
Bastarrika, M. [41 ]
Bayer, K. [15 ]
Betzwieser, J. [1 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [26 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [21 ]
Billingsley, G. [1 ]
Biswas, R. [53 ]
Black, E. [1 ]
Blackburn, K. [1 ]
Blackburn, L. [15 ]
Blair, D. [52 ]
Bland, B. [16 ]
Bodiya, T. P. [15 ]
Bogue, L. [17 ]
Bork, R. [1 ]
Boschi, V. [1 ]
Bose, S. [54 ]
Brady, P. R. [53 ]
Braginsky, V. B. [21 ]
Brau, J. E. [46 ]
Brinkmann, M. [2 ]
Brooks, A. [1 ]
Brown, D. A. [32 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[3] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[4] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[5] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Cardi Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[7] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[8] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[9] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[10] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[11] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[12] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Appl Phys, Nizhnii Novgorod 603950, Russia
[13] Inter Univ, Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[14] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[15] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[16] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[17] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[18] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[19] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[20] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[21] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[22] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[23] Natl Astron Observ, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[24] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[25] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[26] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[27] Sonoma State Univ, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA
[28] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[29] Southern Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[30] A&M Coll, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[31] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[32] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[33] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[34] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[35] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[36] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[37] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[38] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[39] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[40] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[41] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[42] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[43] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[44] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[45] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[46] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[47] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[48] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[49] Univ Sannio Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
[50] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 美国国家科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 英国科学技术设施理事会;
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D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.211102
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We present a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with soft gamma ray repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron star f modes, usually considered the most efficient GW emitting modes. We find no evidence of GWs associated with any SGR burst in a sample consisting of the 27 Dec. 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 and 190 lesser events from SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14. The unprecedented sensitivity of the detectors allows us to set the most stringent limits on transient GW amplitudes published to date. We find upper limit estimates on the model-dependent isotropic GW emission energies (at a nominal distance of 10 kpc) between 3x10(45) and 9x10(52) erg depending on waveform type, detector antenna factors and noise characteristics at the time of the burst. These upper limits are within the theoretically predicted range of some SGR models.
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