Search for gravitational waves associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts using data from the second, third, and fourth LIGO runs

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作者
Abbott, B. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Agresti, J. [1 ]
Ajith, P. [3 ]
Allen, B. [3 ,52 ]
Amin, R. [18 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [52 ]
Arain, M. [39 ]
Araya, M. [1 ]
Armandula, H. [1 ]
Ashley, M. [5 ]
Aston, S. [38 ]
Aufmuth, P. [36 ]
Aulbert, C. [2 ]
Babak, S. [2 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Bantilan, H. [9 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, C. [15 ]
Barker, D. [15 ]
Barr, B. [40 ]
Barriga, P. [51 ]
Barton, M. A. [40 ]
Bayer, K. [17 ]
Belczynski, K. [24 ]
Berukoff, S. J. [2 ]
Betzwieser, J. [17 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [27 ]
Bhawal, B. [1 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [21 ]
Billingsley, G. [1 ]
Biswas, R. [52 ]
Black, E. [1 ]
Blackburn, K. [1 ]
Blackburn, L. [17 ]
Blair, D. [51 ]
Bland, B. [15 ]
Bogenstahl, J. [41 ]
Bogue, L. [16 ]
Bork, R. [1 ]
Boschi, V. [1 ]
Bose, S. [53 ]
Brady, P. R. [52 ]
Braginsky, V. B. [21 ]
Brau, J. E. [43 ]
Brinkmann, M. [3 ]
Brooks, A. [37 ]
Brown, D. A. [1 ,7 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[4] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[5] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[6] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[7] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[8] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, Wales
[9] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[10] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[11] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[12] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[13] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[14] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[15] LIFO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[16] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[17] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 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] Rochester Inst Technol, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[26] Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[27] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[28] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[29] So Unit & A&M Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[30] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[31] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[32] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[33] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[34] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[35] Univ Illes Balears, D-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[36] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[37] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[38] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[39] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[40] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[41] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[42] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[43] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[44] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[45] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[46] Univ Sannio, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
[47] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S3 7RH, S Yorkshire, England
[48] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[49] Univ Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, Lanark, Scotland
[50] Univ Washington, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2008年 / 77卷 / 06期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会;
关键词
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.77.062004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by gamma-ray satellite experiments during LIGO's S2, S3, and S4 science runs. The search involves calculating the crosscorrelation between two interferometer data streams surrounding the GRB trigger time. We search for associated gravitational radiation from single GRBs, and also apply statistical tests to search for a gravitational-wave signature associated with the whole sample. For the sample examined, we find no evidence for the association of gravitational radiation with GRBs, either on a single-GRB basis or on a statistical basis. Simulating gravitational-wave bursts with sine-Gaussian waveforms, we set upper limits on the root-sum-square of the gravitational-wave strain amplitude of such waveforms at the times of the GRB triggers. We also demonstrate how a sample of several GRBs can be used collectively to set constraints on population models. The small number of GRBs and the significant change in sensitivity of the detectors over the three runs, however, limits the usefulness of a population study for the S2, S3, and S4 runs. Finally, we discuss prospects for the search sensitivity for the ongoing S5 run, and beyond for the next generation of detectors.
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