All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration

doi:10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

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Abstract

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between September 2015 and January 2016, with a total observational time of 49 d. The search targets gravitational wave transients of 10500 s duration in a frequency band of 242048 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. As a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources in the Galaxy emitting at least ∼10 ^-8 M⊙c ² in gravitational waves.

Original language	English
Article number	065009
Journal	Classical and Quantum Gravity
Volume	35
Issue number	6
Early online date	30 Jan 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76
Publication status	Published - 14 Feb 2018

Keywords

gravitational waves
LIGO-Virgo
long duration transient

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

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