Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run

Stuart Aston; Simon Chelkowski; Adrian Cruise; Andreas Freise; Jonathan Hallam; Stefan Hild; Deepali Lodhia; Alberto Vecchio; John Veitch

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102002

Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run

Stuart Aston
, Simon Chelkowski
, Adrian Cruise
, Andreas Freise
, Jonathan Hallam
, Stefan Hild
, Deepali Lodhia
, Alberto Vecchio
, John Veitch

Physics and Astronomy

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We present an all-sky search for gravitational waves in the frequency range 1 to 6 kHz during the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run. This is the first untriggered LIGO burst analysis to be conducted above 3 kHz. We discuss the unique properties of interferometric data in this regime. 161.3 days of triple-coincident data were analyzed. No gravitational events above threshold were observed and a frequentist upper limit of 5.4 year(-1) on the rate of strong gravitational-wave bursts was placed at a 90% confidence level. Implications for specific theoretical models of gravitational-wave emission are also discussed.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	80
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.102002
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2009

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Birmingham Astrophysics - Rolling Grant 2007-2012
Ponman, T. (Principal Investigator), Cruise, M. (Co-Investigator), Freise, A. (Co-Investigator), Raychaudhury, S. (Co-Investigator), Smith, G. (Co-Investigator), Speake, C. (Co-Investigator), Stevens, I. (Co-Investigator) & Vecchio, A. (Co-Investigator)
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1/04/07 → 31/03/12
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Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run

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