[PDF] Top 20 Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run

... several run intervals were designated for hardware signal ...real gravitational wave burst and the auxiliary channels we considered as potential vetoes ...simulated gravitational wave ... See full document

... The LIGO-TAMA quadruple-coincidence data set (H1- H2-L1-T1) is particularly well-suited to making confident detections of gravitational-wave bursts, since combining so many detectors naturally ... See full document

... identify bursts in the data, and it is thus interest- ing to compare the results from the two ...of gravitational wave bursts, consistent with sound statistical ...signal wave- forms, ... See full document

... for gravitational-wave bursts in the data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010: data are analyzed when at least two of the three ... See full document

... short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced ...for gravitational- wave transients with a duration ... See full document

... short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January ...observed gravitational-wave event, GW150914, has ... See full document

... 120 s before the GRB trigger time is ...5 s prior to the GRB to 1 s following as the on-source window, which is wide enough to allow for uncertainties in the emission model and in the arrival time of ... See full document

... 1 s between the two ...broadband gravitational-wave signal, while maintaining instrumental correlations with coher- ence times greater than 1 ... See full document

... for bursts from cosmic string cusps in ...fourth science run. The gravitational waveforms of cosmic string cusps are known, and matched filters provide the optimal means of extracting such ... See full document

... The second observation run lasted from November 25, 2016 to August 25, ...and second observing runs, a series of fixes and upgrades of the two LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington and ... See full document

... for gravitational- wave bursts in LIGO data acquired during the second through fourth Science ...same gravitational wave signal. This assumption is valid for the ... See full document

... National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United ... See full document

... the LIGO- Virgo pairs make the dominant contribution to the sensi- tivity ...first science run Virgo was closest to design sensitivity at frequencies above several hundred Hz, which informed our ... See full document

... Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) [1] is composed of three laser interferometers at two sites in the United States of ...same gravitational-wave ...actual gravitational ... See full document

... National Science Foundation (NSF) for the con- struction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United ... See full document

... direct upper limits on the amplitude of gravitational waves from 28 isolated radio pulsars by a coherent multidetector analysis of the data collected during the second science ... See full document

... For clustering, X-Pipeline selects the loudest 1% of pixels and connects neighboring pixels. Each connected group is a cluster, and the clusters are scored based on the likelihood described in the previous paragraph. We ... See full document

... collecting gravitational-wave data during this time ...than LIGO, including GEO 600 would not have caused a substantial increase in overall ...of LIGO and Virgo data at high frequencies will ... See full document

... Gravitational-wave burst searches are occasionally af- fected by instrumental or data acquisition problems as well as periods of degraded sensitivity or nonstationary noise due to bad weather or other ... See full document

... the gravitational-wave sky can now be carried out with greater sensitivity than ever before, it is important to search for all plausible signals in the ...emit gravitational waves which are modeled ... See full document