[PDF] Top 20 First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts

... 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- ... See full document

... results from a search 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 ... See full document

... results from an all-sky search for unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts in the data collected by the LIGO, GEO 600 and Virgo detectors between November 2006 and October ...four ... See full document

... for gravitational-wave “bursts” that is designed to be able to detect short-duration (≪ 1 s) signals of arbitrary form as long as they have significant signal power in the most sensitive frequency ... See full document

... for gravitational wave bursts in LIGO’s S2 run has seen significant improvements introduced in the search methodology and interpretation with respect to ...motivated wave- forms as part of the ... See full document

... Gravitational wave bursts are short duration perturbations of the space-time metric due to such catastrophic astrophysical events as supernova core collapses [1] or the merger and ringdown phases of ... 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

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

... results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January ...ranging from ... See full document

... Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors [1, 2] have completed their second observing run (O2) which lasted from November 30, 2016 to August 25, ...O2, gravitational-waves (GWs) were de- tected ... See full document

... more LIGO detectors were operating, a departure from the all-sky GW burst searches from earlier science runs [14–18], which required coincidence among three (or more) ...than LIGO during the ... See full document

... initial LIGO are already ruled out by pulsar timing ...the first possibility, that loop sizes are determined by gravitational back reaction and take the size of loops at formation to be l ¼ " ... See full document

... waveform from the sub- sequent merger of two black holes is being modeled with ever-increasing success using numerical relativity calcula- tions, but is highly dependent on physical parameters and the properties ... See full document

... the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck- Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 ... See full document

... Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Ministerio de Econom´ıa y Competitividad, the Conselleria d’Economia i Competitivitat and Conselleria ... See full document

... the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support ... See full document

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

... All upper limit results from the individual S3 and S4 runs along with results from the combined run, with and without GEO 600 included, are given in Appendix B in Tables III and ...to LIGO at ... See full document

... emit gravitational waves at frequencies other than ...tional wave emission at (or close to) both and 2 ...to LIGO sensitivities ...other gravitational wave components, perhaps caused ... See full document

... the gravitational-wave am- plitude limits are above the fiducial spin-down limit (see Appendix A and Equation ...observed gravitational-wave limits were below the fiducial ... See full document