[PDF] Top 20 Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts

... interferometric gravitational-wave detectors are operating or are being commissioned: GEO [1], LIGO [2], TAMA [3], and Virgo ...resonant-mass detectors have been operating for a ... See full document

... a rate limit. Our pipeline was designed to perform a ‘‘blind’’ upper limit analysis, with all choices about the analysis to be based on playground data which was excluded from the final result; ... 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 ... 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

... 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 of ... See full document

... them from seismic ...for gravitational wave ...The gravitational wave strain signal 共 referred to in this paper as the gravitational wave data channel 兲 is derived ... See full document

... the detectors are enclosed in vacuum systems and isolated from vibrational, acoustic, and electromag- netic disturbances, their typical output data contain a larger number of transient noise events ... See full document

... set upper limits for this particular mechanism 共 the three mechanisms predict three different GW frequencies for the same observed rotation frequency 兲 ... See full document

... cosmological rate of events to compute the so-called effective rate: the rate of detectable events in our ...effective rate folds together the properties of the population, such as the ... See full document

... previous LIGO results ...the detectors; the rest of the gain is due to our improved statistical ...dependent upper limits with the method described in ...effective rate of GW ... See full document

... of gravitational-wave detectors is the detection of a sto- chastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB)—a super- position of unresolvable gravitational-wave signals of ... 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

... 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 run of the ... See full document

... alarm rate and 10% false dis- missal rate, as given by ...km-arm detectors located in Hanford ...curve: LIGO design sensitivity for 1 yr of data. Stars: upper limits found in ... See full document

... the LIGO observatory was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational wave detectors: resonant bars and ...coincident ... 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

... The rate of noise triggers above a given SNR depends critically upon the data quality of the advanced detectors; non-stationary transients or glitches (Aasi et ...ranging from seconds to hours in ... See full document

... The limits to integration were chosen as a compromise between having a wide limit, and choosing frequencies at which mirror motion is ...integration limits, the temperature diverges because of the increased ... See full document

... our detectors have maximum sensitivity, see Fig ...the gravitational wave band into two regions: 60 Hz to 500 Hz and 500 Hz to 2000 ...detectable from Galactic sources such as soft gamma ... See full document