All-Sky Search for Short Gravitational-Wave Bursts In the First Advanced LIGO Run

Authors

B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Abbott, Louisiana State University
T. D. Abbott, American University Washington DC
M. R. Abernathy, University of Salerno
F. Acernese, Complesso Universitario di Monte sant'Angelo
K. Ackley, University of Florida
C. Adams, Universite de Savoie
T. Adams, University of Sannio
P. Addesso, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
R. X. Adhikari, National Institute for Subatomic Physics
V. B. Adya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
C. Affeldt, National Institute for Space Research
M. Agathos, National Institute for Nuclear Physics
K. Agatsuma, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
N. Aggarwal, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
O. D. Aguiar, Leibniz University Hannover
L. Aiello, University of Pisa
A. Ain, Sezione di Pisa
B. Allen, Australian National University
A. Allocca, California State University Fullerton
P. A. Altin, ComUE Paris-Saclay
A. Ananyeva, Chennai Mathematical Institute
S. B. Anderson, University of Rome Tor Vergata
W. G. Anderson, University of Hamburg
S. Appert, Universite Paris 7
K. Arai, West Virginia University
M. C. Araya, University of Perugia
J. S. Areeda, European Gravitational Observatory
N. Arnaud, Syracuse University
K. G. Arun, University of Glasgow
Marc Favata, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-16-2017

Journal / Book Title

Physical Review D

Abstract

We present the 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 2016. The search algorithms use minimal assumptions on the signal morphology, so they are sensitive to a wide range of sources emitting gravitational waves. The analyses target transient signals with duration ranging from milliseconds to seconds over the frequency band of 32 to 4096 Hz. The first observed gravitational-wave event, GW150914, has been detected with high confidence in this search; the other known gravitational-wave event, GW151226, falls below the search's sensitivity. Besides GW150914, all of the search results are consistent with the expected rate of accidental noise coincidences. Finally, we estimate rate-density limits for a broad range of non-binary-black-hole transient gravitational-wave sources as a function of their gravitational radiation emission energy and their characteristic frequency. These rate-density upper limits are stricter than those previously published by an order of magnitude.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.95.042003

MSU Digital Commons Citation

Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.; Affeldt, C.; Agathos, M.; Agatsuma, K.; Aggarwal, N.; Aguiar, O. D.; Aiello, L.; Ain, A.; Allen, B.; Allocca, A.; Altin, P. A.; Ananyeva, A.; Anderson, S. B.; Anderson, W. G.; Appert, S.; Arai, K.; Araya, M. C.; Areeda, J. S.; Arnaud, N.; Arun, K. G.; Favata, Marc; and Ghosh, Shaon, "All-Sky Search for Short Gravitational-Wave Bursts In the First Advanced LIGO Run" (2017). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 13.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/13

Published Citation

Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Cavalieri, R. (2017). All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run. Physical Review D, 95(4), 042003.