Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-29-2011
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review Letters
Abstract
The gravitational-wave (GW) sky may include nearby pointlike sources as well as stochastic backgrounds. We perform two directional searches for persistent GWs using data from the LIGO S5 science run: one optimized for pointlike sources and one for arbitrary extended sources. Finding no evidence to support the detection of GWs, we present 90% confidence level (C.L.) upper-limit maps of GW strain power with typical values between 2-20×10-50strain2Hz-1 and 5-35×10 -49strain2Hz-1sr-1 for pointlike and extended sources, respectively. The latter result is the first of its kind. We also set 90% C.L. limits on the narrow-band root-mean-square GW strain from interesting targets including Sco X-1, SN 1987A and the Galactic center as low as 7×10-25 in the most sensitive frequency range near 160 Hz.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271102
MSU Digital Commons Citation
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Ghosh, Shaon; and Martin, Rodica M., "Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data" (2011). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 37.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/37
Published Citation
Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., ... & Creighton, J. D. E. (2011). Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data. Physical Review Letters, 107(27), 271102.
Comments
This work is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. Additional authors may be found on the publication.