All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients In the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

Authors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
The Virgo Collaboration
Marc Favata, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-14-2018

Journal / Book Title

Physical Review D

Abstract

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors betweenn September 2015 and January 2016, with a total observational time of 49 d. The search targets gravitational wave transients of 10500 s duration in a frequency band of 242048 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. As a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources in the Galaxy emitting at least ∼10-8 M⊙c2 in gravitational waves.

Comments

This work is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. Additional authors may be found on the publication.

DOI

10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76

MSU Digital Commons Citation

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Favata, Marc; and Ghosh, Shaon, "All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients In the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run" (2018). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 9.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/9

Published Citation

Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abraham, S., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Cadonati, L. (2019). All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 99(10), 104033.