Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data
Year: 2011
Authors: Abadie J., Abbott BP., Abbott R., Abernathy M., Accadia T., Acernese F., Adams C., Adhikari R., Ajith P., Allen B., Allen GS., Ceron EA., Amin RS., Anderson SB., Anderson WG., Antonucci F., Arain MA., Araya MC., Aronsson M., Arun KG., Aso Y., Aston SM., Astone P., Atkinson D., Aufmuth P., Aulbert C., Babak S., Baker P., Ballardin G., Ballmer S., Barker D., Barnum S., Barone F., Barr B., Barriga P., Barsotti L., Barsuglia M., Barton MA., Bartos I., Bassiri R., Bastarrika M., Bauchrowitz J., Bauer TS., Behnke B., Beker MG., Belletoile A., Benacquista M., Bertolini A., Betzwieser J., Beveridge N., Beyersdorf PT., Bigotta S., Bilenko IA., Billingsley G., Birch J., Birindelli S., Biswas R., Bitossi M., Bizouard MA., Black E., Blackburn JK., Blackburn L., Blair D., Bland B., Blom M., Boccara C., Bock O., Bodiya TP., Bondarescu R., Bondu F., Bonelli L., Bonnand R., Bork R., Born M., Bose S., Bosi L., Bouhou B., Boyle M., Braccini S., Bradaschia C., Brady PR., Braginsky VB., Brau JE., 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Autors Affiliation: CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA; Univ Paris Diderot, Lab AstroParticule & Cosmol APC, Observ Paris 10, CEA,DSM,IRFU,CNRS,IN2P3, F-75013 Paris, France; Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia; Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA; Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales; Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA; Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia; Chennai Math Inst, Siruseri 603103, India; Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA; EGO, I-56021 Cascina, PI, Italy; Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA; Eotvos Lorand Univ, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary; Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy; Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, I-61029 Urbino, Italy; 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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 x 10(-50) strain(2) Hz(-1) and 5 – 35 x 10(-49) strain(2) Hz(-1) sr(-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 approximate to 7 – 10(-25) in the most sensitive frequency range near 160 Hz.
Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume: 107 (27) Pages from: 271102-1 to: 271102-9
More Information: The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of 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 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, the Conselleria d’Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.KeyWords: SpectrumDOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.271102Citations: 92data from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) are update at: 2024-10-20References taken from IsiWeb of Knowledge: (subscribers only)