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First low-latency LIGO plus Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts

Year: 2012

Authors: Abadie J., Abbott B.P., Abbott R., Abbott T.D., Abernathy M., Accadia T., Acernese F., Adams C., Adhikari R., Affeldt C., Agathos M., Agatsuma K., Ajith P., Allen B., Amador Ceron E., Amariutei D., Anderson S.B., Anderson W.G., Arai K., Arain M.A., Araya M.C., Aston S.M., Astone P., Atkinson D., Aufmuth P., Aulbert C., Aylott B.E., Babak S., Baker P., Ballardin G., Ballmer S., Barayoga J.C B., Barker D., Barone F., Barr B., Barsotti L., Barsuglia M., Barton M.A., Bartos I., Bassiri R., Bastarrika M., Basti A., Batch J., Bauchrowitz J., Bauer Th. S., Bebronne M., Beck D., Behnke B., Bejger M., Beker M.G., Bell A.S., Belletoile A., Belopolski I., Benacquista M., Berliner J.M., Bertolini A., Betzwieser J., Beveridge N., Beyersdorf P.T., Bilenko I.A., Billingsley G., Birch J., Biswas R., Bitossi M., Bizouard M.A., Black E., Blackburn J.K., Blackburn L., Blair D., Bland B., Blom M., Bock O., Bodiya T.P., Bogan C., Bondarescu R., Bondu F., Bonelli L., Bonnand R., Bork R., Born M., Boschi V., Bose S., Bosi L., Bouhou B., Braccini S., Bradaschia C., Brady P.R., Braginsky V.B., Branchesi M.,. Brau J.E, Breyer J., Briant T., Bridges D.O., Brillet A., Brinkmann M., Brisson V., Britzger M., Brooks A.F., Brown D.A., Bulik T., Bulten H.J., Buonanno A., Burguet-Castell J., Buskulic D., Buy C., Byer R.L., Cadonati L., Cagnoli G., Calloni E., Camp J.B., Campsie P., Cannizzo J., Cannon K., Canuel B., Cao J., Capano C.D., Carbognani F., Carbone L., Caride S., Caudill S., Cavagli� M., Cavalier F., Cavalieri R., Cella G., Cepeda C., Cesarini E., Chaibi O., Chalermsongsak T., Charlton P., Chassande-Mottin E., Chelkowski S., Chen W., Chen X., Chen Y., Chincarini A., Chiummo A., Cho H.S., Chow J., Christensen N., Chua S.S.Y., Chung C.T.Y., Chung S., Ciani G., Clara F., Clark D.E., Clark J., Clayton J.H., Cleva F., Coccia E., Cohadon P.-F., Colacino C.N., Colas J., Colla A., Colombini M., Conte A., Conte R., Cook D., Corbitt T.R., Cordier M., Cornish N., Corsi A., Costa C.A., Coughlin M., Coulon J.-P., Couvares P., Coward D.M., Cowart M., Coyne D.C., Creighton J.D.E., Creighton T.D., Cruise A.M., Cumming A., Cunningham L., Cuoco E., Cutler R.M., Dahl K., Danilishin S.L., Dannenberg R., D�Antonio S., Danzmann K., Dattilo V., Daudert B., Daveloza H., Davier M., Daw E.J., Day R., Dayanga T., De Rosa R., DeBra D., Debreczeni G., Del Pozzo W., del Prete M., Dent T., Dergachev V., DeRosa R., DeSalvo R., Dhurandhar S., Di Fiore L., Di Lieto A., Di Palma I., Di Paolo Emilio M., Di Virgilio A., D�az M., Dietz A., Donovan F., Dooley K.L., Drago M., Drever R.W.P., Driggers J.C., Du Z., Dumas J.-C., Dwyer S., Eberle T., Edgar M., Edwards M., Effler A., Ehrens P., Endrőczi G., Engel R., Etzel T., Evans K., Evans M., Evans T., Factourovich M., Fafone V., Fairhurst S., Fan Y., Farr B.F., Fazi D., Fehrmann H., Feldbaum D., Feroz F., Ferrante I., Fidecaro F., Finn L.S., Fiori I., Fisher R.P., Flaminio R., Flanigan M., Foley S., Forsi E., Forte L.A., Fotopoulos N., Fournier J.-D., Franc J., Frasca S., Frasconi F., Frede M., Frei M., Frei Z., Freise A., Frey R., Fricke T.T., Friedrich D., Fritschel P., Frolov V.V., Fujimoto M.-K., Fulda P.J., Fyffe M., Gair J., Galimberti M., Gammaitoni L., Garcia J., Garufi F., G�sp�r M.E., Gemme G., Geng R., Genin E., Gennai A., Gergely L.�., Ghosh S., Giaime J.A., Giampanis S., Giardina K.D., Giazotto A., Gil-Casanova S., Gill C., Gleason J., Goetz E., Goggin L.M., Gonz�lez G., Gorodetsky M.L., Go�ler S., Gouaty R., Graef C., Graff P.B., Granata M., Grant A., Gras S., Gray C., Gray N., Greenhalgh R.J.S., Gretarsson A.M., Greverie C., Grosso R., Grote H., Grunewald S., Guidi G.M., Guido C., Gupta R., Gustafson E.K., Gustafson R., Ha T., Hallam J. 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Autors Affiliation: CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA; Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA; Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland; Univ Savoie, LAPP, CNRS, IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France; Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, INFN, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy; Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Univ Naples Federico II, I-80126 Naples, Italy; Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy; Livingston Observ, LIGO, Livingston, LA 70754 USA; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Nikhef, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands; Natl Astron Observ Japan, Tokyo 1818588, Japan; Univ Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA; Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA; Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Univ Roma La Sapienza, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Hanford Observ, LIGO, Richland, WA 99352 USA; Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA; European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Cascina, PI, Italy; Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA; MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA; Univ Paris Diderot, APC, CNRS IN2P3, CEA Irfu,Observ Paris, F-75205 Paris 13, France; Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA; Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy; Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy; Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA; IM PAN, PL-00956 Warsaw, Poland; Warsaw Univ, Astron Observ, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland; CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland; Bialystok Univ, PL-15424 Bialystok, Poland; NCBJ, PL-05400 Otwock, Poland; Inst Astron, PL-65265 Zielona Gora, Poland; Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA; San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA; Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia; Univ Paris 11, LAL, IN2P3, CNRS, F-91898 Orsay, France; CNRS, ESPCI, F-75005 Paris, France; 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Abstract: Aims. The detection and measurement of gravitational-waves from coalescing neutron-star binary systems is an important science goal for groundbased gravitational-wave detectors. In addition to emitting gravitational-waves at frequencies that span the most sensitive bands of the LIGO and Virgo detectors, these sources are also amongst the most likely to produce an electromagnetic counterpart to the gravitational-wave emission. A joint detection of the gravitational-wave and electromagnetic signals would provide a powerful new probe for astronomy. Methods. During the period between September 19 and October 20, 2010, the first low-latency search for gravitational-waves from binary inspirals in LIGO and Virgo data was conducted. The resulting triggers were sent to electromagnetic observatories for followup.We describe the generation and processing of the low-latency gravitational-wave triggers. The results of the electromagnetic image analysis will be described elsewhere.
Results. Over the course of the science run, three gravitational-wave triggers passed all of the low-latency selection cuts. Of these, one was
followed up by several of our observational partners. Analysis of the gravitational-wave data leads to an estimated false alarm rate of once every
6.4 days, falling far short of the requirement for a detection based solely on gravitational-wave data

Journal/Review: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS

Volume: 541 Pages from: A155 to: A155

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 gravitational-wave 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: gravitational waves; Virgo; LIGO; gamma-ray bursts; compact binaries
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218860

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