Search for gravitational-wave bursts from soft gamma repeaters

Autor: H. Yamamoto, Seiji Kawamura, Reinhard Prix, A. Effler, Elizabeth Harstad, N. A. Lockerbie, Osamu Miyakawa, David H. Reitze, I. Leonor, P. Savov, James Whelan, P. Ajith, L. Zhang, I. Duke, S. Penn, Pamela J. Russell, Roger K. Route, Jordan Camp, A. L. Stuver, E. Hirose, M. R. Smith, A. S. Sengupta, G. McIntyre, V. V. Frolov, V. Parameshwaraiah, K. A. Thorne, A. Cumming, Antonio Lucianetti, T. Meier, J. Dalrymple, Malcolm B. Gray, V. Kondrashov, K. D. Giardina, J. Thacker, Soma Mukherjee, Drew Keppel, Zewu Yan, P. G. Murray, Michael E Zucker, J. H. Hough, Stefan Hild, Douglas R. Cook, Michele Zanolin, J. Ulmen, M. A. Arain, R. DeSalvo, Supriyo Sinha, H. Müller-Ebhardt, E. E. Doomes, Gregory M. Harry, Stanislav Babak, N. Fotopoulos, M. Lei, H. Overmier, L. Sancho De La Jordana, D. Sellers, Giuseppe Castaldi, Peter Fritschel, Duncan A. Brown, M. Bastarrika, Kirk McKenzie, J. Minelli, Kipp Cannon, A. M. Gretarsson, S. Barthelmy, Simon Chelkowski, M. Guenther, D. Palmer, Maria Ilaria Del Principe, L. Cardenas, Patrick Brady, Michael Landry, R. S. Ottens, F. Ya. Khalili, Atsushi J. Nishizawa, Benno Willke, J. Clark, A. Rodriguez, L. Ruet, G. Billingsley, R. J. S. Greenhalgh, B. Bland, G. Brunet, Gavin Davies, D. Barker, T. Etzel, B. Sears, I. Wilmut, F. Kawazoe, J. Garofoli, S. Klimenko, I. W. Martin, Samuel J. Waldman, Virginio Sannibale, David E. McClelland, H. Bantilan, Vicky Kalogera, J. S. Kissel, B. Sorazu, C. Barker, H. Rehbein, R. L. Savage, P. Armor, S. Gossler, A. M. Rogan, S. Márka, S. B. Anderson, H. J. Pletsch, C. Torres, H. Fehrmann, Ruslan Vaulin, Yaohui Fan, Kevin M. Ryan, Kenneth A. Strain, Gianpietro Cagnoli, Sheila Rowan, M. A. Barton, S. Roddy, A. Thüring, A. C. Melissinos, A. E. Villar, Kazuhiro Hayama, Roberto Conte, C. Aulbert, C. Pankow, Marco Aurelio Diaz, Sanichiro Yoshida, G. McIvor, David B. Tanner, L. Matone, Kevin Hurley, T. Z. Summerscales, Alessandra Buonanno, C. Messenger, R. J. Dupuis, D.B. DeBra, G. Traylor, Thomas Corbitt, Roger Jones, Nergis Mavalvala, Jerome Degallaix, Graham Woan, Robert L. Byer, Stuart Reid, T. Petrie, S. Wen, Stephen Fairhurst, J. Myers, B. C. Barish, A. M. Sintes, P. Aufmuth, Fabio Postiglione, J. Heefner, R. Grosso, Shourov Chatterji, Robert Stone, P. Kwee, P. Sarin, Walter Winkler, A. S. Markosyan, Laura Cadonati, Harald Lück, Rainer Weiss, D. Fazi, Suvadeep Bose, A. F. Brooks, F. Matichard, Chunnong Zhao, David H. Shoemaker, R. W. P. Drever, B. O'Reilly, Lee Samuel Finn, Z. Márka, M. Sung, S. Giampanis, C. Robinson, Benjamin William Allen, Karsten Danzmann, M. Pedraza, J. Betzwieser, H. Mukhopadhyay, Martin P McHugh, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, A. Sibley, Bernard F. Schutz, Li Ju, Ping Koy Lam, W. W. Johnson, Maria Alessandra Papa, Badri Krishnan, Alberto Vecchio, J. Hanson, P. J. Veitch, P. Lu, O. Burmeister, S. C. McGuire, D. J. A. McKechan, B. J. J. Slagmolen, Yi Pan, Susan M. Scott, Antony C. Searle, K. Kawabe, S. M. Aston, J. Slutsky, Imre Bartos, V. Quetschke, Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash, I. Yakushin, C. M. Mow-Lowry, B. Rivera, S. E. Whitcomb, Hirotaka Takahashi, David Blair, N. D. Smith, Ik Siong Heng, E. Black, Guido Mueller, Martin M. Fejer, J. R. Smith, A. Perreca, E. Maros, D. Ugolini, Vuk Mandic, S. H. Huttner, B. Johnson, M. Lormand, Slawomir Gras, Pablo Barriga, Emma L. Robinson, Kent Blackburn, Chad Hanna, Guenakh Mitselmakher, D. Kasprzyk, M. Mageswaran, M. M. Lang, Andreas Freise, J. N. Marx, T. Nash, John Nelson, M. Samidi, David Jones, K. Mailand, C. Wilkinson, C. Echols, J. E. Brau, M. Rakhmanov, J. A. Giaime, N. A. Robertson, Richard A. Matzner, Matthew Pitkin, R. Mittleman, S. Sakata, Rubab Khan, Nelson Christensen, R. Wooley, Miquel Trias, G. H. Ogin, Innocenzo M. Pinto, F. Grimaldi, C. Gray, Richard O'Shaughnessy, B. Barr, P. Patel, J. Worden, Thomas Cokelaer, E. Myers, L. Williams, D. Hammer, A. Rüdiger, M. Degree, F. Seifert, T. Hayler, S. Kamat, John S. Markowitz, Kentaro Somiya, B. Lantz, J. Dickson, C. I. Torrie, Jan Harms, Jonah Kanner, G. Mendell, A. Bullington, Rahul Biswas, J. C. Dumas, R. Riesen, Kenji Numata, Yoichi Aso, L. Wallace, M. Ramsunder, L. Bogue, R. Frey, Roland Schilling, P. Ehrens, Albert Lazzarini, Tom Fricke, R. Taylor, M. Ito, P. J. King, Peter Kalmus, R. Bork, Karel E. Urbanek, A. G. Wiseman, A. Heptonstall, K. Kokeyama, K. Wette, Timothy Evans, A. Dietz, G. S. Allen, T. P. Bodiya, D. C. Coyne, D. R. Ingram, Phil Willems, S. Grunewald, D. J. Hosken, G. P. Newton, D. Sigg, S. W. Ballmer, D. Hoak, J. G. Rollins, R. M. Cutler, H. Ward, M. Fyffe, Gabriela Gonzalez, J. S. Miller, R. M. S. Schofield, Chonghoon Kim, D. M. Strom, G. Moreno, J. M. Hallam, Leo C. Stein, M. V. Plissi, Shantanu Desai, Kip S. Thorne, Lisa M. Goggin, R. Gouaty, Evan Goetz, Hartmut Grote, Benjamin J. Owen, Kenneth G. Libbrecht, D. B. Kozak, A. Stochino, C. Vorvick, V. P. Mitrofanov, John Veitch, M. C. Araya, Sascha Schediwy, P. E. Lindquist, Boris Hage, Peter R. Saulson, M. MacInnis, Helena Armandula, R. S. Amin, Christopher Wipf, K. V. Tokmakov, J. O'Dell, Ke-Xun Sun, N. Rainer, Martin Hewitson, Junwei Cao, D. Meyers, P. Schwinberg, W. G. Anderson, Carlos Cepeda, Robert J. McCarthy, S. Meshkov, B. P. Abbott, E. K. Gustafson, D. E. Clark, Shuichi Sato, D. Lodhia, Neil Gehrels, V. Boschi, Joseph D. Romano, S. Vass, Jian Zhang, Kasem Mossavi, W. Kells, J. Cannizzo, K. L. Dooley, I. Kozhevatov, Rana X. Adhikari, Gareth Jones, B. Machenschalk, F. Donovan, B. Moe, R. L. Ward, T. Casebolt, P. J. Sutton, J. H. Romie, K. Bayer, L. Cunningham, F. J. Raab, S. Saraf, R. Gustafson, Keisuke Goda, Erik Katsavounidis, Nick Leindecker, J. Zweizig, M. J. Lubinski, John G. Dwyer, Vladimir B. Braginsky, H. Vahlbruch, K. Riles, E. Espinoza, M. Weinert, Soumya D. Mohanty, N. Zotov, Roman Schnabel, K. Mason, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Subhasish Mitra, Efim A. Khazanov, H. R. Williams, R. M. Martin, Xavier Siemens, Richard J. Abbott, V. Leonhardt, A. J. Weinstein, I. Gholami, W. Wu, P. T. Beyersdorf, M. V. van der Sluys, Yi Chen, M. Hennessy, H. Lin, E. Chalkley, A. Grant, P. Shawhan, P. Charlton, K. Flasch, A. Ivanov, H. Radkins, S. P. Vyachanin, M. Brinkmann, W. Tyler, B. F. Whiting, C. Van Den Broeck, I. A. Bilenko, V. Dergachev, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Lindy Blackburn, V. Sandberg, David J. Ottaway, D. S. Rabeling, R. A. Mercer, Jesper Munch
Přispěvatelé: LSC Collaboration, The, Castaldi, G., Pinto, I. M., Principe, M., The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
Popis: We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with Soft Gamma Repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron star f-modes, usually considered the most efficient GW emitting modes. We find no evidence of GWs associated with any SGR burst in a sample consisting of the 27 Dec. 2004 giant flare from SGR 1806-20 and 190 lesser events from SGR 1806-20 and SGR 1900+14 which occurred during the first year of LIGO's fifth science run. GW strain upper limits and model-dependent GW emission energy upper limits are estimated for individual bursts using a variety of simulated waveforms. The unprecedented sensitivity of the detectors allows us to set the most stringent limits on transient GW amplitudes published to date. We find upper limit estimates on the model-dependent isotropic GW emission energies (at a nominal distance of 10 kpc) between 3x10^45 and 9x10^52 erg depending on waveform type, detector antenna factors and noise characteristics at the time of the burst. These upper limits are within the theoretically predicted range of some SGR models.
Comment: 6 pages, 1 Postscript figure
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