Stacked Search For Gravitational Waves From The 2006 Sgr 1900+14 Storm

Autor: Antonio Lucianetti, J. Ulmen, P. G. Murray, Keisuke Goda, J. H. Hough, N. A. Robertson, S. Kandhasamy, Jolien D. E. Creighton, D. Ugolini, Douglas R. Cook, Erik Katsavounidis, S. Caride, Michele Zanolin, And J. Zweizig, D. Hammer, F. Seifert, Lindy Blackburn, K. Holt, V. Sandberg, M. Lormand, Giuseppe Castaldi, M. J. Lubinski, Kirk McKenzie, Jonah Kanner, J. C. Dumas, Albert Lazzarini, Tom Fricke, G. McIntyre, John G. Dwyer, Rajesh Kumar, Vladimir B. Braginsky, S. Mrka, G. D. Hammond, K. Kokeyama, N. Fotopoulos, D. J. Hosken, J. G. Rollins, Leo C. Stein, B. Lantz, V. V. Frolov, V. Parameshwaraiah, H. Vahlbruch, K. Riles, C. Veltkamp, H. Overmier, D. Barker, A. Bullington, Rahul Biswas, D. S. Rabeling, K. Haughian, E. Espinoza, M. Weinert, L. Bogue, D. Sellers, V. Kondrashov, R. DeSalvo, S. R. P. Mohapatra, Peter Kalmus, S. Roddy, Supriyo Sinha, B. Moe, Alberto Vecchio, B. Sorazu, A. Thüring, R. L. Ward, L. Prokhorov, Kazuhiro Hayama, K. Mors, B. Behnke, John D. Scott, R. A. Mercer, M. A. Arain, A. C. Melissinos, T. Morioka, Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, A. M. Cruise, Simon Chelkowski, M. Guenther, Gregory M. Harry, H. Lin, R. M. S. Schofield, K. A. Hodge, Roberto Conte, Evan Ochsner, Chad Forrest, Vuk Mandic, J. A. Giaime, D. F. Menéndez, E. E. Doomes, Stanislav Babak, Duncan A. Brown, D. Talukder, C. Pankow, I. W. Harry, M. Lei, C. Aulbert, A. M. Sintes, P. Aufmuth, L. Sancho De La Jordana, Matthew P. Edgar, A. J. Weinstein, T. Z. Summerscales, I. Gholami, W. Wu, Matthew Benacquista, Scott Koranda, L. Matone, A. F. Brooks, E. Chalkley, R. L. Savage, P. Armor, Kevin M. Ryan, Benjamin J. Owen, T. Isogai, Lee Samuel Finn, Tyson Littenberg, R. M. Culter, J. Dueck, Jesper Munch, Cheng Li, N. D. Smith, Jordan Camp, S. Wen, G. S. Allen, H. Yamamoto, P. J. Sutton, C. C. Wipf, Patrick Brady, K. V. Tokmakov, Badri Krishnan, Benno Willke, H. Rehbein, I. W. Martin, P. Shawhan, Virginio Sannibale, J. Betzwieser, A. Franzen, David E. McClelland, Seiji Kawamura, C. Torres, F. Y. Khalili, A. Sibley, C. M. Mow-Lowry, K. Flasch, M. V. Van Der Sluys, Shantanu Desai, P. Charlton, Kip S. Thorne, T. Chalermsongsak, John S. Markowitz, A. Grant, S. B. Anderson, Ruslan Vaulin, David B. Tanner, Chunnong Zhao, David H. Shoemaker, Reinhard Prix, A. Effler, Elizabeth Harstad, V. Raymond, J. H. Romie, Martin Hewitson, Junwei Cao, L. Cunningham, P. Ehrens, F. J. Raab, C. N. Colacino, L. Zhang, T. Reed, Z. Frei, C. Echols, K. Mailand, Rana X. Adhikari, A. Stroeer, Peter Fritschel, P. Lu, O. Burmeister, Gareth Jones, I. Wilmut, I. A. Bilenko, V. Dergachev, B. Machenschalk, M. Sung, Karel E. Urbanek, D. O. Bridges, Maurizio Longo, Walter Winkler, N. A. Lockerbie, A. Ivanov, David J. Ottaway, Osamu Miyakawa, David H. Reitze, E. Hirose, J. E. Brau, Matthew Evans, R. Mittleman, B. F. Whiting, S. H. Huttner, Roman Schnabel, D. Muhammad, A. Stochino, V. P. Mitrofanov, M. C. Araya, Nelson Christensen, F. Donovan, A. S. Markosyan, A. A. van Veggel, Andrew Melatos, Harald Lück, A. Cumming, S. Foley, Efim A. Khazanov, Moritz Mehmet, Kenneth A. Strain, M. Pedraza, G. P. Newton, M. Fyffe, L. Cardenas, Gabriela Gonzalez, Maria Alessandra Papa, H. Mukhopadhyay, B. Johnson, M. Bastarrika, H. Radkins, K. Wette, J. S. Kissel, Timothy Evans, S. Saraf, S. P. Vyachanin, B. Schulz, J. M. Hallam, S. C. McGuire, D. J. A. McKechan, A. Dietz, D. Kasprzyk, B. O'Reilly, S. Klimenko, H. Müller-Ebhardt, D. Sigg, C. Van Den Broeck, C. T. Y. Chung, Michael E Zucker, Roger Jones, Boris Hage, T. Etzel, R. Taylor, P. T. Baker, B. Hughey, S. Giampanis, Ilya Mandel, A. C. Searle, P. Sarin, I. Leonor, John K. Cannizzo, D. Hoyland, P. Savov, Alessandra Buonanno, David Coward, Christian Röver, Hansheng Lei, S. W. Ballmer, Michael Landry, H. R. Williams, R. Gustafson, Yi Pan, T. P. Bodiya, C. M. Reed, James Whelan, P. Ajith, I. Duke, A. L. Stuver, David Jones, G. Moreno, Jon M. Miller, J. Slutsky, Imre Bartos, D. Hoak, Richard A. Matzner, G. Billingsley, V. Quetschke, M. S. Meyer, Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash, E. Black, Michael L. Gorodetsky, Marco Cavaglia, E. J. Daw, K. D. Giardina, J. Minelli, C. Barker, Helena Armandula, H. J. Pletsch, Kipp Cannon, G. Traylor, Thomas Corbitt, R. J. S. Greenhalgh, Gavin Davies, R. S. Ottens, J. R. Smith, T. Nash, Sanichiro Yoshida, J. O'Dell, Ke-Xun Sun, K. Kawabe, Rainer Weiss, C. Gray, S. M. Aston, R. W. P. Drever, E. Myers, A. W. Heptonstall, Peter R. Saulson, B. Sears, Mark A. Satterthwaite, Graham Woan, D. B. Kozak, S. Penn, A. Nishizawa, G. H. Ogin, N. Rainer, C. Vorvick, Pamela J. Russell, Yoichi Aso, B. Rivera, Pablo Barriga, A. M. Gretarsson, W. W. Johnson, M. V. Plissi, M. Mageswaran, Kentaro Somiya, M. Ito, L. Wallace, Vicky Kalogera, Robert L. Byer, Stuart Reid, H. Fehrmann, L. Tang, M. Brinkmann, Andreas Freise, Vincenzo Pierro, Matthew Pitkin, Kenji Numata, David Blair, S. E. Strigin, Robert Stone, R. Frey, C. Messenger, C. Robinson, Laura Cadonati, S. Goler, Stefan Hild, Benjamin William Allen, P. T. Beyersdorf, Hartmut Grote, Malcolm B. Gray, M. A. Barton, G. Mendell, R. Wooley, P. J. King, B. Shapiro, J. K. Blackburn, Yaohui Fan, Bernard F. Schutz, Li Ju, Karsten Danzmann, Yasushi Mino, Carlos Cepeda, Robert J. McCarthy, Linqing Wen, P. Raffai, D.B. DeBra, A. G. Wiseman, M. R. Smith, A. S. Sengupta, J. Hanson, Susan M. Scott, Guido Mueller, Teviet Creighton, Slawomir Gras, Nick Leindecker, O. Punken, M. Frei, Sheila Rowan, Neil J. Cornish, Maik Frede, A. Weidner, Ping Koy Lam, Marco Aurelio Diaz, Chad Hanna, D. C. Coyne, C. Wilkinson, Shuichi Sato, P. E. Lindquist, Martin P McHugh, B. J. J. Slagmolen, Fabio Postiglione, P. Kwee, D. Lodhia, K. A. Thorne, A. J. Stein, Fumiko Kawazoe, Riccardo Bassiri, F. Matichard, P. Schwinberg, J. R. Taylor, J. N. Marx, C. I. Torrie, J. Thacker, A. Perreca, E. Maros, P. J. Veitch, D. R. Ingram, Phil Willems, A. Brummit, Soma Mukherjee, Guenakh Mitselmakher, A. M. Sergeev, V. Boschi, Joseph D. Romano, H. Zur Mühlen, W. G. Anderson, Drew Keppel, Zewu Yan, J. H. Clayton, Vincenzo Galdi, Sarah Caudill, Lisa M. Goggin, R. Gouaty, B. Daudert, B. P. Abbott, E. K. Gustafson, R. Bork, Innocenzo M. Pinto, F. Grimaldi, Z. Mrka, D. E. Clark, Thomas Cokelaer, Kasem Mossavi, S. Vass, Jian Zhang, W. Kells, Lucía Santamaría, Soumya D. Mohanty, Maria Ilaria Del Principe, G. P. Szokoly, S. Grunewald, N. Zotov, K. Mason, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, R. M. Martin, S. L. Danilishin, K. L. Dooley, M. Scanlan, Xavier Siemens, Lisa Barsotti, J. Garofoli, Yi Chen, Jan Harms, Lutz Winkelmann, Evan Goetz, Paul Roberts, S. Meshkov, John Veitch, M. MacInnis, R. S. Amin, A. E. Villar, Nergis Mavalvala, Jerome Degallaix, J. Heefner, R. Grosso, John A. Clark, S. J. Waldman, J. Myers, Shourov Chatterji, D. Fazi, Suvadeep Bose, Michele Vallisneri, Ik Siong Heng, S. Steplewski, Emma L. Robinson, S. P. Tarabrin, John Nelson, I. Yakushin, S. E. Whitcomb, S. Sakata, Rubab Khan, Miquel Trias, A. Mullavey, Richard O'Shaughnessy, B. Barr, P. Patel, Malik Rakhmanov, J. Worden, L. Williams, A. Rüdiger, R. Riesen, Roland Schilling, Y. Faltas, Richard J. Abbott, Alexander Khalaidovski, B. Bland, G. Brunet, Z. Raics, Stephen Fairhurst
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Astrophysical Journal Letters, 701(2), L68-L74. IOP Publishing Ltd.
ISSN: 2041-8205
1538-4357
Popis: We present the results of a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with the 2006 March 29 SGR 1900+14 storm. A new search method is used, "stacking'' the GW data around the times of individual soft-gamma bursts in the storm to enhance sensitivity for models in which multiple bursts are accompanied by GW emission. We assume that variation in the time difference between burst electromagnetic emission and potential burst GW emission is small relative to the GW signal duration, and we time-align GW excess power time-frequency tilings containing individual burst triggers to their corresponding electromagnetic emissions. We use two GW emission models in our search: a fluence-weighted model and a flat (unweighted) model for the most electromagnetically energetic bursts. We find no evidence of GWs associated with either model. Model-dependent GW strain, isotropic GW emission energy E_GW, and \gamma = E_GW / E_EM upper limits are estimated using a variety of assumed waveforms. The stacking method allows us to set the most stringent model-dependent limits on transient GW strain published to date. We find E_GW upper limit estimates (at a nominal distance of 10 kpc) of between 2x10^45 erg and 6x10^50 erg depending on waveform type. These limits are an order of magnitude lower than upper limits published previously for this storm and overlap with the range of electromagnetic energies emitted in SGR giant flares.
Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures
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