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Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run

B Abbott1, R Abbott1, R Adhikari1, J Agresti1, P Ajith2, B Allen2,3, R Amin4, S B Anderson1, W G Anderson3, M Arain5, M Araya1, H Armandula1, M Ashley6, S Aston7, P Aufmuth8, C Aulbert9, S Babak9, S Ballmer1, H Bantilan10, B C Barish1, C Barker11, D Barker11, B Barr12, P Barriga13, M A Barton12, K Bayer14, K Belczynski15, J Betzwieser14, P T Beyersdorf16, B Bhawal1, I A Bilenko17, G Billingsley1, R Biswas3, E Black1, K Blackburn1, L Blackburn14, D Blair13, B Bland11, J Bogenstahl12, L Bogue18, R Bork1, V Boschi1, S Bose19, P R Brady3, V B Braginsky17, J E Brau20, M Brinkmann2, A Brooks21, D A Brown1,22, A Bullington23, A Bunkowski2, A Buonanno24, O Burmeister2, D Busby1, R L Byer23, L Cadonati14, G Cagnoli12, J B Camp25, J Cannizzo25, K Cannon3, C A Cantley12, J Cao14, L Cardenas1, M M Casey12, G Castaldi26, C Cepeda1, E Chalkey12, P Charlton27, S Chatterji1, S Chelkowski2, Y Chen9, F Chiadini28, D Chin29, E Chin13, J Chow6, N Christensen10, J Clark12, P Cochrane2, T Cokelaer30, C N Colacino7, R Coldwell5, R Conte28, D Cook11, T Corbitt14, D Coward13, D Coyne1, J D E Creighton3, T D Creighton1, R P Croce26, D R M Crooks12, A M Cruise7, A Cumming12, J Dalrymple31, E D'Ambrosio1, K Danzmann2,8, G Davies30, D DeBra23, J Degallaix13, M Degree23, T Demma23, V Dergachev29, S Desai32, R DeSalvo1, S Dhurandhar33, M Díaz34, J Dickson6, A Di Credico31, G Diederichs8, A Dietz30, E E Doomes35, R W P Drever36, J-C Dumas13, R J Dupuis1, J G Dwyer37, P Ehrens1, E Espinoza1, T Etzel1, M Evans1, T Evans18, S Fairhurst1,30, Y Fan13, D Fazi1, M M Fejer23, L S Finn32, V Fiumara28, N Fotopoulos3, A Franzen8, K Y Franzen5, A Freise7, R Frey20, T Fricke38, P Fritschel14, V V Frolov18, M Fyffe18, V Galdi26, J Garofoli11, I Gholami9, J A Giaime7,18, S Giampanis38, K D Giardina18, K Goda14, E Goetz29, L M Goggin1, G González4, S Gossler6, A Grant12, S Gras13, C Gray11, M Gray6, J Greenhalgh39, A M Gretarsson40, R Grosso34, H Grote2, S Grunewald9, M Guenther11, R Gustafson29, B Hage8, D Hammer3, C Hanna4, J Hanson18, J Harms2, G Harry14, E Harstad20, T Hayler39, J Heefner1, I S Heng12, A Heptonstall12, M Heurs2, M Hewitson2, S Hild8, E Hirose31, D Hoak18, D Hosken21, J Hough12, E Howell13, D Hoyland7, S H Huttner12, D Ingram11, E Innerhofer14, M Ito20, Y Itoh3, A Ivanov1, D Jackrel23, B Johnson11, W W Johnson4, D I Jones41, G Jones30, R Jones12, L Ju13, P Kalmus37, V Kalogera15, D Kasprzyk7, E Katsavounidis14, K Kawabe11, S Kawamura42, F Kawazoe42, W Kells1, D G Keppel1, F Ya Khalili17, C Kim15, P King1, J S Kissel4, S Klimenko5, K Kokeyama42, V Kondrashov1, R K Kopparapu4, D Kozak1, B Krishnan9, P Kwee8, P K Lam6, M Landry11, B Lantz23, A Lazzarini1, B Lee13, M Lei1, J Leiner19, V Leonhardt42, I Leonor20, K Libbrecht1, P Lindquist1, N A Lockerbie43, M Longo28, M Lormand18, M Lubinski11, H Lück2,8, B Machenschalk9, M MacInnis14, M Mageswaran1, K Mailand1, M Malec8, V Mandic1, S Marano28, S Márka37, J Markowitz14, E Maros1, I Martin12, J N Marx12, K Mason14, L Matone37, V Matta28, N Mavalvala14, R McCarthy11, D E McClelland6, S C McGuire35, M McHugh44, K McKenzie6, J W C McNabb32, S McWilliams25, T Meier8, A Melissinos38, G Mendell11, R A Mercer5, S Meshkov1, E Messaritaki1, C J Messenger12, D Meyers1, E Mikhailov14, S Mitra33, V P Mitrofanov17, G Mitselmakher5, R Mittleman14, O Miyakawa1, S Mohanty34, G Moreno11, K Mossavi2, C MowLowry6, A Moylan6, D Mudge21, G Mueller5, S Mukherjee34, H Müller-Ebhardt2, J Munch21, P Murray12, E Myers11, J Myers11, T Nash1, G Newton12, A Nishizawa42, K Numata25, B O'Reilly18, R O'Shaughnessy15, D J Ottaway14, H Overmier18, B J Owen32, Y Pan24, M A Papa3,9, V Parameshwaraiah11, P Patel1, M Pedraza1, J Pelc14, S Penn45, V Pierro26, I M Pinto26, M Pitkin12, H Pletsch2, M V Plissi12, F Postiglione28, R Prix9, V Quetschke5, F Raab11, D Rabeling6, H Radkins11, R Rahkola20, N Rainer2, M Rakhmanov32, M Ramsunder32, K Rawlins14, S Ray-Majumder3, V Re7, H Rehbein2, S Reid12, D H Reitze5, L Ribichini2, R Riesen18, K Riles29, B Rivera11, N A Robertson1,12, C Robinson30, E L Robinson7, S Roddy18, A Rodriguez4, A M Rogan19, J Rollins37, J D Romano30, J Romie18, R Route23, S Rowan12, A Rüdiger2, L Ruet14, P Russell1, K Ryan11, S Sakata42, M Samidi1, L Sancho de la Jordana46, V Sandberg11, V Sannibale1, S Saraf47, P Sarin14, B S Sathyaprakash30, S Sato42, P R Saulson31, R Savage11, P Savov22, S Schediwy13, R Schilling2, R Schnabel2, R Schofield20, B F Schutz9,30, P Schwinberg11, S M Scott6, A C Searle6, B Sears1, F Seifert2, D Sellers18, A S Sengupta30, P Shawhan24, D H Shoemaker14, A Sibley18, J A Sidles48, X Siemens1,22, D Sigg11, S Sinha23, A M Sintes9,46, B J J Slagmolen6, J Slutsky4, J R Smith2, M R Smith1, K Somiya2,9, K A Strain12, D M Strom20, A Stuver32, T Z Summerscales49, K-X Sun23, M Sung4, P J Sutton1, H Takahashi9, D B Tanner5, M Tarallo1, R Taylor1, R Taylor12, J Thacker18, K A Thorne32, K S Thorne22, A Thüring8, M Tinto1, K V Tokmakov12, C Torres34, C Torrie12, G Traylor18, M Trias46, W Tyler1, D Ugolini50, C Ungarelli7, K Urbanek23, H Vahlbruch8, M Vallisneri22, C Van Den Broeck30, M Varvella1, S Vass1, A Vecchio7, J Veitch12, P Veitch21, A Villar1, C Vorvick11, S P Vyachanin17, S J Waldman1, L Wallace1, H Ward12, R Ward1, K Watts18, D Webber1, A Weidner2, M Weinert2, A Weinstein1, R Weiss14, S Wen4, K Wette6, J T Whelan9, D M Whitbeck32, S E Whitcomb1, B F Whiting5, C Wilkinson11, P A Willems1, L Williams5, B Willke2,8, I Wilmut39, W Winkler2, C C Wipf14, S Wise5, A G Wiseman3, G Woan12, D Woods3, R Wooley18, J Worden11, W Wu5, I Yakushin18, H Yamamoto1, Z Yan13, S Yoshida51, N Yunes32, M Zanolin14, J Zhang29, L Zhang1, C Zhao13, N Zotov52, M Zucker14, H zur Mühlen8 and J Zweizig1 (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

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The fourth science run of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational-wave detectors, carried out in early 2005, collected data with significantly lower noise than previous science runs. We report on a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts with arbitrary waveform in the 64–1600 Hz frequency range appearing in all three LIGO interferometers. Signal consistency tests, data quality cuts and auxiliary-channel vetoes are applied to reduce the rate of spurious triggers. No gravitational-wave signals are detected in 15.5 days of live observation time; we set a frequentist upper limit of 0.15 day−1 (at 90% confidence level) on the rate of bursts with large enough amplitudes to be detected reliably. The amplitude sensitivity of the search, characterized using Monte Carlo simulations, is several times better than that of previous searches. We also provide rough estimates of the distances at which representative supernova and binary black hole merger signals could be detected with 50% efficiency by this analysis.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

95.55.Br Astrometric and interferometric instruments

97.60.Lf Black holes

04.70.-s Physics of black holes

97.60.Bw Supernovae

95.55.Ym Gravitational radiation detectors; mass spectrometers; and other instrumentation and techniques

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

83C57 Black holes

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 22 (21 November 2007)

Received 3 May 2007, in final form 28 August 2007

Published 24 October 2007


An Erratum for this article has been published in 2008 Class. Quantum Grav. 25 039801


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