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First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data

B Abbott1, R Abbott1, R Adhikari1, P Ajith2, B Allen2,3, G Allen4, R Amin5, S B Anderson1, W G Anderson3, M A Arain6, M Araya1, H Armandula1, P Armor3, Y Aso7, S Aston8, P Aufmuth9, C Aulbert2, S Babak10, S Ballmer1, H Bantilan11, B C Barish1, C Barker12, D Barker12, B Barr13, P Barriga14, M A Barton13, I Bartos7, M Bastarrika13, K Bayer15, J Betzwieser1, P T Beyersdorf16, I A Bilenko17, G Billingsley1, R Biswas3, E Black1, K Blackburn1, L Blackburn15, D Blair14, B Bland12, T P Bodiya15, L Bogue18, R Bork1, V Boschi1, S Bose19, P R Brady3, V B Braginsky17, J E Brau20, M Brinkmann2, A Brooks1, D A Brown21, G Brunet15, A Bullington4, A Buonanno22, O Burmeister2, R L Byer4, L Cadonati23, G Cagnoli13, J B Camp24, J Cannizzo24, K Cannon1, J Cao15, L Cardenas1, T Casebolt4, G Castaldi25, C Cepeda1, E Chalkley13, P Charlton26, S Chatterji1, S Chelkowski8, Y Chen10,27, N Christensen11, D Clark4, J Clark13, T Cokelaer28, R Conte29, D Cook12, T Corbitt15, D Coyne1, J D E Creighton3, A Cumming13, L Cunningham13, R M Cutler8, J Dalrymple21, K Danzmann2,9, G Davies28, D DeBra4, J Degallaix10, M Degree4, V Dergachev30, S Desai31, R DeSalvo1, S Dhurandhar32, M Díaz33, J Dickson34, A Di Credico21, A Dietz28, F Donovan15, K L Dooley6, E E Doomes35, R W P Drever36, I Duke15, J-C Dumas14, R J Dupuis1, J G Dwyer7, C Echols1, A Effler12, P Ehrens1, E Espinoza1, T Etzel1, T Evans18, S Fairhurst28, Y Fan14, D Fazi1, H Fehrmann2, M M Fejer4, L S Finn31, K Flasch3, N Fotopoulos3, A Freise8, R Frey20, T Fricke1,37, P Fritschel15, V V Frolov18, M Fyffe18, J Garofoli12, I Gholami10, J A Giaime5,18, S Giampanis37, K D Giardina18, K Goda15, E Goetz30, L Goggin1, G González5, S Gossler2, R Gouaty5, A Grant13, S Gras14, C Gray12, M Gray34, R J S Greenhalgh38, A M Gretarsson39, F Grimaldi15, R Grosso33, H Grote2, S Grunewald10, M Guenther12, E K Gustafson1, R Gustafson30, B Hage9, J M Hallam8, D Hammer3, C Hanna5, J Hanson18, J Harms2, G Harry15, E Harstad20, K Hayama33, T Hayler38, J Heefner1, I S Heng13, M Hennessy4, A Heptonstall13, M Hewitson2, S Hild8, E Hirose21, D Hoak18, D Hosken40, J Hough13, B Hughey15, S H Huttner13, D Ingram12, M Ito20, A Ivanov1, B Johnson12, W W Johnson5, D I Jones41, G Jones28, R Jones13, L Ju14, P Kalmus7, V Kalogera42, S Kamat7, J Kanner22, D Kasprzyk8, E Katsavounidis15, K Kawabe12, S Kawamura43, F Kawazoe43, W Kells1, D G Keppel1, F Ya Khalili17, R Khan7, E Khazanov44, C Kim42, P King1, J S Kissel5, S Klimenko6, K Kokeyama43, V Kondrashov1, R K Kopparapu31, D Kozak1, I Kozhevatov44, B Krishnan10, P Kwee9, P K Lam34, M Landry12, M M Lang31, B Lantz4, A Lazzarini1, M Lei1, N Leindecker4, V Leonhardt43, I Leonor20, K Libbrecht1, H Lin6, P Lindquist1, N A Lockerbie45, D Lodhia8, M Lormand18, P Lu4, M Lubinski12, A Lucianetti6, H Lück2,9, B Machenschalk2, M MacInnis15, M Mageswaran1, K Mailand1, V Mandic46, S Márka7, Z Márka7, A Markosyan4, J Markowitz15, E Maros1, I Martin13, R M Martin6, J N Marx1, K Mason15, F Matichard5, L Matone7, R Matzner47, N Mavalvala15, R McCarthy12, D E McClelland34, S C McGuire35, M McHugh48, G McIntyre1, G McIvor47, D McKechan28, K McKenzie34, T Meier9, A Melissinos37, G Mendell12, R A Mercer6, S Meshkov1, C J Messenger2, D Meyers1, J Miller1,13, J Minelli31, S Mitra32, V P Mitrofanov17, G Mitselmakher6, R Mittleman15, O Miyakawa1, B Moe3, S Mohanty33, G Moreno12, K Mossavi2, C MowLowry34, G Mueller6, S Mukherjee33, H Mukhopadhyay32, H Müller-Ebhardt2, J Munch40, P Murray13, E Myers12, J Myers12, T Nash1, J Nelson13, G Newton13, A Nishizawa43, K Numata24, J O'Dell38, G Ogin1, B O'Reilly18, R O'Shaughnessy31, D J Ottaway15, R S Ottens6, H Overmier18, B J Owen31, Y Pan22, C Pankow6, M A Papa3,10, V Parameshwaraiah12, P Patel1, M Pedraza1, S Penn49, A Perreca8, T Petrie31, I M Pinto25, M Pitkin13, H J Pletsch2, M V Plissi13, F Postiglione29, M Principe25, R Prix2, V Quetschke6, F Raab12, D S Rabeling34, H Radkins12, N Rainer2, M Rakhmanov50, M Ramsunder31, H Rehbein2, S Reid13, D H Reitze6, R Riesen18, K Riles30, B Rivera12, N A Robertson1,13, C Robinson28, E L Robinson8, S Roddy18, A Rodriguez5, A M Rogan19, J Rollins7, J D Romano33, J Romie18, R Route4, S Rowan13, A Rüdiger2, L Ruet15, P Russell1, K Ryan12, S Sakata43, M Samidi1, L Sancho de la Jordana51, V Sandberg12, V Sannibale1, S Saraf52, P Sarin15, B S Sathyaprakash28, S Sato43, P R Saulson21, R Savage12, P Savov27, S W Schediwy14, R Schilling2, R Schnabel2, R Schofield20, B F Schutz10,28, P Schwinberg12, S M Scott34, A C Searle34, B Sears1, F Seifert2, D Sellers18, A S Sengupta1, P Shawhan22, D H Shoemaker15, A Sibley18, X Siemens3, D Sigg12, S Sinha4, A M Sintes10,51, B J J Slagmolen34, J Slutsky5, J R Smith21, M R Smith1, N D Smith15, K Somiya2,10, B Sorazu13, L C Stein15, A Stochino1, R Stone33, K A Strain13, D M Strom20, A Stuver18, T Z Summerscales53, K-X Sun4, M Sung5, P J Sutton28, H Takahashi10, D B Tanner6, R Taylor1, R Taylor13, J Thacker18, K A Thorne31, K S Thorne27, A Thüring9, M Tinto1, K V Tokmakov13, C Torres18, C Torrie13, G Traylor18, M Trias51, W Tyler1, D Ugolini54, J Ulmen4, K Urbanek4, H Vahlbruch9, C Van Den Broeck28, M van der Sluys42, S Vass1, R Vaulin3, A Vecchio8, J Veitch8, P Veitch40, A Villar1, C Vorvick12, S P Vyachanin17, S J Waldman1, L Wallace1, H Ward13, R Ward1, M Weinert2, A Weinstein1, R Weiss15, S Wen5, K Wette34, J T Whelan10, S E Whitcomb1, B F Whiting6, C Wilkinson12, P A Willems1, H R Williams31, L Williams6, B Willke2,9, I Wilmut38, W Winkler2, C C Wipf15, A G Wiseman3, G Woan13, R Wooley18, J Worden12, W Wu6, I Yakushin18, H Yamamoto1, Z Yan14, S Yoshida50, M Zanolin39, J Zhang30, L Zhang1, C Zhao14, N Zotov55, M Zucker15 and J Zweizig1 (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

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We present the results of the first joint search for gravitational-wave bursts by the LIGO and GEO 600 detectors. We search for bursts with characteristic central frequencies in the band 768–2048 Hz in the data acquired between 22 February and 23 March, 2005 (fourth LSC Science Run–S4). We discuss the inclusion of the GEO 600 data in the Waveburst–CorrPower pipeline that first searches for coincident excess power events without taking into account differences in the antenna responses or strain sensitivities of the various detectors. We compare the performance of this pipeline to that of the coherent Waveburst pipeline based on the maximum likelihood statistic. This likelihood statistic is derived from a coherent sum of the detector data streams that takes into account the antenna patterns and sensitivities of the different detectors in the network. We find that the coherent Waveburst pipeline is sensitive to signals of amplitude 30–50% smaller than the Waveburst–CorrPower pipeline. We perform a search for gravitational-wave bursts using both pipelines and find no detection candidates in the S4 data set when all four instruments were operating stably.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

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

95.55.Br Astrometric and interferometric instruments

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 24 (21 December 2008)

Received 8 August 2008, in final form 6 October 2008

Published 27 November 2008



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