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STACKED SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM THE 2006 SGR 1900+14 STORM

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B. P. Abbott1, R. Abbott1, R. Adhikari1, P. Ajith2, B. Allen2,3, G. Allen4, R. S. Amin5, S. B. Anderson1, W. G. Anderson3, M. A. Arain6, M. Araya1, H. Armandula1, P. Armor3, Y. Aso1, S. Aston7, P. Aufmuth8, C. Aulbert2, S. Babak9, P. Baker10, S. Ballmer1, C. Barker11, D. Barker11, B. Barr12, P. Barriga13, L. Barsotti14, M. A. Barton1, I. Bartos15, R. Bassiri12, M. Bastarrika12, B. Behnke9, M. Benacquista16, J. Betzwieser1, P. T. Beyersdorf17, I. A. Bilenko18, G. Billingsley1, R. Biswas3, E. Black1, J. K. Blackburn1, L. Blackburn14, D. Blair13, B. Bland11, T. P. Bodiya14, L. Bogue19, R. Bork1, V. Boschi1, S. Bose20, P. R. Brady3, V. B. Braginsky18, J. E. Brau21, D. O. Bridges19, M. Brinkmann2, A. F. Brooks1, D. A. Brown22, A. Brummit23, G. Brunet14, A. Bullington4, A. Buonanno24, O. Burmeister2, R. L. Byer4, L. Cadonati25, J. B. Camp26, J. Cannizzo26, K. C. Cannon1, J. Cao14, L. Cardenas1, S. Caride27, G. Castaldi28, S. Caudill5, M. Cavaglià29, C. Cepeda1, T. Chalermsongsak1, E. Chalkley12, P. Charlton30, S. Chatterji1, S. Chelkowski7, Y. Chen9,31, N. Christensen32, C. T. Y. Chung33, D. Clark4, J. Clark34, J. H. Clayton3, T. Cokelaer34, C. N. Colacino35, R. Conte36, D. Cook11, T. R. C. Corbitt14, N. Cornish10, D. Coward13, D. C. Coyne1, J. D. E. Creighton3, T. D. Creighton16, A. M. Cruise7, R. M. Culter7, A. Cumming12, L. Cunningham12, S. L. Danilishin18, K. Danzmann2,8, B. Daudert1, G. Davies34, E. J. Daw37, D. DeBra4, J. Degallaix2, V. Dergachev27, S. Desai38, R. DeSalvo1, S. Dhurandhar39, M. Díaz16, A. Dietz34, F. Donovan14, K. L. Dooley6, E. E. Doomes40, R. W. P. Drever41, J. Dueck2, I. Duke14, J.-C. Dumas13, J. G. Dwyer15, C. Echols1, M. Edgar12, A. Effler11, P. Ehrens1, E. Espinoza1, T. Etzel1, M. Evans14, T. Evans19, S. Fairhurst34, Y. Faltas6, Y. Fan13, D. Fazi1, H. Fehrmann2, L. S. Finn38, K. Flasch3, S. Foley14, C. Forrest42, N. Fotopoulos3, A. Franzen8, M. Frede2, M. Frei43, Z. Frei35, A. Freise7, R. Frey21, T. Fricke19, P. Fritschel14, V. V. Frolov19, M. Fyffe19, V. Galdi28, J. A. Garofoli22, I. Gholami9, J. A. Giaime19,5, S. Giampanis2, K. D. Giardina19, K. Goda14, E. Goetz27, L. M. Goggin3, G. González5, M. L. Gorodetsky18, S. Goßler2, R. Gouaty5, A. Grant12, S. Gras13, C. Gray11, M. Gray44, R. J. S. Greenhalgh23, A. M. Gretarsson45, F. Grimaldi14, R. Grosso16, H. Grote2, S. Grunewald9, M. Guenther11, E. K. Gustafson1, R. Gustafson27, B. Hage8, J. M. Hallam7, D. Hammer3, G. D. Hammond12, C. Hanna1, J. Hanson19, J. Harms46, G. M. Harry14, I. W. Harry34, E. D. Harstad21, K. Haughian12, K. Hayama16, J. Heefner1, I. S. Heng12, A. Heptonstall1, M. Hewitson2, S. Hild7, E. Hirose22, D. Hoak19, K. A. Hodge1, K. Holt19, D. J. Hosken47, J. Hough12, D. Hoyland13, B. Hughey14, S. H. Huttner12, D. R. Ingram11, T. Isogai32, M. Ito21, A. Ivanov1, B. Johnson11, W. W. Johnson5, D. I. Jones48, G. Jones34, R. Jones12, L. Ju13, P. Kalmus1, V. Kalogera49, S. Kandhasamy46, J. Kanner24, D. Kasprzyk7, E. Katsavounidis14, K. Kawabe11, S. Kawamura50, F. Kawazoe2, W. Kells1, D. G. Keppel1, A. Khalaidovski2, F. Y. Khalili18, R. Khan15, E. Khazanov51, P. King1, J. S. Kissel5, S. Klimenko6, K. Kokeyama50, V. Kondrashov1, R. Kopparapu38, S. Koranda3, D. Kozak1, B. Krishnan9, R. Kumar12, P. Kwee8, P. K. Lam44, M. Landry11, B. Lantz4, A. Lazzarini1, H. Lei16, M. Lei1, N. Leindecker4, I. Leonor21, C. Li31, H. Lin6, P. E. Lindquist1, T. B. Littenberg10, N. A. Lockerbie52, D. Lodhia7, M. Longo28, M. Lormand19, P. Lu4, M. Lubinski11, A. Lucianetti6, H. Lück2,8, B. Machenschalk9, M. MacInnis14, M. Mageswaran1, K. Mailand1, I. Mandel49, V. Mandic46, S. Márka15, Z. Márka15, A. Markosyan4, J. Markowitz14, E. Maros1, I. W. Martin12, R. M. Martin6, J. N. Marx1, K. Mason14, F. Matichard5, L. Matone15, R. A. Matzner43, N. Mavalvala14, R. McCarthy11, D. E. McClelland44, S. C. McGuire40, M. McHugh53, G. McIntyre1, D. J. A. McKechan34, K. McKenzie44, M. Mehmet2, A. Melatos33, A. C. Melissinos42, D. F. Menéndez38, G. Mendell11, R. A. Mercer3, S. Meshkov1, C. Messenger2, M. S. Meyer19, J. Miller12, J. Minelli38, Y. Mino31, V. P. Mitrofanov18, G. Mitselmakher6, R. Mittleman14, O. Miyakawa1, B. Moe3, S. D. Mohanty16, S. R. P. Mohapatra25, G. Moreno11, T. Morioka50, K. Mors2, K. Mossavi2, C. MowLowry44, G. Mueller6, H. Müller-Ebhardt2, D. Muhammad19, S. Mukherjee16, H. Mukhopadhyay39, A. Mullavey44, J. Munch47, P. G. Murray12, E. Myers11, J. Myers11, T. Nash1, J. Nelson12, G. Newton12, A. Nishizawa50, K. Numata26, J. O'Dell23, B. O'Reilly19, R. O'Shaughnessy38, E. Ochsner24, G. H. Ogin1, D. J. Ottaway47, R. S. Ottens6, H. Overmier19, B. J. Owen38, Y. Pan24, C. Pankow6, M. A. Papa9,3, V. Parameshwaraiah11, P. Patel1, M. Pedraza1, S. Penn54, A. Perreca7, V. Pierro28, I. M. Pinto28, M. Pitkin12, H. J. Pletsch2, M. V. Plissi12, F. Postiglione36, M. Principe28, R. Prix2, L. Prokhorov18, O. Punken2, V. Quetschke6, F. J. Raab11, D. S. Rabeling44, H. Radkins11, P. Raffai35, Z. Raics15, N. Rainer2, M. Rakhmanov16, V. Raymond49, C. M. Reed11, T. Reed55, H. Rehbein2, S. Reid12, D. H. Reitze6, R. Riesen19, K. Riles27, B. Rivera11, P. Roberts56, N. A. Robertson1,12, C. Robinson34, E. L. Robinson9, S. Roddy19, C. Röver2, J. Rollins15, J. D. Romano16, J. H. Romie19, S. Rowan12, A. Rüdiger2, P. Russell1, K. Ryan11, S. Sakata50, L. Sancho de la Jordana57, V. Sandberg11, V. Sannibale1, L. Santamaría9, S. Saraf58, P. Sarin14, B. S. Sathyaprakash34, S. Sato50, M. Satterthwaite44, P. R. Saulson22, R. Savage11, P. Savov31, M. Scanlan55, R. Schilling2, R. Schnabel2, R. Schofield21, B. Schulz2, B. F. Schutz9,34, P. Schwinberg11, J. Scott12, S. M. Scott44, A. C. Searle1, B. Sears1, F. Seifert2, D. Sellers19, A. S. Sengupta1, A. Sergeev51, B. Shapiro14, P. Shawhan24, D. H. Shoemaker14, A. Sibley19, X. Siemens3, D. Sigg11, S. Sinha4, A. M. Sintes57, B. J. J. Slagmolen44, J. Slutsky5, J. R. Smith22, M. R. Smith1, N. D. Smith14, K. Somiya31, B. Sorazu12, A. Stein14, L. C. Stein14, S. Steplewski20, A. Stochino1, R. Stone16, K. A. Strain12, S. Strigin18, A. Stroeer26, A. L. Stuver19, T. Z. Summerscales56, K.-X. Sun4, M. Sung5, P. J. Sutton34, G. P. Szokoly35, D. Talukder20, L. Tang16, D. B. Tanner6, S. P. Tarabrin18, J. R. Taylor2, R. Taylor1, J. Thacker19, K. A. Thorne19, K. S. Thorne31, A. Thüring8, K. V. Tokmakov12, C. Torres19, C. Torrie1, G. Traylor19, M. Trias57, D. Ugolini59, J. Ulmen4, K. Urbanek4, H. Vahlbruch8, M. Vallisneri31, C. van den Broeck34, M. V. van der Sluys49, A. A. van Veggel12, S. Vass1, R. Vaulin3, A. Vecchio7, J. Veitch7, P. Veitch47, C. Veltkamp2, A. Villar1, C. Vorvick11, S. P. Vyachanin18, S. J. Waldman14, L. Wallace1, R. L. Ward1, A. Weidner2, M. Weinert2, A. J. Weinstein1, R. Weiss14, L. Wen31,13, S. Wen5, K. Wette44, J. T. Whelan9,60, S. E. Whitcomb1, B. F. Whiting6, C. Wilkinson11, P. A. Willems1, H. R. Williams38, L. Williams6, B. Willke2,8, I. Wilmut23, L. Winkelmann2, W. Winkler2, C. C. Wipf14, A. G. Wiseman3, G. Woan12, R. Wooley19, J. Worden11, W. Wu6, I. Yakushin19, H. Yamamoto1, Z. Yan13, S. Yoshida61, M. Zanolin45, J. Zhang27, L. Zhang1, C. Zhao13, N. Zotov55, M. E. Zucker14, H. zur Mühlen8 and and J. Zweizig1 (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

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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 γ ≡ 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 2 × 1045 erg and 6 × 1050 erg depending on the 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 soft gamma repeater (SGR) giant flares.


Keywords

gamma rays: bursts; gravitational waves; pulsars: individual (SGR 1900+14); stars: neutron


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

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

98.70.Rz &ggr;-ray sources; &ggr;-ray bursts

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 2 (2009 August 20)

Received 2009 May 19, accepted for publication 2009 July 17

Published 2009 July 30



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