Phys. Rev. D
72,
042002
(2005)
[17 pages]
Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors
B. Abbott et al. LIGO Scientific Collaboration
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B. Abbott12, R. Abbott15, R. Adhikari13, A. Ageev20,27, B. Allen39, R. Amin34, S. B. Anderson12, W. G. Anderson29, M. Araya12, H. Armandula12, M. Ashley28, F. Asiri12,*, P. Aufmuth31, C. Aulbert1, S. Babak7, R. Balasubramanian7, S. Ballmer13, B. C. Barish12, C. Barker14, D. Barker14, M. Barnes12,†, B. Barr35, M. A. Barton12, K. Bayer13, R. Beausoleil26,‡, K. Belczynski23, R. Bennett35,§, S. J. Berukoff1,**, J. Betzwieser13, B. Bhawal12, I. A. Bilenko20, G. Billingsley12, E. Black12, K. Blackburn12, L. Blackburn13, B. Bland14, B. Bochner13,††, L. Bogue12, R. Bork12, S. Bose40, P. R. Brady39, V. B. Braginsky20, J. E. Brau37, D. A. Brown39, A. Bullington26, A. Bunkowski2,31, A. Buonanno6,‡‡, R. Burgess13, D. Busby12, W. E. Butler38, R. L. Byer26, L. Cadonati13, G. Cagnoli35, J. B. Camp21, J. K. Cannizzo21, C. A. Cantley35, L. Cardenas12, K. Carter15, M. M. Casey35, J. Castiglione34, A. Chandler12, J. Chapsky12,†, P. Charlton12,a, S. Chatterji13, S. Chelkowski2,31, Y. Chen6, V. 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Taylor7, R. Taylor35, R. Taylor12, K. A. Thorne28, K. S. Thorne6, M. Tibbits28, S. Tilav12,, M. Tinto4,†, K. V. Tokmakov20, C. Torres29, C. Torrie12, G. Traylor15, W. Tyler12, D. Ugolini30, C. Ungarelli33, M. Vallisneri6,, M. van Putten13, S. Vass12, A. Vecchio33, J. Veitch35, C. Vorvick14, S. P. Vyachanin20, L. Wallace12, H. Walther19, H. Ward35, B. Ware12,†, K. Watts15, D. Webber12, A. Weidner19, U. Weiland31, A. Weinstein12, R. Weiss13, H. Welling31, L. Wen12, S. Wen16, J. T. Whelan18, S. E. Whitcomb12, B. F. Whiting34, S. Wiley5, C. Wilkinson14, P. A. Willems12, P. R. Williams1,, R. Williams4, B. Willke31, A. Wilson12, B. J. Winjum28,**, W. Winkler2, S. Wise34, A. G. Wiseman39, G. Woan35, R. Wooley15, J. Worden14, W. Wu34, I. Yakushin15, H. Yamamoto12, S. Yoshida25, K. D. Zaleski28, M. Zanolin13, I. Zawischa31,, L. Zhang12, R. Zhu1, N. Zotov17, M. Zucker15, and J. Zweizig12 (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
1Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
2Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
3Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
4California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
5California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
6Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
7Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, United Kingdom
8Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
10Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
11Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune–411007, India
12LIGO–California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
13LIGO–Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
14LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
15LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
16Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
17Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
18Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
19Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany
20Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
21NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
22National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
23Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
24Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana 59855, USA
25Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
26Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
27Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
28The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
29The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
30Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
31Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
32Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
33University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
34University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
35University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
36University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
37University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
38University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
39University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
40Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
Received 21 February 2005; published 12 August 2005
We have performed a search for bursts of gravitational waves associated with the very bright gamma ray burst GRB030329, using the two detectors at the LIGO Hanford Observatory. Our search covered the most sensitive frequency range of the LIGO detectors (approximately 80–-2048 Hz), and we specifically targeted signals shorter than ≃150 ms. Our search algorithm looks for excess correlated power between the two interferometers and thus makes minimal assumptions about the gravitational waveform. We observed no candidates with gravitational-wave signal strength larger than a predetermined threshold. We report frequency-dependent upper limits on the strength of the gravitational waves associated with GRB030329. Near the most sensitive frequency region, around ≃250 Hz, our root-sum-square (RSS) gravitational-wave strain sensitivity for optimally polarized bursts was better than hRSS≃6×10-21 Hz-1/2. Our result is comparable to the best published results searching for association between gravitational waves and gamma ray bursts.
© 2005 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.72.042002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.72.042002
PACS:
04.80.Nn, 07.05.Kf, 95.85.Sz, 97.60.Bw
*Present address: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center. †Present address: Jet Propulsion Laboratory. ‡Permanent address: HP Laboratories. §Present address: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. **Present address: University of CA, Los Angeles. ††Present address: Hofstra University. ‡‡Permanent address: GReCO, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris (CNRS). aPresent address: La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC, Australia. bPresent address: Keck Graduate Institute. cPresent address: National Science Foundation. dPresent address: University of Sheffield. ePresent address: Ball Aerospace Corporation. fPresent address: European Gravitational Observatory. gPresent address: Intel Corp. hPresent address: University of Tours, France. iPresent address: Lightconnect Inc. jPresent address: W.M. Keck Observatory. kPresent address: ESA Science and Technology Center. lPresent address: Raytheon Corporation. mPresent address: NM Institute of Mining and Technology / Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer. nPresent address: Mission Research Corporation. oPresent address: Harvard University. pPermanent address: Columbia University. qPresent address: Lockheed-Martin Corporation. rPermanent address: University of Tokyo, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research. sPermanent address: University College Dublin. tPresent address: Research Electro-Optics Inc. uPresent address: Institute of Advanced Physics, Baton Rouge, LA. vPresent address: Thirty Meter Telescope Project at Caltech. wPresent address: European Commission, DG Research, Brussels, Belgium. xPresent address: University of Chicago. yPresent address: LightBit Corporation. zPermanent address: IBM Canada Ltd. Present address: University of DE. Permanent address: Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Present address: Shanghai Astronomical Observatory. Present address: Laser Zentrum Hannover. Electronic address: http://www.ligo.org
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