Phys. Rev. D
80,
062002
(2009)
[11 pages]
First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings
B. P. Abbott et al. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
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B. P. Abbott17, R. Abbott17, R. Adhikari17, P. Ajith2, B. Allen2,60, G. Allen35, R. S. Amin21, S. B. Anderson17, W. G. Anderson60, M. A. Arain47, M. Araya17, H. Armandula17, P. Armor60, Y. Aso17, S. Aston46, P. Aufmuth16, C. Aulbert2, S. Babak1, P. Baker24, S. Ballmer17, C. Barker18, D. Barker18, B. Barr48, P. Barriga59, L. Barsotti20, M. A. Barton17, I. Bartos10, R. Bassiri48, M. Bastarrika48, B. Behnke1, M. Benacquista42, J. Betzwieser17, P. T. Beyersdorf31, I. A. Bilenko25, G. Billingsley17, R. Biswas60, E. Black17, J. K. Blackburn17, L. Blackburn20, D. Blair59, B. Bland18, T. P. Bodiya20, L. Bogue19, R. Bork17, V. Boschi17, S. Bose61, P. R. Brady60, V. B. Braginsky25, J. E. Brau53, D. O. Bridges19, M. Brinkmann2, A. F. Brooks17, D. A. Brown36, A. Brummit30, G. Brunet20, A. Bullington35, A. Buonanno49, O. Burmeister2, R. L. Byer35, L. Cadonati50, J. B. Camp26, J. Cannizzo26, K. C. Cannon17, J. Cao20, L. Cardenas17, S. Caride51, G. Castaldi56, S. Caudill21, M. Cavaglià39, C. 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1Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
2Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
3Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 USA
4Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
5California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
6Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
7Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
8Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
9Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
10Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
11Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
12Eötvös University, ELTE 1053 Budapest, Hungary
13Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
14Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
15Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
16Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
17LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
18LIGO-Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
19LIGO-Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
20LIGO-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
21Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
22Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
23Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
24Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
25Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
26NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
27National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
28Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
29Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
30Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
31San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
32Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA
33Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
34Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
35Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
36Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
37The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
38The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
39The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
40The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom, USA
41The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
42The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
43Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
44Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
45University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
46University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
47University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
48University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
49University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
50University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
51University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
52University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
53University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
54University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
55University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
56University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
57University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
58University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
59University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington 6009, Australia, USA
60University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
61Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
62Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire, Univ Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Orsay, France
Received 29 May 2009; published 23 September 2009
We report on a matched-filter search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps using LIGO data from the fourth science run (S4) which took place in February and March 2005. No gravitational waves were detected in 14.9 days of data from times when all three LIGO detectors were operating. We interpret the result in terms of a frequentist upper limit on the rate of gravitational wave bursts and use the limits on the rate to constrain the parameter space (string tension, reconnection probability, and loop sizes) of cosmic string models. Many grand unified theory-scale models (with string tension Gμ/c2≈10-6) can be ruled out at 90% confidence for reconnection probabilities p≤10-3 if loop sizes are set by gravitational back reaction.
© 2009 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062002
PACS:
11.27.+d, 11.25.−w, 98.80.Cq
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