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Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run
Faculty Publications
  • Tiffany Summerscales, Andrews University
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-4-2019
Keywords
  • Astrophysics,
  • Gravitational wave bursts,
  • Magnetar
Abstract

We present the results of a search for short and intermediate-duration gravitational-wave signals from four magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO's second observing run. We find no evidence of a signal and set upper bounds on the root sum squared of the total dimensionless strain ($h_{\text{rss}}$) from incoming intermediate-duration gravitational waves ranging from $1.1 \times 10^{-22}$ at 150\,Hz to $4.4 \times 10^{-22}$ at 1550\,Hz at 50\% detection efficiency. From the known distance to the magnetar SGR 1806-20 (8.7 kpc) we can place upper bounds on the isotropic gravitational wave energy of $3.4 \times 10^{44} \text{erg}$ at 150\,Hz assuming optimal orientation. This represents an improvement of about a factor of 10 in strain sensitivity from the previous search for such signals, conducted during initial LIGO's sixth science run. The short duration search yielded upper limits of $2.1 \times 10^{44} \,\text{erg}$ for short white noise bursts, and $2.3\times 10^{47}\,\text{erg}$ for $100 \, \text{ms}$ long ringdowns at 1500\,Hz, both at 50\% detection efficiency.

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15
First Department
Physics
Citation Information
Tiffany Summerscales and LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. "Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run" Vol. 874 Iss. 2 (2019) p. 01557
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tiffany_summerscales/143/