Article
All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run
Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-14-2018
Keywords
- General Relativity,
- Quantum Cosmology,
- High Energy Astrophysics
Disciplines
Abstract
We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between and , with a total observational time of . The search targets gravitational wave transients of 10–500 s duration in a frequency band of 24–2048 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. As a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources in the Galaxy emitting at least ~10−8 in gravitational waves.
Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76
First Department
Physics
Citation Information
Tiffany Summerscales, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. "All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run" Vol. 35 Iss. 6 (2018) p. 5009 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/tiffany_summerscales/86/