Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run
Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal...
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| author | Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Bodiya, Timothy Paul Cao, Jianshu Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Evans, Matthew J. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Bodiya, Timothy Paul Cao, Jianshu Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Evans, Matthew J. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis |
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| description | Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/766742022-10-01T13:15:29Z Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Bodiya, Timothy Paul Cao, Jianshu Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Evans, Matthew J. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Science MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Bodiya, Timothy Paul Cao, Jianshu Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Evans, Matthew J. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation David & Lucile Packard Foundation National Aeronautics and Space Administration Carnegie Trust Leverhulme Trust Research Corporation 2013-01-30T19:14:57Z 2013-01-30T19:14:57Z 2010-05 2010-01 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0004-637X 1538-4357 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76674 Abadie, J. et al. “SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE INSPIRAL SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DURING LIGO’S FIFTH AND VIRGO’S FIRST SCIENCE RUN.” The Astrophysical Journal 715.2 (2010): 1453–1461. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-7809 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-6805 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/715/2/1453 Astrophysical Journal Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf IOP Publishing arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Barsotti, Lisa Blackburn, Lindy L. Bodiya, Timothy Paul Cao, Jianshu Corbitt, Thomas R. Donovan, Frederick J. Duke, I. Evans, Matthew J. Foley, S. Fritschel, Peter K. Harry, Gregory Hughey, Barbara Katsavounidis, Erotokritos MacInnis, Myron E. Markowitz, Jared John Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run |
| title | Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run |
| title_full | Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run |
| title_fullStr | Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run |
| title_short | Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During Ligo’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run |
| title_sort | search for gravitational wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma ray bursts during ligo s fifth and virgo s first science run |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/76674 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7616-7809 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8166-6805 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187 |
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