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Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the geo 600, ligo, and virgo detectors
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Slutsky, J. P. Acernese, F. Abernathy, M. R. Camp, Jordan B. Adams, T. Abbott, B. P. Aasi, J. Graff, P. B. Abbott, T. Abbott, R. Adams, C. Ackley, K. Gehrels, N. Blackburn, Lindy L. |
| Copyright Year | 2013 |
| Description | In this paper we report on a search for short-duration gravitational wave bursts in the frequency range 64 Hz-1792 Hz associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), using data from GEO600 and one of the LIGO or Virgo detectors. We introduce the method of a linear search grid to analyze GRB events with large sky localization uncertainties such as the localizations provided by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). Coherent searches for gravitational waves (GWs) can be computationally intensive when the GRB sky position is not well-localized, due to the corrections required for the difference in arrival time between detectors. Using a linear search grid we are able to reduce the computational cost of the analysis by a factor of O(10) for GBM events. Furthermore, we demonstrate that our analysis pipeline can improve upon the sky localization of GRBs detected by the GBM, if a high-frequency GW signal is observed in coincidence. We use the linear search grid method in a search for GWs associated with 129 GRBs observed satellite-based gamma-ray experiments between 2006 and 2011. The GRBs in our sample had not been previously analyzed for GW counterparts. A fraction of our GRB events are analyzed using data from GEO600 while the detector was using squeezed-light states to improve its sensitivity; this is the first search for GWs using data from a squeezed-light interferometric observatory. We find no evidence for GW signals, either with any individual GRB in this sample or with the population as a whole. For each GRB we place lower bounds on the distance to the progenitor, assuming a fixed GW emission energy of 10(exp -2)Stellar Mass sq c, with a median exclusion distance of 0.8 Mpc for emission at 500 Hz and 0.3 Mpc at 1 kHz. The reduced computational cost associated with a linear search grid will enable rapid searches for GWs associated with Fermi GBM events in the Advanced detector era. |
| File Size | 1335207 |
| Page Count | 18 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_20150014971 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t39074866 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 2013-05-04 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Methods Gamma-ray Geo Gamma Rays Observatories Position Location Gravitational Waves Laser Interferometry Analysis Mathematics Correction Gamma Ray Bursts Frequency Ranges Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
