First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts

dc.creatorLIGO Scientific Collaboration
dc.creatorAbbott, B.
dc.date2003-12-09
dc.date2004-03-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T11:57:35Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T11:57:35Z
dc.descriptionWe report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the LIGO detectors. Our search focuses on bursts with durations ranging from 4 ms to 100 ms, and with significant power in the LIGO sensitivity band of 150 to 3000 Hz. We bound the rate for such detected bursts at less than 1.6 events per day at 90% confidence level. This result is interpreted in terms of the detection efficiency for ad hoc waveforms (Gaussians and sine-Gaussians) as a function of their root-sum-square strain h_{rss}; typical sensitivities lie in the range h_{rss} ~ 10^{-19} - 10^{-17} strain/rtHz, depending on waveform. We discuss improvements in the search method that will be applied to future science data from LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors.
dc.description21 pages, 15 figures, accepted by Phys Rev D. Fixed a few small typos and updated a few references
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0312056
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0312056
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D69:102001,2004
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.102001
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/205931
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleFirst upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts
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