SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE INSPIRAL SIGNALS ASSOCIATED WITH SHORT GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DURING LIGO'S FIFTH AND VIRGO'S FIRST SCIENCE RUN

Journal Article · Tue Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453· OSTI ID:21450875

Abadie, J; Abbott, B P; Abbott, R; Adhikari, R; Ajith, P; Anderson, S B; Araya, M; Aso, Y ^[1]; Accadia, T ^[2]; Acernese, F ^[3]; Allen, B ^[4]; Allen, G ^[5]; Ceron, E Amador; Anderson, W G ^[6]; Amin, R S ^[7]; Antonucci, F ^[8]; Aoudia, S ^[9]; Arain, M A ^[10]; Arun, K G ^[11]; Aston, S ^[12]

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1. LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
2. Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Universite de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
3. INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant Angelo, I-80126 Napoli (Italy)
4. Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover (Germany)
5. Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 (United States)
6. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (United States)
7. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (United States)
8. INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma (Italy)
9. Universite Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, F-06304 Nice (France)
10. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (United States)
11. LAL, Universite Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, F-91898 Orsay (France)
12. University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT (United Kingdom)

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.

• OSTI ID: 21450875
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 715, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453; ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
BLACK HOLES
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
NEUTRON STARS
SIGNALS
COSMIC RADIATION
IONIZING RADIATIONS
PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION
RADIATIONS
STARS