Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts during LIGO'S Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

Authors

J. Abadie, California Institute of Technology
B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
T. Accadia, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
F. Acernese, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
R. Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
P. Ajith, California Institute of Technology
B. Allen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
G. Allen, Stanford University
E. Amador Ceron, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
R. S. Amin, Louisiana State University
S. B. Anderson, California Institute of Technology
W. G. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
F. Antonucci, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN
S. Aoudia, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur
M. A. Arain, University of Florida
M. Araya, California Institute of Technology
K. G. Arun, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
Y. Aso, California Institute of Technology
S. Aston, University of Birmingham
P. Astone, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN
P. Aufmuth, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
C. Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
S. Babak, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
P. Baker, Montana State University
G. Ballardin, European Gravitational Observatory (EGO)
S. Ballmer, California Institute of Technology
D. Barker, LIGO Hanford
F. Barone, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
B. Barr, University of Glasgow
P. Barriga, The University of Western Australia
Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Andrews UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2010

Keywords

Binaries: close, Gamma-ray burst: general, Gravitational waves

Abstract

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 6.7Mpc. © 2010. The American Astronomical Society.

Journal Title

Astrophysical Journal

Volume

715

Issue

2

First Page

1453

Last Page

1461

DOI

10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

First Department

Physics

Recommended Citation

Abadie, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Accadia, T.; Acernese, F.; Adhikari, R.; Ajith, P.; Allen, B.; Allen, G.; Ceron, E. Amador; Amin, R. S.; Anderson, S. B.; Anderson, W. G.; Antonucci, F.; Aoudia, S.; Arain, M. A.; Araya, M.; Arun, K. G.; Aso, Y.; Aston, S.; Astone, P.; Aufmuth, P.; Aulbert, C.; Babak, S.; Baker, P.; Ballardin, G.; Ballmer, S.; Barker, D.; Barone, F.; Barr, B.; Barriga, P.; and Summerscales, Tiffany Z., "Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts during LIGO'S Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run" (2010). Faculty Publications. 1761.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/1761

Acknowledgements

Retrieved February 15, 2021 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.3824.pdf