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

https://doi.org/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