All-Sky Search for Long-Duration Gravitational Wave Transients in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-14-2018

Keywords

General Relativity, Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Astrophysics

Abstract

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between and , with a total observational time of . The search targets gravitational wave transients of 10–500 s duration in a frequency band of 24–2048 Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. As a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources in the Galaxy emitting at least  ~10−8 in gravitational waves.

Journal Title

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volume

35

Issue

6

First Page

5009

DOI

10.1088/1361-6382/aaab76

First Department

Physics

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