Published November 15, 2009 | Version Published
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Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run

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Abstract

We present an all-sky search for gravitational waves in the frequency range 1 to 6 kHz during the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run. This is the first untriggered LIGO burst analysis to be conducted above 3 kHz. We discuss the unique properties of interferometric data in this regime. 161.3 days of triple-coincident data were analyzed. No gravitational events above threshold were observed and a frequentist upper limit of 5.4  year^(-1) on the rate of strong gravitational-wave bursts was placed at a 90% confidence level. Implications for specific theoretical models of gravitational-wave emission are also discussed.

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© 2009 The American Physical Society. Received 27 May 2009; published 11 November 2009. T he authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO 600 detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacio´n y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovacio´ of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The authors thank Luca Baiotti and Luciano Rezzolla for providing simulation data and valuable discussion concerning the testing of astrophysical waveform models. This document has been assigned LIGO Laboratory document No. LIGO-P080080.

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18012
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CaltechAUTHORS:20100419-091739093

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NSF
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Max-Planck-Society
State of Niedersachsen/Germany
Australian Research Council
Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia (MEC)
Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
Royal Society
Scottish Funding Council
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
NASA
Carnegie Trust
Leverhulme Trust
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Research Corporation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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2010-04-23
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TAPIR , LIGO , Physics Department
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LIGO Document
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LIGO-P080080