A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO

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doi:10.1088/0264-9381/25/9/095004

Published May 7, 2008 | Version public

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A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO

1. University of Trento
2. University of Padua
3. Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie
4. University of Ferrara
5. National Research Council
6. University of Florence
7. Legnaro National Laboratories
8. INFN Sezione di Padova
9. Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory
10. Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
11. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
12. Louisiana State University
13. University of Florida
14. Australian National University
15. University of Birmingham
16. Carleton College
17. University of Glasgow
18. University of Western Australia
19. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
20. Northwestern University
21. San Jose State University
22. Lomonosov Moscow State University
23. Washington State University
24. University of Oregon
25. Stanford University
26. University of Maryland, College Park
27. University of Rochester
28. Goddard Space Flight Center
29. University of Sannio
30. Charles Sturt University
31. University of Salerno
32. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
33. Cardiff University
34. Syracuse University
35. Pennsylvania State University
36. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
37. The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
38. Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
39. California Institute of Technology
40. Columbia University
41. California State University, Dominguez Hills
42. Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
43. Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University
44. University of Southampton
45. National Astronomical Observatory of Japan
46. University of Strathclyde
47. Loyola University New Orleans
48. Hobart and William Smith Colleges
49. University of the Balearic Islands
50. Rochester Institute of Technology
51. Andrews University
52. Trinity University
53. Southeastern Louisiana University
54. Louisiana Tech University

The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector and the LIGO observatory was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of gravitational wave detectors: resonant bars and interferometers. This paper describes a coincident gravitational wave burst search, where data from the LIGO interferometers are cross-correlated at the time of AURIGA candidate events to identify coincident transients. The analysis pipeline is tuned with two thresholds, on the signal-to-noise ratio of AURIGA candidate events and on the significance of the cross-correlation test in LIGO. The false alarm rate is estimated by introducing time shifts between data sets and the network detection efficiency is measured by adding simulated gravitational wave signals to the detector output. The simulated waveforms have a significant fraction of power in the narrower AURIGA band. In the absence of a detection, we discuss how to set an upper limit on the rate of gravitational waves and to interpret it according to different source models. Due to the short amount of analyzed data and to the high rate of non-Gaussian transients in the detectors' noise at the time, the relevance of this study is methodological: this was the first joint search for gravitational wave bursts among detectors with such different spectral sensitivity and the first opportunity for the resonant and interferometric communities to unify languages and techniques in the pursuit of their common goal.

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© 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 18 October 2007, in final form 25 January 2008 Published 15 April 2008. http://stacks.iop.org/ CQG/25/095004 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) 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 theGEO600 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 Educaciόn y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears, 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 AURIGA Collaboration acknowledges the support of the research by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the Universities of Ferrara, Firenze, Padova and Trento, the Center of Trento of the Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie - Istituto Trentino di Cultura and the Consorzio Criospazio Ricerche of Trento. This paper was assigned LIGO document number P070086-04.

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Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
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)
Scottish Funding Council
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
NASA
Carnegie Trust
Leverhulme Trust
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Universities of Ferrara, Firenze, Padova and Trento
Center of Trento of the Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie- Istituto Trentino di Cultura and the Consorzio Criospazio Ricerche of Trento
Max-Planck-Society
Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears

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