APS » Phys. Rev. D » Volume 73 » Issue 10

B. Abbott,¹ R. Abbott,¹ R. Adhikari,¹ A. Ageev,^2,3 J. Agresti,¹ P. Ajith,⁴ B. Allen,⁵ J. Allen,⁶ R. Amin,⁷ S. B. Anderson,¹ W. G. Anderson,⁸ M. Araya,¹ H. Armandula,¹ M. Ashley,⁹ F. Asiri,¹ P. Aufmuth,¹⁰ C. Aulbert,¹¹ S. Babak,¹² R. Balasubramanian,¹² S. Ballmer,⁶ B. C. Barish,¹ C. Barker,¹³ D. Barker,¹³ M. Barnes,¹ B. Barr,¹⁴ M. A. Barton,¹ K. Bayer,⁶ R. Beausoleil,¹⁵ K. Belczynski,¹⁶ R. Bennett,¹⁴ S. J. Berukoff,¹¹ J. Betzwieser,⁶ B. Bhawal,¹ I. A. Bilenko,² G. Billingsley,¹ E. Black,¹ K. Blackburn,¹ L. Blackburn,⁶ B. Bland,¹³ B. Bochner,⁶ L. Bogue,¹⁷ R. Bork,¹ S. Bose,¹⁸ P. R. Brady,⁵ V. B. Braginsky,² J. E. Brau,¹⁹ D. A. Brown,¹ A. Bullington,¹⁵ A. Bunkowski,^4,10 A. Buonanno,²⁰ R. Burgess,⁶ D. Busby,¹ W. E. Butler,²¹ R. L. Byer,¹⁵ L. Cadonati,⁶ G. Cagnoli,¹⁴ J. B. Camp,²² J. Cannizzo,²² K. Cannon,⁵ C. A. Cantley,¹⁴ J. Cao,⁶ L. Cardenas,¹ K. Carter,¹⁷ M. M. Casey,¹⁴ J. Castiglione,²³ A. Chandler,¹ J. Chapsky,¹ P. Charlton,¹ S. Chatterji,¹ S. Chelkowski,^4,10 Y. Chen,¹¹ V. Chickarmane,⁷ D. Chin,²⁴ N. Christensen,²⁵ D. Churches,¹² T. Cokelaer,¹² C. Colacino,²⁶ R. Coldwell,²³ M. Coles,¹⁷ D. Cook,¹³ T. Corbitt,⁶ D. Coyne,¹ J. D. E. Creighton,⁵ T. D. Creighton,¹ D. R. M. Crooks,¹⁴ P. Csatorday,⁶ B. J. Cusack,²⁷ C. Cutler,¹¹ J. Dalrymple,³ E. D'Ambrosio,¹ K. Danzmann,^4,10 G. Davies,¹² E. Daw,⁷ D. DeBra,¹⁵ T. Delker,²³ V. Dergachev,²⁴ S. Desai,⁹ R. DeSalvo,¹ S. Dhurandhar,²⁸ A. Di Credico,³ M. Díaz,⁸ H. Ding,¹ R. W. P. Drever,²⁹ R. J. Dupuis,¹ J. A. Edlund,¹ P. Ehrens,¹ E. J. Elliffe,¹⁴ T. Etzel,¹ M. Evans,¹ T. Evans,¹⁷ S. Fairhurst,⁵ C. Fallnich,¹⁰ D. Farnham,¹ M. M. Fejer,¹⁵ T. Findley,³⁰ M. Fine,¹ L. S. Finn,⁹ K. Y. Franzen,²³ A. Freise,⁴ R. Frey,¹⁹ P. Fritschel,⁶ V. V. Frolov,¹⁷ M. Fyffe,¹⁷ K. S. Ganezer,³¹ J. Garofoli,¹³ J. A. Giaime,⁷ A. Gillespie,¹ K. Goda,⁶ L. Goggin,¹ G. González,⁷ S. Goßler,¹⁰ P. Grandclément,¹⁶ A. Grant,¹⁴ C. Gray,¹³ A. M. Gretarsson,³² D. Grimmett,¹ H. Grote,⁴ S. Grunewald,¹¹ M. Guenther,¹³ E. Gustafson,¹⁵ R. Gustafson,²⁴ W. O. Hamilton,⁷ M. Hammond,¹⁷ C. Hanna,⁷ J. Hanson,¹⁷ C. Hardham,¹⁵ J. Harms,³³ G. Harry,⁶ A. Hartunian,¹ J. Heefner,¹ Y. Hefetz,⁶ G. Heinzel,⁴ I. S. Heng,¹⁰ M. Hennessy,¹⁵ N. Hepler,⁹ A. Heptonstall,¹⁴ M. Heurs,¹⁰ M. Hewitson,⁴ S. Hild,⁴ N. Hindman,¹³ P. Hoang,¹ J. Hough,¹⁴ M. Hrynevych,¹ W. Hua,¹⁵ M. Ito,¹⁹ Y. Itoh,¹¹ A. Ivanov,¹ O. Jennrich,¹⁴ B. Johnson,¹³ W. W. Johnson,⁷ W. R. Johnston,⁸ D. I. Jones,⁹ G. Jones,¹² L. Jones,¹ D. Jungwirth,¹ V. Kalogera,¹⁶ E. Katsavounidis,⁶ K. Kawabe,¹³ W. Kells,¹ J. Kern,¹⁷ A. Khan,¹⁷ S. Killbourn,¹⁴ C. J. Killow,¹⁴ C. Kim,¹⁶ C. King,¹ P. King,¹ S. Klimenko,²³ S. Koranda,⁵ K. Kötter,¹⁰ J. Kovalik,¹⁷ D. Kozak,¹ B. Krishnan,¹¹ M. Landry,¹³ J. Langdale,¹⁷ B. Lantz,¹⁵ R. Lawrence,⁶ A. Lazzarini,¹ M. Lei,¹ I. Leonor,¹⁹ K. Libbrecht,¹ A. Libson,²⁵ P. Lindquist,¹ S. Liu,¹ J. Logan,¹ M. Lormand,¹⁷ M. Lubinski,¹³ H. Lück,^4,10 M. Luna,³⁴ T. T. Lyons,¹ B. Machenschalk,¹¹ M. MacInnis,⁶ M. Mageswaran,¹ K. Mailand,¹ W. Majid,¹ M. Malec,^4,10 V. Mandic,¹ F. Mann,¹ A. Marin,⁶ S. Márka,³⁵ E. Maros,¹ J. Mason,¹ K. Mason,⁶ O. Matherny,¹³ L. Matone,³⁵ N. Mavalvala,⁶ R. McCarthy,¹³ D. E. McClelland,²⁷ M. McHugh,³⁶ J. W. C. McNabb,⁹ A. Melissinos,²¹ G. Mendell,¹³ R. A. Mercer,²⁶ S. Meshkov,¹ E. Messaritaki,⁵ C. Messenger,²⁶ E. Mikhailov,⁶ S. Mitra,²⁸ V. P. Mitrofanov,² G. Mitselmakher,²³ R. Mittleman,⁶ O. Miyakawa,¹ S. Mohanty,⁸ G. Moreno,¹³ K. Mossavi,⁴ G. Mueller,²³ S. Mukherjee,⁸ P. Murray,¹⁴ E. Myers,³⁷ J. Myers,¹³ S. Nagano,⁴ T. Nash,¹ R. Nayak,²⁸ G. Newton,¹⁴ F. Nocera,¹ J. S. Noel,¹⁸ P. Nutzman,¹⁶ T. Olson,³⁸ B. O'Reilly,¹⁷ D. J. Ottaway,⁶ A. Ottewill,⁵ D. Ouimette,¹ H. Overmier,¹⁷ B. J. Owen,⁹ Y. Pan,³⁹ M. A. Papa,¹¹ V. Parameshwaraiah,¹³ C. Parameswariah,¹⁷ M. Pedraza,¹ S. Penn,⁴⁰ M. Pitkin,¹⁴ M. Plissi,¹⁴ R. Prix,¹¹ V. Quetschke,²³ F. Raab,¹³ H. Radkins,¹³ R. Rahkola,¹⁹ M. Rakhmanov,²³ S. R. Rao,¹ K. Rawlins,⁶ S. Ray-Majumder,⁵ V. Re,²⁶ D. Redding,¹ M. W. Regehr,¹ T. Regimbau,¹² S. Reid,¹⁴ K. T. Reilly,¹ K. Reithmaier,¹ D. H. Reitze,²³ S. Richman,⁶ R. Riesen,¹⁷ K. Riles,²⁴ B. Rivera,¹³ A. Rizzi,¹⁷ D. I. Robertson,¹⁴ N. A. Robertson,^14,15 C. Robinson,¹² L. Robison,¹ S. Roddy,¹⁷ A. Rodriguez,⁷ J. Rollins,³⁵ J. D. Romano,¹² J. Romie,¹ H. Rong,²³ D. Rose,¹ E. Rotthoff,⁹ S. Rowan,¹⁴ A. Rüdiger,⁴ L. Ruet,⁶ P. Russell,¹ K. Ryan,¹³ I. Salzman,¹ V. Sandberg,¹³ G. H. Sanders,¹ V. Sannibale,¹ P. Sarin,⁶ B. Sathyaprakash,¹² P. R. Saulson,³ R. Savage,¹³ A. Sazonov,²³ R. Schilling,⁴ K. Schlaufman,⁹ V. Schmidt,¹ R. Schnabel,³³ R. Schofield,¹⁹ B. F. Schutz,^11,12 P. Schwinberg,¹³ S. M. Scott,²⁷ S. E. Seader,¹⁸ A. C. Searle,²⁷ B. Sears,¹ S. Seel,¹ F. Seifert,³³ D. Sellers,¹⁷ A. S. Sengupta,²⁸ C. A. Shapiro,⁹ P. Shawhan,¹ D. H. Shoemaker,⁶ Q. Z. Shu,²³ A. Sibley,¹⁷ X. Siemens,⁵ L. Sievers,¹ D. Sigg,¹³ A. M. Sintes,^11,34 J. R. Smith,⁴ M. Smith,⁶ M. R. Smith,¹ P. H. Sneddon,¹⁴ R. Spero,¹ O. Spjeld,¹⁷ G. Stapfer,¹⁷ D. Steussy,²⁵ K. A. Strain,¹⁴ D. Strom,¹⁹ A. Stuver,⁹ T. Summerscales,⁹ M. C. Sumner,¹ M. Sung,⁷ P. J. Sutton,¹ J. Sylvestre,¹ D. B. Tanner,²³ H. Tariq,¹ M. Tarallo,¹ I. Taylor,¹² R. Taylor,¹⁴ R. Taylor,¹ K. A. Thorne,⁹ K. S. Thorne,³⁹ M. Tibbits,⁹ S. Tilav,¹ M. Tinto,²⁹ K. V. Tokmakov,² C. Torres,⁸ C. Torrie,¹ G. Traylor,¹⁷ W. Tyler,¹ D. Ugolini,⁴¹ C. Ungarelli,²⁶ M. Vallisneri,³⁹ M. van Putten,⁶ S. Vass,¹ A. Vecchio,²⁶ J. Veitch,¹⁴ C. Vorvick,¹³ S. P. Vyachanin,² L. Wallace,¹ H. Walther,³³ H. Ward,¹⁴ R. Ward,¹ B. Ware,¹ K. Watts,¹⁷ D. Webber,¹ A. Weidner,^33,4 U. Weiland,¹⁰ A. Weinstein,¹ R. Weiss,⁶ H. Welling,¹⁰ L. Wen,¹¹ S. Wen,⁷ K. Wette,²⁷ J. T. Whelan,³⁶ S. E. Whitcomb,¹ B. F. Whiting,²³ S. Wiley,³¹ C. Wilkinson,¹³ P. A. Willems,¹ P. R. Williams,¹¹ R. Williams,²⁹ B. Willke,^4,10 A. Wilson,¹ B. J. Winjum,⁹ W. Winkler,⁴ S. Wise,²³ A. G. Wiseman,⁵ G. Woan,¹⁴ D. Woods,⁵ R. Wooley,¹⁷ J. Worden,¹³ W. Wu,²³ I. Yakushin,¹⁷ H. Yamamoto,¹ S. Yoshida,³⁰ K. D. Zaleski,⁹ M. Zanolin,⁶ I. Zawischa,¹⁰ L. Zhang,¹ R. Zhu,¹¹ N. Zotov,⁴² M. Zucker,¹⁷ and J. Zweizig¹

(LIGO Scientific Collaboration, http://www.ligo.org)

¹LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
²Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
³Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
⁴Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
⁵University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁶LIGO-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
⁷Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
⁸The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
⁹The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
¹⁰Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
¹¹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
¹²Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, United Kingdom
¹³LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
¹⁴University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
¹⁵Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
¹⁶Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
¹⁷LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
¹⁸Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
¹⁹University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
²⁰University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
²¹University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
²²NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
²³University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
²⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
²⁵Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
²⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
²⁷Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
²⁸Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
²⁹California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
³⁰Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
³¹California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
³²Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
³³Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany
³⁴Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³⁵Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
³⁶Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
³⁷Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
³⁸Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana 59855, USA
³⁹Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁴⁰Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
⁴¹Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
⁴²Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA

T. Akutsu,⁴³ T. Akutsu,⁴⁴ M. Ando,⁴⁵ K. Arai,⁴⁶ A. Araya,⁴⁷ H. Asada,⁴⁸ Y. Aso,⁴⁵ P. Beyersdorf,⁴⁶ Y. Fujiki,⁴⁹ M.-K. Fujimoto,⁴⁶ R. Fujita,⁵⁰ M. Fukushima,⁴⁶ T. Futamase,⁵¹ Y. Hamuro,⁴⁹ T. Haruyama,⁵² K. Hayama,⁴⁶ H. Iguchi,⁵³ Y. Iida,⁴⁵ K. Ioka,⁵⁷ H. Ishitsuka,⁴³ N. Kamikubota,⁵² N. Kanda,⁵⁴ T. Kaneyama,⁴⁹ Y. Karasawa,⁵¹ K. Kasahara,⁴³ T. Kasai,⁴⁸ M. Katsuki,⁵⁴ S. Kawamura,⁴⁶ M. Kawamura,⁴⁹ F. Kawazoe,⁵⁵ Y. Kojima,⁵⁶ K. Kokeyama,⁵⁵ K. Kondo,⁴³ Y. Kozai,⁴⁶ H. Kudoh,⁴⁵ K. Kuroda,⁴³ T. Kuwabara,⁴⁹ N. Matsuda,⁵⁸ N. Mio,⁵⁹ K. Miura,⁶⁰ S. Miyama,⁴⁶ S. Miyoki,⁴³ H. Mizusawa,⁴⁹ S. Moriwaki,⁵⁹ M. Musha,⁶¹ Y. Nagayama,⁵⁴ K. Nakagawa,⁶¹ T. Nakamura,⁵⁷ H. Nakano,⁵⁴ K. Nakao,⁵⁴ Y. Nishi,⁴⁵ K. Numata,⁴⁵ Y. Ogawa,⁵² M. Ohashi,⁴³ N. Ohishi,⁴⁶ A. Okutomi,⁴³ K. Oohara,⁴⁹ S. Otsuka,⁴⁵ Y. Saito,⁵² S. Sakata,⁵⁵ M. Sasaki,⁶⁶ N. Sato,⁵² S. Sato,⁴⁶ Y. Sato,⁶¹ K. Sato,⁶² A. Sekido,⁶³ N. Seto,⁵⁰ M. Shibata,⁶⁴ H. Shinkai,⁶⁵ T. Shintomi,⁵² K. Soida,⁴⁵ K. Somiya,⁵⁹ T. Suzuki,⁵² H. Tagoshi,⁵⁰ H. Takahashi,⁴⁹ R. Takahashi,⁴⁶ A. Takamori,⁴⁷ S. Takemoto,⁵⁷ K. Takeno,⁵⁹ T. Tanaka,⁶⁶ K. Taniguchi,⁶⁹ T. Tanji,⁵⁹ D. Tatsumi,⁴⁶ S. Telada,⁶⁸ M. Tokunari,⁴³ T. Tomaru,⁵² K. Tsubono,⁴⁵ N. Tsuda,⁶² Y. Tsunesada,⁴⁶ T. Uchiyama,⁴³ K. Ueda,⁶¹ A. Ueda,⁴⁶ K. Waseda,⁴⁶ A. Yamamoto,⁵² K. Yamamoto,⁴³ T. Yamazaki,⁴⁶ Y. Yanagi,⁵⁵ J. Yokoyama,⁶⁷ T. Yoshida,⁵¹ and Z.-H. Zhu⁴⁶

(TAMA Collaboration)

⁴³Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8582, Japan
⁴⁴Department of Astronomy, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
⁴⁵Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
⁴⁶National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
⁴⁷Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0032, Japan
⁴⁸Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
⁴⁹Faculty of Science, Niigata University, Niigata, Niigata 950-2102, Japan
⁵⁰Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
⁵¹Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8578, Japan
⁵²High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan
⁵³Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
⁵⁴Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka 558-8585, Japan
⁵⁵Ochanomizu University, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8610, Japan
⁵⁶Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526, Japan
⁵⁷Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
⁵⁸Tokyo Denki University, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8457, Japan
⁵⁹Department of Advanced Materials Science, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan
⁶⁰Department of Physics, Miyagi University of Education, Aoba Aramaki, Sendai 980-0845, Japan
⁶¹Institute for Laser Science, University of Electro-Communications, Chofugaoka, Chofu, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
⁶²Precision Engineering Division, Faculty of Engineering, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa 259-1292, Japan
⁶³Waseda University, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan
⁶⁴Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
⁶⁵RIKEN, Wako, Saitaka 351-0198, Japan
⁶⁶Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
⁶⁷Research Center for the Early Universe (RESCEU), Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
⁶⁸National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8563, Japan
⁶⁹Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA

We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an intercollaboration coincidence search during times when TAMA300 and only one of the LIGO sites were operational. We find no evidence of any gravitational wave signals. We place an observational upper limit on the rate of binary neutron star coalescence with component masses between 1 and 3M_[sun] of 49 per year per Milky Way equivalent galaxy at a 90% confidence level. The methods developed during this search will find application in future network inspiral analyses.

©2006 The American Physical Society

View Cart	Download Citation
MyScitation	Print View