APS » Phys. Rev. D » Volume 77 » Issue 6

B. Abbott,¹⁵ R. Abbott,¹⁵ R. Adhikari,¹⁵ J. Agresti,¹⁵ P. Ajith,² B. Allen,^2,54 R. Amin,¹⁹ S. B. Anderson,¹⁵ W. G. Anderson,⁵⁴ M. Arain,⁴¹ M. Araya,¹⁵ H. Armandula,¹⁵ M. Ashley,⁴ S. Aston,⁴⁰ P. Aufmuth,³⁸ C. Aulbert,¹ S. Babak,¹ S. Ballmer,¹⁵ H. Bantilan,⁹ B. C. Barish,¹⁵ C. Barker,¹⁶ D. Barker,¹⁶ B. Barr,⁴² P. Barriga,⁵³ M. A. Barton,⁴² K. Bayer,¹⁸ K. Belczynski,²⁶ S. J. Berukoff,¹ J. Betzwieser,¹⁸ P. T. Beyersdorf,²⁹ B. Bhawal,¹⁵ I. A. Bilenko,²³ G. Billingsley,¹⁵ R. Biswas,⁵⁴ E. Black,¹⁵ K. Blackburn,¹⁵ L. Blackburn,¹⁸ D. Blair,⁵³ B. Bland,¹⁶ J. Bogenstahl,⁴² L. Bogue,¹⁷ R. Bork,¹⁵ V. Boschi,¹⁵ S. Bose,⁵⁶ P. R. Brady,⁵⁴ V. B. Braginsky,²³ J. E. Brau,⁴⁵ M. Brinkmann,² A. Brooks,³⁹ D. A. Brown,^15,7 A. Bullington,³² A. Bunkowski,² A. Buonanno,⁴³ O. Burmeister,² D. Busby,¹⁵ W. E. Butler,⁴⁶ R. L. Byer,³² L. Cadonati,¹⁸ G. Cagnoli,⁴² J. B. Camp,²⁴ J. Cannizzo,²⁴ K. Cannon,⁵⁴ C. A. Cantley,⁴² J. Cao,¹⁸ L. Cardenas,¹⁵ K. Carter,¹⁷ M. M. Casey,⁴² G. Castaldi,⁴⁸ C. Cepeda,¹⁵ E. Chalkley,⁴² P. Charlton,¹⁰ S. Chatterji,¹⁵ S. Chelkowski,² Y. Chen,¹ F. Chiadini,⁴⁷ D. Chin,⁴⁴ E. Chin,⁵³ J. Chow,⁴ N. Christensen,⁹ J. Clark,⁴² P. Cochrane,² T. Cokelaer,⁸ C. N. Colacino,⁴⁰ R. Coldwell,⁴¹ M. Coles,¹⁷ R. Conte,⁴⁷ D. Cook,¹⁶ T. Corbitt,¹⁸ D. Coward,⁵³ D. Coyne,¹⁵ J. D. E. Creighton,⁵⁴ T. D. Creighton,¹⁵ R. P. Croce,⁴⁸ D. R. M. Crooks,⁴² A. M. Cruise,⁴⁰ P. Csatorday,¹⁸ A. Cumming,⁴² J. Dalrymple,³³ E. D'Ambrosio,¹⁵ K. Danzmann,^38,2 G. Davies,⁸ E. Daw,⁴⁹ D. DeBra,³² J. Degallaix,⁵³ M. Degree,³² T. Delker,⁴¹ T. Demma,⁴⁸ V. Dergachev,⁴⁴ S. Desai,³⁴ R. DeSalvo,¹⁵ S. Dhurandhar,¹⁴ M. Díaz,³⁵ J. Dickson,⁴ A. Di Credico,³³ G. Diederichs,³⁸ A. Dietz,⁸ H. Ding,¹⁵ E. E. Doomes,³¹ R. W. P. Drever,⁵ J.-C. Dumas,⁵³ R. J. Dupuis,¹⁵ J. G. Dwyer,¹¹ P. Ehrens,¹⁵ E. Espinoza,¹⁵ T. Etzel,¹⁵ M. Evans,¹⁵ T. Evans,¹⁷ S. Fairhurst,^8,15 Y. Fan,⁵³ D. Fazi,¹⁵ M. M. Fejer,³² L. S. Finn,³⁴ V. Fiumara,⁴⁷ N. Fotopoulos,⁵⁴ A. Franzen,³⁸ K. Y. Franzen,⁴¹ A. Freise,⁴⁰ R. Frey,⁴⁵ T. Fricke,⁴⁶ P. Fritschel,¹⁸ V. V. Frolov,¹⁷ M. Fyffe,¹⁷ V. Galdi,⁴⁸ K. S. Ganezer,⁶ J. Garofoli,¹⁶ I. Gholami,¹ J. A. Giaime,^17,19 S. Giampanis,⁴⁶ K. D. Giardina,¹⁷ K. Goda,¹⁸ E. Goetz,⁴⁴ L. Goggin,¹⁵ G. González,¹⁹ S. Gossler,⁴ A. Grant,⁴² S. Gras,⁵³ C. Gray,¹⁶ M. Gray,⁴ J. Greenhalgh,²⁸ A. M. Gretarsson,¹² R. Grosso,³⁵ H. Grote,² S. Grunewald,¹ M. Guenther,¹⁶ R. Gustafson,⁴⁴ B. Hage,³⁸ D. Hammer,⁵⁴ C. Hanna,¹⁹ J. Hanson,¹⁷ J. Harms,² G. Harry,¹⁸ E. Harstad,⁴⁵ T. Hayler,²⁸ J. Heefner,¹⁵ G. Heinzel,² I. S. Heng,⁴² A. Heptonstall,⁴² M. Heurs,² M. Hewitson,² S. Hild,³⁸ E. Hirose,³³ D. Hoak,¹⁷ D. Hosken,³⁹ J. Hough,⁴² E. Howell,⁵³ D. Hoyland,⁴⁰ S. H. Huttner,⁴² D. Ingram,¹⁶ E. Innerhofer,¹⁸ M. Ito,⁴⁵ Y. Itoh,⁵⁴ A. Ivanov,¹⁵ D. Jackrel,³² O. Jennrich,⁴² B. Johnson,¹⁶ W. W. Johnson,¹⁹ W. R. Johnston,³⁵ D. I. Jones,⁵⁰ G. Jones,⁸ R. Jones,⁴² L. Ju,⁵³ P. Kalmus,¹¹ V. Kalogera,²⁶ D. Kasprzyk,⁴⁰ E. Katsavounidis,¹⁸ K. Kawabe,¹⁶ S. Kawamura,²⁵ F. Kawazoe,²⁵ W. Kells,¹⁵ D. G. Keppel,¹⁵ F. Ya. Khalili,²³ C. J. Killow,⁴² C. Kim,²⁶ P. King,¹⁵ J. S. Kissel,¹⁹ S. Klimenko,⁴¹ K. Kokeyama,²⁵ V. Kondrashov,¹⁵ R. K. Kopparapu,¹⁹ D. Kozak,¹⁵ B. Krishnan,¹ P. Kwee,³⁸ P. K. Lam,⁴ M. Landry,¹⁶ B. Lantz,³² A. Lazzarini,¹⁵ B. Lee,⁵³ M. Lei,¹⁵ J. Leiner,⁵⁶ V. Leonhardt,²⁵ I. Leonor,⁴⁵ K. Libbrecht,¹⁵ A. Libson,⁹ P. Lindquist,¹⁵ N. A. Lockerbie,⁵¹ J. Logan,¹⁵ M. Longo,⁴⁷ M. Lormand,¹⁷ M. Lubinski,¹⁶ H. Lück,^38,2 B. Machenschalk,¹ M. MacInnis,¹⁸ M. Mageswaran,¹⁵ K. Mailand,¹⁵ M. Malec,³⁸ V. Mandic,¹⁵ S. Marano,⁴⁷ S. Márka,¹¹ J. Markowitz,¹⁸ E. Maros,¹⁵ I. Martin,⁴² J. N. Marx,¹⁵ K. Mason,¹⁸ L. Matone,¹¹ V. Matta,⁴⁷ N. Mavalvala,¹⁸ R. McCarthy,¹⁶ D. E. McClelland,⁴ S. C. McGuire,³¹ M. McHugh,²¹ K. McKenzie,⁴ J. W. C. McNabb,³⁴ S. McWilliams,²⁴ T. Meier,³⁸ A. Melissinos,⁴⁶ G. Mendell,¹⁶ R. A. Mercer,⁴¹ S. Meshkov,¹⁵ E. Messaritaki,¹⁵ C. J. Messenger,⁴² D. Meyers,¹⁵ E. Mikhailov,¹⁸ S. Mitra,¹⁴ V. P. Mitrofanov,²³ G. Mitselmakher,⁴¹ R. Mittleman,¹⁸ O. Miyakawa,¹⁵ S. Mohanty,³⁵ G. Moreno,¹⁶ K. Mossavi,² C. MowLowry,⁴ A. Moylan,⁴ D. Mudge,³⁹ G. Mueller,⁴¹ S. Mukherjee,³⁵ H. Müller-Ebhardt,² J. Munch,³⁹ P. Murray,⁴² E. Myers,¹⁶ J. Myers,¹⁶ S. Nagano,² T. Nash,¹⁵ G. Newton,⁴² A. Nishizawa,²⁵ F. Nocera,¹⁵ K. Numata,²⁴ P. Nutzman,²⁶ B. O'Reilly,¹⁷ R. O'Shaughnessy,²⁶ D. J. Ottaway,¹⁸ H. Overmier,¹⁷ B. J. Owen,³⁴ Y. Pan,⁴³ M. A. Papa,^1,54 V. Parameshwaraiah,¹⁶ C. Parameswariah,¹⁷ P. Patel,¹⁵ M. Pedraza,¹⁵ S. Penn,¹³ V. Pierro,⁴⁸ I. M. Pinto,⁴⁸ M. Pitkin,⁴² H. Pletsch,² M. V. Plissi,⁴² F. Postiglione,⁴⁷ R. Prix,¹ V. Quetschke,⁴¹ F. Raab,¹⁶ D. Rabeling,⁴ H. Radkins,¹⁶ R. Rahkola,⁴⁵ N. Rainer,² M. Rakhmanov,³⁴ M. Ramsunder,³⁴ K. Rawlins,¹⁸ S. Ray-Majumder,⁵⁴ V. Re,⁴⁰ T. Regimbau,⁸ H. Rehbein,² S. Reid,⁴² D. H. Reitze,⁴¹ L. Ribichini,² S. Richman,¹⁸ R. Riesen,¹⁷ K. Riles,⁴⁴ B. Rivera,¹⁶ N. A. Robertson,^15,42 C. Robinson,⁸ E. L. Robinson,⁴⁰ S. Roddy,¹⁷ A. Rodriguez,¹⁹ A. M. Rogan,⁵⁶ J. Rollins,¹¹ J. D. Romano,⁸ J. Romie,¹⁷ H. Rong,⁴¹ R. Route,³² S. Rowan,⁴² A. Rüdiger,² L. Ruet,¹⁸ P. Russell,¹⁵ K. Ryan,¹⁶ S. Sakata,²⁵ M. Samidi,¹⁵ L. Sancho de la Jordana,³⁷ V. Sandberg,¹⁶ G. H. Sanders,¹⁵ V. Sannibale,¹⁵ S. Saraf,²⁷ P. Sarin,¹⁸ B. S. Sathyaprakash,⁸ S. Sato,²⁵ P. R. Saulson,³³ R. Savage,¹⁶ P. Savov,⁷ A. Sazonov,⁴¹ S. Schediwy,⁵³ R. Schilling,² R. Schnabel,² R. Schofield,⁴⁵ B. F. Schutz,¹ P. Schwinberg,¹⁶ S. M. Scott,⁴ A. C. Searle,⁴ B. Sears,¹⁵ F. Seifert,² D. Sellers,¹⁷ A. S. Sengupta,⁸ P. Shawhan,⁴³ D. H. Shoemaker,¹⁸ A. Sibley,¹⁷ J. A. Sidles,⁵² X. Siemens,^15,7 D. Sigg,¹⁶ S. Sinha,³² A. M. Sintes,^37,1 B. J. J. Slagmolen,⁴ J. Slutsky,¹⁹ J. R. Smith,² M. R. Smith,¹⁵ K. Somiya,^2,1 K. A. Strain,⁴² N. E. Strand,³⁴ D. M. Strom,⁴⁵ A. Stuver,³⁴ T. Z. Summerscales,³ K.-X. Sun,³² M. Sung,¹⁹ P. J. Sutton,¹⁵ J. Sylvestre,¹⁵ H. Takahashi,¹ A. Takamori,¹⁵ D. B. Tanner,⁴¹ M. Tarallo,¹⁵ R. Taylor,¹⁵ R. Taylor,⁴² J. Thacker,¹⁷ K. A. Thorne,³⁴ K. S. Thorne,⁷ A. Thüring,³⁸ M. Tinto,⁵ K. V. Tokmakov,⁴² C. Torres,³⁵ C. Torrie,⁴² G. Traylor,¹⁷ M. Trias,³⁷ W. Tyler,¹⁵ D. Ugolini,³⁶ C. Ungarelli,⁴⁰ K. Urbanek,³² H. Vahlbruch,³⁸ M. Vallisneri,⁷ C. Van Den Broeck,⁸ M. van Putten,¹⁸ M. Varvella,¹⁵ S. Vass,¹⁵ A. Vecchio,⁴⁰ J. Veitch,⁴² P. Veitch,³⁹ A. Villar,¹⁵ C. Vorvick,¹⁶ S. P. Vyachanin,²³ S. J. Waldman,¹⁵ L. Wallace,¹⁵ H. Ward,⁴² R. Ward,¹⁵ K. Watts,¹⁷ D. Webber,¹⁵ A. Weidner,² M. Weinert,² A. Weinstein,¹⁵ R. Weiss,¹⁸ L. Wen,¹ S. Wen,¹⁹ K. Wette,⁴ J. T. Whelan,¹ D. M. Whitbeck,³⁴ S. E. Whitcomb,¹⁵ B. F. Whiting,⁴¹ S. Wiley,⁶ C. Wilkinson,¹⁶ P. A. Willems,¹⁵ L. Williams,⁴¹ B. Willke,^38,2 I. Wilmut,²⁸ W. Winkler,² C. C. Wipf,¹⁸ S. Wise,⁴¹ A. G. Wiseman,⁵⁴ G. Woan,⁴² D. Woods,⁵⁴ R. Wooley,¹⁷ J. Worden,¹⁶ W. Wu,⁴¹ I. Yakushin,¹⁷ H. Yamamoto,¹⁵ Z. Yan,⁵³ S. Yoshida,³⁰ N. Yunes,³⁴ K. D. Zaleski,³⁴ M. Zanolin,¹⁸ J. Zhang,⁴⁴ L. Zhang,¹⁵ C. Zhao,⁵³ N. Zotov,²⁰ M. Zucker,¹⁸ H. zur Mühlen,³⁸ and J. Zweizig¹⁵

(LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

¹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
²Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 USA
⁴Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
⁵California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁶California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
⁷Caltech–CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁸Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
⁹Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
¹⁰Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
¹¹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹²Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
¹³Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹⁴Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune - 411007, India
¹⁵LIGO–California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁶LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
¹⁷LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
¹⁸LIGO–Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁹Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
²⁰Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
²¹Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
²²Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany
²³Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
²⁴NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
²⁵National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
²⁶Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
²⁷Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
²⁸Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
²⁹San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
³⁰Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
³¹Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
³²Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
³³Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
³⁴The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
³⁵The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
³⁶Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
³⁷Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³⁸Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³⁹University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
⁴⁰University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
⁴¹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁴²University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
⁴³University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
⁴⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
⁴⁵University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁴⁶University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁴⁷University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
⁴⁸University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
⁴⁹University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S3 7RH, United Kingdom
⁵⁰University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
⁵¹University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
⁵²University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
⁵³University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
⁵⁴University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁵⁵Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
⁵⁶Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by gamma-ray satellite experiments during LIGO's S2, S3, and S4 science runs. The search involves calculating the crosscorrelation between two interferometer data streams surrounding the GRB trigger time. We search for associated gravitational radiation from single GRBs, and also apply statistical tests to search for a gravitational-wave signature associated with the whole sample. For the sample examined, we find no evidence for the association of gravitational radiation with GRBs, either on a single-GRB basis or on a statistical basis. Simulating gravitational-wave bursts with sine-Gaussian waveforms, we set upper limits on the root-sum-square of the gravitational-wave strain amplitude of such waveforms at the times of the GRB triggers. We also demonstrate how a sample of several GRBs can be used collectively to set constraints on population models. The small number of GRBs and the significant change in sensitivity of the detectors over the three runs, however, limits the usefulness of a population study for the S2, S3, and S4 runs. Finally, we discuss prospects for the search sensitivity for the ongoing S5 run, and beyond for the next generation of detectors.

©2008 The American Physical Society

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