All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
Abstract
We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gravitational-wave transients with a duration of milliseconds to approximately one second in the 32–4096 Hz frequency band with minimal assumptions about the signal properties, thus targeting a wide variety of sources. We also perform a matched-filter search for gravitational-wave transients from cosmic string cusps for which the waveform is well modeled. The unmodeled search detected gravitational waves from several binary black hole mergers which have been identified by previous analyses. No other significant events have been found by either the unmodeled search or the cosmic string search. We thus present the search sensitivities for a variety of signal waveforms and report upper limits on the source rate density as a function of the characteristic frequency of the signal. These upper limits are a factor of 3 lower than the first observing run, with a 50% detection probability for gravitational-wave emissions with energies of
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- July 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024017
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1904.08976
- Bibcode:
- 2019PhRvD.100b4017A
- Keywords:
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- General relativity;
- alternative theories of gravity;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 161102 (2019)