Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals ...

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Published

Standard

Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run. / LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration.
In: The Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 715, No. 2, 12.05.2010, p. 1453-1461.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

Harvard

LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration 2010, 'Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run', The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 715, no. 2, pp. 1453-1461. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

APA

Vancouver

LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run. The Astrophysical Journal. 2010 May 12;715(2):1453-1461. doi: 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

Author

LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. / Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run. In: The Astrophysical Journal. 2010 ; Vol. 715, No. 2. pp. 1453-1461.

Bibtex

@article{c9dc9137f8ff46deb6044771a37a2825,
title = "Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run",
abstract = "Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc.",
keywords = "binaries: close, gamma-ray burst: general, gravitational waves, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena",
author = "{LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration} and M. Pitkin",
year = "2010",
month = may,
day = "12",
doi = "10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453",
language = "English",
volume = "715",
pages = "1453--1461",
journal = "The Astrophysical Journal",
issn = "0004-637X",
publisher = "Institute of Physics Publishing",
number = "2",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

AU - LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration

AU - Pitkin, M.

PY - 2010/5/12

Y1 - 2010/5/12

N2 - Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc.

AB - Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc.

KW - binaries: close

KW - gamma-ray burst: general

KW - gravitational waves

KW - Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

U2 - 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

DO - 10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

M3 - Journal article

VL - 715

SP - 1453

EP - 1461

JO - The Astrophysical Journal

JF - The Astrophysical Journal

SN - 0004-637X

IS - 2

ER -