Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during LIGO's fifth and VIRGO's first science run
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2010
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Hosken, D.
Munch, J.
Ottaway, D.
Veitch, P.
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The Astrophysical Journal: an international review of astronomy and astronomical physics, 2010; 715(2):1453-1461
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J. Abadie... D. J. Hosken... J. Munch... D. J. Ottaway... P. J. Veitch...et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, VIRGO Collaboration)
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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.
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Copyright © IOP Publishing 2010 Society. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. Submitted to Cornell University's online archive www.arXiv.org in 2010 by Nickolas Fotopoulos. Post-print sourced from www.arxiv.org