Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects

Abbott, B. et al. (2008) Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 25, 114051. (doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/25/11/114051)

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Abstract

In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from γ-ray and x-ray satellites, optical telescopes and neutrino observatories, provide a trigger time for analyzing gravitational-wave data coincident with the event. In certain cases the expected frequency range, source energetics, directional and progenitor information are also available. Beyond allowing the recognition of gravitational waveforms with amplitudes closer to the noise floor of the detector, these triggered searches should also lead to rich science results even before the onset of Advanced LIGO. In this paper we provide a broad review of LIGO's astrophysically triggered searches and the sources they target.

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Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Heptonstall, Dr Alastair and Grant, Mr Alastair and Cagnoli, Dr Gianpietro and Rowan, Professor Sheila and Messenger, Dr Christopher and Martin, Dr Iain and Robertson, Professor Norna and Hild, Professor Stefan and Barr, Dr Bryan and Sorazu Lucio, Dr Borja and Reid, Professor Stuart and Cumming, Dr Alan and Tokmakov, Dr Kirill and Cunningham, Dr Liam and Veitch, Dr John and Plissi, Dr Michael and Woan, Professor Graham and Heng, Professor Ik Siong and Nelson, Mr John and Hough, Professor James and Ward, Professor Henry and Newton, Dr Gavin and Torrie, Dr Calum and Huttner, Dr Sabina and Jones, Mr Russell and Strain, Professor Kenneth and Pitkin, Dr Matthew and Murray, Dr Peter and Barton, Dr Mark
Authors: Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M.A., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Armor, P., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bastarrika, M., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bodiya, T.P., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Brunet, G., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Casebolt, T., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Christensen, N., Clark, D., Clark, J., Cokelaer, T., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cutler, R.M., Dalrymple, J., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K.L., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Duke, I., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Echols, C., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Flasch, K., Fotopoulos, N., Friese, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Garolfi, J., Gholami, I., Giaime, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L., González, G., Gossler, S., Gouaty, R., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, R.J.S., Gretarsson, A.M., Grimaldi, F., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, E.K., Gustafson, R., Hague, B., Hallam, J.M., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G., Harstad, E., 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Subjects:Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Research Centre:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research
Journal Name:Classical and Quantum Gravity
Publisher:Institute of Physics
ISSN:0264-9381

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