Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background

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Autorschaft

  • The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  • Virgo Collaboration
  • Shtefan Danilishin
  • Karsten Danzmann
  • Michele Heurs
  • Harald Lück
  • Henning Fedor Cornelius Vahlbruch
  • Li-Wei Wei
  • Benno Willke
  • Holger Wittel
  • Bruce Allen
  • Peter Aufmuth
  • Aparna Bisht
  • Gerald Bergmann
  • Nina Bode
  • Stefan Kaufer
  • Dirk Schütte
  • Ajoy Singh

Externe Organisationen

  • California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
  • Louisiana State University
  • Universita di Salerno
  • Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
  • University of Florida
  • Monash University
  • Universite de Savoie
  • University of Sannio
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)
  • University of Mississippi
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
  • University of Cambridge
  • Nationaal instituut voor subatomaire fysica (Nikhef)
  • LIGO Laboratory
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
  • Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR HYD)
  • Washington State University Pullman
  • University of Adelaide
  • University of Glasgow
  • Inje University
  • Australian National University
  • Radboud Universität Nijmegen (RU)
  • University of Melbourne
  • The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
  • Northwestern University
  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • Union Park
  • Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (OCA)
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer201102
Seitenumfang13
FachzeitschriftPhysical review letters
Jahrgang120
Ausgabenummer20
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 18 Mai 2018

Abstract

The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for only two tensor gravitational-wave polarizations, general metric theories can additionally predict two vector and two scalar polarizations. The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically polarized gravitational waves. We find no evidence for a background of any polarization, and place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the stochastic background. Under log-uniform priors for the energy in each polarization, we limit the energy densities of tensor, vector, and scalar modes at 95% credibility to Ω_{0}^{T}<5.58×10^{-8}, Ω_{0}^{V}<6.35×10^{-8}, and Ω_{0}^{S}<1.08×10^{-7} at a reference frequency f_{0}=25  Hz.

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Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. / The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration; Danilishin, Shtefan et al.
in: Physical review letters, Jahrgang 120, Nr. 20, 201102, 18.05.2018.

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelForschungPeer-Review

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Danilishin, S, Danzmann, K, Heurs, M, Lück, H, Vahlbruch, HFC, Wei, L-W, Willke, B, Wittel, H, Allen, B, Aufmuth, P, Bisht, A, Bergmann, G, Bode, N, Kaufer, S, Schütte, D & Singh, A 2018, 'Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background', Physical review letters, Jg. 120, Nr. 20, 201102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201102, https://doi.org/10.15488/12112
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Danilishin, S., Danzmann, K., Heurs, M., Lück, H., Vahlbruch, H. F. C., Wei, L.-W., Willke, B., Wittel, H., Allen, B., Aufmuth, P., Bisht, A., Bergmann, G., Bode, N., Kaufer, S., Schütte, D., & Singh, A. (2018). Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Physical review letters, 120(20), Artikel 201102. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201102, https://doi.org/10.15488/12112
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Danilishin S, Danzmann K, Heurs M, Lück H et al. Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Physical review letters. 2018 Mai 18;120(20):201102. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201102, 10.15488/12112
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration ; Virgo Collaboration ; Danilishin, Shtefan et al. / Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. in: Physical review letters. 2018 ; Jahrgang 120, Nr. 20.
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AU - The Virgo Collaboration

AU - Abbott, B. P.

AU - Abbott, R.

AU - Abbott, T. D.

AU - Acernese, F.

AU - Ackley, K.

AU - Adams, C.

AU - Adams, T.

AU - Addesso, P.

AU - Adhikari, R. X.

AU - Adya, Vaishali

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AU - Agathos, M.

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AU - Danzmann, Karsten

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AU - Hennig, J.

AU - Heurs, Michele

AU - Hreibi, A.

AU - Kumar, S.

AU - Lee, H. W.

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AU - Nguyen, T. T.

AU - Schmidt, James E.

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