Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run

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Authors

  • The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  • The Virgo Collaboration
  • Sukanta Bose
  • D. D. Brown
  • Y. B. Chen
  • Manuela Hanke
  • J. Hennig
  • Sanjeev Kumar
  • R. N. Lang
  • H. K. Lee
  • H. M. Lee
  • H. W. Lee
  • J. Lee
  • X. Li
  • J. R. Sanders
  • Patricia Schmidt
  • L. Sun
  • Y. F. Wang
  • D. S. Wu
  • R. Zhang
  • X. J. Zhu
  • Minchuan Zhou
  • Gerald Bergmann
  • Aparna Bisht
  • Nina Bode
  • P. Booker
  • Marc Brinkmann
  • M. Cabero
  • O. de Varona
  • S. Hochheim
  • T. Dent
  • S. Doravari
  • J. Junker
  • Stefan Kaufer
  • R. Kirchhoff
  • Patrick Koch
  • N. Koper
  • S. M. Köhlenbeck
  • Volker Kringel
  • Kai S. Karvinen
  • S. Khan
  • S. Leavey
  • J. Lehmann
  • James Lough
  • Moritz Mehmet
  • Arunava Mukherjee
  • Nikhil Mukund
  • M. Nery
  • F. Ohme
  • P. Oppermann
  • A. Rüdiger
  • M. Phelps
  • O. Puncken
  • Emil Schreiber
  • B. W. Schulte
  • Y. Setyawati
  • M. Standke
  • Fabian Thies
  • M. Steinke
  • Michael Weinert
  • F. Wellmann
  • Peter Weßels
  • Maximilian H. Wimmer
  • W. Winkler
  • J. Woehler

Research Organisations

External Research Organisations

  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • Carson College of Business
  • Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
  • University of Adelaide
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR HYD)
  • LIGO Laboratory
  • Inje University
  • California Institute of Caltech (Caltech)
  • Radboud University Nijmegen (RU)
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
  • Fudan University
  • Monash University
  • Northwestern University
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Original languageEnglish
Article number163
Number of pages14
JournalAstrophysical Journal
Volume874
Issue number2
Publication statusPublished - 4 Apr 2019

Abstract

We present the results of a search for short- and intermediate-duration gravitational-wave signals from four magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO's second observing run. We find no evidence of a signal and set upper bounds on the root sum squared of the total dimensionless strain (h rss ) from incoming intermediate-duration gravitational waves ranging from 1.1 ×10 -22 at 150 Hz to 4.4 ×10 -22 at 1550 Hz at 50% detection efficiency. From the known distance to the magnetar SGR 1806-20 (8.7 kpc), we can place upper bounds on the isotropic gravitational-wave energy of 3.4 ×10 44 erg at 150 Hz assuming optimal orientation. This represents an improvement of about a factor of 10 in strain sensitivity from the previous search for such signals, conducted during initial LIGO's sixth science run. The short-duration search yielded upper limits of 2.1 ×10 44 erg for short white noise bursts, and 2.3 ×10 47 erg for 100 ms long ringdowns at 1500 Hz, both at 50% detection efficiency.

Keywords

    gravitational waves, stars: magnetars

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Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run. / The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Bose, Sukanta et al.
In: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 874, No. 2, 163, 04.04.2019.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Bose, S, Brown, DD, Chen, YB, Hanke, M, Hennig, J, Kumar, S, Lang, RN, Lee, HK, Lee, HM, Lee, HW, Lee, J, Li, X, Sanders, JR, Schmidt, P, Sun, L, Wang, YF, Wu, DS, Zhang, R, Zhu, XJ, Zhou, M, Bergmann, G, Bisht, A, Bode, N, Booker, P, Brinkmann, M, Cabero, M, de Varona, O, Hochheim, S, Dent, T, Doravari, S, Junker, J, Kaufer, S, Kirchhoff, R, Koch, P, Koper, N, Köhlenbeck, SM, Kringel, V, Karvinen, KS, Khan, S, Leavey, S, Lehmann, J, Lough, J, Mehmet, M, Mukherjee, A, Mukund, N, Nery, M, Ohme, F, Oppermann, P, Rüdiger, A, Phelps, M, Puncken, O, Schreiber, E, Schulte, BW, Setyawati, Y, Standke, M, Thies, F, Steinke, M, Weinert, M, Wellmann, F, Weßels, P, Wimmer, MH, Winkler, W & Woehler, J 2019, 'Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run', Astrophysical Journal, vol. 874, no. 2, 163. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Bose, S., Brown, D. D., Chen, Y. B., Hanke, M., Hennig, J., Kumar, S., Lang, R. N., Lee, H. K., Lee, H. M., Lee, H. W., Lee, J., Li, X., Sanders, J. R., Schmidt, P., Sun, L., Wang, Y. F., Wu, D. S., ... Woehler, J. (2019). Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal, 874(2), Article 163. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Bose S, Brown DD, Chen YB, Hanke M et al. Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run. Astrophysical Journal. 2019 Apr 4;874(2):163. doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e15
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration ; The Virgo Collaboration ; Bose, Sukanta et al. / Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar Bursts during Advanced LIGO’s Second Observing Run. In: Astrophysical Journal. 2019 ; Vol. 874, No. 2.
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