Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

Aasi, J. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2013) Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts. Physical Review D, 88 (12). 122004. ISSN 1550-2368 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.88.122004)

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Abstract

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive stars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We investigate models of long-lived (similar to 10-1000 s) GW emission associated with the accretion disk of a collapsed star or with its protoneutron star remnant. Using data from LIGO's fifth science run, and GRB triggers from the Swift experiment, we perform a search for unmodeled long-lived GW transients. Finding no evidence of GW emission, we place 90% confidence-level upper limits on the GW fluence at Earth from long GRBs for three waveforms inspired by a model of GWs from accretion disk instabilities. These limits range from F <3.5 ergs cm(-2) to F <1200 ergs cm(-2), depending on the GRB and on the model, allowing us to probe optimistic scenarios of GW production out to distances as far as approximate to 33 Mpc. Advanced detectors are expected to achieve strain sensitivities 10X better than initial LIGO, potentially allowing us to probe the engines of the nearest long GRBs.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:50728
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    13 December 2013
    Published
    Notes:J. Aasi et al. Phys. Rev. D 88, 122004. © 2013 American Physical Society
    Subjects:Science > Astronomy
    Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:09 Dec 2014 16:51
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 21:52
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/50728
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