All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

R. Abbott et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration)
Phys. Rev. D 104, 122004 – Published 23 December 2021

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a search for generic short-duration gravitational-wave transients in data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Transients with durations of milliseconds to a few seconds in the 24–4096 Hz frequency band are targeted by the search, with no assumptions made regarding the incoming signal direction, polarization, or morphology. Gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences that have been identified by other targeted analyses are detected, but no statistically significant evidence for other gravitational wave bursts is found. Sensitivities to a variety of signals are presented. These include updated upper limits on the source rate density as a function of the characteristic frequency of the signal, which are roughly an order of magnitude better than previous upper limits. This search is sensitive to sources radiating as little as 1010Mc2 in gravitational waves at 70Hz from a distance of 10 kpc, with 50% detection efficiency at a false alarm rate of one per century. The sensitivity of this search to two plausible astrophysical sources is estimated: neutron star f modes, which may be excited by pulsar glitches, as well as selected core-collapse supernova models.

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  • Received 8 July 2021
  • Accepted 12 October 2021

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.122004

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Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

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Vol. 104, Iss. 12 — 15 December 2021

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