Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:30:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-17; National Science Foundation; We report results of a wideband search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars within the Orion spur towards both the inner and outer regions of our Galaxy. As gravitational waves interact very weakly with matter, the search is unimpeded by dust and conc...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:31:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-25; In this paper we present the results of the first low frequency all-sky search of continuous gravitational wave signals conducted on Virgo VSR2 and VSR4 data. The search covered the full sky, a frequency range between 20 and 128 Hz with a range of spin-down between -1.0×10-10 and +1.5×10-11 Hz/s, and wa...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:35:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-05-31; Science and Technology Facilities Council; The LIGO detection of GW150914 provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large-velocity, highly nonlinear regime, and to witness the final merger of the binary and the excitation of uniquely relativisti...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-07; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; Ministry of Science and Technology; Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; National Research Foundation of Korea; National Stroke Foundation; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund; Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Scottish Funding Council; Science a...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:40:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-14; On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the source and its parameters. The data around the time of the event were analyzed coherently across the LIGO network using a suite ...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:53:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-01-01; This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 [Abbott et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016).]. Abbott et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016).] pre...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:58:36Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-01-01; The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper, we present full results from a search for binary black hole merger signals with total masses up to 100M·...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:04:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-04-01; Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, first published a century ago, was described by physicist Max Born as the greatest feat of human thinking about nature.We report on two major scientific breakthroughs involving key predictions of Einstein's theory: the first direct detection of gravitation...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:14:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-05-27; We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The search was sensitive to astrophysical sources that produced damped sinusoid gravitational wave signals, also known as ringdown...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:16:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2014-06-12; This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009-October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range up t...