@article{7c96a777ff434692bb3346f101240c7b,
title = "All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run",
abstract = "We present results from an all-sky search for unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts in the data collected by the LIGO, GEO 600 and Virgo detectors between November 2006 and October 2007. The search is performed by three different analysis algorithms over the frequency band 50-6000 Hz. Data are analyzed for times with at least two of the four LIGO-Virgo detectors in coincident operation, with a total live time of 266 days. No events produced by the search algorithms survive the selection cuts. We set a frequentist upper limit on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts impinging on our network of detectors. When combined with the previous LIGO search of the data collected between November 2005 and November 2006, the upper limit on the rate of detectable gravitational-wave bursts in the 64-2048 Hz band is 2.0 events per year at 90% confidence. We also present event rate versus strength exclusion plots for several types of plausible burst waveforms. The sensitivity of the combined search is expressed in terms of the root-sum-squared strain amplitude for a variety of simulated waveforms and lies in the range 6×10 -22Hz-1/2 to 2×10-20Hz -1/2. This is the first untriggered burst search to use data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors together, and the most sensitive untriggered burst search performed so far.",
author = "{LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration} and J. Abadie and Abbott, {B. P.} and R. Abbott and T. Accadia and F. Acernese and R. Adhikari and P. Ajith and B. Allen and G. Allen and {Amador Ceron}, E. and Amin, {R. S.} and Anderson, {S. B.} and Anderson, {W. G.} and F. Antonucci and Arain, {M. A.} and M. Araya and Arun, {K. G.} and Y. Aso and S. Aston and P. Astone and P. Aufmuth and C. Aulbert and S. Babak and P. Baker and G. Ballardin and S. Ballmer and D. Barker and F. Barone and B. Barr and P. Barriga and L. Barsotti and M. Barsuglia and Barton, {M. A.} and I. Bartos and R. Bassiri and M. Bastarrika and Bauer, {Th S.} and B. Behnke and Beker, {M. G.} and A. Belletoile and M. Benacquista and J. Betzwieser and Beyersdorf, {P. T.} and S. Bigotta and Bilenko, {I. A.} and G. Billingsley and S. Birindelli and R. Biswas and Bizouard, {M. A.} and E. Black and Blackburn, {J. K.} and L. Blackburn and D. Blair and B. Bland and M. Blom and C. Boccara and O. Bock and Bodiya, {T. P.} and R. Bondarescu and F. Bondu and L. Bonelli and R. Bonnand and R. Bork and M. Born and S. Bose and L. Bosi and B. Bouhou and S. Braccini and C. Bradaschia and Brady, {P. R.} and Braginsky, {V. B.} and Brau, {J. E.} and J. Breyer and Bridges, {D. O.} and A. Brillet and M. Brinkmann and V. Brisson and M. Britzger and Brooks, {A. F.} and Brown, {D. A.} and R. Budzy{\'n}ski and T. Bulik and A. Bullington and Bulten, {H. J.} and A. Buonanno and O. Burmeister and D. Buskulic and C. Buy and Byer, {R. L.} and L. Cadonati and G. Cagnoli and J. Cain and E. Calloni and Camp, {J. B.} and E. Campagna and J. Cannizzo and Cannon, {K. C.} and B. Canuel and J. Cao and Capano, {C. D.} and F. Carbognani and L. Cardenas and S. Caudill and M. Cavagli{\`a} and F. Cavalier and R. Cavalieri and G. Cella and C. Cepeda and E. Cesarini and T. Chalermsongsak and E. Chalkley and P. Charlton and E. Chassande-Mottin and S. Chatterji and S. Chelkowski and Y. Chen and A. Chincarini and N. Christensen and Chua, {S. S.Y.} and Chung, {C. T.Y.} and D. Clark and J. Clark and Clayton, {J. H.} and F. Cleva and E. Coccia and Colacino, {C. N.} and J. Colas and A. Colla and M. Colombini and R. Conte and D. Cook and Corbitt, {T. R.C.} and N. Cornish and A. Corsi and J.-P. Coulon and D. Coward and Coyne, {D. C.} and Creighton, {J. D.E.} and Creighton, {T. D.} and Cruise, {A. M.} and Culter, {R. M.} and A. Cumming and L. Cunningham and E. Cuoco and K. Dahl and Danilishin, {S. L.} and S. D'Antonio and K. Danzmann and V. Dattilo and B. Daudert and M. Davier and G. Davies and Daw, {E. J.} and R. Day and T. Dayanga and {De Rosa}, R. and D. DeBra and J. Degallaix and {del Prete}, M. and V. Dergachev and R. DeSalvo and S. Dhurandhar and {Di Fiore}, L. and {Di Lieto}, A. and {Di Paolo Emilio}, M. and {Di Virgilio}, A. and M. D{\'i}az and A. Dietz and F. Donovan and Dooley, {K. L.} and Doomes, {E. E.} and M. Drago and Drever, {R. W.P.} and J. Driggers and J. Dueck and I. Duke and J.-C. Dumas and M. Edgar and M. Edwards and A. Effler and P. Ehrens and T. Etzel and M. Evans and T. Evans and V. Fafone and S. Fairhurst and Y. Faltas and Y. Fan and D. Fazi and H. Fehrmann and I. Ferrante and F. Fidecaro and Finn, {L. S.} and I. Fiori and R. Flaminio and K. Flasch and S. Foley and C. Forrest and N. Fotopoulos and Fournier, {J. D.} and J. Franc and S. Frasca and F. Frasconi and M. Frede and M. Frei and Z. Frei and A. Freise and R. Frey and Fricke, {T. T.} and D. Friedrich and P. Fritschel and Frolov, {V. V.} and P. Fulda and M. Fyffe and M. Galimberti and L. Gammaitoni and Garofoli, {J. A.} and F. Garufi and G. Gemme and E. Genin and A. Gennai and S. Ghosh and Giaime, {J. A.} and S. Giampanis and Giardina, {K. D.} and A. Giazotto and E. Goetz and Goggin, {L. M.} and G. Gonz{\'a}lez and S. Go{\ss}ler and R. Gouaty and M. Granata and A. Grant and S. Gras and C. Gray and Greenhalgh, {R. J.S.} and Gretarsson, {A. M.} and C. Greverie and R. Grosso and H. Grote and S. Grunewald and Guidi, {G. M.} and Gustafson, {E. K.} and R. Gustafson and B. Hage and Hallam, {J. M.} and D. Hammer and Hammond, {G. D.} and C. Hanna and Hosken, {D. J.}",
year = "2010",
month = may,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.81.102001",
language = "English",
volume = "81",
journal = "Physical Review D (Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology)",
issn = "1550-7998",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "10",
}