Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects

Document #:

LIGO-P070142-x0

Document type:

P - Publications

Abstract:

In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from γ-ray and x-ray satellites, optical telescopes and neutrino observatories, provide a trigger time for analyzing gravitational-wave data coincident with the event. In certain cases the expected frequency range, source energetics, directional and progenitor information are also available. Beyond allowing the recognition of gravitational waveforms with amplitudes closer to the noise floor of the detector, these triggered searches should also lead to rich science results even before the onset of Advanced LIGO. In this paper we provide a broad review of LIGO's astrophysically triggered searches and the sources they target.

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• Document Migration from the old DCC
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Author Groups:

• LSC

Notes and Changes:

Rev P070142-02-Z:
- Full document number: LIGO-P070142-02-Z
- Author(s): Zsuzsa Marka
- Document date: 2007-11-21
- Document received date: 2007-11-21
- Document entry date: 2007-11-21

Journal References:

Published in Class Quant Grav vol. 25 pg. 114051 (12pp).

Publication Information:

http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/0264-9381/25/11/114051