Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
dc.contributor.author | Abbott, Benjamin P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Abbott, Richard | |
dc.contributor.author | Abbott, Thomas D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Acernese, Fausto | |
dc.contributor.author | Ackley, K. | |
dc.contributor.author | Adams, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Adams, T. | |
dc.contributor.author | Addesso, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Adhikari, Rana X. | |
dc.contributor.author | Adya, V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Altin, Paul | |
dc.contributor.author | Chow, Jong | |
dc.contributor.author | Forsyth, Perry | |
dc.contributor.author | Mansell, Georgia | |
dc.contributor.author | McClelland, David | |
dc.contributor.author | McManus, David | |
dc.contributor.author | McRae, Terry | |
dc.contributor.author | Nguyen, Thanh | |
dc.contributor.author | Rabeling, David | |
dc.contributor.author | Scott, Susan M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Shaddock, Daniel | |
dc.contributor.author | Slagmolen, Bram | |
dc.contributor.author | Ward, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Wette, Karl | |
dc.contributor.author | Yap, Min Jet | |
dc.contributor.author | Kijbunchoo, Nutsinee | |
dc.contributor.author | Manske, Michael | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-02T04:23:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-07-02T04:23:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-05-16 | |
dc.date.updated | 2022-08-21T08:17:26Z | |
dc.description.abstract | The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for only two tensor gravitational-wave polarizations, general metric theories can additionally predict two vector and two scalar polarizations. The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically polarized gravitational waves. We find no evidence for a background of any polarization, and place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the stochastic background. Under loguniform priors for the energy in each polarization, we limit the energy densities of tensor, vector, and scalar modes at 95% credibility to ΩT 0 < 5.58 × 10−8, ΩV 0 < 6.35 × 10−8, and ΩS 0 < 1.08 × 10−7 at a reference frequency f0 ¼ 25 Hz. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the MaxPlanck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen, Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO consortium. The authors also gratefully acknowledge research support from these agencies as well as by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación, the Vicepresid`encia i Conselleria d’Innovació, Recerca i Turisme and the Conselleria d’Educació i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears, the Conselleria d’Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, the European Commission, the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the Paris Îlede-France Region, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFI), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Research Corporation, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan and the Kavli Foundation. | en_AU |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_AU |
dc.identifier.issn | 0031-9007 | en_AU |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/205745 | |
dc.language.iso | en_AU | en_AU |
dc.provenance | http://v2.sherpa.ac.uk/id/publication/13640..."Publisher's version can be made open access on institutional repository" from SHERPA/RoMEO site (as at 2/7/20). | en_AU |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dc.rights | © 2018 American Physical Society | |
dc.source | Physical Review Letters | |
dc.title | Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dcterms.accessRights | Open Access | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 20 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 13 | en_AU |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 1 | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Abbott, Benjamin P., California Institute of Technology | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Abbott, Richard, California Institute of Technology | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Abbott, Thomas D., Louisiana State University | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Acernese, Fausto, Universita di Salerno | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Ackley, K., University of Florida | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Adams, C., LIGO-Livingston Observatory | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Adams, T., Université Savoie Mont Blanc | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Addesso, P., University of Sannio at Benevento | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Adhikari, Rana X., California Institute of Technology | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Adya, V., Max-Planck-Institut für, Gravitationsphysik | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Altin, Paul, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Chow, Jong, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Forsyth, Perry, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Mansell, Georgia, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | McClelland, David, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | McManus, David, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | McRae, Terry, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Nguyen, Thanh, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Rabeling, David, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Scott, Susan M., College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Shaddock, Daniel, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Slagmolen, Bram, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Ward, Robert, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Wette, Karl, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Yap, Min Jet, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Kijbunchoo, Nutsinee, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.affiliation | Manske, Michael, College of Science, ANU | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoremail | u4103634@anu.edu.au | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Altin, Paul, u4103634 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Chow, Jong, u3937721 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Forsyth, Perry, u5024171 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Mansell, Georgia, u4679763 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | McClelland, David, u8802403 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | McManus, David, u4671069 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | McRae, Terry, u1008768 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Nguyen, Thanh, u4216762 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Rabeling, David, u4074112 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Scott, Susan M., u8911327 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Shaddock, Daniel, u9701638 | en_AU |
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local.contributor.authoruid | Ward, Robert, u5088188 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Wette, Karl, u4090078 | en_AU |
local.contributor.authoruid | Yap, Min Jet, u5021389 | en_AU |
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local.contributor.authoruid | Manske, Michael, t1728 | en_AU |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 020105 - General Relativity and Gravitational Waves | en_AU |
local.identifier.absfor | 020106 - High Energy Astrophysics; Cosmic Rays | en_AU |
local.identifier.absseo | 970102 - Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | en_AU |
local.identifier.ariespublication | u5786633xPUB280 | en_AU |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 120 | en_AU |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.201102 | en_AU |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-85047392695 | |
local.identifier.thomsonID | WOS:000433031300007 | |
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local.publisher.url | https://journals.aps.org/ | en_AU |
local.type.status | Published Version | en_AU |
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