All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run
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2019
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Abbott, B. P.
Abbott, Richard
Abbott, T
Abraham, S
Acernese, Fausto
Ackley, K
Adams, C
Adhikari, Rana X
Affeldt, C
Agathos, M.
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American Physical Society
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We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the
second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gravitational-wave transients
with a duration of milliseconds to approximately one second in the 32–4096 Hz frequency band with
minimal assumptions about the signal properties, thus targeting a wide variety of sources. We also perform
a matched-filter search for gravitational-wave transients from cosmic string cusps for which the waveform
is well modeled. The unmodeled search detected gravitational waves from several binary black hole
mergers which have been identified by previous analyses. No other significant events have been found by
either the unmodeled search or the cosmic string search. We thus present the search sensitivities for a
variety of signal waveforms and report upper limits on the source rate density as a function of the
characteristic frequency of the signal. These upper limits are a factor of 3 lower than the first observing run,
with a 50% detection probability for gravitational-wave emissions with energies of ∼10−9 M⊙c2 at 153 Hz.
For the search dedicated to cosmic string cusps we consider several loop distribution models, and present
updated constraints from the same search done in the first observing run.
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