Chua, SheonLam, Ping KoyMcClelland, DavidMow-Lowry, CMullavey, AdamRabeling, DavidSatterthwaite, MatthewScott, Susan MSlagmolen, BramWette, KarlLIGO , Scientific Collaboration (700 Scientists)Abadie, JAbbott, BAdhikari, RanaAllen, BAllen, GAnderson, S BAraya, MBlack, EBlackburn, James KentHeefner, JHosken, DaveHough, JHowell, EIvanov, A2015-12-070004-637Xhttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/23603Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ - 5, + 1)s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7Mpc.Keywords: Binaries: close; Gamma-ray burst: general; Gravitational waves201010.1088/0004-637X/715/2/14532016-02-24