Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2017) Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run. Physical review letters, 118 (12). ISSN 1079-7114

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Abstract

A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW151226, the rate and mass of coalescing binary black holes appear to be greater than many previous expectations. As a result, the stochastic background from unresolved compact binary coalescences is expected to be particularly loud. We perform a search for the isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using data from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory’s (aLIGO) first observing run. The data display no evidence of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal. We constrain the dimensionless energy density of gravitational waves to be Ω0<1.7×10−7 with 95% confidence, assuming a flat energy density spectrum in the most sensitive part of the LIGO band (20–86 Hz). This is a factor of ∼33 times more sensitive than previous measurements. We also constrain arbitrary power-law spectra. Finally, we investigate the implications of this search for the background of binary black holes using an astrophysical model for the background.

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Journal Article
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Physical review letters
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© 2019 American Physical Society
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?? GENERAL RELATIVITY AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGYASTROPHYSICS - COSMOLOGY AND NONGALACTIC ASTROPHYSICSASTROPHYSICS - HIGH ENERGY ASTROPHYSICAL PHENOMENAPHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY(ALL) ??
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136647
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17 Sep 2019 14:05
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