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Published September 23, 2009 | Published
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First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings

Abbott, B. P.
Abbott, R.
Adhikari, Rana X. ORCID icon
Ajith, P. ORCID icon
Allen, B.
Allen, G.
Amin, R. S.
Anderson, S. B.
Anderson, W. G.
Arain, M. A.
Araya, M.
Armandula, H.
Armor, P.
Aso, Y.
Aston, S.
Aufmuth, P.
Aulbert, C.
Babak, S.
Baker, P.
Ballmer, S.
Barker, D.
Barr, B.
Barriga, P.
Barsotti, L.
Barton, M. A.
Bartos, I. ORCID icon
Bassiri, R.
Bastarrika, M.
Behnke, B.
Benacquista, M.
Betzwieser, J.
Beyersdorf, P. T.
Bilenko, I. A.
Billingsley, G. ORCID icon
Biswas, R. ORCID icon
Black, E.
Blackburn, J. K. ORCID icon
Blackburn, L.
Blair, D.
Bland, B.
Bodiya, T. P.
Bogue, L.
Bork, R.
Boschi, V.
Bose, S. ORCID icon
Brady, P. R. ORCID icon
Braginsky, V. B.
Brau, J. E.
Bridges, D. O.
Brinkmann, M.
Brooks, A. F. ORCID icon
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Brummit, A.
Brunet, G.
Bullington, A.
Buonanno, A.
Burmeister, O.
Byer, R. L. ORCID icon
Cadonati, L.
Camp, J. B.
Cannizzo, J.
Cannon, K. C. ORCID icon
Cao, J.
Cardenas, L.
Caride, S.
Castaldi, G.
Caudill, S. ORCID icon
Cavaglià, M.
Cepeda, C.
Chalermsongsak, T.
Chalkley, E.
Charlton, P.
Chatterji, S.
Chelkowski, S.
Chen, Y. ORCID icon
Christensen, N.
Chung, C. T. Y
Clark, D.
Clark, J.
Clayton, J. H.
Cokelaer, T.
Colacino, C. N.
Conte, R.
Cook, D.
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Cornish, N.
Coward, D.
Coyne, D. C. ORCID icon
Creighton, J. D. E.
Creighton, T. D.
Cruise, A. M.
Culter, R. M.
Cummings, A. C. ORCID icon
Cunningham, L.
Danilishin, S. L.
Danzmann, K.
Daudert, B.
Davies, G.
Daw, E. J.
DeBra, D.
Degallaix, J.
Dergachev, V.
Desai, S.
DeSalvo, R.
Dhurandhar, S.
Diaz, M.
Dietz, A.
Donovan, F.
Dooley, K. L.
Doomes, E. E.
Drever, R. W. P.
Dueck, J.
Duke, I.
Dumas, J.-C.
Dwyer, J. G.
Echols, C.
Edgar, M.
Effler, A.
Ehrens, P.
Espinoza, E.
Etzel, T.
Evans, M.
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Fairhurst, S.
Faltas, Y.
Fan, Y.
Fazi, D.
Fehrmann, H.
Finn, L. S.
Flasch, K.
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Frey, R.
Fricke, T.
Fritschel, P.
Frolov, V. V.
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Galdi, V.
Garofoli, J. A.
Gholami, I.
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Giampanis, S.
Giardina, K. D.
Goda, K.
Goetz, E.
Goggin, L. M.
González, G.
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Goßler, S.
Gouaty, R.
Grant, A.
Gras, S.
Gray, C.
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Greenhalgh, R. J. S.
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Grimaldi, F.
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Guenther, M.
Gustafson, E. K.
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Hage, B.
Hallam, J. M.
Hammer, D.
Hammond, G. D.
Hanna, C.
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Harms, J. ORCID icon
Harry, G. M.
Harry, I. W.
Harstad, E. D.
Haughian, K.
Hayama, K.
Heefner, J.
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Heptonstall, A.
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Kalmus, P.
Kalogera, V. ORCID icon
Kandhasamy, S.
Kanner, J. ORCID icon
Kasprzyk, D.
Katsavounidis, E.
Kawabe, K.
Kawamura, S.
Kawazoe, F.
Kells, W.
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Kissel, J. S. ORCID icon
Klimenko, S.
Kokeyama, K.
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Kozak, D. ORCID icon
Krishnan, B.
Kumar, R.
Kwee, P. K.
Lam, P. K.
Landry, M.
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Mueller, G. ORCID icon
Müller-Ebhardt, H.
Muhammad, D.
Mukherjee, S.
Mukhopadhyay, H.
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Quetschke, V. ORCID icon
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Abstract

We report on a matched-filter search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps using LIGO data from the fourth science run (S4) which took place in February and March 2005. No gravitational waves were detected in 14.9 days of data from times when all three LIGO detectors were operating. We interpret the result in terms of a frequentist upper limit on the rate of gravitational wave bursts and use the limits on the rate to constrain the parameter space (string tension, reconnection probability, and loop sizes) of cosmic string models. Many grand unified theory-scale models (with string tension Gµ/c^2[approximate]10^(-6)) can be ruled out at 90% confidence for reconnection probabilities p<=10^(-3) if loop sizes are set by gravitational back reaction.

Additional Information

© 2009 The American Physical Society. Received 29 May 2009; published 23 September 2009. The authors would like to thank Irit Maor and Alexander Vilenkin for useful discussions. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/ Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology of India, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. LIGO DCC No. LIGO-P0900026.

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