Gravitational wave background sky maps from advanced LIGO O1 data
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Working paper
Author(s)
Renzini, Arianna I
Contaldi, Carlo R
Type
Working Paper
Abstract
We integrate the publicly available O1 LIGO time-domain data to obtain maximum-likelihood constraints on the Gravitational Wave Background (GWB) arising from stochastic, persistent signals. Our method produces sky-maps of the strain intensity I as a function of direction on the sky at a reference frequency f0. The data is integrated assuming a set of fixed power-law spectra for the signal. The maps provide upper limits on the amplitude of the GWB density ΩGW(f0) and any anisotropy around the background. We find 95\% confidence upper limits of ΩGW<4.8×10−7 at f0=50 Hz with similar constraints on a dipole modulation for the inspiral-dominated stochastic background case.
Date Issued
2019-03-01
Date Acceptance
2019-03-01
Citation
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2019
Publisher
arXiv
Journal / Book Title
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Copyright Statement
© 2018 The Author(s).
Sponsor
Science and Technology Facilities Council
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
Identifier
http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12922v2
Grant Number
ST-N000838
ST/N000838/1
Subjects
astro-ph.CO
astro-ph.CO
Publication Status
Published