2009/04/30 by LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.80.102002
published as Phys.Rev.D80:102002,2009 · 13 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review D
We present an all-sky search for gravitational waves in the frequency range 1 to 6 kHz during the first calendar year of LIGO's fifth science run. This is the first untriggered LIGO burst analysis to be conducted above 3 kHz. We discuss the unique properties of interferometric data in this regime. 161.3 days of triple-coincident data were analyzed. No gravitational events above threshold were observed and a frequentist upper limit of 5.4 events per year on the rate of strong gravitational wave bursts was placed at a 90% confidence level. Implications for specific theoretical models of gravitational wave emission are also discussed.