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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, gr-qc,Astrophysics, Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, astro-ph.CO, Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM
Abstract:
We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave
transients in two sets of data collected by the LIGO Hanford and LIGO
Livingston detectors between November 5, 2005 and September 30, 2007, and July
7, 2009 and October 20, 2010, with a total observational time of 283.0 days and
132.9 days, respectively. The search targets gravitational wave transients of
duration 10 - 500 seconds in a frequency band of 40 - 1000 Hz, with minimal
assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time
of occurrence. All candidate triggers were consistent with the expected
background; as a result we set 90% confidence upper limits on the rate of
long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of
gravitational wave signals. We also report upper limits on the source rate
density per year per Mpc^3 for specific signal models. These are the first
results from an all-sky search for unmodeled long-duration transient
gravitational waves.