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A first search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background from ultralight bosons

Tsukada, L., Callister, T., Matas, A., & Meyers, P. (in preparation). A first search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background from ultralight bosons.

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Callister, Thomas, Author
Matas, Andrew1, Author
Meyers, Patrick, Author
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1Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity, AEI-Golm, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society, ou_1933290

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Free keywords: Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, astro-ph.HE
Abstract: In this work, we develop a Bayesian data analysis framework to study the SGWB from bosonic clouds using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, building on previous work by Brito et.al (2017). We further improve this model by adding a BH population of binary merger remnants. To assess the performance of our pipeline, we quantify the range of boson masses that can be constrained by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo measurements at design sensitivity. Furthermore, we explore our capability to distinguish an ultralight boson SGWB from a stochastic signal due to distant compact binary coalescences (CBC). Finally, we present results of a search for the SGWB from bosonic clouds using data from Advanced LIGO's first observing run. We find no evidence of such a signal. Due to degeneracies between the boson mass and unknown astrophysical quantities such as the distribution of isolated BH spins, our analysis cannot robustly exclude the presence of a bosonic field at any mass. Nevertheless, we show that under optimistic assumptions about the BH formation rate and spin distribution, boson masses in the range $\SI{2.0e-13}{eV}\leq m_\mathrm{b}\leq\SI{3.8e-13}{eV}$ are excluded at 95% credibility, although with less optimistic spin distributions, no masses can be excluded. The framework established here can be used to learn about the nature of fundamental bosonic fields with future gravitational wave observations.

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Dates: 2018-12-22
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Pages: 14 pages, 11 figures
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Identifiers: arXiv: 1812.09622
URI: http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09622
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