4/14/07 G070232-00-Z Searches for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources Gabriela González Louisiana State University On behalf of the LIGO Scientific.

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4/14/07 G Z Searches for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources Gabriela González Louisiana State University On behalf of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration APS meeting, April Werner Berger, ZIB, AEI, CCT GEO600, Hannover, Germany LIGO Hanford LIGO Livingston

4/14/07 G Z Edward A. Bouchet Award “To promote the participation of under-represented minorities in physics” Bouchet portrait at Yale Edward Bouchet, Yale ‘76 PhD (that is 1876!!) was the first African American Physics PhD, and the sixth in in the US. Bouchet was unable to find a university teaching position after college, and took a position at the Institute for Colored Youth (ICY), where he taught for 26 years. In 2004, there were 506 Physics PhD granted, of which only 9 (2%) were African- American and 7 (2%) were Hispanic. Also, 16% of the total were granted to women (aip.org/statistics/) The US population in 2004 was 13% African-American, 14% Hispanic; the female population was 51% of the total (census.gov/popest/). Sun 1:15pm: Session K6 CSWP: Enhancing the Physics Enterprise through Gender Equity

4/14/07 G Z GW sources NASA, WMAP NASA, HEASARC ? Crab pulsar (NASA, Chandra Observatory) John Rowe, CSIRO ? Observational results in Mon 10:45am, R12: Gravitational Waves For and By LIGO Mon 1:30pm, T11: Gravitational Wave Astronomy

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: binary systems Use calculated templates for inspiral phase (“chirp”) with optimal filtering. If system is optimally located and oriented, we can see even further: we are surveying hundreds of galaxies! We can translate the “noise” into distances surveyed. We monitor this in the control room for binary neutron stars: Electronic logs are public! Waveform parameters: distance, orientation, position, m 1, m 2, t 0,  (+ spin, ending cycles …)

4/14/07 G Z A digression: S5 so far… Science-mode statistics for S5 run Up to Apr :21:05 UTC Elapsed run time = hours = 520 days Whole run so far Sample Hours Duty factor H since Nov 4, 2005 H since Nov 4, 2005 L since Nov 14, 2005 H1+H2+L since Nov 14, 2005 (H1orH2)+L since Nov 4, 2005 One or more LIGO since Nov 4, 2005 One or more LSC since Nov 4, 2005 LIGO Hanford LIGO Livingston 2005

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: binary systems Use two or more detectors: search for double or triple coincident “triggers” Can infer masses and “effective” distance. Estimate false alarm probability of resulting candidates: detection? Compare with expected efficiency of detection and surveyed galaxies: upper limit S5 talk by D. Keppel, R12 Mon 10:45AM S3/S4 talk by T. Cokelaer, T11 Mon 2:06 PM Preliminary S4 BNS

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: spinning compact objects  Rotating stars produce GWs if they have asymmetries, if they wobble or through fluid oscillations.  There are many known pulsars (rotating stars!) that would produce GWs in the LIGO frequency band (40 Hz-2 searches for 97 known (radio and x-ray) systems in S5: isolated pulsars, binary systems, pulsars in globular clusters…  There are likely to be many non-pulsar rotating stars producing unbiased searches; wide-area searches.  GWs (or lack thereof) can be used to measure (or set up upper limits on) the ellipticities of the stars.  Search for a sine wave, modulated by Earth’s motion, and possibly spinning down: easy, but computationally expensive!

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: pulsars Upper limits on GWs from targeted pulsars: Lowest GW strain upper limit: PSR J (f gw = Hz, r = 3.8 kpc) h 0 < 4.8 × Lowest ellipticity upper limit: PSR J (f gw = Hz, r = 0.25 kpc)  < 1.1 × Preliminary S5, Crab results by M. Pitkin, T11 Mon 1:42PM S5 Broadband search talk by V. Dergachev, T11 Mon 1:54PM S4 all-sky search by K. Riles, T11 Mon 2:30PM search, B. Owen, Y12 Tue 1:30PM

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: Stochastic Background A primordial GW stochastic background is a prediction from most cosmological theories. It can also result from unresolved astrophysical sources. Given an energy density spectrum  w (f), there is a strain power spectrum: The signal can be searched from cross- correlations in different pairs of detectors: L1- H1, H1-H2, L1-ALLEGRO, LIGO-VIRGO… the farther the detectors, the lower the frequencies that can be searched ( GW  2D) The signal can be searched assuming an isotropic, or using spatial resolution.

4/14/07 G Z S5 result will be x better than S4 Advanced LIGO can reach  0 ~ Big Bang, CMB Constrains  0 <10 -5 Predictions? Cosmic strings (?) ~ Inflation ~ ? ( in some models with “preheating”) S4 (ApJ 659, 618, 2007) GW searches: Stochastic Background S4 talk by B. Whiting, U11 Mon 3:30PM S4, astro-ph

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: bursts  Search for triple coincident triggers with a wavelet algorithm  Measure waveform consistency  Set a threshold for detection for low false alarm probability  Compare with efficiency for detecting simple waveforms ? S1 S2 S4 Expected, if no detections h rss (root-sum-squared strain amplitude) Rate Limit (events/day, 90% C.L.) First 5 months of S5 S5 search, L. Cadonati, R12 Mon 11:09 AM S5 coherent search, I. Yakushin, R12 Mon 11:21AM S5 coincidence search, K. Thorne, T11 Mon 3:06 PM S5 “noise” talk by S. Desai, R12 Mon 10:57AM S4, arXiv: v1 [gr-qc] For a 153 Hz, Q =8.9 sine-Gaussian, S5 can see with 50% probability:  2 × 10 –8 M  c 2 at 10 kpc,  0.05 M  c 2 at 16 Mpc (Virgo cluster) Limit on rate vs. GW signal strength sensitivity

4/14/07 G Z GW searches: triggered bursts HETE GRB (~800 Mpc SN): during S2, search resulted in no detection (PRD 72, , 2005)  galactic neutron star with intense magnetic field (~10 15 G)  Record  -ray flare on Dec 27, 2004  quasi-periodic oscillations found in RHESSI and RXTE x-ray data  search S4 LIGO data for GW signal associated with quasi-periodic oscillations-- no GW signal found  astro-ph/  Talk by L. Matone, T11 Mon 2:42PM Soft Gamma Repeater  search LIGO data surrounding GRB trigger using cross-correlation method  no GW signal found associated with 39 GRBs in S2, S3, S4 runs  set limits on GW signal amplitude  53 GRB triggers for the first five months of LIGO S5 run  Talk by I. Leonor, U11 Mon 4:06PM Gamma-Ray Bursts preliminary

4/14/07 G Z When will we see something? Predictions are difficult… especially about the future (Y. Berra) Rotating stars: we know the rates, but not the amplitudes: how lumpy are they? Supernovae, gamma ray bursts: again rates known, but not amplitudes… Cosmological background: optimistic predictions are very dependent on model… Binary black holes: amplitude is known, but rates and populations highly unknown… Some estimates promise S5 results will be interesting! Binary neutron stars: amplitude is known, and galactic rates and population can be estimated: For R~86/Myr, initial LIGO rate ~1/100 yrs.

4/14/07 G Z LIGO detectors: future Neutron Star Binaries: Initial LIGO: ~15 Mpc  Advanced LIGO: ~ Mpc Most likely rate ~ 40/year ! x10 better amplitude sensitivity  x1000 rate=(reach) 3  1 year of Initial LIGO < 1 day of Advanced LIGO! NSF Funding in FY’08 presidential budget request. Advanced LIGO D. Reitze, H5 Sunday 8:30am

4/14/07 G Z LIGO detectors: future Advanced LIGO What’s out there? We’ll find out!

Searches for coalescing compact binary signals in S5 Image: R. Powell Average over run 130 Mpc 1 sigma variation binary black hole horizon distance binary neutron star horizon distance: 25 Mpc Inspiral Horizon distance vs mass Peak at total mass ~ 25M sun 3 months of S5 data analyzed 1 calendar yr in progress f coal ~1/M

4/14/07 G Z A possible timeline? Advanced LIGO today BNS: 1/2days BBH: we’ll measure it! BNS: 1/30 yr BBH: ??

4/14/07 G Z GW Interferometers Worldwide Network: »GEO and LIGO detectors’ data analyzed by LSC »We have coordinated observations and shared data with TAMA »We will start data sharing with VIRGO LIGO GEO600 VIRGO TAMA AIGO LIGO Livingston LIGO Hanford TAMA GEO VIRGO