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American Astronomical Society, Astrophysical Journal, 2(715), p. 1453-1461, 2010

DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/715/2/1453

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Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run

Journal article published in 2010 by Amin Rs, M. del Prete, Ls Sancho de la Jordana, Jfj F. J.~F.~J van den Brand, Mv V. van der Sluys, S. van der Putten, Aa A.~A van Veggel, Anderson Sb, Anderson Wg, Bauer Ts, Beyersdorf Pt, S. Putten, Bodiya Tp, Brady Pr, Braginsky Vb and other authors.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ – 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc. ; J. Abadie. D. J. Hosken. J. Munch. D. J. Ottaway. P. J. Veitch.et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, VIRGO Collaboration)