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2019

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Gravitational waves – stars: magnetars

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Search For Transient Gravitational-Wave Signals Associated With Magnetar Bursts During Advanced Ligo’S Second Observing Run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, K. E. Ramirez, Malik Rakhmanov, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov, Robert Stone Jan 2019

Search For Transient Gravitational-Wave Signals Associated With Magnetar Bursts During Advanced Ligo’S Second Observing Run, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, Teviet Creighton, Mario C. Diaz, Soma Mukherjee, Volker Quetschke, K. E. Ramirez, Malik Rakhmanov, Satzhan Sitmukhambetov, Robert Stone

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations

We present the results of a search for short- and intermediate-duration gravitational-wave signals from four magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO’s second observing run. We find no evidence of a signal and set upper bounds on the root sum squared of the total dimensionless strain (hrss) from incoming intermediate-duration gravitational waves ranging from 1.1 × 10−22 at 150 Hz to 4.4 × 10−22 at 1550 Hz at 50% detection efficiency. From the known distance to the magnetar SGR 1806–20 (8.7 kpc), we can place upper bounds on the isotropic gravitational-wave energy of 3.4 × 10^-44 erg at 150 Hz assuming optimal …