Session S1: Poster Session III (2:00-5:00pm)

2:00 PM–2:00 PM, Monday, April 14, 2008
Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront (formerly Adam's Mark Hotel), - Fourth Floor Lobby

Sponsoring Unit: APS

Abstract ID: BAPS.2008.APR.S1.22

Abstract: S1.00022 : A High Frequency Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts

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Author:

  Brennan Hughey
    (MIT)

We present a first look at an all-sky gravitational wave burst search in the frequency range 1 to 6.5 kHz using LIGO data. Previous burst searches with ground-based interferometers have been limited to frequencies below 2 kHz. However, various models predict gravitational wave emission in the several kiloHertz range from astrophysical phenomena including gravitational collapse, neutron star modes and low mass black hole mergers. This shot-noise dominated frequency regime can be analyzed with the same tools as lower frequency analyses.

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