Observation results by the TAMA300 detector on gravitational wave bursts from stellar-core collapses
Abstract
We present data-analysis schemes and results of observations with the TAMA300 gravitational-wave detector, targeting burst signals from stellar-core collapse events. In analyses for burst gravitational waves, the detection and fake-reduction schemes are different from well-investigated ones for a chirp-wave analysis, because precise waveform templates are not available. We used an excess-power filter for the extraction of gravitational-wave candidates, and developed two methods for the reduction of fake events caused by non-stationary noises of the detector. These analysis schemes were applied to real data from the TAMA300 interferometric gravitational wave detector. As a result, fake events were reduced by a factor of about 1000 in the best cases. The resultant event candidates were interpreted from an astronomical viewpoint. We set an upper limit of 2.2x10^3 events/sec on the burst gravitational-wave event rate in our Galaxy with a confidence level of 90%. This work sets a milestone and prospects on the search for burst gravitational waves, by establishing an analysis scheme for the observation data from an interferometric gravitational wave detector.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0411027,
title = {Observation results by the TAMA300 detector on gravitational wave bursts from stellar-core collapses},
author = {Masaki Ando and Koji Arai and Youichi Aso and Peter Beyersdorf and Kazuhiro Hayama and Yukiyoshi Iida and Nobuyuki Kanda and Seiji Kawamura and Kazuhiro Kondo and Norikatsu Mio and Shinji Miyoki and Shigenori Moriwaki and Shigeo Nagano and Kenji Numata and Shuichi Sato and Kentaro Somiya and Hideyuki Tagoshi and Hirotaka Takahashi and Ryutaro Takahashi and Daisuke Tatsumi and Yoshiki Tsunesada and Zong-Hong Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0411027},
year = {2009}
}