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Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run

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dc.contributor LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
dc.contributor MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
dc.creator LIGO Scientific Collaboration
dc.creator Virgo Collaboration
dc.creator KAGRA Collaboration
dc.creator Barnum, Sam
dc.creator Barsotti, Lisa
dc.creator Biscans, Sebastien
dc.creator Biscoveanu, Sylvia
dc.creator Buikema, Aaron
dc.creator Demos, Nicholas
dc.creator Donovan, Frederick J
dc.creator Eisenstein, Robert Alan
dc.creator Evans, Matthew J
dc.creator Fernandez Galiana, Alvaro-Miguel
dc.creator Fishner, Jason M.
dc.creator Fritschel, Peter K
dc.creator Ganapathy, Dhruva
dc.creator Gras, Slawomir
dc.creator Hall, E. D.
dc.creator Haster, Carl-Johan
dc.creator Huang, Y.-W.
dc.creator Isi Banales, Maximiliano S
dc.creator Jia, W.
dc.creator Katsavounidis, Erotokritos
dc.creator Knyazev, E.
dc.creator Komori, Kentaro
dc.creator Kuns, K.
dc.creator Lane, B. B.
dc.creator Lang, Ryan N.
dc.creator London, L. T.
dc.creator MacInnis, Myron E
dc.creator Mansell, Georgia
dc.creator Marx, E. J.
dc.creator Mason, Kenneth R
dc.creator Massinger, Thomas J.
dc.creator Matichard, Fabrice
dc.creator Mavalvala, Nergis
dc.creator McCuller, Lee P
dc.creator Mittleman, Richard K
dc.creator Mo, Geoffrey
dc.creator Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan
dc.creator Ng, Kwan Yeung
dc.creator Nguyen, T.
dc.creator Shoemaker, David H
dc.creator Sudhir, Vivishek
dc.creator Tse, Maggie
dc.creator Vitale, Salvatore
dc.creator Weiss, Rainer
dc.creator Whittle, Christopher Mark
dc.creator Yu, Haocun
dc.creator Zucker, Michael E
dc.date 2022-11-04T16:47:10Z
dc.date 2022-01-25T14:36:04Z
dc.date 2022-11-04T16:47:10Z
dc.date 2021
dc.date 2022-01-25T14:31:54Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-17T20:15:52Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-17T20:15:52Z
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/139690.2
dc.identifier 2021. "Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run." Physical Review D, 104 (2).
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/242419
dc.description We report results of a search for an isotropic gravitational-wave background (GWB) using data from Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run (O3) combined with upper limits from the earlier O1 and O2 runs. Unlike in previous observing runs in the advanced detector era, we include Virgo in the search for the GWB. The results are consistent with uncorrelated noise, and therefore we place upper limits on the strength of the GWB. We find that the dimensionless energy density $\Omega_{\rm GW}\leq 5.8\times 10^{-9}$ at the 95% credible level for a flat (frequency-independent) GWB, using a prior which is uniform in the log of the strength of the GWB, with 99% of the sensitivity coming from the band 20-76.6 Hz; $\leq 3.4 \times 10^{-9}$ at 25 Hz for a power-law GWB with a spectral index of 2/3 (consistent with expectations for compact binary coalescences), in the band 20-90.6 Hz; and $\leq 3.9 \times 10^{-10}$ at 25 Hz for a spectral index of 3, in the band 20-291.6 Hz. These upper limits improve over our previous results by a factor of 6.0 for a flat GWB. We also search for a GWB arising from scalar and vector modes, which are predicted by alternative theories of gravity; we place upper limits on the strength of GWBs with these polarizations. We demonstrate that there is no evidence of correlated noise of magnetic origin by performing a Bayesian analysis that allows for the presence of both a GWB and an effective magnetic background arising from geophysical Schumann resonances. We compare our upper limits to a fiducial model for the GWB from the merger of compact binaries. Finally, we combine our results with observations of individual mergers andshow that, at design sensitivity, this joint approach may yield stronger constraints on the merger rate of binary black holes at $z \lesssim 2$ than can be achieved with individually resolved mergers alone. [abridged]
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dc.language en
dc.publisher American Physical Society (APS)
dc.relation 10.1103/PHYSREVD.104.022004
dc.relation Physical Review D
dc.rights Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.
dc.source APS
dc.title Upper limits on the isotropic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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