| Title: |
Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run |
| Authors: |
Abbott, B.P.; Abbott, Rich; Abbott, Thomas D.; Acernese, Fausto; Ackley, Kendall; Adams, Carl; Adams, Thomas; Addesso, Paolo; Adhikari, Rana X.; Adya, Vaishali B.; Affeldt, Christoph; Afrough, Mohammad; Agarwal, Bhanu; Agathos, Michalis; Agatsuma, Kazuhiro; Aggarwal, Nancy; Aguiar, Odylio D.; Aiello, Lorenzo; Ain, Anirban; Ajith, P.; Allen, Bruce; Allen, Gabrielle; Allocca, Annalisa; Altin, Paul A.; Amato, A.; Ananyeva, Alena; Anderson, Stuart B.; Anderson, Warren G.; Antier, Sarah; Appert, Stephen; Arai, Koji; Araya, Melody C.; Areeda, Joseph S.; Arnaud, Nicolas; Arun, Kg G.; Ascenzi, Stefano; Ashton, Gregory; Ast, M.; Aston, Stuart M.; Astone, Pia; Aufmuth, Peter; Aulbert, Carsten; Aultoneal, K.; Avila-Alvarez, A.; Babak, Stanislav; Bacon, Philippe; Bader, Maria K.M.; Bae, Sangwook; Baker, Paul T.; Baldaccini, Francesca; Ballardin, Giulio; Ballmer, Stefan W.; Banagiri, Sharan; Barayoga, Juan C.; Barclay, Sheena E.; Barish, Barry C.; Barker, David; Barone, Fabrizio; Barr, Bryan; Barsotti, Lisa; Barsuglia, Matteo; Barta, Daniel; Bartlett, Jeffrey; Bartos, Imre; Bassiri, Riccardo; Basti, Andrea; Batch, James C.; Baune, Christoph; Bawaj, M.; Bazzan, Marco; Bécsy, Bence; Beer, Christian; Bejger, Michal; Belahcene, Imene; Bell, Angus S.; Berger, Beverly K.; Bergmann, Gerald; Berry, Christopher P.L.; Bersanetti, Diego; Bertolini, Alessandro; Betzwieser, Joseph; Bhagwat, Swetha; Bhandare, Rohan; Bilenko, Igor A.; Billingsley, Garilynn; Billman, Chris R.; Birch, Jeremy; Birney, Ross; Birnholtz, Ofek; Biscans, Sebastien; Bisht, Aparna; Bitossi, Massimiliano; Biwer, Christopher; Bizouard, Marieanne A.; Blackburn, J.K.; Blackman, Jonathan; Blair, Carl D.; Blair, David G.; Blair, Ryan M.; Bloemen, Steven; Bock, Oliver; Bode, Nina; Boer, Michel; Bogaert, Gilles; Bohe, Alejandro; Bondu, Francois; Bonnand, Romain; Boom, Boris A.; Bork, Rolf; Boschi, Valerio; Bose, Sukanta; Bouffanais, Yann; Bozzi, Antonella; Bradaschia, Carlo; Brady, Patrick R.; Braginsky, Vladimir B.; Branchesi, Marica; Brau, Jim E.; Briant, Tristan; Brillet, Alain; Brinkmann, Marc; Brisson, Violette; Brockill, Patrick; Broida, Jacob E.; Brooks, Aidan F.; Brown, Duncan A.; Brown, Daniel D.; Brown, Nicolas M.; Brunett, Sharon; Buchanan, Christopher C.; Buikema, Aaron; Bulik, Tomasz; Bulten, Henk J.; Buonanno, Alessandra; Buskulic, Damir; Buy, Christelle; Byer, Robert L.; Cabero, Miriam; Cadonati, Laura; Cagnoli, Giampietro; Cahillane, Craig; Calderón Bustillo, J.; Callister, Thomas A.; Calloni, Enrico; Camp, Jordan B.; Canepa, Maurizio; Canizares, Priscilla; Cannon, Kipp C.; Cao, H.; Cao, Junwei; Capano, Collin D.; Capocasa, Eleonora; Carbognani, Franco; Caride, Santiago; Carney, Matthew F.; Casanueva Diaz, J.; Casentini, Claudio; Caudill, Sarah; Cavaglià, Marco; Cavalier, Fabien; Cavalieri, Roberto; Cella, Giancarlo; Cepeda, Christian B.; Cerboni Baiardi, L.; Cerretani, Giovanni; Cesarini, Elisabetta; Chamberlin, Sydney J.; Chan, Manleong; Chao, Shiuh; Charlton, Philip; Chassande-Mottin, E.; Chatterjee, Deep; Cheeseboro, Belinda D.; 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| Contributors: |
Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP); Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB Université de Savoie Université de Chambéry )-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire des matériaux avancés (LMA); Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL); Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL); Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11 (UP11)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)); Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité); Astrophysique Relativiste Théories Expériences Métrologie Instrumentation Signaux (ARTEMIS); Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur; Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UniCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Institut de Physique de Rennes (IPR); Université de Rennes (UR)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB Collège de France ); Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS); École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF (institution))-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Université de Lyon; Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris); Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL); LIGO Scientific; Virgo |
| Source: |
Phys.Rev.D ; https://hal.science/hal-02999542 ; Phys.Rev.D, 2018, 97 (10), pp.102002. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevD.97.102002⟩ |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD |
| Publication Year: |
2018 |
| Collection: |
Université Savoie Mont Blanc: HAL |
| Subject Terms: |
gravitational radiation; gravitational radiation: emission; gravitational radiation: burst; gravitational radiation: direct detection; gravitational radiation detector; nucleosynthesis: big bang; defect: topological; cosmic string; LIGO; cosmic background radiation; critical phenomena; string tension; string model; gravitational radiation: stochastic; detector: network; pulsar; [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc]; [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph] |
| Description: |
International audience ; Cosmic strings are topological defects which can be formed in grand unified theory scale phase transitions in the early universe. They are also predicted to form in the context of string theory. The main mechanism for a network of Nambu-Goto cosmic strings to lose energy is through the production of loops and the subsequent emission of gravitational waves, thus offering an experimental signature for the existence of cosmic strings. Here we report on the analysis conducted to specifically search for gravitational-wave bursts from cosmic string loops in the data of Advanced LIGO 2015-2016 observing run (O1). No evidence of such signals was found in the data, and as a result we set upper limits on the cosmic string parameters for three recent loop distribution models. In this paper, we initially derive constraints on the string tension Gμ and the intercommutation probability, using not only the burst analysis performed on the O1 data set but also results from the previously published LIGO stochastic O1 analysis, pulsar timing arrays, cosmic microwave background and big-bang nucleosynthesis experiments. We show that these data sets are complementary in that they probe gravitational waves produced by cosmic string loops during very different epochs. Finally, we show that the data sets exclude large parts of the parameter space of the three loop distribution models we consider. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/arxiv/1712.01168; ARXIV: 1712.01168; INSPIRE: 1640605 |
| DOI: |
10.1103/PhysRevD.97.102002 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-02999542; https://hal.science/hal-02999542v1/document; https://hal.science/hal-02999542v1/file/PhysRevD.97.102002.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.102002 |
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edsbas.23DFE8C0 |
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