Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run

Abbott, B.; Abbott, R.; Adhikari, R.; Agresti, J.; Ajith, P.; Allen, B.; Allen, J.; Amin, R.; Anderson, S. B.; Anderson, W. G.; Araya, M.; Armandula, H.; Ashley, M.; Aulbert, C.; Babak, S.; Balasubramanian, R.; Ballmer, S.; Bantilan, H.; Barish, B. C.; Barker, C.; Barker, D.; Barton, M. A.; Bayer, K.; Belczynski, K.; Betzwieser, J.; Bhawal, B.; Bilenko, I. A.; Billingsley, G.; Black, E.; Blackburn, K.; Blackburn, L.; Bland, B.; Bogue, L.; Bork, R.; Bose, S.; Brady, P. R.; Braginsky, V. B.; Brau, J. E.; Brown, D. A.; Buonanno, A.; Busby, D.; Butler, W. E.; Cadonati, L.; Cagnoli, G.; Camp, J. B.; Cannizzo, J.; Cannon, K.; Cao, J.; Cardenas, L.; Carter, K.; Casey, M. M.; Charlton, P.; Chatterji, S.; Chen, Y.; Chin, D.; Christensen, N.; Cokelaer, T.; Colacino, C. N.; Coldwell, R.; Cook, D.; Corbitt, T.; Coyne, D.; Creighton, J. D. E.; Creighton, T. D.; Dalrymple, J.; D'Ambrosio, E.; Danzmann, K.; Davies, G.; DeBra, D.; Dergachev, V.; Desai, S.; DeSalvo, R.; Dhurandar, S.; Díaz, M.; Di Credico, A.; Drever, R. W. P.; Dupuis, R. J.; Ehrens, P.; Etzel, T.; Evans, M.; Evans, T.; Fairhurst, S.; Finn, L. S.; Franzen, K. Y.; Frey, R. E.; Fritschel, P.; Frolov, V. V.; Fyffe, M.; Ganezer, K. S.; Garofoli, J.; Gholami, I.; Giaime, J. A.; Goda, K.; Goggin, L.; González, G.; Gray, C.; Gretarsson, A. M.; Grimmett, D.; Grote, H.; Grunewald, S. et al.
Bibliographical reference

Classical and Quantum Gravity, Volume 23, Issue 8, pp. S29-S39 (2006).

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2006
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We report on a search for gravitational-wave bursts in data from the three LIGO interferometric detectors during their third science run. The search targets sub-second bursts in the frequency range 100-1100 Hz for which no waveform model is assumed and has a sensitivity in terms of the root-sum-square (rss) strain amplitude of hrss ~ 10-20 Hz-1/2. No gravitational-wave signals were detected in the eight days of analysed data.