Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
Affiliations
- 1 LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 2 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
- 3 American University, Washington, D.C. 20016, USA.
- 4 Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy.
- 5 INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 6 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
- 7 LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA.
- 8 Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France.
- 9 University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy.
- 10 Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 11 Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 12 LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
- 13 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 14 INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
- 15 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 16 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India.
- 17 International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India.
- 18 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
- 19 Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 20 Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 21 INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 22 Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
- 23 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA.
- 24 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91898 Orsay, France.
- 25 Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India.
- 26 Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 27 Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany.
- 28 INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 29 Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
- 30 APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
- 31 West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA.
- 32 Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 33 INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 34 European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy.
- 35 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
- 36 SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
- 37 LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
- 38 Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary.
- 39 Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
- 40 Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
- 41 Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 42 INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 43 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-716, Warsaw, Poland.
- 44 Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
- 45 University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
- 46 Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 47 INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 48 RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India.
- 49 Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
- 50 SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom.
- 51 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
- 52 Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 53 University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
- 54 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 55 Artemis, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Observatoire Côte d'Azur, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France.
- 56 Institut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France.
- 57 Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.
- 58 Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo Bo', I-61029 Urbino, Italy.
- 59 INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
- 60 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
- 61 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 62 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA.
- 63 Astronomical Observatory Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland.
- 64 VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 65 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 66 Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 67 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 68 Università di Napoli 'Federico II', Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 69 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- 70 The School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia.
- 71 RESCEU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
- 72 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
- 73 Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- 74 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA.
- 75 The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA.
- 76 National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China.
- 77 Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia.
- 78 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
- 79 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA.
- 80 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Korea.
- 81 University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom.
- 82 Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 83 University of Brussels, Brussels 1050, Belgium.
- 84 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA.
- 85 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA.
- 86 Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
- 87 Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3-IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- 88 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA.
- 89 Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington 98007, USA.
- 90 Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India.
- 91 The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
- 92 California State University, Los Angeles, 5154 State University Dr, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA.
- 93 Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 94 INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 95 Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom.
- 96 Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA.
- 97 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.
- 98 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada.
- 99 MTA Eötvös University, "Lendulet" Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest 1117, Hungary.
- 100 School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
- 101 University and Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382007, India.
- 102 IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India.
- 103 University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary.
- 104 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA.
- 105 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India.
- 106 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, I-80131 Napoli, Italy.
- 107 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
- 108 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.
- 109 NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
- 110 University of Biał ystok, 15-424 Biał ystok, Poland.
- 111 SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom.
- 112 University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
- 113 University of Washington Bothell, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, Washington 98011, USA.
- 114 Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
- 115 Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
- 116 Inje University Gimhae, 621-749 South Gyeongsang, Korea.
- 117 National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 305-390, Korea.
- 118 Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea.
- 119 NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland.
- 120 Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00656 Warsaw, Poland.
- 121 Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea.
- 122 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong.
- 123 University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA.
- 124 ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 125 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
- 126 Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy.
- 127 Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
- 128 The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
- 129 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
- 130 Instituto de Física Teórica, University Estadual Paulista/ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, São Paulo SP 01140-070, Brazil.
- 131 Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA.
- 132 Université de Lyon, F-69361 Lyon, France.
- 133 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA.
- 134 Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland.
- 135 King's College London, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
- 136 IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India.
- 137 Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India.
- 138 Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA.
- 139 Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy.
- 140 Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA.
- 141 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
- 142 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA.
- PMID: 28388180
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121101
Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
Authors
Affiliations
- 1 LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 2 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA.
- 3 American University, Washington, D.C. 20016, USA.
- 4 Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy.
- 5 INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 6 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
- 7 LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA.
- 8 Laboratoire d'Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France.
- 9 University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy.
- 10 Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 11 Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 12 LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
- 13 Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil.
- 14 INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L'Aquila, Italy.
- 15 INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 16 Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India.
- 17 International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India.
- 18 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA.
- 19 Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany.
- 20 Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 21 INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy.
- 22 Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia.
- 23 California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA.
- 24 LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91898 Orsay, France.
- 25 Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India.
- 26 Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy.
- 27 Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany.
- 28 INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 29 Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany.
- 30 APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
- 31 West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA.
- 32 Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 33 INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy.
- 34 European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy.
- 35 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA.
- 36 SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom.
- 37 LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA.
- 38 Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary.
- 39 Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA.
- 40 Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
- 41 Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 42 INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy.
- 43 Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-716, Warsaw, Poland.
- 44 Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.
- 45 University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom.
- 46 Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 47 INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy.
- 48 RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India.
- 49 Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia.
- 50 SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom.
- 51 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
- 52 Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 53 University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia.
- 54 Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
- 55 Artemis, Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, Observatoire Côte d'Azur, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France.
- 56 Institut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France.
- 57 Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA.
- 58 Università degli Studi di Urbino 'Carlo Bo', I-61029 Urbino, Italy.
- 59 INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy.
- 60 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
- 61 Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 62 Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA.
- 63 Astronomical Observatory Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland.
- 64 VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
- 65 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 66 Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 67 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 68 Università di Napoli 'Federico II', Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy.
- 69 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- 70 The School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia.
- 71 RESCEU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
- 72 University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia.
- 73 Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
- 74 Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA.
- 75 The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA.
- 76 National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China.
- 77 Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia.
- 78 University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.
- 79 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA.
- 80 Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Korea.
- 81 University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom.
- 82 Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', I-00185 Roma, Italy.
- 83 University of Brussels, Brussels 1050, Belgium.
- 84 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA.
- 85 Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA.
- 86 Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
- 87 Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3-IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- 88 The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA.
- 89 Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington 98007, USA.
- 90 Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India.
- 91 The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom.
- 92 California State University, Los Angeles, 5154 State University Dr, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA.
- 93 Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 94 INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.
- 95 Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom.
- 96 Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA.
- 97 National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan.
- 98 Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada.
- 99 MTA Eötvös University, "Lendulet" Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest 1117, Hungary.
- 100 School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom.
- 101 University and Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat 382007, India.
- 102 IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India.
- 103 University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary.
- 104 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA.
- 105 Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India.
- 106 INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, I-80131 Napoli, Italy.
- 107 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
- 108 Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA.
- 109 NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.
- 110 University of Biał ystok, 15-424 Biał ystok, Poland.
- 111 SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom.
- 112 University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom.
- 113 University of Washington Bothell, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, Washington 98011, USA.
- 114 Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia.
- 115 Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea.
- 116 Inje University Gimhae, 621-749 South Gyeongsang, Korea.
- 117 National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 305-390, Korea.
- 118 Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea.
- 119 NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland.
- 120 Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00656 Warsaw, Poland.
- 121 Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea.
- 122 The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong.
- 123 University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA.
- 124 ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France.
- 125 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
- 126 Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy.
- 127 Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA.
- 128 The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia.
- 129 College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA.
- 130 Instituto de Física Teórica, University Estadual Paulista/ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, São Paulo SP 01140-070, Brazil.
- 131 Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA.
- 132 Université de Lyon, F-69361 Lyon, France.
- 133 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA.
- 134 Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland.
- 135 King's College London, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom.
- 136 IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India.
- 137 Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India.
- 138 Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA.
- 139 Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy.
- 140 Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA.
- 141 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
- 142 Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA.
- PMID: 28388180
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.121101
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Erratum: Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121101 (2017)].Abbott BP, Anonymous. Abbott BP, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Jul 14;119(2):029901. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.029901. Epub 2017 Jul 11. Phys Rev Lett. 2017. PMID: 28753332
Abstract
A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW151226, the rate and mass of coalescing binary black holes appear to be greater than many previous expectations. As a result, the stochastic background from unresolved compact binary coalescences is expected to be particularly loud. We perform a search for the isotropic stochastic gravitational-wave background using data from Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory's (aLIGO) first observing run. The data display no evidence of a stochastic gravitational-wave signal. We constrain the dimensionless energy density of gravitational waves to be Ω_{0}<1.7×10^{-7} with 95% confidence, assuming a flat energy density spectrum in the most sensitive part of the LIGO band (20-86 Hz). This is a factor of ∼33 times more sensitive than previous measurements. We also constrain arbitrary power-law spectra. Finally, we investigate the implications of this search for the background of binary black holes using an astrophysical model for the background.
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