Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with S5 LIGO data (2009)
Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific, Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., ...
We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search ephemerides overlapping the run...
Collaboration, LIGO Scientific, Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., ...
We present the results of a search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with 137 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments during the fifth LIGO science...
An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin (2009)
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., ...
A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmological origin. It should...
Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., ...
In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from γ-ray...
Data Acquisition System of the Virgo Gravitational Waves Interferometric Detector (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo is an experiment aiming at the detection of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Its detector, based on a 3km arms interferometer, is a complex setup which requires several...
Interferometric detectors of gravitational waves on Earth: the next generations (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The interferometric detectors of gravitational waves of first generation are now taking data. A first detection might be possible with these instruments, but more sensitive detectors will be needed...
Interferometric detectors of gravitational waves on Earth: the next generations (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The interferometric detectors of gravitational waves of first generation are now taking data. A first detection might be possible with these instruments, but more sensitive detectors will be needed...
Data Acquisition System of the Virgo Gravitational Waves Interferometric Detector (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo is an experiment aiming at the detection of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Its detector, based on a 3km arms interferometer, is a complex setup which requires several...
Acernese, F., Alshourbagy, M., Amico, P., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Virgo detector has now finished its first science run; a science mode duty cycle of more than 80% and a 4.5 Mpc horizon distance for binary neutron star inspiral sources were achieved....
The Virgo 3 km interferometer for gravitational wave detection (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo, designed, constructed and developed by the FrenchItalian VIRGO collaboration located in Cascina (Pisa, Italy) and aiming to detect gravitational waves, is a ground-based power recycled...
Acernese, F., Alshourbagy, M., Amico, P., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Virgo detector has now finished its first science run; a science mode duty cycle of more than 80% and a 4.5 Mpc horizon distance for binary neutron star inspiral sources were achieved....
The Virgo 3 km interferometer for gravitational wave detection (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo, designed, constructed and developed by the French–Italian VIRGO collaboration located in Cascina (Pisa, Italy) and aiming to detect gravitational waves, is a ground-based power recycled...
Interferometric detectors of gravitational waves on Earth: the next generations (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The interferometric detectors of gravitational waves of first generation are now taking data. A first detection might be possible with these instruments, but more sensitive detectors will be needed...
The Virgo 3 km interferometer for gravitational wave detection (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo, designed, constructed and developed by the FrenchItalian VIRGO collaboration located in Cascina (Pisa, Italy) and aiming to detect gravitational waves, is a ground-based power recycled...
Acernese, F., Alshourbagy, M., Amico, P., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Virgo detector has now finished its first science run; a science mode duty cycle of more than 80% and a 4.5 Mpc horizon distance for binary neutron star inspiral sources were achieved....
Data Acquisition System of the Virgo Gravitational Waves Interferometric Detector (2008)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo is an experiment aiming at the detection of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Its detector, based on a 3km arms interferometer, is a complex setup which requires several...
Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e. g. from...
All-sky search of NAUTILUS data (2008)
Astone, P., Bassan, M., Bonifazi, P., Borkowski, K. M., Budzynski, R. J., Chincarini, A., ...
A search for periodic gravitational-wave signals from isolated neutron stars in the NAUTILUS detector data is presented. We have analyzed half a year of data over the frequency band lang922.2;...
Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects (2008)
Abbott, B, Abbott, R, Adhikari, R, Ajith, P, Allen, B, Allen, G, ...
"In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from g-ray...
SEARCH OF MONOCHROMATIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVES USING RESONANT DETECTORS (2007)
P. Astone, S. Frasca, G. V. Pallottino, G. Pizzella
The search for monochromatic waves has begun using the data obtained with the Explorer detector of the Rome group that cover a period of a few years (since 1990). We present the algorithms we are...
Comparison Between Different Data Analysis Procedures for Gravitational Wave Pulse Detection (2007)
Astone Infn Sez, P. Astone, S. Frasca, G. V. Pallottino, G. Pizzella
We report on the application of different filtering procedures for pulse detection to the data of two mode resonant gravitational wave antennas. We consider the optimal filtering of both the...
Astone Bassan Bonifazi, P. Astone, M. Bassan, P. Bonifazi, P. Carelli, C. Cosmelli, ...
. We report on the crosscorrelation analysis of the data recorded by the gravitational wave (g.w.) resonant detectors Explorer and Nautilus, performed to obtain information on the g.w. stochastic...
Bayesian Model Comparison Applied to the (2007)
Bayesian reasoning is applied to the data by the ROG Collaboration, in which gravitational wave (g.w.) signals are searched for in a coincidence experiment between Explorer and Nautilus. The use of...
Measurement of the optical parameters of the Virgo interferometer (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Virgo interferometer, aimed at detecting gravitational waves, is now in a commissioning phase. Measurements of its optical properties are needed for the understanding of the instrument. The...
Noise budget and noise hunting in VIRGO (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Status of Virgo detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The commissioning of the Virgo gravitational wave detector has restarted after several major hardware upgrades carried out during winter 2005. Now Virgo is fully operative and its sensitivity greatly...
GRB 050915a & the Virgo detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
GravitationalWaves (GWs) are expected to be emitted in association with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). In this context, we are analyzing data collected by the Virgo interferometer during 2005 to develop a...
Data quality and detector characterization for Burst Search in Virgo data (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
LIGO and VIRGO: large interferometers searching for gravitational waves (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The largest interferometric detectors for gravitational waves, LIGO and Virgo, have reached (or are close to) the design sensitivity and have started taking science data. The operation of such...
Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The interferometric gravitational wave detector Virgo is undergoing an advanced phase of its commissioning, during which short runs are routinely performed, in which data are analyzed online and...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The experience acquired during the commissioning phase of the VIRGO interferometer between September 2003 and August 2005 suggested some major detector upgrades to reach its design sensitivity. The...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The commissioning phase of the full Virgo gravity-wave interferometric detector started in September 2003, and ended in May 2007 as the data taking phase began. This activity was intended to achieve...
Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Automatic Alignment System of the Virgo Interferometer (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
All-sky gravitational wave burst search in the Virgo C7 run data (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The VIRGO experiment for the detection of gravitational waves is a big challenge both for physics and for technology, in particular, to satisfy the stringent requirements on the alignment and...
Data Acquisition System of the Virgo Gravitational Waves Interferometric Detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo is an experiment aiming at the detection of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Its detector, based on a 3km arms interferometer, is a complex setup which requires several...
LIGO and VIRGO: large interferometers searching for gravitational waves (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The largest interferometric detectors for gravitational waves, LIGO and Virgo, have reached (or are close to) the design sensitivity and have started taking science data. The operation of such...
Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The interferometric gravitational wave detector Virgo is undergoing an advanced phase of its commissioning, during which short runs are routinely performed, in which data are analyzed online and...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The experience acquired during the commissioning phase of the VIRGO interferometer between September 2003 and August 2005 suggested some major detector upgrades to reach its design sensitivity. The...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The commissioning phase of the full Virgo gravity-wave interferometric detector started in September 2003, and ended in May 2007 as the data taking phase began. This activity was intended to achieve...
Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Automatic Alignment System of the Virgo Interferometer (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
All-sky gravitational wave burst search in the Virgo C7 run data (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The VIRGO experiment for the detection of gravitational waves is a big challenge both for physics and for technology, in particular, to satisfy the stringent requirements on the alignment and...
Data Acquisition System of the Virgo Gravitational Waves Interferometric Detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo is an experiment aiming at the detection of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Its detector, based on a 3km arms interferometer, is a complex setup which requires several...
Data quality and detector characterization for Burst Search in Virgo data (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Measurement of the optical parameters of the Virgo interferometer (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Virgo interferometer, aimed at detecting gravitational waves, is now in a commissioning phase. Measurements of its optical properties are needed for the understanding of the instrument. The...
GRB 050915a & the Virgo detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
GravitationalWaves (GWs) are expected to be emitted in association with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). In this context, we are analyzing data collected by the Virgo interferometer during 2005 to develop a...
Status of Virgo detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The commissioning of the Virgo gravitational wave detector has restarted after several major hardware upgrades carried out during winter 2005. Now Virgo is fully operative and its sensitivity greatly...
Noise budget and noise hunting in VIRGO (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Response of resonant gravitational wave detectors to damped sinusoid signals (2007)
Pai, Archana, Celsi, C., Pallottino, G. V., D'Antonio, S., Astone, P.
Till date, the search for burst signals with resonant gravitational wave (GW) detectors has been done using the δ-function approximation for the signal, which was reasonable due to the very small...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The VIRGO experiment for the detection of gravitational waves is a big challenge both for physics and for technology, in particular, to satisfy the stringent requirements on the alignment and...
LIGO and VIRGO: large interferometers searching for gravitational waves (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The largest interferometric detectors for gravitational waves, LIGO and Virgo, have reached (or are close to) the design sensitivity and have started taking science data. The operation of such...
Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The interferometric gravitational wave detector Virgo is undergoing an advanced phase of its commissioning, during which short runs are routinely performed, in which data are analyzed online and...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The experience acquired during the commissioning phase of the VIRGO interferometer between September 2003 and August 2005 suggested some major detector upgrades to reach its design sensitivity. The...
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The commissioning phase of the full Virgo gravity-wave interferometric detector started in September 2003, and ended in May 2007 as the data taking phase began. This activity was intended to achieve...
Status of coalescing binaries search activities in Virgo (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Automatic Alignment System of the Virgo Interferometer (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
All-sky gravitational wave burst search in the Virgo C7 run data (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Data Acquisition System of the Virgo Gravitational Waves Interferometric Detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Virgo is an experiment aiming at the detection of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources. Its detector, based on a 3km arms interferometer, is a complex setup which requires several...
Data quality and detector characterization for Burst Search in Virgo data (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
Measurement of the optical parameters of the Virgo interferometer (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The Virgo interferometer, aimed at detecting gravitational waves, is now in a commissioning phase. Measurements of its optical properties are needed for the understanding of the instrument. The...
GRB 050915a & the Virgo detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
GravitationalWaves (GWs) are expected to be emitted in association with Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). In this context, we are analyzing data collected by the Virgo interferometer during 2005 to develop a...
Status of Virgo detector (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
The commissioning of the Virgo gravitational wave detector has restarted after several major hardware upgrades carried out during winter 2005. Now Virgo is fully operative and its sensitivity greatly...
Noise budget and noise hunting in VIRGO (2007)
Acernese, F., Amico, P., Alshourbagy, M., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Astone, P., ...
An all-sky search of EXPLORER data (2005)
Astone, P., Babusci, D., Bassan, M., Borkowski, K. M., Brocco, L., Coccia, E., ...
We have analysed three data sets, each two days long, of the EXPLORER resonant bar detector. We have searched for continuous gravitational-wave signals from spinning neutron stars. Our data analysis...
Increasing the bandwidth of resonant gravitational antennas: The case of Explorer (2003)
Astone, P, Babusci, D, Bassan, M, Carelli, P, Cavallari, Giorgio, Coccia, E, ...
Resonant gravitational wave detectors with an observation bandwidth of tens of hertz are a reality: the antenna Explorer, operated at CERN by the ROG collaboration, has been upgraded with a new...
Search for Periodic Gravitational Wave Sources with the EXPLORER detector (2002)
Astone, P., Bassan, M., Bonifazi, P., Carelli, P., Coccia, E., Cosmelli, C., ...
We have developed a procedure for the search of signals from periodic sources in the data of gravitational wave detectors. We report here the analysis of one year of data from the resonant detector...
We consider the issue of reporting the result of search experiment in the most unbiased and efficient way, i.e. in a way which allows an easy interpretation and combination of results and which do...