Mock LISA Data Challenge for the galactic white dwarf binaries (2009)
Błaut, Arkadiusz, Babak, Stanislav, Królak, Andrzej
We present data analysis methods used in detection and the estimation of parameters of gravitational wave signals from the white dwarf binaries in the Mock LISA Data Challenge. Our main focus is on...
The search for black hole binaries using a genetic algorithm (2009)
Petiteau, Antoine, Shang, Yu, Babak, Stanislav
In this work we use genetic algorithm to search for the gravitational wave signal from the inspiralling massive Black Hole binaries in the simulated LISA data. We consider a single signal in the...
An algorithm for detection of extreme mass ratio inspirals in LISA data (2009)
Babak, Stanislav, Gair, Jonathan R., Porter, Edward K.
The gravitational wave signal from a compact object spiralling toward a massive black hole (MBH) is thought to be one of the most difficult sources to detect in the LISA data stream. Due to the large...
The Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
A search for periodic gravitational waves, from sources such as isolated rapidly-spinning neutron stars, was carried out using 510 hours of data from the fourth LIGO science run (S4). The search was...
The Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data (2009)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
This paper reports on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from sources such as deformed isolated rapidly spinning neutron stars. The analysis uses 840 hours of data from 66 days of the...
The Mock LISA data challenges: from challenge 1B to challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John, Benacquista, Matthew, Cornish, Neil, Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane, ...
Also archived in arXiv:0806.2110 v1 Jun 12, 2008. Proceedings from the 12th Gravitational Wave Data Analysis Workshop, Cambridge MA, from 13-16 December 2007
The Mock LISA data challenges: from challenge 1B to challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane L., ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of...
A constrained metropolis-hastings search for EMRIs in the mock LISA data challenge 1B (2008)
Gair, Jonathan, Porter, Edward, Babak, Stanislav, Barack, Leor
We describe a search for the EMRI sources in the Round 1B Mock LISA Data Challenge data sets. The search algorithm is a Monte-Carlo search based on the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, but also...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane L., ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of...
Resolving Super Massive Black Holes with LISA (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Hannam, Mark, Husa, Sascha, Schutz, Bernard
We study the angular resolution of the gravitational wave detector LISA and show that numerical relativity can drastically improve the accuracy of position location for coalescing Super Massive Black...
A Constrained Metropolis-Hastings Search for EMRIs in the Mock LISA Data Challenge 1B (2008)
Gair, Jonathan R., Porter, Edward K., Babak, Stanislav, Barack, Leor
We describe a search for the extreme-mass-ratio inspiral sources in the Round 1B Mock LISA Data Challenge data sets. The search algorithm is a Monte-Carlo search based on the Metropolis-Hastings...
Building a stochastic template bank for detecting massive black hole binaries (2008)
Coalescence of two massive black holes is the strongest and most promising source for LISA. In fact, gravitational signal from the end of inspiral and merger will be detectable throughout the...
Ajith, P., Babak, Stanislav, Chen, Yanbei, Hewitson, Martin, Krishnan, Badri, Sintes, A. M., ...
Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black hole coalescences can be modelled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in general relativity. Recent...
Report on the second Mock LISA data challenge (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Cutler, Curt, ...
The Mock LISA data challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of several data sets containing...
Implications for the origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO observations (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We analyzed the available LIGO data coincident with GRB 070201, a short-duration, hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral...
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...
A joint search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and LIGO (2008)
Baggio, L., Bignotto, M., Bonaldi, M., Cerdonio, M., De Rosa, M., Falferi, P., ...
The first simultaneous operation of the AURIGA detector(63) and the LIGO observatory(64) was an opportunity to explore real data, joint analysis methods between two very different types of...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave bursts associated with 39 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by gamma-ray satellite experiments during LIGO's S2, S3, and S4...
Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries during the third and fourth LIGO science runs. The search focused on gravitational waves generated during the...
All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We report on an all-sky search with the LIGO detectors for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range 50-1000 Hz and with the frequency's time derivative in the range -1 x 10(-8) Hz s(-1) to...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We report on the methods and results of the first dedicated search for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries with spinning component bodies. We analyze 788 hours of data...
Ajith, P., Babak, Stanislav, Chen, Yanbei, Hewitson, Martin, Krishnan, Badri, Sintes, A. M., ...
Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black-hole coalescences can be modeled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in general relativity. Recent...
Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
We present direct upper limits on gravitational wave emission from the Crab pulsar using data from the first 9 months of the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges: from Challenge 1B to Challenge 3 (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Larson, Shane L., ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a programme to demonstrate and encourage the development of LISA data-analysis capabilities, tools and techniques. At the time of this workshop, three rounds of...
Building a stochastic template bank for detecting massive black hole binaries (2008)
The coalescence of pairs of massive black holes are the strongest and most promising sources for LISA. In fact, the gravitational wave signal from the final inspiral and merger will be detectable...
A constrained Metropolis-Hastings search for EMRIs in the Mock LISA Data Challenge 1B (2008)
Gair, Jonathan R., Porter, Edward, Babak, Stanislav, Barack, Leor
We describe a search for the extreme-mass-ratio inspiral sources in the Round 1B Mock LISA Data Challenge data sets. The search algorithm is a Monte Carlo search based on the Metropolis–Hastings...
Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
We present a LIGO search for short-duration gravitational waves (GWs) associated with soft gamma ray repeater (SGR) bursts. This is the first search sensitive to neutron star f modes, usually...
First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data (2008)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Allen, Gabrielle, ...
We present the results of the first joint search for gravitational-wave bursts by the LIGO and GEO 600 detectors. We search for bursts with characteristic central frequencies in the band 768-2048 Hz...
Resolving Super Massive Black Holes with LISA (2008)
Babak, Stanislav, Hannam, Mark, Husa, Sascha, Schutz, Bernard F.
We study the angular resolution of the gravitational wave detector LISA and show that numerical relativity can drastically improve the accuracy of position location for coalescing Super Massive Black...
Ajith, P., Babak, Stanislav, Chen, Yanbei, Hewitson, Martin, Krishnan, Badri, Sintes, A. M., ...
Gravitational waveforms from the inspiral and ring-down stages of the binary black-hole coalescences can be modeled accurately by approximation/perturbation techniques in general relativity. Recent...
Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge (2007)
Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Crowder, Jeff, Cutler, Curt, ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges are a program to demonstrate LISA data-analysis capabilities and to encourage their development. Each round of challenges consists of several data sets containing...
An overview of the mock LISA data challenges (2007)
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering the development of LISA...
Searching for Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals with LIGO (2007)
Brown, Duncan A., Babak, Stanislav, Brady, Patrick R., Christensen, Nelson, Cokelaer, Thomas, Creighton, Jolien D. E., ...
We describe the current status of the search for gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binary systems in LIGO data. We review the result from the first scientific run of LIGO (S1). We present...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
“Kludge” gravitational waveforms for a test-body orbiting a Kerr black hole (2007)
Babak, Stanislav, Fang, Hua, Gair, Jonathan R., Glampedakis, Kostas, Hughes, Scott A.
One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves for low-frequency, space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is...
Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges (2007)
Arnaud, Keith A., Auger, Gerard, Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Bloomer, Ed, ...
The Mock LISA Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data analysis tools and capabilities, and demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by...
A phenomenological template family for black-hole coalescence waveforms (2007)
Ajith, P., Babak, Stanislav, Chen, Yanbei, Hewitson, Martin, Krishnan, Badri, Whelan, J. T., ...
Recent progress in numerical relativity has enabled us to model the non-perturbative merger phase of the binary black-hole coalescence problem. Based on these results, we propose a phenomenological...
"Kludge" gravitational waveforms for a test-body orbiting a Kerr black hole (2007)
Babak, Stanislav, Fang, Hua, Gair, Jonathan R., Glampedakis, Kostas, Hughes, Scott A.
One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves for low-frequency, space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is...
An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges (2007)
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The Mock Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data-analysis tools and capabilities and of demonstrating the technical readiness already achieved by the...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt, ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Boschi, V., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
Data from the LIGO Livingston interferometer and the ALLEGRO resonant bar detector, taken during LIGO's fourth science run, were examined for cross-correlations indicative of a stochastic...
Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves (2007)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We searched for an anisotropic background of gravitational waves using data from the LIGO S4 science run and a method that is optimized for point sources. This is appropriate if, for example, the...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
We carry out two searches for periodic gravitational waves using the most sensitive few hours of data from the second LIGO science run. Both searches exploit fully coherent matched filtering and...
Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars (2007)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO data from the fourth science run (2007)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
The fourth science run of the LIGO and GEO 600 gravitational-wave detectors, carried out in early 2005, collected data with significantly lower noise than previous science runs. We report on a search...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational‐Wave Observatory (LIGO) has performed the fourth science run, S4, with significantly improved interferometer sensitivities with respect to previous runs....
"Kludge" gravitational waveforms for a test-body orbiting a Kerr black hole (2006)
Babak, Stanislav, Fang, Hua, Gair, Jonathan R., Glampedakis, Kostas, Hughes, Scott A.
One of the most exciting potential sources of gravitational waves for low-frequency, space-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors such as the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is...
Mapping spacetimes with LISA: inspiral of a test-body in a `quasi-Kerr' field (2006)
Glampedakis, Kostas, Babak, Stanislav
The future LISA detector will constitute the prime instrument for high-precision gravitational wave observations.LISA is expected to provide information for the properties of spacetime in the...
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector uses advanced technologies including signal recycling and monolithic fused-silica suspensions to achieve a sensitivity close to the kilometre scale LIGO and...
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component...
Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an...
Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Churches, D., Cokelaer, T., Sathyaprakash, B. S.
Gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries are searched for using the matched filtering technique. As the model waveform depends on a number of parameters, it is necessary to filter the...
Status of the GEO600 detector (2006)
Lück, Harald, Hewitson, Martin, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, ...
Of all the large interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, the German/British project GEO600 is the only one which uses dual recycling. During the four weeks of the international S4 data-taking...
Search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO's third science run (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
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...
Mapping spacetimes with LISA: inspiral of a test-body in a `quasi-Kerr' field (2005)
Glampedakis, Kostas, Babak, Stanislav
The future LISA detector will constitute the prime instrument for high-precision gravitational wave observations.LISA is expected to provide information for the properties of spacetime in the...
Babak, Stanislav, Hewitson, Martin, Lück, Harald, Strain, K. A.
The matched filtering technique is used to search for gravitational wave signals of a known form in the data taken by ground-based detectors. However, the analyzed data contains a number of artifacts...
GEO600 Online Detector Characterization System (2005)
Balasubramanian, R., Babak, Stanislav, Churches, D., Cokelaer, T.
A world-wide network of interferometric gravitational wave detectors is currently operational. The detectors in the network are still in their commissioning phase and are expected to achieve their...
Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, ...
We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method...
Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We use data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for the gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescence with component masses in the range...
Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We use 373 hours ([approximate]15 days) of data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for signals from binary neutron star coalescences within a maximum...
Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Upper limits on a stochastic background of gravitational waves (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., Allen, Bruce, ...
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory has performed a third science run with much improved sensitivities of all three interferometers. We present an analysis of approximately 200...
Grote, Hartmut, Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., ...
Since December 2003, the gravitational-wave detector GEO 600 has routinely operated in the dual recycled mode, using a lock acquisition scheme based on the detection of optical sideband power at the...
Searching for gravitational waves from binary inspirals with LIGO (2004)
Brown, Duncan A., Babak, Stanislav, Brady, Patrick R., Christensen, Nelson, Cokelaer, Thomas, Creighton, Jolien D. E., ...
We describe the current status of the search for gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binary systems in LIGO data. We review the result from the first scientific run of LIGO (S1). We present...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan, G., Allen, Bruce, Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is currently being commissioned as a part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies such as...
Calibration of the dual-recycled GEO600 detector for the S3 science run (2004)
Hewitson, Martin, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Danzmann, Karsten, Grote, Hartmut, Heinzel, Gerhard, ...
The GEO 600 interferometric gravitational detector took part in an extended coincident science run of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (S3) that started in November 2003. GEO had recently been...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors. Our search focuses on bursts...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Commissioning, characterization and operation of the dual-recycled GEO 600 (2004)
Smith, J. R., Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., ...
The German-British laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detector GEO 600 is currently being commissioned as part of a worldwide network of gravitational-wave detectors. GEO 600 recently became...
Strain, Kenneth A., Allen, Bruce, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. GEO 600 is unique in having advanced multiple pendulum suspensions with a...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
The GEO 600 Gravitational Wave Detector - Pulsar Prospects (2003)
Woan, G., Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
A report on the status of the GEO 600 gravitational wave detector (2003)
Hewitson, Martin, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
GEO 600 is an interferometric gravitational wave detector with 600 m arms, which will employ a novel, dual-recycled optical scheme allowing its optical response to be tuned over a range of...
Detector characterization in GEO 600 (2003)
Sintes, Alicia M., Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 interferometric gravitational wave detector conducted its first science run (S1) from 23 August 2002 to 9 September 2002. The GEO 600 data acquisition system is described together with...
Status of the GEO600 gravitational wave detector (2003)
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO600 laser interferometric gravitational wave detector is approaching the end of its commissioning phase which started in 1995.During a test run in January 2002 the detector was operated for 15...
The GEO 600 Gravitational Wave Detector (2002)
Willke, Benno, Aufmuth, Peter, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Barr, B. W., ...
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies like multiple pendulum suspensions with a...
Data acquisition and detector characterization of GEO600 (2002)
Kötter, Karsten, Aulbert, Carsten, Babak, Stanislav, Balasubramanian, R., Berukoff, Steven J., Bose, Sukanta, ...
The data acquisition system of the gravitational wave detector GEO600 is recording the first data now. Data from detector subsystems and environmental channels are being acquired. The data...
Mapping spacetimes with LISA: inspiral of a test-body in a `quasi-Kerr' field
Glampedakis,Kostas, Babak,Stanislav
The future LISA detector will constitute the prime instrument for high-precision gravitational wave observations.LISA is expected to provide information for the properties of spacetime in the...
An Overview of the Mock LISA Data Challenges
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST-WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering the development of LISA...
A How-To for the Mock LISA Data Challenges
Arnaud, Keith A., Babak, Stanislav, Baker, John G., Benacquista, Matthew J., Cornish, Neil J., Cutler, Curt, ...
The LISA International Science Team Working Group on Data Analysis (LIST- WG1B) is sponsoring several rounds of mock data challenges, with the purpose of fostering development of LISA data-analysis...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Coleman Miller, M., Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
The search for spinning black hole binaries using a genetic algorithm
Petiteau, Antoine, Yu, Shang, Babak, Stanislav
We use a genetic algorithm to analyze the data from the third round of the mock LISA data challenge. These data consist of gaussian stationary instrumental noise, a Galactic background and four to...