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A Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1080)
Mar 01 2018 gr-qc astro-ph.CO arXiv:1802.10194v2

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The detection of gravitational waves with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo has enabled novel tests of general relativity, including direct study of the polarization of gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for only two tensor gravitational-wave polarizations, general metric theories can additionally predict two vector and two scalar polarizations. The polarization of gravitational waves is encoded in the spectral shape of the stochastic gravitational-wave background, formed by the superposition of cosmological and individually-unresolved astrophysical sources. Using data recorded by Advanced LIGO during its first observing run, we search for a stochastic background of generically-polarized gravitational waves. We find no evidence for a background of any polarization, and place the first direct bounds on the contributions of vector and scalar polarizations to the stochastic background. Under log-uniform priors for the energy in each polarization, we limit the energy-densities of tensor, vector, and scalar modes at 95% credibility to $\Omega^T_0 < 5.6 \times 10^{-8}$, $\Omega^V_0 < 6.4\times 10^{-8}$, and $\Omega^S_0 < 1.1\times 10^{-7}$ at a reference frequency $f_0 = 25$ Hz.
Full Band All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1082)
Feb 15 2018 gr-qc arXiv:1802.05241v1

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We report on a new all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 475-2000 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0e-8, +1e-9] Hz/s. Potential signals could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly non-axisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. This search uses the data from Advanced LIGO's first observational run O1. No gravitational wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strengths. For completeness, results from the separately published low frequency search 20-475 Hz are included as well. Our lowest upper limit on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude h_0 is 4e-25 near 170 Hz, while at the high end of our frequency range we achieve a worst-case upper limit of 1.3e-24. For a circularly polarized source (most favorable orientation), the smallest upper limit obtained is ~1.5e-25.
Black hole complementarity with the generalized uncertainty principle in gravity's rainbow
Yongwan Gim, Hwajin Um, Wontae Kim
Dec 14 2017 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1712.04444v2

@misc{1712.04444, author = {Yongwan Gim and Hwajin Um and Wontae Kim}, title = {{B}lack hole complementarity with the generalized uncertainty principle in gravity's rainbow}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1712.04444}, howpublished = {JCAP, 02 (2018) 060}, doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2018/02/060}, note = {arXiv:1712.04444v2} }
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When gravitation is combined with quantum theory, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle could be extended to the generalized uncertainty principle accompanying a minimal length. To see how the generalized uncertainty principle works in the context of black hole complementarity, we calculate the required energy to duplicate information for the Schwarzschild black hole. It shows that the duplication of information is not allowed and black hole complementarity is still valid even assuming the generalized uncertainty principle. On the other hand, the generalized uncertainty principle with the minimal length could lead to a modification of the conventional dispersion relation in light of Gravity's Rainbow, where the minimal length is also invariant as well as the speed of light. Revisiting the gedanken experiment, we show that the no-cloning theorem for black hole complementarity can be made valid in the regime of Gravity's Rainbow on a certain combination of parameters.
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Dec 05 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.CO arXiv:1712.01168v1

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J.~Woehler and J.~Wofford and K.~W.~K.~Wong and J.~Worden and J.~L.~Wright and D.~S.~Wu and G.~Wu and W.~Yam and H.~Yamamoto and C.~C.~Yancey and M.~J.~Yap and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and M.~Yvert and A.~Zadro.zny and M.~Zanolin and T.~Zelenova and J.-P.~Zendri and M.~Zevin and L.~Zhang and M.~Zhang and T.~Zhang and Y.-H.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and S.~J.~Zhu and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and J.~Zweizig}, title = {{C}onstraints on cosmic strings using data from the first {A}dvanced {LIGO} observing run}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1712.01168}, note = {arXiv:1712.01168v1} }
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Cosmic strings are topological defects which can be formed in GUT-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 $G\mu$ 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.
Construction of KAGRA: an Underground Gravitational Wave Observatory
T.Akutsu, M.Ando, S.Araki, A.Araya, T.Arima, N.Aritomi, H.Asada, Y.Aso, S.Atsuta, K.Awai, L.Baiotti, M.A.Barton, D.Chen, K.Cho, K.Craig, R.DeSalvo, K.Doi, K.Eda, Y.Enomoto, R.Flaminio, et al (207)
Dec 04 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.IM physics.ins-det arXiv:1712.00148v2

@misc{1712.00148, author = {T.Akutsu and M.Ando and S.Araki and A.Araya and T.Arima and N.Aritomi and H.Asada and Y.Aso and S.Atsuta and K.Awai and L.Baiotti and M.A.Barton and D.Chen and K.Cho and K.Craig and R.DeSalvo and K.Doi and K.Eda and Y.Enomoto and R.Flaminio and S.Fujibayashi and Y.Fujii and M.-K.Fujimoto and M.Fukushima and T.Furuhata and A.Hagiwara and S.Haino and S.Harita and K.Hasegawa and M.Hasegawa and K.Hashino and K.Hayama and N.Hirata and E.Hirose and B.Ikenoue and Y.Inoue and K.Ioka and H.Ishizaki and Y.Itoh and D.Jia and T.Kagawa and T.Kaji and T.Kajita and M.Kakizaki and H.Kakuhata and M.Kamiizumi and S.Kanbara and N.Kanda and S.Kanemura and M.Kaneyama and J.Kasuya and Y.Kataoka and K.Kawaguchi and N.Kawai and S.Kawamura and F.Kawazoe and C.Kim and J.Kim and J.C.Kim and W.Kim and N.Kimura and Y.Kitaoka and K.Kobayashi and Y.Kojima and K.Kokeyama and K.Komori and K.Kotake and K.Kubo and R.Kumar and T.Kume and K.Kuroda and Y.Kuwahara and H.-K.Lee and H.-W.Lee and C.-Y.Lin and Y.Liu and E.Majorana and S.Mano and M.Marchio and T.Matsui and N.Matsumoto and F.Matsushima and Y.Michimura and N.Mio and O.Miyakawa and K.Miyake and A.Miyamoto and T.Miyamoto and K.Miyo and S.Miyoki and W.Morii and S.Morisaki and Y.Moriwaki and Y.Muraki and M.Murakoshi and M.Musha and K.Nagano and S.Nagano and K.Nakamura and T.Nakamura and H.Nakano and M.Nakano and M.Nakano and H.Nakao and K.Nakao and T.Narikawa and W.-T.Ni and T.Nonomura and Y.Obuchi and J.J.Oh and S.-H.Oh and M.Ohashi and N.Ohishi and M.Ohkawa and N.Ohmae and K.Okino and K.Okutomi and K.Ono and Y.Ono and K.Oohara and S.Ota and J.Park and F.E.Peña Arellano and I.M.Pinto and M.Principe and N.Sago and M.Saijo and T.Saito and Y.Saito and S.Saitou and K.Sakai and Y.Sakakibara and Y.Sasaki and S.Sato and T.Sato and Y.Sato and T.Sekiguchi and Y.Sekiguchi and M.Shibata and K.Shiga and Y.Shikano and T.Shimoda and H.Shinkai and A.Shoda and N.Someya and K.Somiya and E.J.Son and T.Starecki and A.Suemasa and Y.Sugimoto and Y.Susa and H.Suwabe and T.Suzuki and Y.Tachibana and H.Tagoshi and S.Takada and H.Takahashi and R.Takahashi and A.Takamori and H.Takeda and H.Tanaka and K.Tanaka and T.Tanaka and D.Tatsumi and S.Telada and T.Tomaru and K.Tsubono and S.Tsuchida and L.Tsukada and T.Tsuzuki and N.Uchikata and T.Uchiyama and T.Uehara and S.Ueki and K.Ueno and F.Uraguchi and T.Ushiba and M.H.P.M.van Putten and S.Wada and T.Wakamatsu and T.Yaginuma and K.Yamamoto and S.Yamamoto and T.Yamamoto and K.Yano and J.Yokoyama and T.Yokozawa and T.H.Yoon and H.Yuzurihara and S.Zeidler and Y.Zhao and L.Zheng and K.Agatsuma and Y.Akiyama and N.Arai and M.Asano and A.Bertolini and M.Fujisawa and R.Goetz and J.Guscott and Y.Hashimoto and Y.Hayashida and E.Hennes and K.Hirai and T.Hirayama and H.Ishitsuka and J.Kato and A.Khalaidovski and S.Koike and A.Kumeta and T.Miener and M.Morioka and C.L.Mueller and T.Narita and Y.Oda and T.Ogawa and T.Sekiguchi and H.Tamura and D.B.Tanner and C.Tokoku and M.Toritani and T.Utsuki and M.Uyeshima and J.van den Brand and J.van Heijningen and S.Yamaguchi and A.Yanagida}, title = {{C}onstruction of {KAGRA}: an {U}nderground {G}ravitational {W}ave {O}bservatory}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1712.00148}, note = {arXiv:1712.00148v2} }
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Major construction and initial-phase operation of a second-generation gravitational-wave detector KAGRA has been completed. The entire 3-km detector is installed underground in a mine in order to be isolated from background seismic vibrations on the surface. This allows us to achieve a good sensitivity at low frequencies and high stability of the detector. Bare-bones equipment for the interferometer operation has been installed and the first test run was accomplished in March and April of 2016 with a rather simple configuration. The initial configuration of KAGRA is named \it iKAGRA. In this paper, we summarize the construction of KAGRA, including the study of the advantages and challenges of building an underground detector and the operation of the iKAGRA interferometer together with the geophysics interferometer that has been constructed in the same tunnel.
All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (973)
Nov 21 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1711.06843v1

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A.~J.~Weinstein and R.~Weiss and L.~Wen and P.~Wessels and T.~Westphal and K.~Wette and J.~T.~Whelan and B.~F.~Whiting and C.~Whittle and D.~Williams and R.~D.~Williams and A.~R.~Williamson and J.~L.~Willis and B.~Willke and M.~H.~Wimmer and W.~Winkler and C.~C.~Wipf and H.~Wittel and G.~Woan and J.~Woehler and J.~Worden and J.~L.~Wright and D.~S.~Wu and G.~Wu and W.~Yam and H.~Yamamoto and C.~C.~Yancey and M.~J.~Yap and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and M.~Yvert and A.~Zadro.zny and L.~Zangrando and M.~Zanolin and J.-P.~Zendri and M.~Zevin and L.~Zhang and M.~Zhang and T.~Zhang and Y.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and S.~J.~Zhu and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and J.~Zweizig}, title = {{A}ll-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first {A}dvanced {LIGO} observing run}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1711.06843}, note = {arXiv:1711.06843v1} }
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We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between September 2015 and January 2016, with a total observational time of 49 days. The search targets gravitational wave transients of \unit[10 -- 500]s duration in a frequency band of \unit[24 -- 2048]Hz, with minimal assumptions about the signal waveform, polarization, source direction, or time of occurrence. No significant events were observed. %All candidate triggers were consistent with the expected background, As a result we set 90\% confidence upper limits on the rate of long-duration gravitational wave transients for different types of gravitational wave signals. We also show that the search is sensitive to sources in the Galaxy emitting at least $\sim$ \unit[$10^{-8}$]$\mathrm{M_{\odot} c^2}$ in gravitational waves.
GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
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Nov 16 2017 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1711.05578v1

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On June 8, 2017 at 02:01:16.49 UTC, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes was observed by the two Advanced LIGO detectors with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13. This system is the lightest black hole binary so far observed, with component masses $12^{+7}_{-2}\,M_\odot$ and $7^{+2}_{-2}\,M_\odot$ (90% credible intervals). These lie in the range of measured black hole masses in low-mass X-ray binaries, thus allowing us to compare black holes detected through gravitational waves with electromagnetic observations. The source's luminosity distance is $340^{+140}_{-140}$ Mpc, corresponding to redshift $0.07^{+0.03}_{-0.03}$. We verify that the signal waveform is consistent with the predictions of general relativity.
Search for post-merger gravitational waves from the remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1088)
Oct 26 2017 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1710.09320v1

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The first observation of a binary neutron star coalescence by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors offers an unprecedented opportunity to study matter under the most extreme conditions. After such a merger, a compact remnant is left over whose nature depends primarily on the masses of the inspiralling objects and on the equation of state of nuclear matter. This could be either a black hole or a neutron star (NS), with the latter being either long-lived or too massive for stability implying delayed collapse to a black hole. Here, we present a search for gravitational waves from the remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for short ($\lesssim1$ s) and intermediate-duration ($\lesssim 500$ s) signals, which includes gravitational-wave emission from a hypermassive NS or supramassive NS, respectively. We find no signal from the post-merger remnant. Our derived strain upper limits are more than an order of magnitude larger than those predicted by most models. For short signals, our best upper limit on the root-sum-square of the gravitational-wave strain emitted from 1--4 kHz is $h_{\rm rss}^{50\%}=2.1\times 10^{-22}$ Hz$^{-1/2}$ at 50% detection efficiency. For intermediate-duration signals, our best upper limit at 50% detection efficiency is $h_{\rm rss}^{50\%}=8.4\times 10^{-22}$ Hz$^{-1/2}$ for a millisecond magnetar model, and $h_{\rm rss}^{50\%}=5.9\times 10^{-22}$ Hz$^{-1/2}$ for a bar-mode model. These results indicate that post-merger emission from a similar event may be detectable when advanced detectors reach design sensitivity or with next-generation detectors.
GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1082)
Oct 17 2017 gr-qc arXiv:1710.05837v1

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The LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations have announced the first detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars. The merger rate of binary neutron stars estimated from this event suggests that distant, unresolvable binary neutron stars create a significant astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background. The binary neutron star background will add to the background from binary black holes, increasing the amplitude of the total astrophysical background relative to previous expectations. In the Advanced LIGO-Virgo frequency band most sensitive to stochastic backgrounds (near 25 Hz), we predict a total astrophysical background with amplitude $\Omega_{\rm GW} (f=25 \text{Hz}) = 1.8_{-1.3}^{+2.7} \times 10^{-9}$ with $90\%$ confidence, compared with $\Omega_{\rm GW} (f=25 \text{Hz}) = 1.1_{-0.7}^{+1.2} \times 10^{-9}$ from binary black holes alone. Assuming the most probable rate for compact binary mergers, we find that the total background may be detectable with a signal-to-noise-ratio of 3 after 40 months of total observation time, based on the expected timeline for Advanced LIGO and Virgo to reach their design sensitivity.
Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (940)
Oct 09 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.IM arXiv:1710.02185v3

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The first observing run of Advanced LIGO spanned 4 months, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, during which gravitational waves were directly detected from two binary black hole systems, namely GW150914 and GW151226. Confident detection of gravitational waves requires an understanding of instrumental transients and artifacts that can reduce the sensitivity of a search. Studies of the quality of the detector data yield insights into the cause of instrumental artifacts and data quality vetoes specific to a search are produced to mitigate the effects of problematic data. In this paper, the systematic removal of noisy data from analysis time is shown to improve the sensitivity of searches for compact binary coalescences. The output of the PyCBC pipeline, which is a python-based code package used to search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, is used as a metric for improvement. GW150914 was a loud enough signal that removing noisy data did not improve its significance. However, the removal of data with excess noise decreased the false alarm rate of GW151226 by more than two orders of magnitude, from 1 in 770 years to less than 1 in 186000 years.
First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1079)
Oct 09 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1710.02327v2

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Spinning neutron stars asymmetric with respect to their rotation axis are potential sources of continuous gravitational waves for ground-based interferometric detectors. In the case of known pulsars a fully coherent search, based on matched filtering, which uses the position and rotational parameters obtained from electromagnetic observations, can be carried out. Matched filtering maximizes the signal-to-noise (SNR) ratio, but a large sensitivity loss is expected in case of even a very small mismatch between the assumed and the true signal parameters. For this reason, \it narrow-band analyses methods have been developed, allowing a fully coherent search for gravitational waves from known pulsars over a fraction of a hertz and several spin-down values. In this paper we describe a narrow-band search of eleven pulsars using data from Advanced LIGO's first observing run. Although we have found several initial outliers, further studies show no significant evidence for the presence of a gravitational wave signal. Finally, we have placed upper limits on the signal strain amplitude lower than the spin-down limit for 5 of the 11 targets over the bands searched: in the case of J1813-1749 the spin-down limit has been beaten for the first time. For an additional 3 targets, the median upper limit across the search bands is below the spin-down limit. This is the most sensitive narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves carried out so far.
First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1033)
Sep 28 2017 gr-qc arXiv:1709.09203v1

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We present results from the first directed search for nontensorial gravitational waves. While general relativity allows for tensorial (plus and cross) modes only, a generic metric theory may, in principle, predict waves with up to six different polarizations. This analysis is sensitive to continuous signals of scalar, vector or tensor polarizations, and does not rely on any specific theory of gravity. After searching data from the first observation run of the advanced LIGO detectors for signals at twice the rotational frequency of 200 known pulsars, we find no evidence of gravitational waves of any polarization. We report the first upper limits for scalar and vector strains, finding values comparable in magnitude to previously-published limits for tensor strain. Our results may be translated into constraints on specific alternative theories of gravity.
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1090)
Sep 28 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1709.09660v3

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Rev. Lett. 119, 141101 (2017)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101}, note = {arXiv:1709.09660v3} }
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On August 14, 2017 at 10:30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar mass black holes, with a false-alarm-rate of $\lesssim$ 1 in 27000 years. The signal was observed with a three-detector network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 18. The inferred masses of the initial black holes are $30.5_{-3.0}^{+5.7}$ Msun and $25.3_{-4.2}^{+2.8}$ Msun (at the 90% credible level). The luminosity distance of the source is $540_{-210}^{+130}~\mathrm{Mpc}$, corresponding to a redshift of $z=0.11_{-0.04}^{+0.03}$. A network of three detectors improves the sky localization of the source, reducing the area of the 90% credible region from 1160 deg$^2$ using only the two LIGO detectors to 60 deg$^2$ using all three detectors. For the first time, we can test the nature of gravitational wave polarizations from the antenna response of the LIGO-Virgo network, thus enabling a new class of phenomenological tests of gravity.
The effective Tolman temperature in curved spacetimes
Wontae Kim
Sep 11 2017 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1709.02537v1

@misc{1709.02537, author = {Wontae Kim}, title = {{T}he effective {T}olman temperature in curved spacetimes}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1709.02537}, howpublished = {Int.J.Mod.Phys.,D26,1730025 (2017)}, doi = {10.1142/S0218271817300257}, note = {arXiv:1709.02537v1} }
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We review a recently proposed effective Tolman temperature and present its applications to various gravitational systems. In the Unruh state for the evaporating black holes, the free-fall energy density is found to be negative divergent at the horizon, which is in contrast to the conventional calculations performed in the Kruskal coordinates. We resolve this conflict by invoking that the Kruskcal coordinates could be no longer proper coordinates at the horizon. In the Hartle-Hawking-Israel state, despite the negative finite proper energy density at the horizon, the Tolman temperature is divergent there due to the infinite blueshift of the Hawking temperature. However, a consistent Stefan-Boltzmann law with the Hawking radiation shows that the effective Tolman temperature is eventually finite everywhere and the equivalence principle is surprisingly restored at the horizon. Then, we also show that the firewall necessarily emerges out of the Unruh vacuum, so that the Tolman temperature in the evaporating black hole is naturally divergent due to the infinitely blueshifted negative ingoing flux crossing the horizon, whereas the outgoing Hawking radiation characterized by the effective Tolman temperature indeed originates from the quantum atmosphere, not just at the horizon. So, the firewall and the atmosphere for the Hawking radiation turn out to be compatible, once we discard the fact that the Hawking radiation in the Unruh state originates from the infinitely blueshifted outgoing excitations at the horizon. Finally, as a cosmological application, the initial radiation energy density in warm inflation scenarios has been assumed to be finite when inflation starts. We successfully find the origin of the non-vanishing initial radiation energy density in the warm inflation by using the effective Tolman temperature.
Validity of black hole complementarity in the BTZ black hole
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Aug 22 2017 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1708.06251v2

@misc{1708.06251, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{V}alidity of black hole complementarity in the {BTZ} black hole}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1708.06251}, howpublished = {Phys. Lett. B776, 158 (2018)}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.042}, note = {arXiv:1708.06251v2} }
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Based on the gedanken experiment for black hole complementarity in the Schwarzschild black hole, we calculate the energy required to duplicate information in the BTZ black hole under the assumption of absorbing boundary condition and its dual solution of the black string, respectively, in order to justify the validity of the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics. For the BTZ black hole, the required energy for the duplication of information can be made fairly small, whereas for the black string it exceeds the total mass of the black string, although they are related to each other under the dual transformation. So, the duplication of information might be possible in the BTZ black hole in contrast to the case of the black string, so that the no-cloning theorem could be violated for the former case. To save the duplication of information for the BTZ black hole, we perform an improved gedanken experiment by using the local thermodynamic quantities near the horizon rather than those defined at infinity, and show that the no-cloning theorem could be made valid even in the BTZ black hole. We also discuss how this local treatment for the no-cloning theorem can be applied to the black string as well as the Schwarzschild black hole innocuously.
All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the O1 LIGO Data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (1025)
Jul 11 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.IM arXiv:1707.02667v2

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We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 20-475 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of [-1.0, +0.1]e-8 Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly non-axisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. This search uses the data from Advanced LIGO's first observational run, O1. No periodic gravitational wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strengths. The lowest upper limits on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude h0 are 4e-25 near 170 Hz. For a circularly polarized source (most favorable orientation), the smallest upper limits obtained are 1.5e-25. These upper limits refer to all sky locations and the entire range of frequency derivative values. For a population-averaged ensemble of sky locations and stellar orientations, the lowest upper limits obtained for the strain amplitude are 2.5e-25.
First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1022)
Jul 11 2017 gr-qc arXiv:1707.02669v2

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We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. This search investigates the low frequency range of Advanced LIGO data, between 20 and 100 Hz, much of which was not explored in initial LIGO. The search was made possible by the computing power provided by the volunteers of the Einstein@Home project. We find no significant signal candidate and set the most stringent upper limits to date on the amplitude of gravitational wave signals from the target population, corresponding to a sensitivity depth of 48.7 [1/$\sqrt{{\textrm{Hz}}}$]. At the frequency of best strain sensitivity, near 100 Hz, we set 90% confidence upper limits of $1.8 \times 10^{-25}$. At the low end of our frequency range, 20 Hz, we achieve upper limits of $3.9 \times 10^{-24}$. At 55 Hz we can exclude sources with ellipticities greater than $10^{-5}$ within 100 pc of Earth with fiducial value of the principal moment of inertia of $10^{38} \textrm{kg m}^2$.
Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1029)
Jun 13 2017 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1706.03119v3

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We present the results of a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. The search method uses details of the modelled, parametrized continuous signal to combine coherently data separated by less than a specified coherence time, which can be adjusted to trade off sensitivity against computational cost. A search was conducted over the frequency range from 25 Hz to 2000 Hz, spanning the current observationally-constrained range of the binary orbital parameters. No significant detection candidates were found, and frequency-dependent upper limits were set using a combination of sensitivity estimates and simulated signal injections. The most stringent upper limit was set at 175 Hz, with comparable limits set across the most sensitive frequency range from 100 Hz to 200 Hz. At this frequency, the 95 pct upper limit on signal amplitude h0 is 2.3e-25 marginalized over the unknown inclination angle of the neutron star's spin, and 8.03e-26 assuming the best orientation (which results in circularly polarized gravitational waves). These limits are a factor of 3-4 stronger than those set by other analyses of the same data, and a factor of about 7 stronger than the best upper limits set using initial LIGO data. In the vicinity of 100 Hz, the limits are a factor of between 1.2 and 3.5 above the predictions of the torque balance model, depending on inclination angle, if the most likely inclination angle of 44 degrees is assumed, they are within a factor of 1.7.
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1031)
Jun 07 2017 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1706.01812v1

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Rev. Lett., 118(22):221101, 2017}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101}, note = {arXiv:1706.01812v1} }
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We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. The signal was measured on January 4, 2017 at 10:11:58.6 UTC by the twin advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory during their second observing run, with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13 and a false alarm rate less than 1 in 70,000 years. The inferred component black hole masses are $31.2^{+8.4}_{-6.0}\,M_\odot$ and $19.4^{+5.3}_{-5.9}\,M_\odot$ (at the 90% credible level). The black hole spins are best constrained through measurement of the effective inspiral spin parameter, a mass-weighted combination of the spin components perpendicular to the orbital plane, $\chi_\mathrm{eff} = -0.12^{+0.21}_{-0.30}.$ This result implies that spin configurations with both component spins positively aligned with the orbital angular momentum are disfavored. The source luminosity distance is $880^{+450}_{-390}~\mathrm{Mpc}$ corresponding to a redshift of $z = 0.18^{+0.08}_{-0.07}$. We constrain the magnitude of modifications to the gravitational-wave dispersion relation and perform null tests of general relativity. Assuming that gravitons are dispersed in vacuum like massive particles, we bound the graviton mass to $m_g \le 7.7 \times 10^{-23}~\mathrm{eV}/c^2$. In all cases, we find that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity.
Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (1023)
Apr 18 2017 gr-qc arXiv:1704.04628v4

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Rev. D 96, 022001 (2017)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022001}, note = {arXiv:1704.04628v4} }
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During their first observational run, the two Advanced LIGO detectors attained an unprecedented sensitivity, resulting in the first direct detections of gravitational-wave signals and GW151226, produced by stellar-mass binary black hole systems. This paper reports on an all-sky search for gravitational waves (GWs) from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHBs). The combined results from two independent search techniques were used in this study: the first employs a matched-filter algorithm that uses a bank of filters covering the GW signal parameter space, while the second is a generic search for GW transients (bursts). No GWs from IMBHBs were detected, therefore, we constrain the rate of several classes of IMBHB mergers. The most stringent limit is obtained for black holes of individual mass $100\,M_\odot$, with spins aligned with the binary orbital angular momentum. For such systems, the merger rate is constrained to be less than $0.93~\mathrm{Gpc^{-3}\,yr}^{-1}$ in comoving units at the $90\%$ confidence level, an improvement of nearly 2 orders of magnitude over previous upper limits.
Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Afrough, B. Agarwal, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (1026)
Apr 13 2017 gr-qc arXiv:1704.03719v3

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Results are presented from a semi-coherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the brightest low-mass X-ray binary, Scorpius X-1, using data collected during the first Advanced LIGO observing run (O1). The search combines a frequency domain matched filter (Bessel-weighted $\mathcal{F}$-statistic) with a hidden Markov model to track wandering of the neutron star spin frequency. No evidence of gravitational waves is found in the frequency range 60-650 Hz. Frequentist 95% confidence strain upper limits, $h_0^{95\%} = 4.0\times10^{-25}$, $8.3\times10^{-25}$, and $3.0\times10^{-25}$ for electromagnetically restricted source orientation, unknown polarization, and circular polarization, respectively, are reported at 106 Hz. They are $\leq 10$ times higher than the theoretical torque-balance limit at 106 Hz.
Proper temperature of Schwarzschild AdS black hole revisited
Myungseok Eune, Wontae Kim
Mar 03 2017 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1703.00589v2

@misc{1703.00589, author = {Myungseok Eune and Wontae Kim}, title = {{P}roper temperature of {S}chwarzschild {A}d{S} black hole revisited}, year = {2017}, eprint = {1703.00589}, howpublished = {Physics Letters B 773 (2017) 57}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2017.08.009}, note = {arXiv:1703.00589v2} }
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The Unruh temperature calculated from the global embedding of the Schwarzschild AdS spacetime into Minkowski spacetime was identified with the local temperature measured by a free-fall observer; however, it would be imaginary in a certain region outside the event horizon. So, the temperature was assumed to be zero of no thermal radiation for that region. In this paper, we revisit this issue in the exactly soluble two-dimensional Schwarzschild AdS black hole and present an alternative resolution to this problem by using the Tolman's procedure. However, the process is not straightforward in the sense that one should extend the original procedure to rest upon the traceless energy-momentum tensor in such a way that it could encompass the case of the non-vanishing trace of energy-momentum tensor in the presence of the trace anomaly. Consequently, we show that the free-fall temperature turns out to be real everywhere outside the event horizon without any imaginary value, in particular, it vanishes both at the horizon and at the asymptotic infinity.
First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO
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Jan 27 2017 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1701.07709v5

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= {Astrophys. J. 839 12 (2017) 19}, doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa677f}, note = {arXiv:1701.07709v5} }
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We present the result of searches for gravitational waves from 200 pulsars using data from the first observing run of the Advanced LIGO detectors. We find no significant evidence for a gravitational-wave signal from any of these pulsars, but we are able to set the most constraining upper limits yet on their gravitational-wave amplitudes and ellipticities. For eight of these pulsars, our upper limits give bounds that are improvements over the indirect spin-down limit values. For another 32, we are within a factor of 10 of the spin-down limit, and it is likely that some of these will be reachable in future runs of the advanced detector. Taken as a whole, these new results improve on previous limits by more than a factor of two.
Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves from Advanced LIGO's first observing run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (976)
Dec 08 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE astro-ph.IM arXiv:1612.02030v4

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We employ gravitational-wave radiometry to map the gravitational waves stochastic background expected from a variety of contributing mechanisms and test the assumption of isotropy using data from Advanced LIGO's first observing run. We also search for persistent gravitational waves from point sources with only minimal assumptions over the 20 - 1726 Hz frequency band. Finding no evidence of gravitational waves from either point sources or a stochastic background, we set limits at 90% confidence. For broadband point sources, we report upper limits on the gravitational wave energy flux per unit frequency in the range $F_{\alpha,\Theta}(f) < (0.1 - 56) \times 10^{-8}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ Hz$^{-1}$ (f/25 Hz)$^{\alpha-1}$ depending on the sky location $\Theta$ and the spectral power index $\alpha$. For extended sources, we report upper limits on the fractional gravitational wave energy density required to close the Universe of $\Omega(f,\Theta) < (0.39-7.6) \times 10^{-8}$ sr$^{-1}$ (f/25 Hz)$^\alpha$ depending on $\Theta$ and $\alpha$. Directed searches for narrowband gravitational waves from astrophysically interesting objects (Scorpius X-1, Supernova 1987 A, and the Galactic Center) yield median frequency-dependent limits on strain amplitude of $h_0 <$ (6.7, 5.5, and 7.0) $\times 10^{-25}$ respectively, at the most sensitive detector frequencies between 130 - 175 Hz. This represents a mean improvement of a factor of 2 across the band compared to previous searches of this kind for these sky locations, considering the different quantities of strain constrained in each case.
Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (975)
Dec 08 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE arXiv:1612.02029v3

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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 LIGO's 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 $\Omega_0<1.7\times 10^{-7}$ 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.
Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (982)
Nov 24 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1611.07531v2

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and R.~Weiss and L.~Wen and P.~Wessels and T.~Westphal and K.~Wette and J.~T.~Whelan and B.~F.~Whiting and C.~Whittle and D.~Williams and R.~D.~Williams and A.~R.~Williamson and J.~L.~Willis and B.~Willke and M.~H.~Wimmer and W.~Winkler and C.~C.~Wipf and H.~Wittel and G.~Woan and J.~Woehler and J.~Worden and J.~L.~Wright and D.~S.~Wu and G.~Wu and W.~Yam and H.~Yamamoto and C.~C.~Yancey and M.~J.~Yap and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and M.~Yvert and A.~Zadro.zny and L.~Zangrando and M.~Zanolin and J.-P.~Zendri and M.~Zevin and L.~Zhang and M.~Zhang and T.~Zhang and Y.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and S.~J.~Zhu and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and J.~Zweizig and M.~Boyle and T.~Chu and D.~Hemberger and I.~Hinder and L.~E.~Kidder and S.~Ossokine and M.~Scheel and B.~Szilagyi and S.~Teukolsky and A.~Vano-Vinuales}, title = {{E}ffects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of {GW}150914}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1611.07531}, howpublished = {Class. Quantum Grav. 34 (2017) 104002}, doi = {10.1088/1361-6382/aa6854}, note = {arXiv:1611.07531v2} }
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Parameter estimates of GW150914 were obtained using Bayesian inference, based on three semi-analytic waveform models for binary black hole coalescences. These waveform models differ from each other in their treatment of black hole spins, and all three models make some simplifying assumptions, notably to neglect sub-dominant waveform harmonic modes and orbital eccentricity. Furthermore, while the models are calibrated to agree with waveforms obtained by full numerical solutions of Einstein's equations, any such calibration is accurate only to some non-zero tolerance and is limited by the accuracy of the underlying phenomenology, availability, quality, and parameter-space coverage of numerical simulations. This paper complements the original analyses of GW150914 with an investigation of the effects of possible systematic errors in the waveform models on estimates of its source parameters. To test for systematic errors we repeat the original Bayesian analyses on mock signals from numerical simulations of a series of binary configurations with parameters similar to those found for GW150914. Overall, we find no evidence for a systematic bias relative to the statistical error of the original parameter recovery of GW150914 due to modeling approximations or modeling inaccuracies. However, parameter biases are found to occur for some configurations disfavored by the data of GW150914: for binaries inclined edge-on to the detector over a small range of choices of polarization angles, and also for eccentricities greater than $\sim$0.05. For signals with higher signal-to-noise ratio than GW150914, or in other regions of the binary parameter space (lower masses, larger mass ratios, or higher spins), we expect that systematic errors in current waveform models may impact gravitational-wave measurements, making more accurate models desirable for future observations.
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, IPN Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (985)
Nov 24 2016 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1611.07947v3

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and R.~Weiss and L.~Wen and P.~Wessels and T.~Westphal and K.~Wette and J.~T.~Whelan and B.~F.~Whiting and C.~Whittle and D.~Williams and R.~D.~Williams and A.~R.~Williamson and J.~L.~Willis and B.~Willke and M.~H.~Wimmer and W.~Winkler and C.~C.~Wipf and H.~Wittel and G.~Woan and J.~Woehler and J.~Worden and J.~L.~Wright and D.~S.~Wu and G.~Wu and W.~Yam and H.~Yamamoto and C.~C.~Yancey and M.~J.~Yap and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and M.~Yvert and A.~Zadro.zny and L.~Zangrando and M.~Zanolin and J.-P.~Zendri and M.~Zevin and L.~Zhang and M.~Zhang and T.~Zhang and Y.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and S.~J.~Zhu and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and J.~Zweizig and R.~L.~Aptekar and D.~D.~Frederiks and S.~V.~Golenetskii and D.~V.~Golovin and K.~Hurley and M.~L.~Litvak and I.~G.~Mitrofanov and A.~Rau and A.~B.~Sanin and D.~S.~Svinkin and A.~von Kienlin and X.~Zhang}, title = {{S}earch for {G}ravitational {W}aves {A}ssociated with {G}amma-{R}ay {B}ursts {D}uring the {F}irst {A}dvanced {LIGO} {O}bserving {R}un and {I}mplications for the {O}rigin of {GRB} 150906{B}}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1611.07947}, doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa6c47}, note = {arXiv:1611.07947v3} }
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We present the results of the search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with $\gamma$-ray bursts detected during the first observing run of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). We find no evidence of a GW signal for any of the 41 $\gamma$-ray bursts for which LIGO data are available with sufficient duration. For all $\gamma$-ray bursts, we place lower bounds on the distance to the source using the optimistic assumption that GWs with an energy of $10^{-2}M_\odot c^2$ were emitted within the $16$-$500\,$Hz band, and we find a median 90% confidence limit of 71$\,$Mpc at 150$\,$Hz. For the subset of 19 short/hard $\gamma$-ray bursts, we place lower bounds on distance with a median 90% confidence limit of 90$\,$Mpc for binary neutron star (BNS) coalescences, and 150 and 139$\,$Mpc for neutron star-black hole coalescences with spins aligned to the orbital angular momentum and in a generic configuration, respectively. These are the highest distance limits ever achieved by GW searches. We also discuss in detail the results of the search for GWs associated with GRB 150906B, an event that was localized by the InterPlanetary Network near the local galaxy NGC 3313, which is at a luminosity distance of 54$\,$Mpc ($z=0.0124$). Assuming the $\gamma$-ray emission is beamed with a jet half-opening angle $\leq 30^{\circ}$, we exclude a BNS and a neutron star-black hole in NGC 3313 as the progenitor of this event with confidence $>99$%. Further, we exclude such progenitors up to a distance of 102$\,$Mpc and 170$\,$Mpc, respectively.
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (969)
Nov 10 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1611.02972v1

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We present the results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January 2016. The search algorithms use minimal assumptions on the signal morphology, so they are sensitive to a wide range of sources emitting gravitational waves. The analyses target transient signals with duration ranging from milliseconds to seconds over the frequency band of 32 to 4096 Hz. The first observed gravitational-wave event, GW150914, has been detected with high confidence in this search; other known gravitational-wave events fall below the search's sensitivity. Besides GW150914, all of the search results are consistent with the expected rate of accidental noise coincidences. Finally, we estimate rate-density limits for a broad range of non-BBH transient gravitational-wave sources as a function of their gravitational radiation emission energy and their characteristic frequency. These rate-density upper-limits are stricter than those previously published by an order-of-magnitude.
On the thermodynamic origin of the initial radiation energy density in warm inflation
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Aug 29 2016 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1608.07466v2

@misc{1608.07466, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{O}n the thermodynamic origin of the initial radiation energy density in warm inflation}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1608.07466}, howpublished = {JCAP, 11 (2016) 022}, doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2016/11/022}, note = {arXiv:1608.07466v2} }
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In warm inflation scenarios, radiation always exists, so that the radiation energy density is also assumed to be finite when inflation starts. To find out the origin of the non-vanishing initial radiation energy density, we revisit thermodynamic analysis for a warm inflation model and then derive an effective Stefan-Boltzmann law which is commensurate with the temperature-dependent effective potential by taking into account the non-vanishing trace of the total energy-momentum tensors. The effective Stefan-Boltzmann law shows that the zero energy density for radiation at the Grand Unification epoch increases until the inflation starts and it becomes eventually finite at the initial stage of warm inflation. By using the above effective Stefan-Boltzmann law, we also study the cosmological scalar perturbation, and obtain the sufficient radiation energy density in order for GUT baryogenesis at the end of inflation.
Note on the speed of GW150914 in gravity's rainbow
Bogeun Gwak, Wontae Kim, Bum-Hoon Lee
Aug 16 2016 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1608.04247v1

@misc{1608.04247, author = {Bogeun Gwak and Wontae Kim and Bum-Hoon Lee}, title = {{N}ote on the speed of {GW}150914 in gravity's rainbow}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1608.04247}, note = {arXiv:1608.04247v1} }
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Without breaking Lorentz invariance, we investigate the speed of graviton in event GW150914 by using the modified dispersion relation from gravity's rainbow. The proper range of the parameter in the modified dispersion relation is determined by taking into account the gap between the speed of the graviton and that obtained from event GW150914.
The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914
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Aug 08 2016 gr-qc arXiv:1608.01940v4

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basic physics of the binary black hole merger {GW}150914}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1608.01940}, howpublished = {LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, Annalen der Physik, Volume 529, Issue 1-2, January 2017, 1600209}, doi = {10.1002/andp.201600209}, note = {arXiv:1608.01940v4} }
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The first direct gravitational-wave detection was made by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory on September 14, 2015. The GW150914 signal was strong enough to be apparent, without using any waveform model, in the filtered detector strain data. Here, features of the signal visible in the data are analyzed using concepts from Newtonian physics and general relativity, accessible to anyone with a general physics background. The simple analysis presented here is consistent with the fully general-relativistic analyses published elsewhere,in showing that the signal was produced by the inspiral and subsequent merger of two black holes. The black holes were each of approximately 35 Msun, still orbited each other as close as ~350 km apart, and subsequently merged to form a single black hole. Similar reasoning, directly from the data, is used to roughly estimate how far these black holes were from the Earth, and the energy that they radiated in gravitational waves.
Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron-star--black-hole mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (941)
Jul 27 2016 astro-ph.HE astro-ph.CO gr-qc arXiv:1607.07456v1

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and M.~Zhang and Y.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and S.~E.~Zuraw and J.~Zweizig}, title = {{U}pper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron-star--black-hole mergers from {A}dvanced {LIGO}'s first observing run}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1607.07456}, note = {arXiv:1607.07456v1} }
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We report here the non-detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron star systems and neutron-star--black-hole systems during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. In particular we searched for gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star systems with component masses $\in [1,3] M_{\odot}$ and component dimensionless spins $< 0.05$. We also searched for neutron-star--black-hole systems with the same neutron star parameters, black hole mass $\in [2,99] M_{\odot}$ and no restriction on the black hole spin magnitude. We assess the sensitivity of the two LIGO detectors to these systems, and find that they could have detected the merger of binary neutron star systems with component mass distributions of $1.35\pm0.13 M_{\odot}$ at a volume-weighted average distance of $\sim$ 70Mpc, and for neutron-star--black-hole systems with neutron star masses of $1.4M_\odot$ and black hole masses of at least $5M_\odot$, a volume-weighted average distance of at least $\sim$ 110Mpc. From this we constrain with 90% confidence the merger rate to be less than 12,600 Gpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$ for binary-neutron star systems and less than 3,600 Gpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$ for neutron-star--black-hole systems. We find that if no detection of neutron-star binary mergers is made in the next two Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observing runs we would place significant constraints on the merger rates. Finally, assuming a rate of $10^{+20}_{-7}$Gpc$^{-3}$yr$^{-1}$ short gamma ray bursts beamed towards the Earth and assuming that all short gamma-ray bursts have binary-neutron-star (neutron-star--black-hole) progenitors we can use our 90% confidence rate upper limits to constrain the beaming angle of the gamma-ray burst to be greater than ${2.3^{+1.7}_{-1.1}}^{\circ}$ (${4.3^{+3.1}_{-1.9}}^{\circ}$).
Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544
B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, B. Allen, A. Allocca, et al (936)
Jul 11 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1607.02216v1

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and T.~Vo and H.~Vocca and C.~Vorvick and D.~V.~Voss and W.~D.~Vousden and S.~P.~Vyatchanin and A.~R.~Wade and L.~E.~Wade and M.~Wade and M.~Walker and L.~Wallace and S.~Walsh and G.~Wang and H.~Wang and M.~Wang and X.~Wang and Y.~Wang and R.~L.~Ward and J.~Warner and M.~Was and B.~Weaver and L.-W.~Wei and M.~Weinert and A.~J.~Weinstein and R.~Weiss and L.~Wen and P.~Weßels and T.~Westphal and K.~Wette and J.~T.~Whelan and B.~F.~Whiting and R.~D.~Williams and A.~R.~Williamson and J.~L.~Willis and B.~Willke and M.~H.~Wimmer and W.~Winkler and C.~C.~Wipf and H.~Wittel and G.~Woan and J.~Woehler and J.~Worden and J.~L.~Wright and D.~S.~Wu and G.~Wu and J.~Yablon and W.~Yam and H.~Yamamoto and C.~C.~Yancey and H.~Yu and M.~Yvert and A.~Zadrożny and L.~Zangrando and M.~Zanolin and J.-P.~Zendri and M.~Zevin and L.~Zhang and M.~Zhang and Y.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and S.~E.~Zuraw and J.~Zweizig and S.~Sigurdsson}, title = {{S}earch for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster {NGC} 6544}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1607.02216}, note = {arXiv:1607.02216v1} }
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We describe a directed search for continuous gravitational waves in data from the sixth LIGO science run. The target was the nearby globular cluster NGC 6544 at a distance of 2.7 kpc. The search covered a broad band of frequencies along with first and second frequency derivatives for a fixed sky position. The search coherently integrated data from the two LIGO interferometers over a time span of 9.2 days using the matched-filtering F-statistic. We found no gravitational-wave signals and set 95% confidence upper limits as stringent as 6.0 X 10^-25 on intrinsic strain and 8.5 X 10^-6 on fiducial ellipticity. These values beat the indirect limits from energy conservation for stars with characteristic spindown ages older than 300 years and are within the range of theoretical predictions for possible neutron-star ellipticities. An important feature of this search was use of a barycentric resampling algorithm which substantially reduced computational cost; this method will be used extensively in searches of Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector data.
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
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Jun 16 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.CO arXiv:1606.04856v3

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Rev. X 6, 041015 (2016)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015}, note = {arXiv:1606.04856v3} }
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The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper we present full results from a search for binary black hole merger signals with total masses up to $100 M_\odot$ and detailed implications from our observations of these systems. Our search, based on general-relativistic models of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole systems, unambiguously identified two signals, GW150914 and GW151226, with a significance of greater than $5\sigma$ over the observing period. It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with substantially lower significance, and with an 87% probability of being of astrophysical origin. We provide detailed estimates of the parameters of the observed systems. Both GW150914 and GW151226 provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime. We do not observe any deviations from general relativity, and place improved empirical bounds on several high-order post-Newtonian coefficients. From our observations we infer stellar-mass binary black hole merger rates lying in the range $9-240 \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3} \mathrm{yr}^{-1}$. These observations are beginning to inform astrophysical predictions of binary black hole formation rates, and indicate that future observing runs of the Advanced detector network will yield many more gravitational wave detections.
Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence
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Jun 07 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.CO astro-ph.HE arXiv:1606.01262v1

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S.~E.~Zuraw and J.~Zweizig and M.~Boyle and M.~Campanelli and T.~Chu and M.~Clark and E.~Fauchon-Jones and H.~Fong and M.~Hannam and J.~Healy and D.~Hemberger and I.~Hinder and S.~Husa and C.~Kalaghati and S.~Khan and L.E.~Kidder and M.~Kinsey and P.~Laguna and L.~T.~London and C.~O.~Lousto and G.~Lovelace and S.~Ossokine and F.~Pannarale and H.~P.~Pfeiffer and M.~Scheel and D.~M.~Shoemaker and B.~Szilagyi and S.~Teukolsky and A.~Vano Vinuales and Y.~Zlochower}, title = {{D}irectly comparing {GW}150914 with numerical solutions of {E}instein's equations for binary black hole coalescence}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1606.01262}, note = {arXiv:1606.01262v1} }
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We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, accounting for all the spin-weighted quadrupolar modes, and separately accounting for all the quadrupolar and octopolar modes. Consistent with the posterior distributions reported in LVC_PE[1] (at 90% confidence), we find the data are compatible with a wide range of nonprecessing and precessing simulations. Followup simulations performed using previously-estimated binary parameters most resemble the data. Comparisons including only the quadrupolar modes constrain the total redshifted mass Mz ∈[64 - 82M_⊙], mass ratio q = m2/m1 ∈[0.6,1], and effective aligned spin \chi_eff ∈[-0.3, 0.2], where \chi_eff = (S1/m1 + S2/m2) ⋅\hatL /M. Including both quadrupolar and octopolar modes, we find the mass ratio is even more tightly constrained. Simulations with extreme mass ratios and effective spins are highly inconsistent with the data, at any mass. Several nonprecessing and precessing simulations with similar mass ratio and \chi_eff are consistent with the data. Though correlated, the components' spins (both in magnitude and directions) are not significantly constrained by the data. For nonprecessing binaries, interpolating between simulations, we reconstruct a posterior distribution consistent with previous results. The final black hole's redshifted mass is consistent with Mf,z between 64.0 - 73.5M_⊙and the final black hole's dimensionless spin parameter is consistent with af = 0.62 - 0.73. As our approach invokes no intermediate approximations to general relativity and can strongly reject binaries whose radiation is inconsistent with the data, our analysis provides a valuable complement to LVC_PE[1].
An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (956)
Jun 06 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1606.01210v1

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This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) on September 14, 2015 [1]. Reference presented parameter estimation [2] of the source using a 13-dimensional, phenomenological precessing-spin model (precessing IMRPhenom) and a 11-dimensional nonprecessing effective-one-body (EOB) model calibrated to numerical-relativity simulations, which forces spin alignment (nonprecessing EOBNR). Here we present new results that include a 15-dimensional precessing-spin waveform model (precessing EOBNR) developed within the EOB formalism. We find good agreement with the parameters estimated previously [2], and we quote updated component masses of $35^{+5}_{-3}\mathrm{M}_\odot$ and $30^{+3}_{-4}\mathrm{M}_\odot$ (where errors correspond to 90% symmetric credible intervals). We also present slightly tighter constraints on the dimensionless spin magnitudes of the two black holes, with a primary spin estimate $0.65$ and a secondary spin estimate $0.75$ at 90% probability. Reference [2] estimated the systematic parameter-extraction errors due to waveform-model uncertainty by combining the posterior probability densities of precessing IMRPhenom and nonprecessing EOBNR. Here we find that the two precessing-spin models are in closer agreement, suggesting that these systematic errors are smaller than previously quoted.
Comprehensive All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Sixth Science Run LIGO Data
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, et al (942)
May 12 2016 gr-qc astro-ph.IM arXiv:1605.03233v2

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We report on a comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 100-1500 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of $[-1.18, +1.00]\times 10^{-8}$ Hz/s. Such a signal could be produced by a nearby spinning and slightly non-axisymmetric isolated neutron star in our galaxy. This search uses the data from the Initial LIGO sixth science run and covers a larger parameter space with respect to any past search. A Loosely Coherent detection pipeline was applied to follow up weak outliers in both Gaussian (95% recovery rate) and non-Gaussian (75% recovery rate) bands. No gravitational wave signals were observed, and upper limits were placed on their strength. Our smallest upper limit on worst-case (linearly polarized) strain amplitude $h_0$ is ${9.7}\times 10^{-25}$ near 169 Hz, while at the high end of our frequency range we achieve a worst-case upper limit of ${5.5}\times 10^{-24}$. Both cases refer to all sky locations and entire range of frequency derivative values.
Origin of Hawking Radiation: Firewall or Atmosphere?
Wontae Kim
Apr 05 2016 hep-th gr-qc arXiv:1604.00465v4

@misc{1604.00465, author = {Wontae Kim}, title = {{O}rigin of {H}awking {R}adiation: {F}irewall or {A}tmosphere?}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1604.00465}, howpublished = {Gen. Relativ. Gravit. (2017) 49: 15}, doi = {10.1007/s10714-016-2179-2}, note = {arXiv:1604.00465v4} }
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The Unruh vacuum not admitting any outgoing flux at the horizon implies that the origin of the outgoing Hawking radiation is the atmosphere of a near-horizon quantum region without resort to the firewall; however, the existence of the firewall of superplanckian excitations at the horizon can be supported by the infinite Tolman temperature at the horizon. In an exactly soluble model, we explicitly show that the firewall necessarily emerges out of the Unruh vacuum so that the Tolman temperature in the Unruh vacuum is divergent in essence due to the infinitely blueshifted negative ingoing flux crossing the horizon rather than the outgoing flux. We also show that the outgoing Hawking radiation in the Unruh vacuum indeed originates from the atmosphere, not just at the horizon, which is of no relevance to the infinite blueshift. Consequently, the firewall from the infinite Tolman temperature and the Hawking radiation from the atmosphere turn out to be compatible, once we waive the claim that the Hawking radiation in the Unruh vacuum originates from the infinitely blueshifted outgoing excitations at the horizon.
Will quantum cosmology resurrect chaotic inflation model?
Sang Pyo Kim, Won Kim
Mar 29 2016 gr-qc arXiv:1603.08087v1

@misc{1603.08087, author = {Sang Pyo Kim and Won Kim}, title = {{W}ill quantum cosmology resurrect chaotic inflation model?}, year = {2016}, eprint = {1603.08087}, note = {arXiv:1603.08087v1} }
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The single field chaotic inflation model with a monomial power greater than one seems to be ruled out by the recent Planck and WMAP CMB data while Starobinsky model with a higher curvature term seems to be a viable model. Higher curvature terms being originated from quantum fluctuations, we revisit the quantum cosmology of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the chaotic inflation model. The semiclassical cosmology emerges from quantum cosmology with fluctuations of spacetimes and matter when the wave function is peaked around the semiclassical trajectory with quantum corrections a la the de Broglie-Bohm pilot theory.
Effective Tolman temperature induced by trace anomaly
Myungseok Eune, Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Dec 01 2015 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1511.09135v6

@misc{1511.09135, author = {Myungseok Eune and Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{E}ffective {T}olman temperature induced by trace anomaly}, year = {2015}, eprint = {1511.09135}, howpublished = {Eur. Phys. J. C77 (2017) 244}, doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-017-4812-y}, note = {arXiv:1511.09135v6} }
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Despite the finiteness of stress tensor for a scalar field on the four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole in the Israel-Hartle-Hawking vacuum, the Tolman temperature in thermal equilibrium is certainly divergent on the horizon due to the infinite blueshift of the Hawking temperature. The origin of this conflict is due to the fact that the conventional Tolman temperature was based on the assumption of a traceless stress tensor, which is, however, incompatible with the presence of the trace anomaly responsible for the Hawking radiation. Here, we present an effective Tolman temperature which is compatible with the presence of the trace anomaly by using the modified Stefan-Boltzmann law. Eventually, the effective Tolman temperature turns out to be finite everywhere outside the horizon, and so there does not appear infinite blueshift of the Hawking temperature at the event horizon any more. In particular, it is vanishing on the horizon, so that the equivalence principle is exactly recovered at the horizon.
Hawking, Fiducial, and Free-fall Temperatures of Black Hole on Gravity's Rainbow
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Sep 24 2015 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1509.06846v2

@misc{1509.06846, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{H}awking, {F}iducial, and {F}ree-fall {T}emperatures of {B}lack {H}ole on {G}ravity's {R}ainbow}, year = {2015}, eprint = {1509.06846}, howpublished = {Eur.Phys.J.C,76 (2016) 166}, doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4025-9}, note = {arXiv:1509.06846v2} }
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On gravity's rainbow, the energy of particles affects the geometry of black hole in such a way that the Hawking temperature of black hole is appropriately modified. It means that the fiducial and free-fall temperatures on the background of black hole should also be modified according to deformation of the geometry. We find that the fiducial temperature takes the blue-shifted modified Hawking temperature so that it is divergent at the horizon, while the free-fall temperature defined by employing the thermodynamic Stefan-Boltzmann relation on gravity's rainbow is finite everywhere without the blue-shift effect; in particular, it is vanishing at the horizon. In this respect, the behaviors of the two-different temperatures at the horizon show that black hole complementarity is still required on gravity's rainbow.
A Quantal Tolman Temperature
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Aug 04 2015 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1508.00312v2

@misc{1508.00312, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{A} {Q}uantal {T}olman {T}emperature}, year = {2015}, eprint = {1508.00312}, howpublished = {Eur. Phys. J. C75 (2015) 549}, doi = {10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3765-2}, note = {arXiv:1508.00312v2} }
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The conventional Tolman temperature based on the assumption of the traceless condition of energy-momentum tensor for matter fields is infinite at the horizon if Hawking radiation is involved. However, we note that the temperature associated with Hawking radiation is of relevance to the trace anomaly, which means that the traceless condition should be released. So, a trace anomaly-induced Stefan-Boltzmann law is newly derived by employing the first law of thermodynamics and the property of the temperature independence of the trace anomaly. Then, the Tolman temperature is quantum-mechanically generalized according to the anomaly-induced Stefan-Boltzmann law. In an exactly soluble model, we show that the Tolman factor does not appear in the generalized Tolman temperature which is eventually finite everywhere, in particular, vanishing at the horizon. It turns out that the equivalence principle survives at the horizon with the help of the quantum principle, and some puzzles related to the Tolman temperature are also resolved.
Note on uncertainty relations in doubly special relativity and rainbow gravity
Edwin J. Son, Wontae Kim
Apr 28 2015 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1504.06941v1

@misc{1504.06941, author = {Edwin J.~Son and Wontae Kim}, title = {{N}ote on uncertainty relations in doubly special relativity and rainbow gravity}, year = {2015}, eprint = {1504.06941}, note = {arXiv:1504.06941v1} }
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We present commutation relations depending on the rainbow functions which are slightly different from the well-known results. However, the advantage of these new commutation relations are compatible with the calculation of the Hawking temperature in the rainbow Schwarzschild black hole.
Black Hole Complementarity in Gravity's Rainbow
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Jan 21 2015 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1501.04702v3

@misc{1501.04702, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{B}lack {H}ole {C}omplementarity in {G}ravity's {R}ainbow}, year = {2015}, eprint = {1501.04702}, howpublished = {JCAP, 05 (2015) 002}, doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2015/05/002}, note = {arXiv:1501.04702v3} }
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To see how the gravity's rainbow works for black hole complementary, we evaluate the required energy for duplication of information in the context of black hole complementarity by calculating the critical value of the rainbow parameter in the certain class of the rainbow Schwarzschild black hole. The resultant energy can be written as the well-defined limit for the vanishing rainbow parameter which characterizes the deformation of the relativistic dispersion relation in the freely falling frame. It shows that the duplication of information in quantum mechanics could not be allowed below a certain critical value of the rainbow parameter; however, it might be possible above the critical value of the rainbow parameter, so that the consistent formulation in our model requires additional constraints or any other resolutions for the latter case.
Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run
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Oct 29 2014 gr-qc astro-ph.IM arXiv:1410.7764v2

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In 2009-2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observa- tory (LIGO) operated together with international partners Virgo and GEO600 as a network to search for gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. The sensitiv- ity of these detectors was limited by a combination of noise sources inherent to the instrumental design and its environment, often localized in time or frequency, that couple into the gravitational-wave readout. Here we review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the de- tectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of LIGO to a variety of astrophysical sources.
Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two co-located LIGO Hanford detectors
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, P. Ajith, B. Allen, et al (857)
Oct 24 2014 gr-qc astro-ph.IM arXiv:1410.6211v3

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Searches for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) using terrestrial detectors typically involve cross-correlating data from pairs of detectors. The sensitivity of such cross-correlation analyses depends, among other things, on the separation between the two detectors: the smaller the separation, the better the sensitivity. Hence, a co-located detector pair is more sensitive to a gravitational-wave background than a non-co-located detector pair. However, co-located detectors are also expected to suffer from correlated noise from instrumental and environmental effects that could contaminate the measurement of the background. Hence, methods to identify and mitigate the effects of correlated noise are necessary to achieve the potential increase in sensitivity of co-located detectors. Here we report on the first SGWB analysis using the two LIGO Hanford detectors and address the complications arising from correlated environmental noise. We apply correlated noise identification and mitigation techniques to data taken by the two LIGO Hanford detectors, H1 and H2, during LIGO's fifth science run. At low frequencies, 40 - 460 Hz, we are unable to sufficiently mitigate the correlated noise to a level where we may confidently measure or bound the stochastic gravitational-wave signal. However, at high frequencies, 460-1000 Hz, these techniques are sufficient to set a $95%$ confidence level (C.L.) upper limit on the gravitational-wave energy density of \Omega(f)<7.7 x 10^-4 (f/ 900 Hz)^3, which improves on the previous upper limit by a factor of $\sim 180$. In doing so, we demonstrate techniques that will be useful for future searches using advanced detectors, where correlated noise (e.g., from global magnetic fields) may affect even widely separated detectors.
Thermodynamic phase transition based on the non-singular temperature
Myungseok Eune, Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Sep 22 2014 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1409.5548v2

@misc{1409.5548, author = {Myungseok Eune and Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{T}hermodynamic phase transition based on the non-singular temperature}, year = {2014}, eprint = {1409.5548}, howpublished = {Phys.Rev. D91 (2015) 044037}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.91.044037}, note = {arXiv:1409.5548v2} }
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The Hawking temperature for the Schwarzschild black hole is divergent when the mass of the black hole vanishes; however the corresponding geometry becomes the Minkowski spacetime whose intrinsic temperature is zero. In connection with this issue, we construct a non-singular temperature which follows the Hawking temperature for the large black hole while it vanishes when the black hole completely evaporated. In order for thermodynamic significances of this modified temperature, we calculate thermodynamic quantities and study phase transitions. It turns out that even the small black hole can be stable below a certain temperature, and the hot flat space is always metastable so that it decays into the stable small black hole or the stable large black hole.
Semiclassical approach for the evaporating black hole revisited
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Jul 09 2014 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1407.1958v3

@misc{1407.1958, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{S}emiclassical approach for the evaporating black hole revisited}, year = {2014}, eprint = {1407.1958}, howpublished = {Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 31, No. 5 (2016) 1650033}, doi = {10.1142/S0217732316500334}, note = {arXiv:1407.1958v3} }
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A recent calculation shows that the observed energy density in the Unruh state at the future event horizon as seen by a freely falling observer is finite if the observer is released from rest at any positive distance outside the horizon; however, it is getting larger and larger so that it is negatively divergent at the horizon in the limit that the observer starts falling from rest at the horizon, which corresponds to the infinite boost with respect to the freely falling observer at a finite distance from the horizon. In order to resolve some conflicts between the recent calculation and the conventional ones in the well-known literatures, the calculation of the free-fall energy density is revisited and some differences are pointed out.
Thermodynamic phase transition in the rainbow Schwarzschild black hole
Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Jun 26 2014 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1406.6475v2

@misc{1406.6475, author = {Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{T}hermodynamic phase transition in the rainbow {S}chwarzschild black hole}, year = {2014}, eprint = {1406.6475}, howpublished = {JCAP, 10 (2014) 003}, doi = {10.1088/1475-7516/2014/10/003}, note = {arXiv:1406.6475v2} }
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We study the thermodynamic phase transition in the rainbow Schwarzschild black hole where the metric depends on the energy of the test particle. Identifying the black hole temperature with the energy from the modified dispersion relation, we obtain the modified entropy and thermodynamic energy along with the modified local temperature in the cavity to provide well defined black hole states. It is found that apart from the conventional critical temperature related to Hawking-Page phase transition there appears an additional critical temperature which is of relevance to the existence of a locally stable tiny black hole; however, the off-shell free energy tells us that this black hole should eventually tunnel into the stable large black hole. Finally, we discuss the reason why the temperature near the horizon is finite in the rainbow black hole by employing the running gravitational coupling constant, whereas it is divergent near the horizon in the ordinary Schwarzschild black hole.
Free-fall energy density and flux in the Schwarzschild black hole
Wontae Kim, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi
Feb 04 2014 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1402.0202v2

@misc{1402.0202, author = {Wontae Kim and Bibhas Ranjan Majhi}, title = {{F}ree-fall energy density and flux in the {S}chwarzschild black hole}, year = {2014}, eprint = {1402.0202}, howpublished = {IJMPA 30, (2015) 1550053}, doi = {10.1142/S0217751X15500530}, note = {arXiv:1402.0202v2} }
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In the four-dimensional background of Schwarzschild black hole, we investigate the energy densities and fluxes in the freely falling frames for the Boulware, Unruh, and Israel-Hartle-Hawking states. In particular, we study their behaviors near the horizon and asymptotic spatial infinity by using the trace anomaly of a conformally invariant scalar field. In the Boulware state, both the energy density and flux are negative divergent when the observer is dropped at the horizon, and asymptotically vanish. In the Unruh state, the energy density is also negative divergent at the horizon while it is positive finite asymptotically. The flux in the Unruh state is always positive and divergent at the horizon. In the Israel-Hartle-Hawking state, the energy density depends on the angular motion of free fall, and fluxes vanish at the horizon and the spatial infinity. Finally, we discuss the role of the negative energy density near the horizon in the evaporating black hole.
Something special at the event horizon
Myungseok Eune, Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Jan 16 2014 hep-th gr-qc arXiv:1401.3501v4

@misc{1401.3501, author = {Myungseok Eune and Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{S}omething special at the event horizon}, year = {2014}, eprint = {1401.3501}, howpublished = {Mod.Phys.Lett.,A29 (2014) 1450215}, doi = {10.1142/S0217732314502150}, note = {arXiv:1401.3501v4} }
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We calculate the free-fall energy density of scalar fields semi-classically by employing the trace anomaly on a two-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole with respect to various black hole states in order to clarify whether something special at the horizon happens or not. For the Boulware state, the energy density at the horizon is always negative divergent, which is independent of initial free-fall positions. However, in the Unruh state the initial free-fall position is responsible for the energy density at the horizon and there is a critical point to determine the sign of the energy density at the horizon. In particular, a huge negative energy density appears when the freely falling observer is dropped just near the horizon. For the Hartle-Hawking state, it may also be positive or negative depending on the initial free-fall position, but it is always finite. Finally, we discuss physical consequences of these calculations.
Note on explicit form of entanglement entropy in the RST model
Myungseok Eune, Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Jan 06 2014 hep-th gr-qc arXiv:1401.0590v3

@misc{1401.0590, author = {Myungseok Eune and Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{N}ote on explicit form of entanglement entropy in the {RST} model}, year = {2014}, eprint = {1401.0590}, howpublished = {Phys.Rev.D89 (2014) 127501}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.89.127501}, note = {arXiv:1401.0590v3} }
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For an evaporating black hole which is a radiation-black hole combined system, we express the entanglement entropy and the Page time in terms of the conformal time in the RST model. The entropy change of the black hole is nicely written in terms of Hawking flux. Integrating the first law of thermodynamics, we can obtain the decreasing black-hole entropy and the increasing radiation entropy, and the entanglement entropy for this system based on the Page argument. We also obtain analytically the critical temperature to release black-hole information, which corresponds to the Page time, and discuss the relation between the conserved total entropy and information recovering of the black hole in this model.
Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the 5th LIGO science run
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, et al (860)
Nov 12 2013 gr-qc arXiv:1311.2409v3

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We report on an all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency range $\mathrm{50-1000 Hz}$ with the first derivative of frequency in the range $-8.9 \times 10^{-10}$ Hz/s to zero in two years of data collected during LIGO's fifth science run. Our results employ a Hough transform technique, introducing a $\chi^2$ test and analysis of coincidences between the signal levels in years 1 and 2 of observations that offers a significant improvement in the product of strain sensitivity with compute cycles per data sample compared to previously published searches. Since our search yields no surviving candidates, we present results taking the form of frequency dependent, 95$%$ confidence upper limits on the strain amplitude $h_0$. The most stringent upper limit from year 1 is $1.0\times 10^{-24}$ in the $\mathrm{158.00-158.25 Hz}$ band. In year 2, the most stringent upper limit is $\mathrm{8.9\times10^{-25}}$ in the $\mathrm{146.50-146.75 Hz}$ band. This improved detection pipeline, which is computationally efficient by at least two orders of magnitude better than our flagship Einstein$@$Home search, will be important for "quick-look" searches in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector era.
Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors
J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, et al (857)
Oct 10 2013 gr-qc astro-ph.CO arXiv:1310.2384v2

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Rev. Lett. 112, 131101 (2014)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.131101}, note = {arXiv:1310.2384v2} }
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Cosmic strings can give rise to a large variety of interesting astrophysical phenomena. Among them, powerful bursts of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by cusps are a promising observational signature. In this Letter we present a search for GWs from cosmic string cusps in data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors between 2005 and 2010, with over 625 days of live time. We find no evidence of GW signals from cosmic strings. From this result, we derive new constraints on cosmic string parameters, which complement and improve existing limits from previous searches for a stochastic background of GWs from cosmic microwave background measurements and pulsar timing data. In particular, if the size of loops is given by the gravitational backreaction scale, we place upper limits on the string tension $G\mu$ below $10^{-8}$ in some regions of the cosmic string parameter space.
Quasilocal Conserved Charges with a Gravitational Chern-Simons Term
Wontae Kim, Shailesh Kulkarni, Sang-Heon Yi
Oct 08 2013 hep-th gr-qc arXiv:1310.1739v3

@misc{1310.1739, author = {Wontae Kim and Shailesh Kulkarni and Sang-Heon Yi}, title = {{Q}uasilocal {C}onserved {C}harges with a {G}ravitational {C}hern-{S}imons {T}erm}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1310.1739}, howpublished = {Phys. Rev. D 88, 124004 (2013)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.88.124004}, note = {arXiv:1310.1739v3} }
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We extend our recent work on the quasilocal formulation of conserved charges to a theory of gravity containing a gravitational Chern-Simons term. As an application of our formulation, we compute the off-shell potential and quasilocal conserved charges of some black holes in three-dimensional topologically massive gravity. Our formulation for conserved charges reproduces very effectively the well-known expressions on conserved charges and the entropy expression of black holes in the topologically massive gravity.
Freely Falling Observer and Black Hole Radiation
Wontae Kim, Edwin J. Son
Oct 08 2013 hep-th gr-qc arXiv:1310.1458v4

@misc{1310.1458, author = {Wontae Kim and Edwin J.~Son}, title = {{F}reely {F}alling {O}bserver and {B}lack {H}ole {R}adiation}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1310.1458}, howpublished = {Mod. Phys. Lett. A, Vol. 29, No. 11 (2014) 1450052}, doi = {10.1142/S0217732314500527}, note = {arXiv:1310.1458v4} }
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We find radiation in an infalling frame and present an explicit analytic evidence of the failure of no drama condition by showing that an infalling observer finds an infinite negative energy density at the event horizon. The negative and positive energy density regions are divided by the newly defined zero-energy curve. The evaporating black hole is surrounded by the negative energy which can also be observed in the infalling frame.
Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts
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Sep 25 2013 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1309.6160v3

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Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive stars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We investigate models of long-lived (~10-1000s) GW emission associated with the accretion disk of a collapsed star or with its protoneutron star remnant. Using data from LIGO's fifth science run, and GRB triggers from the swift experiment, we perform a search for unmodeled long-lived GW transients. Finding no evidence of GW emission, we place 90% confidence level upper limits on the GW fluence at Earth from long GRBs for three waveforms inspired by a model of GWs from accretion disk instabilities. These limits range from F<3.5 ergs cm^-2 to $F<1200 ergs cm^-2, depending on the GRB and on the model, allowing us to probe optimistic scenarios of GW production out to distances as far as ~33 Mpc. Advanced detectors are expected to achieve strain sensitivities 10x better than initial LIGO, potentially allowing us to probe the engines of the nearest long GRBs.
A directed search for continuous Gravitational Waves from the Galactic Center
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, et al (855)
Sep 25 2013 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1309.6221v2

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We present the results of a directed search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown, isolated neutron stars in the Galactic Center region, performed on two years of data from LIGO's fifth science run from two LIGO detectors. The search uses a semi-coherent approach, analyzing coherently 630 segments, each spanning 11.5 hours, and then incoherently combining the results of the single segments. It covers gravitational wave frequencies in a range from 78 to 496 Hz and a frequency-dependent range of first order spindown values down to -7.86 x 10^-8 Hz/s at the highest frequency. No gravitational waves were detected. We place 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic Center. Placing 90% confidence upper limits on the gravitational wave amplitude of sources at the Galactic Center, we reach ~3.35x10^-25 for frequencies near 150 Hz. These upper limits are the most constraining to date for a large-parameter-space search for continuous gravitational wave signals.
Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era
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Sep 17 2013 astro-ph.HE gr-qc arXiv:1309.4027v3

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era}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1309.4027}, doi = {10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/119}, note = {arXiv:1309.4027v3} }
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We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper.
Emergent Friedmann equation from the evolution of cosmic space revisited
Myungseok Eune, Wontae Kim
May 30 2013 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1305.6688v2

@misc{1305.6688, author = {Myungseok Eune and Wontae Kim}, title = {{E}mergent {F}riedmann equation from the evolution of cosmic space revisited}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1305.6688}, howpublished = {Phys. Rev. D 88, 067303 (2013)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.88.067303}, note = {arXiv:1305.6688v2} }
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Following the recent study on the emergent Friedmann equation from the expansion of cosmic space for a flat universe, we apply this method to a nonflat universe, and modify the evolution equation to lead to the Friedmann equation. In order to maintain the same form with the original evolution equation, we have to define the time-dependent Plank constant, which shows that the spatial curvature of $k=0$ and $k=1$ is preferable to $k=-1$ since the Plank constant of the nonflat open universe is divergent. Finally, we discuss its physical consequences.
Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
KAGRA Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, et al (1084)
Apr 03 2013 gr-qc astro-ph.HE arXiv:1304.0670v5

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and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and H.~Yuzurihara and M.~Yvert and A.~Zadro.zny and L.~Zangrando and M.~Zanolin and S.~Zeidler and J.-P.~Zendri and M.~Zevin and L.~Zhang and M.~Zhang and T.~Zhang and Y.~Zhang and C.~Zhao and M.~Zhou and Z.~Zhou and S.~J.~Zhu and X.~J.~Zhu and M.~E.~Zucker and J.~Zweizig}, title = {{P}rospects for {O}bserving and {L}ocalizing {G}ravitational-{W}ave {T}ransients with {A}dvanced {LIGO}, {A}dvanced {V}irgo and {KAGRA}}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1304.0670}, note = {arXiv:1304.0670v5} }
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We present possible observing scenarios for the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next decade, with the intention of providing information to the astronomy community to facilitate planning for multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves. We estimate the sensitivity of the network to transient gravitational-wave signals, and study the capability of the network to determine the sky location of the source. We report our findings for gravitational-wave transients, with particular focus on gravitational-wave signals from the inspiral of binary neutron star systems, which are the most promising targets for multi-messenger astronomy. The ability to localize the sources of the detected signals depends on the geographical distribution of the detectors and their relative sensitivity, and 90% credible regions can be as large as thousands of square degrees when only two sensitive detectors are operational. Determining the sky position of a significant fraction of detected signals to areas of 5 square degrees to 20 square degrees requires at least three detectors of sensitivity within a factor of ~2 of each other and with a broad frequency bandwidth.
Superradiance and statistical entropy of hairy black hole in three dimensions
Myungseok Eune, Yongwan Gim, Wontae Kim
Mar 25 2013 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1303.5514v2

@misc{1303.5514, author = {Myungseok Eune and Yongwan Gim and Wontae Kim}, title = {{S}uperradiance and statistical entropy of hairy black hole in three dimensions}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1303.5514}, howpublished = {Phys. Rev. D 88 (2013) 047501}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.88.047501}, note = {arXiv:1303.5514v2} }
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We calculate the statistical entropy of a rotating hairy black hole by taking into account superradiant modes in the brick wall method. The UV cutoff is independent of the gravitational hair, which gives the well-defined area law of the entropy. It can be shown that the angular momentum and the energy of matter field depend on the gravitational hair. For the vanishing gravitational hair, it turns out that the energy for matter is related to both the black hole mass and the black hole angular momentum whereas the angular momentum for matter field is directly proportional to the angular momentum of the black hole.
Complementary role of the pressure in the black hole thermodynamics
Edwin J. Son, Wontae Kim
Mar 05 2013 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1303.0491v2

@misc{1303.0491, author = {Edwin J.~Son and Wontae Kim}, title = {{C}omplementary role of the pressure in the black hole thermodynamics}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1303.0491}, howpublished = {Phys. Rev. D 87, 067502 (2013)}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.87.067502}, note = {arXiv:1303.0491v2} }
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In black hole thermodynamics of certain models, the thermodynamic first law may contain the pressure term. The corresponding entropy follows the area law whereas the thermodynamic energy is not the same with the black hole mass. If the pressure can be decomposed into two parts and recombined with the original thermodynamic quantities, then the thermodynamic energy becomes the black hole mass and the entropy satisfying the area law turns out to be the corrected entropy called the Wald entropy, respectively.
Black hole complementarity and firewall in two dimensions
Wontae Kim, Bum-Hoon Lee, Dong-han Yeom
Jan 23 2013 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1301.5138v2

@misc{1301.5138, author = {Wontae Kim and Bum-Hoon Lee and Dong-han Yeom}, title = {{B}lack hole complementarity and firewall in two dimensions}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1301.5138}, howpublished = {JHEP 1305:060,2013}, note = {arXiv:1301.5138v2} }
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In connection with black hole complementarity, we study the possibility of the duplication of information in the RST model which is an exactly soluble quantized model in two dimensions. We find that the duplication of information can be observed without resort to assuming an excessively large number of scalar fields. If we introduce a firewall, then we can circumvent this problem; however, the firewall should be outside the event horizon.
Hawking-Page phase transition in BTZ black hole revisited
Myungseok Eune, Wontae Kim, Sang-Heon Yi
Jan 04 2013 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1301.0395v2

@misc{1301.0395, author = {Myungseok Eune and Wontae Kim and Sang-Heon Yi}, title = {{H}awking-{P}age phase transition in {BTZ} black hole revisited}, year = {2013}, eprint = {1301.0395}, howpublished = {JHEP 1303 (2013) 020}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP03(2013)020}, note = {arXiv:1301.0395v2} }
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We consider the Hawking-Page phase transition between the BTZ black hole of $M \ge 0$ and the thermal soliton of $M=-1$. In this system, there exists a mass gap so that there does not seem to exist a continuous thermodynamic phase transition. We consistently construct the off-shell free energies of the black hole and the soliton by properly taking into account the conical space. And then, the continuous off-shell free energy to describe tunneling effect can be realized through non-equilibrium solitons.
Two critical phenomena in the exactly soluble quantized Schwarzschild black hole
Edwin J. Son, Wontae Kim
Dec 12 2012 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1212.2307v2

@misc{1212.2307, author = {Edwin J.~Son and Wontae Kim}, title = {{T}wo critical phenomena in the exactly soluble quantized {S}chwarzschild black hole}, year = {2012}, eprint = {1212.2307}, howpublished = {J. High Energy Phys. 03 (2013) 060}, doi = {10.1007/JHEP03(2013)060}, note = {arXiv:1212.2307v2} }
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We study thermodynamic quantities and phase transitions of a spherically symmetric Schwarzschild black hole by taking into account the back reaction through the conformal anomaly of matter fields, and show that there exists an additional phase transition to the conventional Hawking-Page phase transition. The small black hole is more probable than the hot flat space above a second critical temperature, while it is less probable than the hot flat space in the classical Schwarzschild black hole. However, the unstable small black hole eventually should decay into the stable large black hole because the conformal anomaly does not change its thermodynamic stability.
Entropy and temperatures of Nariai black hole
Myungseok Eune, Wontae Kim
Nov 12 2012 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1211.2048v2

@misc{1211.2048, author = {Myungseok Eune and Wontae Kim}, title = {{E}ntropy and temperatures of {N}ariai black hole}, year = {2012}, eprint = {1211.2048}, howpublished = {Phys. Lett. B 723 (2013) 177-181}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2013.04.052}, note = {arXiv:1211.2048v2} }
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The statistical entropy of the Nariai black hole in a thermal equilibrium is calculated by using the brick-wall method. Even if the temperature depends on the choice of the time-like Killing vector, the entropy can be written by the ordinary area law which agrees with the Wald entropy. We discuss some physical consequences of this result and the properties of the temperatures.
Local thermodynamics of KS black hole
Myungseok Eune, Bogeun Gwak, Wontae Kim
Sep 24 2012 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1209.4698v2

@misc{1209.4698, author = {Myungseok Eune and Bogeun Gwak and Wontae Kim}, title = {{L}ocal thermodynamics of {KS} black hole}, year = {2012}, eprint = {1209.4698}, howpublished = {Phys. Lett. B 718 (2013) 1505-1509}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2012.12.018}, note = {arXiv:1209.4698v2} }
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We study the thermodynamics of the KS black hole which is an asymptotically flat solution of the HL gravity. In particular, we introduce a cavity to describe the thermodynamics at a finite isothermal surface on general ground and to get a well-defined thermodynamics. We show that there exists a locally stable small black hole which tunnels to the hot flat space below the critical temperature and to the large black hole above the critical temperature. Moreover, it turns out that the remnant decays into the vacuum through a quantum tunneling.
Phase transition of quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole
Wontae Kim, Yongwan Kim
Jul 24 2012 gr-qc hep-th arXiv:1207.5318v2

@misc{1207.5318, author = {Wontae Kim and Yongwan Kim}, title = {{P}hase transition of quantum corrected {S}chwarzschild black hole}, year = {2012}, eprint = {1207.5318}, howpublished = {Phys.Lett.B 718:687-691,2012}, doi = {10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.017}, note = {arXiv:1207.5318v2} }
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We study the thermodynamic phase transition of a quantum-corrected Schwarzschild black hole. The modified metric affects the critical temperature which is slightly less than the conventional one. The space without black holes is not the hot flat space but the hot curved space due to vacuum fluctuations so that there appears a type of Gross-Perry-Yaffe phase transition even for the very small size of black hole, which is impossible for the thermodynamics of the conventional Schwarzschild black hole. We discuss physical consequences of the new phase transition in this framework.
Area law of the entropy in the critical gravity
Edwin J. Son, Myungseok Eune, Wontae Kim
Sep 27 2011 hep-th gr-qc arXiv:1109.5486v1

@misc{1109.5486, author = {Edwin J.~Son and Myungseok Eune and Wontae Kim}, title = {{A}rea law of the entropy in the critical gravity}, year = {2011}, eprint = {1109.5486}, note = {arXiv:1109.5486v1} }
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The entropy of the Schwarzschild-anti de Sitter black hole in the recently proposed four-dimensional critical gravity is trivial in the Euclidean action formulation, while it is expressed by the area law in terms of the brick wall method given by 't Hooft. To resolve this issue, we relate the Euclidean action formulation to the brick wall method semiclassically, and show that the entropy of the black hole can be expressed by the area law at the critical point.

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