Authors
R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley, A Adams, C Adams, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, C Affeldt, D Agarwal, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, T Akutsu, KM Aleman, G Allen, A Allocca, PA Altin, A Amato, S Anand, A Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, M Ando, SV Angelova, S Ansoldi, JM Antelis, S Antier, S Appert, Koya Arai, Koji Arai, Y Arai, S Araki, A Araya, MC Araya, JS Areeda, M Arene, N Aritomi, N Arnaud, SM Aronson, H Asada, Y Asali, G Ashton, Y Aso, SM Aston, P Astone, F Aubin, P Auclair, P Aufmuth, K Aultoneal, C Austin, S Babak, F Badaracco, MKM Bader, S Bae, Y Bae, AM Baer, S Bagnasco, Y Bai, L Baiotti, J Baird, R Bajpai, M Ball, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, M Bals, A Balsamo, G Baltus, S Banagiri, D Bankar, RS Bankar, JC Barayoga, C Barbieri, BC Barish, D Barker, P Barneo, S Barnum, F Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, MA Barton, I Bartos, R Bassiri, A Basti, M Bawaj, JC Bayley, AC Baylor, M Bazzan, B Becsy, VM Bedakihale, M Bejger, I Belahcene, V Benedetto, D Beniwal, MG Benjamin, TF Bennett, JD Bentley, M Benyaala, F Bergamin, BK Berger, S Bernuzzi, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, R Bhandare, AV Bhandari, D Bhattacharjee, S Bhaumik, J Bidler, IA Bilenko, G Billingsley, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, M Bischi, S Biscoveanu, A Bisht, B Biswas, M Bitossi, M-A Bizouard, JK Blackburn, J Blackman, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, F Bobba, N Bode, M Boer, G Bogaert, M Boldrini, F Bondu, E Bonilla, R Bonnand, P Booker, BA Boom, R Bork, V Boschi, N Bose, S Bose, V Bossilkov, V Boudart, Y Bouffanais
Publication date
2021/6/18
Journal
Physical review letters
Volume
126
Issue
24
Pages
241102
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
We search for gravitational-wave signals produced by cosmic strings in the Advanced LIGO and Virgo full O3 dataset. Search results are presented for gravitational waves produced by cosmic string loop features such as cusps, kinks, and, for the first time, kink-kink collisions. A template-based search for short-duration transient signals does not yield a detection. We also use the stochastic gravitational-wave background energy density upper limits derived from the O3 data to constrain the cosmic string tension as a function of the number of kinks, or the number of cusps, for two cosmic string loop distribution models. Additionally, we develop and test a third model that interpolates between these two models. Our results improve upon the previous LIGO–Virgo constraints on by 1 to 2 orders of magnitude depending on the model that is tested. In particular, for the one-loop distribution model, we set the most competitive …
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