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Cumulative analysis of the association between the data of the gravitational wave detectors NAUTILUS and EXPLORER and the gamma ray bursts detected by BATSE and BeppoSAX

P. Astone1, D. Babusci2, M. Bassan3,4, P. Carelli5,4, E. Coccia3,4,6, C. Cosmelli7,1, S. D’Antonio4, V. Fafone2, F. Frontera8,9 et al.

G. Giordano2, C. Guidorzi8, A. Marini2, Y. Minenkov3,4, I. Modena3,4, G. Modestino2, A. Moleti3,4, E. Montanari8,10, G. V. Pallottino7,1, G. Pizzella3,2, L. Quintieri2, A. Rocchi3,2, F. Ronga2, L. Sperandio2, R. Terenzi11,4, G. Torrioli7, and M. Visco11,4

  • 1INFN, Sezione di Roma, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185, Roma, Italy
  • 2INFN, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, via Enrico Fermi 40, I-00044, Frascati (Roma), Italy
  • 3Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università "Tor Vergata", via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133, Roma, Italy
  • 4INFN, Sezione di Roma II, via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, I-00133, Roma, Italy
  • 5Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, via Vetoio (Coppito 1), I-67010, Coppito (L’Aquila), Italy
  • 6INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, S.S. 17 bis km 18.910, I-67010, Assergi (L’Aquila), Italy
  • 7Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università “La Sapienza”, P.le Aldo Moro 2, I-00185, Roma, Italy
  • 8Dipartimento di Fisica dell’Università, via Paradiso 12, I-44100, Ferrara, Italy
  • 9CNR, Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica, via Piero Gobetti 101, I-40129, Bologna, Italy
  • 10ISA “A.Venturi”, Modena, Italy
  • 11CNR, Istituto di Fisica dello Spazio Interplanetario, via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133, Roma, Italy

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Phys. Rev. D 71, 042001 – Published 14 February, 2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.042001

Abstract

The statistical association between the output of the Gravitational Wave (GW) detectors EXPLORER and NAUTILUS and a list of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) detected by the satellite experiments BATSE and BeppoSAX has been analyzed using cumulative algorithms. GW detector data collected between 1991 and 1999 have been searched for an energy excess in a 10 s interval around the GRB flux peak times. The cumulative analysis of the data relative to a large number of GRBs (387) allows to push the upper bound for the corresponding GW burst amplitude down to h=2.5×10−19.

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Phys. Rev. D 71, 042001– Published 14 February, 2005
  • Received 11 November 2004

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