GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND SHORT GAMMA RAY BURSTS

By N. GIUNT

CONTENTS GRAVITATIONAL WAVES THEORY AND DETECTORS INTRODUCTION GRAVITATIONAL WAVES SOURCES OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES (GW) LINEARIZED GRAVITY AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES EINSTEIN’S ?ELD EQUATIONS AND THE WEAK–?ELD APPROXIMATION TRANSVERSE TRACELESS GAUGE MASS QUADRUPOLE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM A COMPACT BINARY COALESCENCE COMPACT BINARY COALESCENCE PARAMETERS TIME EVOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM ENERGY LOSS IN THE SYSTEM PHASE EVOLUTION OF THE SYSTEM FREQUENCY DOMAIN WAVEFORMS GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS – THEORETICAL ASPECTS A SIMPLI?ED LASER INTERFEROMETER RESPONSE OF AN INTERFEROMETER TO A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE GRAVITATIONAL RADIATION FROM A BINARY NEUTRON STAR MERGER GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTORS – PRACTICAL ISSUES STATIONARY NOISE SOURCES NON–STATIONARY NOISE SOURCES A NETWORK OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES INTERFEROMETERS LIGO AND VIRGO DETECTORS THE ADVANCED DETECTORS SKY LOCALIZATION WITH A NETWORK OF GW DETECTORS ASTROPHYSICALLY TRIGGERED SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES SHORT HARD GAMMA RAY BURSTS SHB PROGENITORS, THEIR HOST GALAXIES AND LOCAL RATES EMISSION MECHANISM GAMMA RAY OBSERVATION MISSIONS ASTROPHYSICS WITH SHB AND GW RADIO SIGNATURES OF COMPACT BINARY COALESCENCES OVERVIEW SEARCH TOOLS: RADIO TELESCOPES AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVE INTER- FEROMETERS RADIO AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCES UNIDENTI?ED RADIO TRANSIENTS DISPERSION IN THE INTERGALACTIC AND INTERSTELLAR MEDIA AND COMPTON SCATTERING JOINT RADIO-GW SEARCHES DISCUSSION GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DATA ANALYSIS: THEORETICAL ASPECTS MATCHED–?LTERING THE LIKELIHOOD FUNCTION: COINCIDENT AND COHERENT ANALYSES COINCIDENT SIGNAL–TO–NOISE RATIO COHERENT SIGNAL–TO–NOISE RATIO TEMPLATE BANK THE ?2 TEST HORIZON DISTANCE GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: COINCIDENT AND COHERENT SEARCHES WITH SHORT GRB TRIGGERS COINCIDENT TRIGGERED SEARCH GRB070429B – OVERVIEW DATA SEGMENTS AND PSD GENERATION TWO–STAGE COINCIDENT PIPELINE TRIGGER GENERATION COINCIDENCE TEST AND COINCIDENCE EVENTS RANKING STATISTIC DATA QUALITY VETOES BACKGROUND ESTIMATION 4210 SIMULATED SIGNALS 4211 RESULTS: DETECTION STATEMENT 4212 RESULTS: DISTANCE EXCLUSION 4213 SEARCH SUMMARY COHERENT TRIGGERED SEARCH COHERENT SEARCH ASSOCIATED WITH GRB090831A TRIGGERED SEARCHES: SENSITIVITY IMPROVEMENT IMPROVING SEARCHES FOR GW ASSOCIATED WITH GRBS BACKGROUND ESTIMATION USING TIMESLIDES COINCIDENCE WINDOW ESTIMATION FALSE ALARM PROBABILITY FALSE ALARM PROBABILITY FOR S TIMESLIDES DI?ERENT SCENARIOS FOR FAP AND ERROR TIME–MASS COINCIDENCE WINDOW FUNCTION OF THRESHOLD SNR REPEATING TRIGGERS AND TRIGGER OCCURRENCE RATES CONCLUSIONS IMPLEMENTING TIMESLIDES IN THE ANALYSIS PIPELINE TEST GRB IMPLEMENTATION OF TIMESLIDES TEST GRB RESULTS TIMESLIDES IN THE COHERENT SEARCH RESTRICTION ON INCLINATION ANGLE FOR NEARLY FACE–ON BINARIES THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTERPLANETARY NETWORK GAMMA-RAY BURSTS – METHODOLOGY THE IPN TRIANGULATION MECHANISM THE IPN GRB ERROR BOX CONSTRUCTION DETERMINING THE GRB TIME OF ARRIVAL GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DATA AVAILABILITY SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTERPLANETARY NETWORK GAMMA-RAY BURSTS – ANALYSIS GAMMA-RAY BURST SAMPLE SEARCH METHODOLOGY SEARCHING THE ERROR BOX SINGLE CHIRP MASS BIN [0,80) M? DISTANCE EXCLUSION H1H2–ONLY GRBS GRB090802A, A TESTBED FOR THE IPN ANALYSIS SIGNI?CANCE OF FAP POPULATION RESULTS POSSIBLE HOST GALAXIES FOR TWO OF THE IPN GRBS CONCLUSION CONCLUDING REMARKS