Brennan Hughey

Title: A High Frequency Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts with LIGO

Abstract: LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational Observatory) is a gravitational wave detector consisting of 3 interferometers at two sites. We present a first look at an all-sky gravitational wave burst search in the frequency range 1 to 6.5 kHz using LIGO data. Previous burst searches with ground-based interferometers have been limited to frequencies below 2 kHz. However, various models predict gravitational wave emission in the several kiloHertz range from astrophysical phenomena including gravitational collapse, neutron star modes and low-mass black hole mergers. This shot-noise dominated frequency regime can be analyzed with the same tools as lower frequency analyses.