All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration)

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001

All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration)

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This paper describes the first all-sky search for long-duration, quasimonochromatic gravitational-wave signals emitted by ultralight scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes using data from the third observing run of Advanced LIGO. We analyze the frequency range from 20 to 610 Hz, over a small frequency derivative range around zero, and use multiple frequency resolutions to be robust towards possible signal frequency wanderings. Outliers from this search are followed up using two different methods, one more suitable for nearly monochromatic signals, and the other more robust towards frequency fluctuations. We do not find any evidence for such signals and set upper limits on the signal strain amplitude, the most stringent being ≈10-25 at around 130 Hz. We interpret these upper limits as both an "exclusion region"in the boson mass/black hole mass plane and the maximum detectable distance for a given boson mass, based on an assumption of the age of the black hole/boson cloud system.

Original language	English
Article number	102001
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	105
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.102001
State	Published - May 15 2022

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All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

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