• DOI:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03544.x
• Corpus ID: 14551667

A method for detecting gravitational waves coincident with gamma‐ray bursts

@article{Murphy1999AMF,
  title={A method for detecting gravitational waves coincident with gamma‐ray bursts},
  author={Michael T. Murphy and John K Webb and Ik Siong Heng},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={1999},
  volume={316},
  pages={657-664}
}

• M. Murphy, J. Webb, I. Heng
• Published 5 November 1999
• Physics
• Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The mechanism for gamma ray bursters and the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) are two outstanding problems facing modern physics. Many models of gamma ray bursters predict copious GW emission, so the assumption of an association between GWs and GRBs may be testable with existing bar GW detector data. We consider Weber bar data streams in the vicinity of known GRB times and present calculations of the expected signal after co-addition of 1000 GW/GRBs that have been shifted to a common zero time. Our calculations are based on assumptions concerning the GW spectrum and the redshift distribution of GW/GRB sources which are consistent with current GW/GRB models. We discuss further possibilities of GW detection associated with GRBs in light of future bar detector improvements and suggest that co-addition of data from several improved bar detectors may result in detection of GWs (if the GW/GRB assumption is correct) on a time scale comparable with the LIGO projects.