%0 Journal Article
%A Abbott, R
%A LIGO Scientific Collaboration
%A Virgo Collaboration
%A KAGRA Collaboration
%A Jenkins, Alexander
%D 2022
%F discovery:10151380
%I American Physical Society
%J Physical Review D
%T All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data
%U https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10151380/
%V 105
%X 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.
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