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Alichur Dome, South Pamir, Western India-Asia Collisional Zone: Detailing the Neogene Shakhdara-Alichur Syn-collisional Gneiss-Dome Complex and Connection to Lithospheric Processes
Neogene, synâcollisional extensional exhumation of Asian lowerâmiddle crust produced the ShakhdaraâAlichur gneissâdome complex in the South Pamir. The <1 kmâthick, myloniticâbrittle, topâNNE, normalâsense Alichur shear zone (ASZ) bounds the 125 Ă 25 km Alichur dome to the north. The Shakhdara dome is bounded by the <4 kmâthick, myloniticâbrittle, topâSSE South Pamir normalâsense shear zone (SPSZ) to the south, and the dextral Gunt wrench zone to its north. The Alichur dome comprises Cretaceous granitoids/gneisses cut by early Miocene leucogranites; its hanging wall contains non/weakly metamorphosed rocks. The 22â17 Ma Alichurâdomeâinjectionâcomplex leucogranites transition from foliationâparallel, centimeterâ to meterâthick sheets within the ASZ into discordant intrusions that may comprise half the volume of the dome core. Secondary fluid inclusions in mylonites and mylonitizationâtemperature constraints suggest Alichurâdome exhumation from 10â15 km depth. Thermochronologic dates bracket footwall cooling between ~410â130 °C from ~16â4 Ma; tectonic cooling/exhumation rates (~42 °C/Myr, ~1.1 km/Myr) contrast with erosionâdominated rates in the hanging wall (~2 °C/Myr, <0.1 km/Myr). Domeâscale boudinage, oblique divergence of the ASZ and SPSZ hanging walls, and dextral wrenching reflect minor approximately EâW material flow out of the orogen. We attribute broadly southward younging extensional exhumation across the central South Pamir between ~20â4 Ma to: (i) Mostly northward, forelandâdirected flow of hot crust into a cold foreland during the growth of the Pamir orocline; and (ii) Contrasting effects of basal shear related to underthrusting Indian lithosphere, enhancing extension in the underthrust South Pamir and inhibiting extension in the nonâunderthrust Central Pamir
Search for Gravitational-wave Inspiral Signals Associated with Short Gamma-ray Bursts During LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run
Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [ â 5, + 1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U-test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% confidence exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc
Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGOâs sixth science run and Virgoâs science runs 2 and 3
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries using LIGO and Virgo observations between July 7, 2009, and October 20, 2010. We searched for signals from binaries with total mass between 2 and 25M_â; this includes binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and binaries consisting of a black hole and neutron star. The detectors were sensitive to systems up to 40 Mpc distant for binary neutron stars, and further for higher mass systems. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass, including the results from previous LIGO and Virgo observations. The cumulative 90% confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of binary neutron star, neutron star-black hole, and binary black hole systems are 1.3Ă10^(-4), 3.1Ă10^(-5), and 6.4Ă10^(-6)ââMpc^(-3)âyr^(-1), respectively. These upper limits are up to a factor 1.4 lower than previously derived limits. We also report on results from a blind injection challenge
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