All-sky search for gravitational wave bursts with LIGO, GEO and Virgo

The network of gravitational-wave detectors LIGO, GEO and Virgo collected data of unprecedented sensitivity in their 2005-07 science runs. Using data from these runs, we describe the search for bursts: short-duration and arbitrary in shape gravitational-wave signals. Such signals, may accompany astrophysical events like core-collapse supernovae, the merger phase of coalescing binary compact stars and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this talk we focus on the all-sky search of such signals with frequency content in the 64--2000 Hz range -- this encompasses the most sensitive regime of the ground-based interferometers.