Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes
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Abadie-2012-Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence.pdf
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Author(s)
Barsotti, Lisa
Dwyer, Sheila Elizabeth
Foley, Stephany
Harry, Gregory
Kissel, Jeffrey S.
Katsavounidis, Erotokritos
Mandel, Ilya
Matichard, Fabrice
Oelker, Eric Glenn
Sankar, Shannon Reynier
Date Issued
May 2012
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Barsotti, Lisa, et al. "Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes." Physical Review D 85 (2012): 082002-1-082002-11.
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Final published version
Abstract
We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of nonspinning intermediate mass black holes in the total mass range 100–450 M⊙ and with the component mass ratios between 1∶1 and 4∶1. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the intermediate mass black holes mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on 88+88 M⊙, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc3 per Myr at the 90% confidence level.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004
