Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run
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Wipf, Christopher C.
Weiss, Rainer
Waldman, Samuel J.
Stein, Leo Chaim
Stein, Andrew J.
Smith, Nicolas de Mateo
Shapiro, B.
Sarin, P.
Markowitz, Jared John
Katsavounidis, Erotokritos
Date Issued
August 2009
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. “Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run.” Physical Review D 80.4 (2009): 047101. © 2009 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35M[subscript ⊙], using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass. The LIGO cumulative 90%-confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of neutron stars, black holes and black hole-neutron star systems are 1.4×10[superscript -2], 7.3×10[superscript -4] and 3.6×10[superscript -3] yr[superscript -1] L[subscript 10][superscript -1], respectively, where L[subscript 10] is 10[superscript 10] times the blue solar luminosity.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.047101
