Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010
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Barsotti, Lisa
Bodiya, Timothy P.
Corbitt, Thomas R
Donovan, Frederick J
Dwyer, S.
Evans, M.
Foley, Stephany
Fritschel, Peter K
Katsavounidis, Erotokritos
Kissel, Jeffrey S.
Date Issued
January 2013
Journal
Physical Review D
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American Physical Society (APS)
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Aasi, J. et al. “Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009–2010.” Physical Review D 87, 2 (January 2013): 022002 © 2013 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20)M[subscript ⊙] coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for nonspinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on component spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We find an upper limit at 90% confidence on the coalescence rate of BBH with nonspinning components of mass between 19 and 28M[subscript ⊙] of 3.3 × 10⁻⁷mergers Mpc⁻³ yr⁻¹.
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Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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