Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown
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Author(s)
Barnum, Sam
Barsotti, Lisa
Blackburn, Lindy L.
Bodiya, Timothy Paul
Corbitt, Thomas R.
Donovan, Frederick J.
Evans, Matthew J.
Foley, Stephany
Fritschel, Peter K.
Harry, Gregory
Date Issued
June 2011
Journal
Physical review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Abadie, J. et al. "Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown" Phys. Rev. D 83, 122005 (2011) © 2011 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present the first modeled search for gravitational waves using the complete binary black-hole gravitational waveform from inspiral through the merger and ringdown for binaries with negligible component spin. We searched approximately 2 years of LIGO data, taken between November 2005 and September 2007, for systems with component masses of 1–99M⊙ [1-99 M circled dot operator] and total masses of 25–100M⊙ [25-100 M circled dot operator]. We did not detect any plausible gravitational-wave signals but we do place upper limits on the merger rate of binary black holes as a function of the component masses in this range. We constrain the rate of mergers for 19M⊙≤m1 [19 M circled dot operator greater than or equal to m subscript 1], m2≤28M⊙ [m subscript 2 greater than or equal to 28 M circled dot operator] binary black-hole systems with negligible spin to be no more than 2.0 Mpc-3 {Mpc superscript -3] Myr-1 [Myr superscript -1] at 90% confidence.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
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.83.122005
