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.
Dwyer, S.
Evans, M.
Foley, S.
Fritschel, Peter K.
Date Issued
June 2012
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Abadie, J. et al.(LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration). “Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown.” Physical Review D 83.12 (2011): [20 pages]. CrossRef. Web. © 2012 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⊙ and total masses of 25–100M⊙. 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, m2≤28M⊙ binary black-hole systems with negligible spin to be no more than 2.0 Mpc⁻3 Myr⁻1 at 90% confidence.
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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.85.082002
