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; Hughey, Brennan J.; Harry, Gregory; Grimaldi, F.; Goda, K.; Foley, Stephany; Duke, I.; Cao, Junwei; Brunet, G.; Blackburn, Lindy L.; Barsotti, Lisa; Mavalvala, Nergis; Zucker, Michael E; Mittleman, Richard K; Corbitt, Thomas R; Shoemaker, David H; Mason, Kenneth R; MacInnis, Myron E; Fritschel, Peter K; Evans, Matthew J; Donovan, Frederick J; Bodiya, Timothy P.; ... Show more Show less
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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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2009-08Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
Physical Review D
Publisher
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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1550-2368
1550-7998