Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown

J. Abadie; B. P. Abbott; R. Abbott; M. Abernathy; T. Accadia; F. Acernese; C. Adams; R. Adhikari; P. Ajith; B. Allen; G. S. Allen; E. Amador Ceron; R. S. Amin; S. B. Anderson; W. G. Anderson; F. Antonucci; M. A. Arain; M. C. Araya; M. Aronsson; Y. Aso; S. M. Aston; P. Astone; D. Atkinson; P. Aufmuth; C. Aulbert; S. Babak; P. Baker; G. Ballardin; T. Ballinger; S. Ballmer; D. Barker; S. Barnum; F. Barone; B. Barr; P. Barriga; L. Barsotti; M. Barsuglia; M. A. Barton; I. Bartos; R. Bassiri; M. Bastarrika; J. Bauchrowitz; Th S. Bauer; B. Behnke; M. G. Beker; A. Belletoile; M. Benacquista; A. Bertolini; J. Betzwieser; N. Beveridge

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown

J. Abadie^*, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. S. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, F. Antonucci, M. A. Arain, M. C. Araya, M. Aronsson, Y. AsoS. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, T. Ballinger, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, S. Barnum, F. Barone, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, J. Bauchrowitz, Th S. Bauer, B. Behnke, M. G. Beker, A. Belletoile, M. Benacquista, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge

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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_ȯ and total masses of 25-100M_ȯ. 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_ȯ≤m₁, m ₂≤28M_ȯ binary black-hole systems with negligible spin to be no more than 2.0Mpc^-3Myr^-1 at 90% confidence.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	122005
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	83
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005
State	Published - Jun 6 2011

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Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G. S., Amador Ceron, E., Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aronsson, M., ... Beveridge, N. (2011). Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 83(12), Article 122005. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005

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