Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-6-2011
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 1-99Mȯ and total masses of 25-100Mȯ. 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 19Mȯ≤m1, m 2≤28Mȯ binary black-hole systems with negligible spin to be no more than 2.0Mpc-3Myr-1 at 90% confidence. © 2011 American Physical Society.
Journal Title
Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume
83
Issue
12
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005
First Department
Physics
Recommended Citation
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.; Aso, Y.; Aston, S. M.; Astone, P.; Atkinson, D.; Aufmuth, P.; Aulbert, C.; Babak, S.; Baker, P.; Ballardin, G.; Ballinger, T.; Ballmer, S.; Barker, D.; and Summerscales, Tiffany Z., "Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown" (2011). Faculty Publications. 1642.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/1642