Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown

Authors

• J. Abadie, California Institute of Technology
• B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
• R. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
• M. Abernathy, University of Glasgow
• T. Accadia, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
• F. Acernese, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
• C. Adams, LIGO Livingston
• R. Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
• P. Ajith, California Institute of Technology
• B. Allen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
• G. S. Allen, Stanford University
• E. Amador Ceron, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• R. S. Amin, Louisiana State University
• S. B. Anderson, California Institute of Technology
• W. G. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• F. Antonucci, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN
• M. A. Arain, University of Florida
• M. C. Araya, California Institute of Technology
• M. Aronsson, California Institute of Technology
• Y. Aso, California Institute of Technology
• S. M. Aston, University of Birmingham
• P. Astone, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN
• D. Atkinson, LIGO Hanford
• P. Aufmuth, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
• C. Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
• S. Babak, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
• P. Baker, Montana State University
• G. Ballardin, European Gravitational Observatory (EGO)
• T. Ballinger, Carleton College, USA
• S. Ballmer, California Institute of Technology
• D. Barker, LIGO Hanford
• Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Andrews UniversityFollow

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