Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1

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. 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. Araya, California Institute of Technology
• M. Aronsson, California Institute of Technology
• K. G. Arun, Laboratoire de l'Accélérateur Linéaire
• Y. Aso, California Institute of Technology
• S. Aston, University of Birmingham
• P. Astone, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - INFN
• D. E. Atkinson, LIGO Hanford
• P. Aufmuth, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
• 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
• Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Andrews UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

11-5-2010

Abstract

We report the results of the first search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence using data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo detectors. Five months of data were collected during the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory's S5 and Virgo's VSR1 science runs. The search focused on signals from binary mergers with a total mass between 2 and 35M□. No gravitational waves are identified. The cumulative 90%-confidence upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence are calculated for nonspinning binary neutron stars, black hole-neutron star systems, and binary black holes to be 8.7×10⊃- 3yr⊃-1L10-1, 2.2×10⊃-3yr⊃-1L10-1, and 4.4×10⊃- 4yr⊃-1L10-1, respectively, where L10 is 1010 times the blue solar luminosity. These upper limits are compared with astrophysical expectations. © 2010 The American Physical Society.

Journal Title

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volume

82

Issue

10

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.102001

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.; Amador Ceron, E.; Amin, R. S.; Anderson, S. B.; Anderson, W. G.; Antonucci, F.; Arain, M. A.; Araya, M.; Aronsson, M.; Arun, K. G.; Aso, Y.; Aston, S.; Astone, P.; Atkinson, D. E.; Aufmuth, P.; Aulbert, C.; Babak, S.; Baker, P.; Ballardin, G.; Ballinger, T.; Ballmer, S.; and Summerscales, Tiffany Z., "Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1" (2010). Faculty Publications. 2008.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/2008

Acknowledgements

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