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

Authors

J. Abadie, LIGO - California Institute of Technology
B. P. Abbott, University of Glasgow
R. Abbott, Universite de Savoie
M. Abernathy, Complesso Universitario di Monte sant'Angelo
T. Accadia, University of Salerno
F. Acernese, California Institute of Technology
C. Adams, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
R. Adhikari, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P. Ajith, Stanford University
B. Allen, Louisiana State University
G. S. Allen, National Institute for Nuclear Physics
E. Amador Ceron, University of Florida
R. S. Amin, University of Birmingham
S. B. Anderson, National Science Foundation
W. G. Anderson, Leibniz University Hannover
F. Antonucci, Montana State University
M. A. Arain, European Gravitational Observatory
M. C. Araya, Carleton College
M. Aronsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Y. Aso, University of Western Australia
S. M. Aston, Universite Paris 7
P. Astone, Columbia University
D. Atkinson, National Institute for Subatomic Physics
P. Aufmuth, University of Texas at Brownsville
C. Aulbert, San Jose State University
S. Babak, Lomonosov Moscow State University
P. Baker, Universite de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
G. Ballardin, Sezione di Pisa
T. Ballinger, ComUE Paris-Saclay
S. Ballmer, CNRS
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-6-2011

Journal / Book Title

Physical Review D

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 1–99Mand total masses of 25–100M. 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≤ m1,m2 ≤28Mbinary black hole systems with negligible spin to be no more than 2.0Mpc−3 Myr−1at 90% confidence.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005

MSU Digital Commons 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.; and Ghosh, Shaon, "Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown" (2011). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 114.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/114

Published Citation

Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., ... & Coyne, D. C. (2011). Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown. Physical Review D, 83(12), 122005.