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

Authors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
The Virgo Collaboration
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Rodica M. Martin, 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.

Comments

This work is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. Additional authors may be found on the publication.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005

MSU Digital Commons Citation

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Ghosh, Shaon; and Martin, Rodica M., "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.