Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown In LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-23-2013
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review D
Abstract
We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20)M⊙ coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for nonspinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on component spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We find an upper limit at 90% confidence on the coalescence rate of BBH with nonspinning components of mass between 19 and 28M ⊙ of 3.3×10-7 mergers Mpc -3 yr-1.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.87.022002
MSU Digital Commons Citation
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Favata, Marc; Ghosh, Shaon; and Martin, Rodica, "Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown In LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010" (2013). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 115.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/115
Published Citation
Aasi, J., Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., ... & Clark, J. A. (2013). Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009–2010. Physical Review D, 87(2), 022002.
Comments
This work is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. Additional authors may be found on the publication.