Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes

Authors

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

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-24-2012

Journal / Book Title

Physical Review D

Abstract

We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of nonspinning intermediate mass black holes in the total mass range 100-450M and with the component mass ratios between 11 and 41. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the intermediate mass black holes mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on 88+88M, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc3 per Myr at the 90% confidence level.

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.85.102004

MSU Digital Commons Citation

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Ghosh, Shaon; and Martin, Rodica M., "Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes" (2012). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 117.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/117

Published Citation

Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., ... & Cohadon, P. F. (2012). Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85(10), 102004.