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

Author

J. Abadie
Marco Cavaglia, Missouri University of Science and TechnologyFollow
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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 1-99M_⊙ and 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_⊙ ≤m ₁, m₂ ≤ 28M_⊙ binary black-hole systems with negligible spin to be no more than 2.0Mpc^-3Myr^-1 at 90% confidence.

Recommended Citation

J. Abadie et al., "Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger, and Ringdown," Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 83, no. 12, American Physical Society (APS), Jun 2011.

The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122005

Department(s)

Physics

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1550-7998

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Final Version

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2011 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jun 2011