Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run

Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run

We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35M[subscript ⊙], using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalesce...

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Main Authors: Wipf, Christopher C., Weiss, Rainer, Waldman, Samuel J., Stein, Leo Chaim, Stein, Andrew J., Smith, Nicolas de Mateo, Shapiro, B., Sarin, P., Markowitz, Jared John, Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, Hughey, Brennan J., Harry, Gregory, Grimaldi, F., Goda, K., Foley, Stephany, Duke, I., Cao, Junwei, Brunet, G., Blackburn, Lindy L., Barsotti, Lisa, Mavalvala, Nergis, Zucker, Michael E, Mittleman, Richard K, Corbitt, Thomas R, Shoemaker, David H, Mason, Kenneth R, MacInnis, Myron E, Fritschel, Peter K, Evans, Matthew J, Donovan, Frederick J, Bodiya, Timothy P.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51842
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706
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https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187
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Summary:We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35M[subscript ⊙], using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass. The LIGO cumulative 90%-confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of neutron stars, black holes and black hole-neutron star systems are 1.4×10[superscript -2], 7.3×10[superscript -4] and 3.6×10[superscript -3]  yr[superscript -1] L[subscript 10][superscript -1], respectively, where L[subscript 10] is 10[superscript 10] times the blue solar luminosity.

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