Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run
This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009–October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range...
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| author | Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy Paul Donovan, Frederick J. Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew J. Fritschel, Peter K. Gras, Slawek Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kwee, Patrick Lee, J. Libson, Adam Lynch, Ryan Christopher MacInnis, Myron E. Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, John Mittleman, Richard K. Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H. Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Wipf, C. C. Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E. Aggarwal, Nancy,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy Paul Donovan, Frederick J. Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew J. Fritschel, Peter K. Gras, Slawek Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kwee, Patrick Lee, J. Libson, Adam Lynch, Ryan Christopher MacInnis, Myron E. Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, John Mittleman, Richard K. Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H. Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Wipf, C. C. Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E. Aggarwal, Nancy,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
| author_sort | Barsotti, Lisa |
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| description | This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009–October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range up to ∼200 Mpc, averaged over the possible sky positions and inclinations of the binaries with respect to the line of sight. No significant candidate was found. Upper limits on the coalescence-rate density of nonspinning IMBHBs with total masses between 100 and 450 M[subscript ⊙] and mass ratios between 0.25 and 1 were placed by combining this analysis with an analogous search performed on data from the first LIGO-Virgo joint science run (November 2005–October 2007). The most stringent limit was set for systems consisting of two 88 M[subscript ⊙] black holes and is equal to 0.12 Mpc[superscript −3] Myr[superscript −1] at the 90% confidence level. This paper also presents the first estimate, for the case of an unmodeled analysis, of the impact on the search range of IMBHB spin configurations: the visible volume for IMBHBs with nonspinning components is roughly doubled for a population of IMBHBs with spins aligned with the binary’s orbital angular momentum and uniformly distributed in the dimensionless spin parameter up to 0.8, whereas an analogous population with antialigned spins decreases the visible volume by ∼20%. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/908932022-10-01T11:25:31Z Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy Paul Donovan, Frederick J. Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew J. Fritschel, Peter K. Gras, Slawek Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kwee, Patrick Lee, J. Libson, Adam Lynch, Ryan Christopher MacInnis, Myron E. Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, John Mittleman, Richard K. Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H. Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Wipf, C. C. Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E. Aggarwal, Nancy,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Aggarwal, Nancy Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy Paul Donovan, Frederick J. Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew J. Fritschel, Peter K. Gras, Slawek Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kwee, Patrick Lee, J. Libson, Adam Lynch, Ryan Christopher MacInnis, Myron E. Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, John Mittleman, Richard K. Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H. Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Wipf, C. C. Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E. This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009–October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range up to ∼200 Mpc, averaged over the possible sky positions and inclinations of the binaries with respect to the line of sight. No significant candidate was found. Upper limits on the coalescence-rate density of nonspinning IMBHBs with total masses between 100 and 450 M[subscript ⊙] and mass ratios between 0.25 and 1 were placed by combining this analysis with an analogous search performed on data from the first LIGO-Virgo joint science run (November 2005–October 2007). The most stringent limit was set for systems consisting of two 88 M[subscript ⊙] black holes and is equal to 0.12 Mpc[superscript −3] Myr[superscript −1] at the 90% confidence level. This paper also presents the first estimate, for the case of an unmodeled analysis, of the impact on the search range of IMBHB spin configurations: the visible volume for IMBHBs with nonspinning components is roughly doubled for a population of IMBHBs with spins aligned with the binary’s orbital angular momentum and uniformly distributed in the dimensionless spin parameter up to 0.8, whereas an analogous population with antialigned spins decreases the visible volume by ∼20%. National Science Foundation (U.S.) Carnegie Trust David & Lucile Packard Foundation Research Corporation Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2014-10-10T16:50:05Z 2014-10-10T16:50:05Z 2014-06 2014-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1550-7998 1550-2368 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90893 Aasi, J., B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, et al. “Search for Gravitational Radiation from Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binaries in Data from the Second LIGO-Virgo Joint Science Run.” Phys. Rev. D 89, no. 12 (June 2014). © 2014 American Physical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-3877 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-7387 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-4921 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-7527 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8150-7062 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-0767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5163-683X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2047-3166 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-9267 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.122003 Physical Review D Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Physical Society American Physical Society |
| spellingShingle | Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy Paul Donovan, Frederick J. Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew J. Fritschel, Peter K. Gras, Slawek Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kwee, Patrick Lee, J. Libson, Adam Lynch, Ryan Christopher MacInnis, Myron E. Mason, Kenneth R. Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, John Mittleman, Richard K. Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H. Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Wipf, C. C. Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E. Aggarwal, Nancy,Ph. D.Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run |
| title | Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run |
| title_full | Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run |
| title_fullStr | Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run |
| title_full_unstemmed | Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run |
| title_short | Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run |
| title_sort | search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second ligo virgo joint science run |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90893 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-3877 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-7387 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-4921 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8459-4499 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-7527 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8150-7062 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-0767 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5163-683X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2047-3166 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-9267 |
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