Title

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

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Duncan Brown, Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
J. Abadie, California Institute of Technology
Collin Capano, Syracuse UniversityFollow
J. A. Garofoli, Syracuse University
Eiichi Hirose, Syracuse University

Document Type

Article

Date

2-18-2011

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/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 1-99 solar masses and total masses of 25-100 solar masses. 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 binary black hole systems with component masses between 19 and 28 solar masses and negligible spin to be no more than 2.0 per Mpc^3 per Myr at 90% confidence.

Additional Information

19 pages, 3 figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.3781

First authors and Syracuse University authors for additional authors see the article.

Recommended Citation

Brown, Duncan; Abadie, J.; Capano, Collin; Garofoli, J. A.; and Hirose, Eiichi, "Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown" (2011). Physics - All Scholarship. 238.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/238

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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