Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data
Abstract
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component masses between 3 and 20M⊙. Optimally oriented binaries with distances up to 1 Mpc could be detected with efficiency of at least 90%. We found no events that could be identified as gravitational waves in the 385.6 hours of data that we searched.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- March 2006
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001
- arXiv:
- arXiv:gr-qc/0509129
- Bibcode:
- 2006PhRvD..73f2001A
- Keywords:
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- 95.85.Sz;
- 04.80.Nn;
- 07.05.Kf;
- 97.80.-d;
- Gravitational radiation magnetic fields and other observations;
- Gravitational wave detectors and experiments;
- Data analysis: algorithms and implementation;
- data management;
- Binary and multiple stars;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- 18 pages, 8 figures