Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes

Abadie, J. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2012) Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D, 85 (10). 102004. ISSN 1550-2368 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004)

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Abstract

We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of nonspinning intermediate mass black holes in the total mass range 100-450 M-circle dot and with the component mass ratios between 1: and 4:1. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the intermediate mass black holes mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on 88 + 88 M-circle dot, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc(3) per Myr at the 90% confidence level.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:50740
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    24 May 2012
    Published
    Notes:J. Abadie et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration) Phys. Rev. D 85, 102004. ©2012 American Physical Society
    Subjects:Science > Astronomy
    Science > Physics
    Department:Faculty of Science > Physics
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:10 Dec 2014 11:09
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 21:52
    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/50740
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