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Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes

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Abadie, J; Abbott, BP; Abbott, R; Abbott, TD; Abernathy, M; Accadia, T; Acernese, F; Adams, C; Adhikari, R; Affeldt, C; Agathos, M; Ajith, P ...
Published in: Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
May 24, 2012

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 100-450M and with the component mass ratios between 11 and 41. 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+88M, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc3 per Myr at the 90% confidence level. © 2012 American Physical Society.

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Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

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1550-2368

ISSN

1550-7998

Publication Date

May 24, 2012

Volume

85

Issue

10

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences
 

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Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., … Bulik, T. (2012). Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 85(10). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004
Abadie, J., B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, et al. “Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology 85, no. 10 (May 24, 2012). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004.
Abadie J, Abbott BP, Abbott R, Abbott TD, Abernathy M, Accadia T, et al. Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2012 May 24;85(10).
Abadie, J., et al. “Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, vol. 85, no. 10, May 2012. Scopus, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004.
Abadie J, Abbott BP, Abbott R, Abbott TD, Abernathy M, Accadia T, Acernese F, Adams C, Adhikari R, Affeldt C, Agathos M, Agatsuma K, Ajith P, Allen B, Amador Ceron E, Amariutei D, Anderson SB, Anderson WG, Arai K, Arain MA, Araya MC, Aston SM, Astone P, Atkinson D, Aufmuth P, Aulbert C, Aylott BE, Babak S, Baker P, Ballardin G, Ballmer S, Barayoga JCB, Barker D, Barone F, Barr B, Barsotti L, Barsuglia M, Barton MA, Bartos I, Bassiri R, Bastarrika M, Basti A, Batch J, Bauchrowitz J, Bauer TS, Bebronne M, Beck D, Behnke B, Bejger M, Beker MG, Bell AS, Belletoile A, Belopolski I, Benacquista M, Berliner JM, Bertolini A, Betzwieser J, Beveridge N, Beyersdorf PT, Bilenko IA, Billingsley G, Birch J, Biswas R, Bitossi M, Bizouard MA, Black E, Blackburn JK, Blackburn L, Blair D, Bland B, Blom M, Bock O, Bodiya TP, Bogan C, Bondarescu R, Bondu F, Bonelli L, Bonnand R, Bork R, Born M, Boschi V, Bose S, Bosi L, Bouhou B, Braccini S, Bradaschia C, Brady PR, Braginsky VB, Branchesi M, Brau JE, Breyer J, Briant T, Bridges DO, Brillet A, Brinkmann M, Brisson V, Britzger M, Brooks AF, Brown DA, Bulik T. Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology. 2012 May 24;85(10).

Published In

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

DOI

EISSN

1550-2368

ISSN

1550-7998

Publication Date

May 24, 2012

Volume

85

Issue

10

Related Subject Headings

  • Nuclear & Particles Physics
  • 5107 Particle and high energy physics
  • 5101 Astronomical sciences
  • 4902 Mathematical physics
  • 0206 Quantum Physics
  • 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics
  • 0201 Astronomical and Space Sciences