Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO's sixth science run and Virgo's science runs 2 and 3
- Creators
- Abadie, J.
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
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Adhikari, Rana X.
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Ajith, P.
- Anderson, S. B.
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Arai, K.
- Araya, M. C.
- Betzwieser, J.
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Billingsley, G.
- Black, E.
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Blackburn, J. K.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Cepeda, C.
- Chalermsongsak, T.
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Chen, Y.
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Corsi, A.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Dannenberg, R.
- Daudert, B.
- Dergachev, V.
- DeSalvo, R.
- Driggers, J. C.
- Ehrens, P.
- Engel, R.
- Etzel, T.
- Fotopoulos, N.
- Gustafson, E. K.
- Hanna, C.
- Heefner, J.
- Heptonstall, A. W.
- Hodge, K. A.
- Hong, T.
- Ivanov, A.
- Jacobson, M.
- Kalmus, P.
- Kells, W.
- Keppel, D. G.
- King, P. J.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D.
- Lazzarini, A.
- Lindquist, P. E.
- Mageswaran, M.
- Mailand, K.
- Maros, E.
- Marx, J. N.
- McIntyre, G.
- Meshkov, S.
- Nash, T.
- Ogin, G. H.
- Osthelder, C.
- Patel, P.
- Pedraza, M.
- Phelps, M.
- Price, L. R.
- Privitera, S.
- Robertson, N. A.
- Sannibale, V.
- Santamaria, L.
- Searle, A. C.
- Seifert, F.
- Sengupta, A. S.
- Singer, A.
- Singer, L.
- Smith, M. R.
- Stochino, A.
- Taylor, R.
- Thorne, K. S.
- Torrie, C. I.
- Vass, S.
- Villar, A. E.
- Wallace, L.
- Wen, L.
- Whitcomb, S. E.
- Willems, P. A.
- Yamamoto, H.
- Yang, H.
- Yeaton-Massey, D.
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Zhang, L.
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Zweizig, J.
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Ott, C. D.
- Luan, J.
- Somiya, K.
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Vallisneri, M.
- Drever, R. W. P.
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Harms, J.
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Weinstein, Alan J.
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Marandi, A.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- Virgo Collaboration
Abstract
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries using LIGO and Virgo observations between July 7, 2009, and October 20, 2010. We searched for signals from binaries with total mass between 2 and 25M_⊙; this includes binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and binaries consisting of a black hole and neutron star. The detectors were sensitive to systems up to 40 Mpc distant for binary neutron stars, and further for higher mass systems. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass, including the results from previous LIGO and Virgo observations. The cumulative 90% confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of binary neutron star, neutron star-black hole, and binary black hole systems are 1.3×10^(-4), 3.1×10^(-5), and 6.4×10^(-6)  Mpc^(-3) yr^(-1), respectively. These upper limits are up to a factor 1.4 lower than previously derived limits. We also report on results from a blind injection challenge.
Additional Information
© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 16 December 2011; published 19 April 2012. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.Attached Files
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- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max Planck Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Australian Research Council
- International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Ministerio de EducaciÏŒn y Ciencia (MEC)
- Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland)
- FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- NASA
- Carnegie Trust
- Leverhulme Trust
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Research Corporation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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2012-05-18Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Caltech groups
- TAPIR, LIGO