Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data

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作者
Abbott, B [1 ]
Abbott, R
Adhikari, R
Ageev, A
Agresti, J
Ajith, P
Allen, B
Allen, J
Amin, R
Anderson, SB
Anderson, WG
Araya, M
Armandula, H
Ashley, M
Asiri, F
Aufmuth, P
Aulbert, C
Babak, S
Balasubramanian, R
Ballmer, S
Barish, BC
Barker, C
Barker, D
Barnes, M
Barr, B
Barton, MA
Bayer, K
Beausoleil, R
Belczynski, K
Bennett, R
Berukoff, SJ
Betzwieser, J
Bhawal, B
Bilenko, IA
Billingsley, G
Black, E
Blackburn, K
Blackburn, L
Bland, B
Bochner, B
Bogue, L
Bork, R
Bose, S
Brady, PR
Braginsky, VB
Brau, JE
Brown, DA
Bullington, A
Bunkowski, A
Buonanno, A
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[4] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[5] Calif State Univ Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA 90747 USA
[6] CALTECH, CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF2 3YB, Wales
[8] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[9] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[10] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[11] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[12] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[13] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[15] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[16] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[17] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[18] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[19] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[20] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[21] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[22] Natl Astron Observ Japan, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[23] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[24] Salish Kootenai Coll, Pablo, MT 59855 USA
[25] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[26] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[27] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[28] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[29] Univ Texas, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[30] Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[31] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[32] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[33] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[34] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[35] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[36] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[37] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[38] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
[39] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[40] Univ Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 USA
[41] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[42] Vassar Coll, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604 USA
[43] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
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PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2006年 / 73卷 / 06期
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10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001
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摘要
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.
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