Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data

被引:44
作者
Abbott, B. P. [61 ]
Abbott, R. [61 ]
Adhikari, R. [61 ]
Ajith, P. [2 ]
Allen, B. [2 ,59 ]
Allen, G. [34 ]
Amin, R. S. [19 ]
Anderson, S. B. [61 ]
Anderson, W. G. [59 ]
Arain, M. A. [47 ]
Araya, M. [61 ]
Armandula, H. [61 ]
Armor, P. [59 ]
Aso, Y. [61 ]
Aston, S. [46 ]
Aufmuth, P. [15 ]
Aulbert, C. [2 ]
Babak, S. [1 ]
Baker, P. [22 ]
Ballmer, S. [61 ]
Barker, C. [16 ]
Barker, D. [16 ]
Barr, B. [48 ]
Barriga, P. [58 ]
Barsotti, L. [18 ]
Barton, M. A. [61 ]
Bartos, I. [9 ]
Bassiri, R. [48 ]
Bastarrika, M. [48 ]
Behnke, B. [1 ]
Benacquista, M. [41 ,42 ]
Betzwieser, J. [61 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [30 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [23 ]
Billingsley, G. [61 ]
Biswas, R. [59 ]
Black, E. [61 ]
Blackburn, J. K. [61 ]
Blackburn, L. [18 ]
Blair, D. [58 ]
Bland, B. [16 ]
Bodiya, T. P. [18 ]
Bogue, L. [17 ]
Bork, R. [61 ]
Boschi, V. [61 ]
Bose, S. [60 ]
Brady, P. R. [59 ]
Braginsky, V. B. [23 ]
Brau, J. E. [52 ]
Bridges, D. O. [17 ]
机构
[1] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[3] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[4] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[5] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[6] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[7] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[8] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[9] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[10] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[11] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1053 Budapest, Hungary
[12] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[13] Inst Appl Phys, Nizhnii Novgorod 603950, Russia
[14] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[15] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[16] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[17] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[18] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[19] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[20] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[21] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[22] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[23] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[24] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[25] Natl Astron Observ Japan, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[26] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[27] Rochester Inst Technol, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[28] HSIC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[29] Sonoma State Univ, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA
[30] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[31] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[32] Southern Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[33] A&M Coll, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[34] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[35] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[36] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[37] Univ Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
[38] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[39] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[40] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[41] Univ Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[42] Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[43] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[44] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[45] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[46] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[47] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[48] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[49] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[50] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 80卷 / 06期
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 美国国家航空航天局;
关键词
MASS; COALESCENCES;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062001
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
According to general relativity a perturbed black hole will settle to a stationary configuration by the emission of gravitational radiation. Such a perturbation will occur, for example, in the coalescence of a black hole binary, following their inspiral and subsequent merger. At late times the waveform is a superposition of quasinormal modes, which we refer to as the ringdown. The dominant mode is expected to be the fundamental mode, l = m = 2. Since this is a well-known waveform, matched filtering can be implemented to search for this signal using LIGO data. We present a search for gravitational waves from black hole ringdowns in the fourth LIGO science run S4, during which LIGO was sensitive to the dominant mode of perturbed black holes with masses in the range of 10M(circle dot) to 500M(circle dot), the regime of intermediate-mass black holes, to distances up to 300 Mpc. We present a search for gravitational waves from black hole ringdowns using data from S4. No gravitational wave candidates were found; we place a 90%-confidence upper limit on the rate of ringdowns from black holes with mass between 85M(circle dot) and 390M(circle dot) in the local universe, assuming a uniform distribution of sources, of 3.2 x 10(-5) yr(-1) Mpc(-3) = 1.6 x 10(-3) yr(-1) L-10(-1), where L-10 is 10(10) times the solar blue- light luminosity.
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