Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1

Journal Article · Mon Nov 15 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.82.102001· OSTI ID:21503577

Abadie, J; Abbott, B P; Abbott, R; Adhikari, R; Ajith, P; Anderson, S B; Araya, M; Aronsson, M; Aso, Y; Ballmer, S; Betzwieser, J; Billingsley, G; Black, E; Blackburn, J K; Bork, R; Brooks, A F; Cannon, K C; Cepeda, C; Chalermsongsak, T; Coyne, D C ^[1]

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1. LIGO - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)

We report the results of the first search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence using data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory and Virgo detectors. Five months of data were collected during the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory's S5 and Virgo's VSR1 science runs. The search focused on signals from binary mergers with a total mass between 2 and 35M{sub {center_dot}}. No gravitational waves are identified. The cumulative 90%-confidence upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence are calculated for nonspinning binary neutron stars, black hole-neutron star systems, and binary black holes to be 8.7x10{sup -3} yr{sup -1} L{sub 10}{sup -1}, 2.2x10{sup -3} yr{sup -1} L{sub 10}{sup -1}, and 4.4x10{sup -4} yr{sup -1} L{sub 10}{sup -1}, respectively, where L{sub 10} is 10{sup 10} times the blue solar luminosity. These upper limits are compared with astrophysical expectations.

• OSTI ID: 21503577
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 82, Issue 10; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.82.102001; (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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