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

Authors

B. P. Abbott
R. AbbottFollow
W. G. Anderson, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Mario C. Diaz, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Wm. R. Johnston, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Soumya Mohanty, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Soma Mukherjee, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Cristina V. Torres, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2006

Abstract

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.

Comments

© 2006 American Physical Society. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001

Recommended Citation

Abbott, B., et al. “Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspirals in LIGO Data.” Physical Review D, vol. 73, no. 6, American Physical Society, Mar. 2006, p. 062001, doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001.

Publication Title

Physical Review D

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001