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

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(LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

¹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
²Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
⁴California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁵California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
⁶Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁷Cardiff University, Cardiff CF2 3YB, United Kingdom
⁸Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
⁹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹⁰Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
¹¹Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹²Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune - 411007, India
¹³LIGO—California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁴LIGO—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁵LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
¹⁶LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
¹⁷Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
¹⁸Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
¹⁹Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
²⁰Max Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748, Garching, Germany
²¹Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
²²NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
²³National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
²⁴Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
²⁵Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana 59855, USA
²⁶Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
²⁷Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
²⁸Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
²⁹The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
³⁰The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
³¹Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
³²Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³³Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³⁴University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
³⁵University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
³⁶University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
³⁷University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
³⁸University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
³⁹University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁴⁰University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁴¹University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁴²Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
⁴³Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

Received 26 October 2005; published 7 March 2006

Wereport on a search for gravitational waves from binary blackhole inspirals in the data from the second science runof the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systemswith component masses between 3 and 20M_[sun]. Optimally oriented binarieswith distances up to 1 Mpc could be detected with efficiencyof at least 90%. We found no events that couldbe identified as gravitational waves in the 385.6 hours of datathat we searched.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001
PACS:	95.85.Sz; 04.80.Nn; 07.05.Kf; 97.80.-d 95.85.Sz Gravitational radiation, magnetic fields, and other astronomical observations 04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments 07.05.Kf Physics data analysis and management including algorithms and implementation 97.80.-d Binary and multiple stars YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	gravitational waves, black holes, light interferometry