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B. Abbott,¹⁵ R. Abbott,¹⁵ R. Adhikari,¹⁵ J. Agresti,¹⁵ P. Ajith,² B. Allen,^2,52 R. Amin,¹⁹ S. B. Anderson,¹⁵ W. G. Anderson,⁵² M. Arain,⁴⁰ M. Araya,¹⁵ H. Armandula,¹⁵ M. Ashley,⁴ S. Aston,³⁹ P. Aufmuth,³⁷ C. Aulbert,¹ S. Babak,¹ S. Ballmer,¹⁵ H. Bantilan,⁹ B. C. Barish,¹⁵ C. Barker,¹⁶ D. Barker,¹⁶ B. Barr,⁴¹ P. Barriga,⁵¹ M. A. Barton,⁴¹ K. Bayer,¹⁸ K. Belczynski,²⁵ J. Betzwieser,¹⁸ P. T. Beyersdorf,²⁸ B. Bhawal,¹⁵ I. A. Bilenko,²² G. Billingsley,¹⁵ R. Biswas,⁵² E. Black,¹⁵ K. Blackburn,¹⁵ L. Blackburn,¹⁸ D. Blair,⁵¹ B. Bland,¹⁶ J. Bogenstahl,⁴¹ L. Bogue,¹⁷ R. Bork,¹⁵ V. Boschi,¹⁵ S. Bose,⁵⁴ P. R. Brady,⁵² V. B. Braginsky,²² J. E. Brau,⁴⁴ M. Brinkmann,² A. Brooks,³⁸ D. A. Brown,^7,15 A. Bullington,³¹ A. Bunkowski,² A. Buonanno,⁴² O. Burmeister,² D. Busby,¹⁵ W. E. Butler,⁴⁵ R. L. Byer,³¹ L. Cadonati,¹⁸ G. Cagnoli,⁴¹ J. B. Camp,²³ J. Cannizzo,²³ K. Cannon,⁵² C. A. Cantley,⁴¹ J. Cao,¹⁸ L. Cardenas,¹⁵ K. Carter,¹⁷ M. M. Casey,⁴¹ G. Castaldi,⁴⁷ C. Cepeda,¹⁵ E. Chalkey,⁴¹ P. Charlton,¹⁰ S. Chatterji,¹⁵ S. Chelkowski,² Y. Chen,¹ F. Chiadini,⁴⁶ D. Chin,⁴³ E. Chin,⁵¹ J. Chow,⁴ N. Christensen,⁹ J. Clark,⁴¹ P. Cochrane,² T. Cokelaer,⁸ C. N. Colacino,³⁹ R. Coldwell,⁴⁰ R. Conte,⁴⁶ D. Cook,¹⁶ T. Corbitt,¹⁸ D. Coward,⁵¹ D. Coyne,¹⁵ J. D. E. Creighton,⁵² T. D. Creighton,¹⁵ R. P. Croce,⁴⁷ D. R. M. Crooks,⁴¹ A. M. Cruise,³⁹ A. Cumming,⁴¹ J. Dalrymple,³² E. D'Ambrosio,¹⁵ K. Danzmann,^2,37 G. Davies,⁸ D. DeBra,³¹ J. Degallaix,⁵¹ M. Degree,³¹ T. Demma,⁴⁷ V. Dergachev,⁴³ S. Desai,³³ R. DeSalvo,¹⁵ S. Dhurandhar,¹⁴ M. Díaz,³⁴ J. Dickson,⁴ A. Di Credico,³² G. Diederichs,³⁷ A. Dietz,⁸ E. E. Doomes,³⁰ R. W. P. Drever,⁵ J.-C. Dumas,⁵¹ R. J. Dupuis,¹⁵ J. G. Dwyer,¹¹ P. Ehrens,¹⁵ E. Espinoza,¹⁵ T. Etzel,¹⁵ M. Evans,¹⁵ T. Evans,¹⁷ S. Fairhurst,^8,15 Y. Fan,⁵¹ D. Fazi,¹⁵ M. M. Fejer,³¹ L. S. Finn,³³ V. Fiumara,⁴⁶ N. Fotopoulos,⁵² A. Franzen,³⁷ K. Y. Franzen,⁴⁰ A. Freise,³⁹ R. Frey,⁴⁴ T. Fricke,⁴⁵ P. Fritschel,¹⁸ V. V. Frolov,¹⁷ M. Fyffe,¹⁷ V. Galdi,⁴⁷ K. S. Ganezer,⁶ J. Garofoli,¹⁶ I. Gholami,¹ J. A. Giaime,^17,19 S. Giampanis,⁴⁵ K. D. Giardina,¹⁷ K. Goda,¹⁸ E. Goetz,⁴³ L. Goggin,¹⁵ G. González,¹⁹ S. Gossler,⁴ A. Grant,⁴¹ S. Gras,⁵¹ C. Gray,¹⁶ M. Gray,⁴ J. Greenhalgh,²⁷ A. M. Gretarsson,¹² R. Grosso,³⁴ H. Grote,² S. Grunewald,¹ M. Guenther,¹⁶ R. Gustafson,⁴³ B. Hage,³⁷ D. Hammer,⁵² C. Hanna,¹⁹ J. Hanson,¹⁷ J. Harms,² G. Harry,¹⁸ E. Harstad,⁴⁴ T. Hayler,²⁷ J. Heefner,¹⁵ I. S. Heng,⁴¹ A. Heptonstall,⁴¹ M. Heurs,² M. Hewitson,² S. Hild,³⁷ E. Hirose,³² D. Hoak,¹⁷ D. Hosken,³⁸ J. Hough,⁴¹ E. Howell,⁵¹ D. Hoyland,³⁹ S. H. Huttner,⁴¹ D. Ingram,¹⁶ E. Innerhofer,¹⁸ M. Ito,⁴⁴ Y. Itoh,⁵² A. Ivanov,¹⁵ D. Jackrel,³¹ B. Johnson,¹⁶ W. W. Johnson,¹⁹ D. I. Jones,⁴⁸ G. Jones,⁸ R. Jones,⁴¹ L. Ju,⁵¹ P. Kalmus,¹¹ V. Kalogera,²⁵ D. Kasprzyk,³⁹ E. Katsavounidis,¹⁸ K. Kawabe,¹⁶ S. Kawamura,²⁴ F. Kawazoe,²⁴ W. Kells,¹⁵ D. G. Keppel,¹⁵ F. Ya. Khalili,²² C. Kim,²⁵ P. King,¹⁵ J. S. Kissel,¹⁹ S. Klimenko,⁴⁰ K. Kokeyama,²⁴ V. Kondrashov,¹⁵ R. K. Kopparapu,¹⁹ D. Kozak,¹⁵ B. Krishnan,¹ P. Kwee,³⁷ P. K. Lam,⁴ M. Landry,¹⁶ B. Lantz,³¹ A. Lazzarini,¹⁵ B. Lee,⁵¹ M. Lei,¹⁵ J. Leiner,⁵⁴ V. Leonhardt,²⁴ I. Leonor,⁴⁴ K. Libbrecht,¹⁵ P. Lindquist,¹⁵ N. A. Lockerbie,⁴⁹ M. Longo,⁴⁶ M. Lormand,¹⁷ M. Lubinski,¹⁶ H. Lück,^2,37 B. Machenschalk,¹ M. MacInnis,¹⁸ M. Mageswaran,¹⁵ K. Mailand,¹⁵ M. Malec,³⁷ V. Mandic,¹⁵ S. Marano,⁴⁶ S. Márka,¹¹ J. Markowitz,¹⁸ E. Maros,¹⁵ I. Martin,⁴¹ J. N. Marx,¹⁵ K. Mason,¹⁸ L. Matone,¹¹ V. Matta,⁴⁶ N. Mavalvala,¹⁸ R. McCarthy,¹⁶ D. E. McClelland,⁴ S. C. McGuire,³⁰ M. McHugh,²¹ K. McKenzie,⁴ J. W. C. McNabb,³³ S. McWilliams,²³ T. Meier,³⁷ A. Melissinos,⁴⁵ G. Mendell,¹⁶ R. A. Mercer,⁴⁰ S. Meshkov,¹⁵ E. Messaritaki,¹⁵ C. J. Messenger,⁴¹ D. Meyers,¹⁵ E. Mikhailov,¹⁸ S. Mitra,¹⁴ V. P. Mitrofanov,²² G. Mitselmakher,⁴⁰ R. Mittleman,¹⁸ O. Miyakawa,¹⁵ S. Mohanty,³⁴ G. Moreno,¹⁶ K. Mossavi,² C. MowLowry,⁴ A. Moylan,⁴ D. Mudge,³⁸ G. Mueller,⁴⁰ S. Mukherjee,³⁴ H. Müller-Ebhardt,² J. Munch,³⁸ P. Murray,⁴¹ E. Myers,¹⁶ J. Myers,¹⁶ T. Nash,¹⁵ G. Newton,⁴¹ A. Nishizawa,²⁴ F. Nocera,¹⁵ K. Numata,²³ B. O'Reilly,¹⁷ R. O'Shaughnessy,²⁵ D. J. Ottaway,¹⁸ H. Overmier,¹⁷ B. J. Owen,³³ Y. Pan,⁴² M. A. Papa,^1,52 V. Parameshwaraiah,¹⁶ C. Parameswariah,¹⁷ P. Patel,¹⁵ M. Pedraza,¹⁵ S. Penn,¹³ V. Pierro,⁴⁷ I. M. Pinto,⁴⁷ M. Pitkin,⁴¹ H. Pletsch,² M. V. Plissi,⁴¹ F. Postiglione,⁴⁶ R. Prix,¹ V. Quetschke,⁴⁰ F. Raab,¹⁶ D. Rabeling,⁴ H. Radkins,¹⁶ R. Rahkola,⁴⁴ N. Rainer,² M. Rakhmanov,³³ K. Rawlins,¹⁸ S. Ray-Majumder,⁵² V. Re,³⁹ T. Regimbau,⁸ H. Rehbein,² S. Reid,⁴¹ D. H. Reitze,⁴⁰ L. Ribichini,² R. Riesen,¹⁷ K. Riles,⁴³ B. Rivera,¹⁶ N. A. Robertson,^15,41 C. Robinson,⁸ E. L. Robinson,³⁹ S. Roddy,¹⁷ A. Rodriguez,¹⁹ A. M. Rogan,⁵⁴ J. Rollins,¹¹ J. D. Romano,⁸ J. Romie,¹⁷ R. Route,³¹ S. Rowan,⁴¹ A. Rüdiger,² L. Ruet,¹⁸ P. Russell,¹⁵ K. Ryan,¹⁶ S. Sakata,²⁴ M. Samidi,¹⁵ L. Sancho de la Jordana,³⁶ V. Sandberg,¹⁶ G. H. Sanders,¹⁵ V. Sannibale,¹⁵ S. Saraf,²⁶ P. Sarin,¹⁸ B. S. Sathyaprakash,⁸ S. Sato,²⁴ P. R. Saulson,³² R. Savage,¹⁶ P. Savov,⁷ A. Sazonov,⁴⁰ S. Schediwy,⁵¹ R. Schilling,² R. Schnabel,² R. Schofield,⁴⁴ B. F. Schutz,^1,8 P. Schwinberg,¹⁶ S. M. Scott,⁴ A. C. Searle,⁴ B. Sears,¹⁵ F. Seifert,² D. Sellers,¹⁷ A. S. Sengupta,⁸ P. Shawhan,⁴² D. H. Shoemaker,¹⁸ A. Sibley,¹⁷ J. A. Sidles,⁵⁰ X. Siemens,^7,15 D. Sigg,¹⁶ S. Sinha,³¹ A. M. Sintes,^1,36 B. J. J. Slagmolen,⁴ J. Slutsky,¹⁹ J. R. Smith,² M. R. Smith,¹⁵ K. Somiya,^1,2 K. A. Strain,⁴¹ D. M. Strom,⁴⁴ A. Stuver,³³ T. Z. Summerscales,³ K.-X. Sun,³¹ M. Sung,¹⁹ P. J. Sutton,¹⁵ H. Takahashi,¹ D. B. Tanner,⁴⁰ M. Tarallo,¹⁵ R. Taylor,¹⁵ R. Taylor,⁴¹ J. Thacker,¹⁷ K. A. Thorne,³³ K. S. Thorne,⁷ A. Thüring,³⁷ K. V. Tokmakov,⁴¹ C. Torres,³⁴ C. Torrie,⁴¹ G. Traylor,¹⁷ M. Trias,³⁶ W. Tyler,¹⁵ D. Ugolini,³⁵ C. Ungarelli,³⁹ K. Urbanek,³¹ H. Vahlbruch,³⁷ M. Vallisneri,⁷ C. Van Den Broeck,⁸ M. van Putten,¹⁸ M. Varvella,¹⁵ S. Vass,¹⁵ A. Vecchio,³⁹ J. Veitch,⁴¹ P. Veitch,³⁸ A. Villar,¹⁵ C. Vorvick,¹⁶ S. P. Vyachanin,²² S. J. Waldman,¹⁵ L. Wallace,¹⁵ H. Ward,⁴¹ R. Ward,¹⁵ K. Watts,¹⁷ D. Webber,¹⁵ A. Weidner,² M. Weinert,² A. Weinstein,¹⁵ R. Weiss,¹⁸ S. Wen,¹⁹ K. Wette,⁴ J. T. Whelan,¹ D. M. Whitbeck,³³ S. E. Whitcomb,¹⁵ B. F. Whiting,⁴⁰ S. Wiley,⁶ C. Wilkinson,¹⁶ P. A. Willems,¹⁵ L. Williams,⁴⁰ B. Willke,^2,37 I. Wilmut,²⁷ W. Winkler,² C. C. Wipf,¹⁸ S. Wise,⁴⁰ A. G. Wiseman,⁵² G. Woan,⁴¹ D. Woods,⁵² R. Wooley,¹⁷ J. Worden,¹⁶ W. Wu,⁴⁰ I. Yakushin,¹⁷ H. Yamamoto,¹⁵ Z. Yan,⁵¹ S. Yoshida,²⁹ N. Yunes,³³ M. Zanolin,¹⁸ J. Zhang,⁴³ L. Zhang,¹⁵ C. Zhao,⁵¹ N. Zotov,²⁰ M. Zucker,¹⁸ H. zur Mühlen,³⁷ and J. Zweizig¹⁵

(LIGO Scientific Collaboration, http://www.ligo.org)

¹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
²Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104 USA
⁴Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
⁵California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁶California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, California 90747, USA
⁷Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁸Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF2 3YB, United Kingdom
⁹Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
¹⁰Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
¹¹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹²Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301 USA
¹³Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹⁴Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
¹⁵LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁶LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
¹⁷LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
¹⁸LIGO-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁹Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
²⁰Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
²¹Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
²²Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
²³NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
²⁴National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
²⁵Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
²⁶Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
²⁷Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
²⁸San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
²⁹Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
³⁰Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
³¹Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
³²Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
³³The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
³⁴The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
³⁵Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
³⁶Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³⁷Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³⁸University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
³⁹University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
⁴⁰University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁴¹University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
⁴²University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 USA
⁴³University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
⁴⁴University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁴⁵University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁴⁶University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
⁴⁷University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
⁴⁸University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
⁴⁹University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
⁵⁰University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
⁵¹University of Western Australia, Crawley, Washington 6009, Australia, USA
⁵²University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁵³Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 12604, USA
⁵⁴Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

We report on a search for gravitational waves from the coalescence of compact binaries during the third and fourth LIGO science runs. The search focused on gravitational waves generated during the inspiral phase of the binary evolution. In our analysis, we considered three categories of compact binary systems, ordered by mass: (i) primordial black hole binaries with masses in the range 0.35M_[sun]<m₁, m₂<1.0M_[sun], (ii) binary neutron stars with masses in the range 1.0M_[sun]<m₁, m₂<3.0M_[sun], and (iii) binary black holes with masses in the range 3.0M_[sun]<m₁, m₂<m_max with the additional constraint m₁+m₂<m_max, where m_max was set to 40.0M_[sun] and 80.0M_[sun] in the third and fourth science runs, respectively. Although the detectors could probe to distances as far as tens of Mpc, no gravitational-wave signals were identified in the 1364 hours of data we analyzed. Assuming a binary population with a Gaussian distribution around 0.75-0.75M_[sun], 1.4-1.4M_[sun], and 5.0-5.0M_[sun], we derived 90%-confidence upper limit rates of 4.9 yr^-1L₁₀^-1 for primordial black hole binaries, 1.2 yr^-1L₁₀^-1 for binary neutron stars, and 0.5 yr^-1L₁₀^-1 for stellar mass binary black holes, where L₁₀ is 10¹⁰ times the blue-light luminosity of the Sun.

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