Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals

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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
³Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA
⁴Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
⁵California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁶Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁷Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
⁸Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
⁹Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
¹⁰Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
¹¹Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
¹²Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹³Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
¹⁴LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
¹⁵LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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¹⁷LIGO-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁸Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
¹⁹Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
²⁰Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
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
²⁵Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
²⁶Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
²⁷San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
²⁸Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
²⁹Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
³⁰Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
³¹Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
³²The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
³³The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
³⁴Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
³⁵Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
³⁶Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
³⁷University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
³⁸University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
³⁹University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁴⁰University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
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⁴³University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁴⁴University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
⁴⁵University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
⁴⁶University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
⁴⁷University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
⁴⁸University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
⁴⁹University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
⁵⁰University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
⁵¹University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
⁵²Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA

Received 29 January 2008; published 6 August 2008

Wereport on the methods and results of the first dedicatedsearch for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compactbinaries with spinning component bodies. We analyze 788 hours ofdata collected during the third science run (S3) of theLIGO detectors. We searched for binary systems using a detectiontemplate family specially designed to capture the effects of thespin-induced precession of the orbital plane. We present details ofthe techniques developed to enable this search for spin-modulated gravitationalwaves, highlighting the differences between this and other recent searchesfor binaries with nonspinning components. The template bank we employedwas found to yield high matches with our spin-modulated targetwaveform for binaries with masses in the asymmetric range 1.0M_[sun]<m₁<3.0M_[sun]and 12.0M_[sun]<m₂<20.0M_[sun] which is where we would expect the spinof the binary's components to have a significant effect. Wefind that our search of S3 LIGO data has goodsensitivity to binaries in the Milky Way and to asmall fraction of binaries in M31 and M33 with massesin the range 1.0M_[sun]<m₁, m₂<20.0M_[sun]. No gravitational wave signals wereidentified during this search. Assuming a binary population with spinningcomponents and Gaussian distribution of masses representing a prototypical neutronstar–black hole system with m₁~=1.35M_[sun] and m₂~=5M_[sun], we calculate the90%-confidence upper limit on the rate of coalescence of thesesystems to be 15.9 yr^-1L₁₀^-1, where L₁₀ is 10¹⁰ times theblue light luminosity of the Sun.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002
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 97.80.-d Binary and multiple stars YEAR: 2008

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