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

B. Abbott; C.A. Cantley; LIGO Scientific Collaboration

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001

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

B. Abbott, C.A. Cantley, LIGO Scientific Collaboration

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	062001
Number of pages	17
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	73
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.73.062001
Publication status	Published - 7 Mar 2006

Keywords

gravitational waves
binary black holes
inspirals
LIGO

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