Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010

Aasi, J. and Abadie, J. and Abbott, B. P. and Abbott, R. and Abbott, T. D. and Abernathy, M. and Accadia, T. and Acernese, F. and Adams, C. and Adams, T. and Addesso, P. and Adhikari, R. and Affeldt, C. and Agathos, M. and Agatsuma, K. and Ajith, P. and Allen, B. and Allocca, A. and Ceron, E. A. and Amariutei, D. and Anderson, S. B. and Anderson, W. G. and Arai, K. and Araya, M. C. and Ast, S. and Aston, S. M. and Astone, P. and Atkinson, D. and Aufmuth, P. and Aulbert, C. and Colacino, Carlo Nicola and Debreczeni, Gergely and Endrőczi, Gábor and Frei, Zsolt and Gáspár, Merse Előd and Gergely, Árpád László and Keresztes, Zoltán and Rácz, István and Raffai, Péter and Szeifert, Gábor and Vasúth, Mátyás Zsolt (2013) Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 87 (2). ISSN 2470-0010

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Abstract

We report a search for gravitational waves from the inspiral, merger and ringdown of binary black holes (BBH) with total mass between 25 and 100 solar masses, in data taken at the LIGO and Virgo observatories between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. The maximum sensitive distance of the detectors over this period for a (20,20)M coalescence was 300 Mpc. No gravitational wave signals were found. We thus report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of BBH as a function of the component masses for non-spinning components, and also evaluate the dependence of the search sensitivity on component spins aligned with the orbital angular momentum. We find an upper limit at 90% confidence on the coalescence rate of BBH with non-spinning components of mass between 19 and 28 M of 3.3 × 10−7 mergers Mpc−3yr−1.

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