Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

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Abstract

We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of nonspinning intermediate mass black holes in the total mass range 100-450 M-circle dot and with the component mass ratios between 1: and 4:1. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the intermediate mass black holes mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on 88 + 88 M-circle dot, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc(3) per Myr at the 90% confidence level.
Original languageEnglish
Article number102004
Number of pages13
JournalPhysical Review D
Volume85
Issue number10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 24 May 2012
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • INSPIRALLING COMPACT BINARIES
  • GROWTH
  • CLUSTERS
  • FORMS
  • 5TH

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