Search for intermediate-mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

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作者
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Acernese, F. [3 ,4 ]
Ackley, K. [5 ]
Adams, C. [6 ]
Adhikari, N. [7 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [8 ]
Affeldt, C. [9 ,10 ]
Agarwal, D. [11 ]
Agathos, M. [12 ,13 ]
Agatsuma, K. [14 ]
Aggarwal, N. [15 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [16 ]
Aiello, L. [17 ]
Ain, A. [18 ]
Ajith, P. [19 ]
Akutsu, T. [20 ,21 ]
Albanesi, S. [22 ]
Allocca, A. [4 ,23 ]
Altin, P. A. [8 ]
Amato, A. [24 ]
Anand, C. [5 ]
Anand, S. [1 ]
Ananyeva, A. [1 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [7 ]
Ando, M. [25 ,26 ]
Andrade, T. [27 ]
Andres, N. [28 ]
Andric, T. [29 ,30 ]
Angelova, S., V [29 ,30 ]
Ansoldi, S. [31 ,32 ]
Antelis, J. M. [33 ]
Antier, S. [34 ]
Appert, S. [1 ]
Arai, K. [1 ,35 ]
Arai, K. [1 ,35 ]
Arai, Y. [35 ]
Araki, S. [36 ]
Araya, A. [37 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Areeda, J. S. [38 ]
Arene, M. [34 ]
Aritomi, N. [25 ]
Arnaud, N. [39 ,40 ]
Aronson, S. M. [2 ]
Arun, K. G. [41 ]
Asada, H. [42 ]
Asali, Y. [43 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO Lab, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Univ Salerno, Dipartimento Farm, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[4] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Sez Napoli, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[5] Monash Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, OzGrav, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
[6] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[7] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[8] Australian Natl Univ, OzGrav, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[9] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[10] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[11] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[12] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, England
[13] Friedrich Schiller Univ Jena, Theoret Phys Inst, D-07743 Jena, Germany
[14] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[15] Northwestern Univ, Ctr Interdisciplinary Explorat & Res Astrophys CI, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[16] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[17] Cardiff Univ, Grav Explorat Inst, Cardiff CF24 3AA, Wales
[18] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[19] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bengaluru 560089, India
[20] Natl Astron Observ Japan NAOJ, Gravitat Wave Sci Project, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[21] Natl Astron Observ Japan NAOJ, Adv Technol Ctr, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Torino, I-10125 Turin, Italy
[23] Univ Napoli Federico II, Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[24] Univ Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Inst Lumiere Matiere, CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[25] Univ Tokyo, Dept Phys, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[26] Univ Tokyo, Res Ctr Early Universe RESCEU, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130033, Japan
[27] Univ Barcelona, Inst Ciencies Cosmos ICCUB, Barcelona 08028, Spain
[28] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, Univ Grenoble Alpes, Lab Annecy Phys Particules LAPP, CNRS IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy, France
[29] Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[30] Univ Strathclyde, SUPA, Glasgow G1 1XQ, Lanark, Scotland
[31] Univ Udine, Dipartimento Sci Matemat Informat & Fis, I-33100 Udine, Italy
[32] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Trieste, I-34127 Trieste, Italy
[33] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[34] Univ Paris, Astroparticule & Cosmol, CNRS, F-75006 Paris, France
[35] Univ Tokyo, Inst Cosm Ray Res ICRR, KAGRA Observ, Kashiwa, Chiba 2778582, Japan
[36] High Energy Accelerator Res Org KEK, Accelerator Lab, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[37] Univ Tokyo, Earthquake Res Inst, Bunkyo Ku, Tokyo 1130032, Japan
[38] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[39] Univ Paris Saclay, IJCLab, CNRS IN2P3, F-91405 Orsay, France
[40] European Gravitat Observ EGO, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[41] Chennai Math Inst, Chennai 603103, Tamil Nadu, India
[42] Hirosaki Univ, Dept Math & Phys, Gravitat Wave Sci Project, Hirosaki, Aomori 0368561, Japan
[43] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[44] Natl Astron Observ Japan NAOJ, Kamioka Branch, Kamioka Cho, Hida, Gifu 5061205, Japan
[45] Grad Univ Adv Studies SOKENDAI, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[46] Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Florence, Italy
[48] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[49] Catholic Univ Louvain, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
[50] Nikhef, Sci Pk 105, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 美国能源部; 俄罗斯科学基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 匈牙利科学研究基金会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
gravitational waves; stars; black holes; black hole physics; X-RAY SOURCE; PAIR-INSTABILITY SUPERNOVAE; DENSE STAR-CLUSTERS; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES; MERGERS; TRANSIENT; SPIN; GROWTH; GAP; TRANSITIONS;
D O I
10.1051/0004-6361/202141452
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) span the approximate mass range 100-10(5) M-circle dot, between black holes (BHs) that formed by stellar collapse and the supermassive BHs at the centers of galaxies. Mergers of IMBH binaries are the most energetic gravitational-wave sources accessible by the terrestrial detector network. Searches of the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo did not yield any significant IMBH binary signals. In the third observing run (O3), the increased network sensitivity enabled the detection of GW190521, a signal consistent with a binary merger of mass similar to 150  M-circle dot providing direct evidence of IMBH formation. Here, we report on a dedicated search of O3 data for further IMBH binary mergers, combining both modeled (matched filter) and model-independent search methods. We find some marginal candidates, but none are sufficiently significant to indicate detection of further IMBH mergers. We quantify the sensitivity of the individual search methods and of the combined search using a suite of IMBH binary signals obtained via numerical relativity, including the effects of spins misaligned with the binary orbital axis, and present the resulting upper limits on astrophysical merger rates. Our most stringent limit is for equal mass and aligned spin BH binary of total mass 200  M-circle dot and effective aligned spin 0.8 at 0.056 Gpc(-3) yr(-1) (90% confidence), a factor of 3.5 more constraining than previous LIGO-Virgo limits. We also update the estimated rate of mergers similar to GW190521 to 0.08 Gpc(-3) yr(-1).
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