Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010

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作者
Aasi, J. [1 ]
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [1 ]
Acernese, F. [3 ,4 ]
Ackley, K. [5 ]
Adams, C. [6 ]
Adams, T. [7 ]
Addesso, P. [4 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Affeldt, C. [8 ]
Agathos, M. [9 ]
Aggarwal, N. [10 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [11 ]
Ain, A. [12 ]
Ajith, P. [13 ]
Alemic, A. [14 ]
Allen, B. [8 ,15 ,16 ]
Allocca, A. [17 ,18 ]
Amariutei, D. [5 ]
Andersen, M. [19 ]
Anderson, R. [1 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [15 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Arceneaux, C. [20 ]
Areeda, J. [21 ]
Aston, S. M. [6 ]
Astone, P. [22 ]
Aufmuth, P. [16 ]
Aulbert, C. [8 ]
Austin, L. [1 ]
Aylott, B. E. [23 ]
Babak, S. [24 ]
Baker, P. T. [25 ]
Ballardin, G. [26 ]
Ballmer, S. W. [14 ]
Barayoga, J. C. [1 ]
Barbet, M. [5 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, D. [27 ]
Barone, F. [3 ,4 ]
Barr, B. [28 ]
Barsotti, L. [10 ]
Barsuglia, M. [29 ]
Barton, M. A. [27 ]
Bartos, I. [30 ]
Bassiri, R. [19 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[4] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[5] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[6] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[8] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Nikhef, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[10] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[11] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[12] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[13] Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
[14] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[15] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[16] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[17] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[18] Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
[19] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[20] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[21] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[23] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[24] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[25] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[26] European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[27] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[28] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[29] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Observ Paris, APC,CNRS,IN2P3, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[30] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[31] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[32] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[33] Warsaw Univ, Astron Observ, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland
[34] Univ Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[35] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[36] Univ Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[37] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[38] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Fac Phys, Moscow 119991, Russia
[39] Univ Paris 11, LAL, CNRS, IN2P3, F-91898 Orsay, France
[40] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[41] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
[42] Radboud Univ Nijmegen, Dept Astrophys, IMAPP, NL-6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands
[43] Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, Observ Cote Azur, CNRS, F-06304 Nice, France
[44] Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Rennes, F-35042 Rennes, France
[45] Univ Savoie, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[46] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[47] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[48] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Florence, Italy
[49] Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
[50] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家航空航天局; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
SPACE-TELESCOPE EVIDENCE; GLOBULAR-CLUSTER M15; BINARY; PERTURBATIONS; CORE; CANDIDATE; EQUATIONS; COLLAPSE; MERGERS; FIELD;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.89.102006
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes ( IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The search was sensitive to astrophysical sources that produced damped sinusoid gravitational wave signals, also known as ringdowns, with frequency 50 <= f(0)/Hz <= 2000 and decay timescale 0.0001 less than or similar to tau/s less than or similar to 0.1 characteristic of those produced in mergers of IMBH pairs. No significant gravitational wave candidate was detected. We report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of IMBHs with total binary mass 50 <= M/ M circle dot <= 450 and component mass ratios of either 1: 1 or 4: 1. For systems with total mass 100 <= M/M circle dot <= 150, we report a 90% confidence upper limit on the rate of binary IMBH mergers with nonspinning and equal mass components of 6.9 x 10(-8) Mpc(-3) yr(-1). We also report a rate upper limit for ringdown waveforms from perturbed IMBHs, radiating 1% of their mass as gravitational waves in the fundamental, l = m = 2, oscillation mode, that is nearly three orders of magnitude more stringent than previous results.
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