Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO's S5 data

被引:134
作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Adhikari, R. [1 ]
Ajith, P. [3 ]
Allen, B. [3 ,59 ]
Allen, G. [34 ]
Amin, R. S. [20 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [59 ]
Arain, M. A. [46 ]
Araya, M. [1 ]
Armandula, H. [1 ]
Armor, P. [59 ]
Aso, Y. [1 ]
Aston, S. [45 ]
Aufmuth, P. [16 ]
Aulbert, C. [3 ]
Babak, S. [2 ]
Baker, P. [23 ]
Ballmer, S. [1 ]
Barker, C. [17 ]
Barker, D. [17 ]
Barr, B. [47 ]
Barriga, P. [58 ]
Barsotti, L. [19 ]
Barton, M. A. [1 ]
Bartos, I. [10 ]
Bassiri, R. [47 ]
Bastarrika, M. [47 ]
Behnke, B. [2 ]
Benacquista, M. [41 ]
Betzwieser, J. [1 ]
Beyersdorf, P. T. [30 ]
Bilenko, I. A. [24 ]
Billingsley, G. [1 ]
Biswas, R. [59 ]
Black, E. [1 ]
Blackburn, J. K. [1 ]
Blackburn, L. [19 ]
Blair, D. [58 ]
Bland, B. [17 ]
Bodiya, T. P. [19 ]
Bogue, L. [18 ]
Bork, R. [1 ]
Boschi, V. [1 ]
Bose, S. [60 ]
Brady, P. R. [59 ]
Braginsky, V. B. [24 ]
Brau, J. E. [52 ]
Bridges, D. O. [18 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[4] Andrews Univ, Berrien Springs, MI 49104 USA
[5] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[6] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[8] Carleton Coll, Northfield, MN 55057 USA
[9] Charles Sturt Univ, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
[10] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[11] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[12] Eotvos Lorand Univ, ELTE, H-1053 Budapest, Hungary
[13] Hobart & William Smith Coll, Geneva, NY 14456 USA
[14] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Appl Phys, Nizhnii Novgorod 603950, Russia
[15] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[16] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[17] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[18] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[19] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[20] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[21] Louisiana Tech Univ, Ruston, LA 71272 USA
[22] Loyola Univ, New Orleans, LA 70118 USA
[23] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[24] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[25] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[26] Natl Astron Observ, Tokyo 1818588, Japan
[27] Northwestern Univ, Evanston, IL 60208 USA
[28] Rochester Inst Technol, Rochester, NY 14623 USA
[29] HSIC, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Didcot OX11 0QX, Oxon, England
[30] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[31] Sonoma State Univ, Rohnert Pk, CA 94928 USA
[32] SE Louisiana Univ, Hammond, LA 70402 USA
[33] So Univ & A&M Coll, Baton Rouge, LA 70813 USA
[34] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[35] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[36] Penn State Univ, University Pk, PA 16802 USA
[37] Univ Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3010, Australia
[38] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[39] Univ Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England
[40] Univ Texas Austin, Austin, TX 78712 USA
[41] Univ Texas Brownsville & Texas Southmost Coll, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[42] Trinity Univ, San Antonio, TX 78212 USA
[43] Univ Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
[44] Univ Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
[45] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[46] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[47] Univ Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[48] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
[49] Univ Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[50] Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA
基金
英国科学技术设施理事会; 美国国家航空航天局; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
INSPIRALLING COMPACT BINARIES; CONSTRAINING POPULATION; SYNTHESIS MODELS; FILTERS; CHOICE; FORMS;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.122001
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We have searched for gravitational waves from coalescing low mass compact binary systems with a total mass between 2M(circle dot) and 35M(circle dot) and a minimum component mass of 1M(circle dot) using data from the first year of the fifth science run of the three LIGO detectors, operating at design sensitivity. Depending on the mass, we are sensitive to coalescences as far as 150 Mpc from the Earth. No gravitational-wave signals were observed above the expected background. Assuming a population of compact binary objects with a Gaussian mass distribution representing binary neutron star systems, black hole-neutron star binary systems, and binary black hole systems, we calculate the 90% confidence upper limit on the rate of coalescences to be 3.9 X 10(-2) yr(-1)L(10)(-1), 1.1 X 10(-2) yr(-1)L(10)(-1), and 2.5 X 10(-3) yr(-1)L(10)(-1),respectively, where L-10 is 10(10) times the blue solar luminosity. We also set improved upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescences per unit blue-light luminosity, as a function of mass.
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