Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3

By The Ligo Scientific Collaboration, T. V. C. J. Abadie, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, Rana X. Adhikari and 787 more. 2011

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We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries using LIGO and Virgo observations between July 7, 2009 and October 20, 2010. We searched for signals from binaries with total mass between 2 and 25 solar masses; this includes binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and binaries consisting of a black hole and neutron star. The detectors were sensitive to systems up to 40 Mpc distant for binary neutron stars, and further for higher mass systems. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass, including the results from previous LIGO and Virgo observations. The cumulative 90%-confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of binary neutron star, neutron star- black hole and binary black hole systems are 1.3 x 10^{-4}, 3.1 x 10^{-5} and 6.4 x 10^{-6} Mpc^{-3}yr^{-1}, respectively. These upper limits are up to a factor 1.4 lower than previously derived limits. We also report on results from a blind injection challenge.

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TOWARD EARLY-WARNING DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM COMPACT BINARY COALESCENCE (2011, background): “…in a low-latency configuration to send astronomical alerts, namely, Coherent WaveBurst (cWB), Omega, and MultiBand Template Analysis (MBTA; Hughey 2011; Abadie et al. 2011a, 2012, 2011c). cWB and Omega are both unmodeled searches for bursts based on time-frequency decomposition of the GW data.”
Cosmological Fast Radio Bursts from Binary Neutron Star Mergers (2013, background): “The “plausible optimistic estimate” of NS-NS merger rate in Abadie et al. (2010) is still one order of magnitude lower than the current upper limit (Abadie et al. 2012), but such a high rate predicts a detection withina few years in the early commissioning phase of the Advanced LIGO, whose ultimate…”
Enhancing the sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light (2013, methodology): “During the experiment reported here, the LIGO H1 detector was configured as it was during its most sensitive scientific run S6 [19] concluded in October 2010.”
Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light (2013, methodology): “[19] Abadie, J.”
Dynamics of stellar black holes in young star clusters with different metallicities – II. Black hole–black hole binaries (2014, methodology): “The signal corresponding to our higher chirp masses can be detected by the Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes search (Abadie et al. 2012b).”
2-OGC: Open Gravitational-wave Catalog of Binary Mergers from Analysis of Public Advanced LIGO and Virgo Data (2019, methodology): “This method has been employed to detect significant events in numerous analyses (Nitz et al. 2019a; Abbott et al. 2019a; Venumadhav et al. 2019b; Abadie et al. 2012; Abbott et al. 2009).”
PULSAR J0453+1559: A DOUBLE NEUTRON STAR SYSTEM WITH A LARGE MASS ASYMMETRY (2015, methodology): “This result is also important for searches of gravitational wave emission from NS–NS mergers using ground-based GW detectors (Abbott et al. 2009 and Abadie et al. 2012)—it shows that we should not assume that the components of DNS systems have similar masses.”