Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run

Brooks, A.; Hosken, D.; Munch, J.; Ottaway, D.; Veitch, P.; Abbott, B.; Abbott, R.; Adhikari, R.; Ajith, P.; Allen, B.; Allen, G.; Amin, R.; Anderson, S.; Anderson, W.; Arain, M.; Araya, M.; Armandula, H.; Armor, P.; Aso, Y.; Aston, S.; et al.

Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run

2009

We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries, of total mass between 2 and 35M⊙, using LIGO observations between November 14, 2006 and May 18, 2007. No gravitational-wave signals were detected. We report upper limits on the rate of compact binary coalescence as a function of total mass. The LIGO cumulative 90%-confidence rate upper limits of the binary coalescence of neutron stars, black holes and black hole-neutron star systems are 1.4×10-2, 7.3×10-4 and 3.6×10-3 yr-1 L10-1, respectively, where L10 is 1010 times the blue solar luminosity.

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B. Abbott... D. J. Hosken... J. Munch... D. J. Ottaway... P. J. Veitch...et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

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