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Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes

J. Abadie1, B. P. Abbott1, R. Abbott1, T. D. Abbott2, M. Abernathy3, T. Accadia4, F. Acernese5a,5c, C. Adams6, R. Adhikari1 et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration)

C. Adams6, R. Adhikari1, C. Affeldt7,8, M. Agathos9a, K. Agatsuma10, P. Ajith1, B. Allen7,11,8, E. Amador Ceron11, D. Amariutei12, S. B. Anderson1, W. G. Anderson11, K. Arai1, M. A. Arain12, M. C. Araya1, S. M. Aston13, P. Astone14a, D. Atkinson15, P. Aufmuth8,7, C. Aulbert7,8, B. E. Aylott13, S. Babak16, P. Baker17, G. Ballardin18, S. Ballmer19, J. C. B. Barayoga1, D. Barker15, F. Barone5a,5c, B. Barr3, L. Barsotti20, M. Barsuglia21, M. A. Barton15, I. Bartos22, R. Bassiri3, M. Bastarrika3, A. Basti23a,23b, J. Batch15, J. Bauchrowitz7,8, Th. S. Bauer9a, M. Bebronne4, D. Beck24, B. Behnke16, M. Bejger25c, M. G. Beker9a, A. S. Bell3, A. Belletoile4, I. Belopolski22, M. Benacquista26, J. M. Berliner15, A. Bertolini7,8, J. Betzwieser1, N. Beveridge3, P. T. Beyersdorf27, I. A. Bilenko28, G. Billingsley1, J. Birch6, R. Biswas26, M. Bitossi23a, M. A. Bizouard29a, E. Black1, J. K. Blackburn1, L. Blackburn30, D. Blair31, B. Bland15, M. Blom9a, O. Bock7,8, T. P. Bodiya20, C. Bogan7,8, R. 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  • 1LIGO- California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 2California State University Fullerton, Fullerton California 92831, USA
  • 3SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
  • 4Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université de Savoie, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-Le-Vieux, France
  • 5aINFN, Sezione di Napoli, Italy
  • 5bUniversità di Napoli “Federico II”, Italy
  • 5cComplesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
  • 6LIGO- Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
  • 7Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
  • 8Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
  • 9aNikhef, Science Park, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 9bVU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 10National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
  • 11University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
  • 12University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
  • 13University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
  • 14aINFN, Sezione di Roma, Italy
  • 14bUniversità “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
  • 15LIGO- Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
  • 16Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
  • 17Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
  • 18European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina Pisa, Italy
  • 19Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
  • 20LIGO- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
  • 21Laboratoire AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC), Université Paris Diderot, CNRS: IN2P3, CEA: DSM/IRFU, Observatoire de Paris, 10 rue A. Domon et L. Duquet, 75013 Paris, France
  • 22Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
  • 23aINFN, Sezione di Pisa, Italy
  • 23bUniversità di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
  • 23cUniversità di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
  • 24Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 25aIM-PAN, 00-956 Warsaw, Poland
  • 25bAstronomical Observatory, Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland
  • 25cCAMK-PAN, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
  • 25dBiałystok University, 15-424 Białystok, Poland
  • 25eIPJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland
  • 25fInstitute of Astronomy, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland
  • 26The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
  • 27San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
  • 28Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
  • 29aLAL, Université Paris-Sud, IN2P3/CNRS, F-91898 Orsay, France
  • 29bESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
  • 30NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
  • 31University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
  • 32The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
  • 33aUniversité Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, F-06304 Nice, France
  • 33bInstitut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France
  • 34Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), IN2P3/CNRS, F-69622 Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
  • 35Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
  • 36aINFN, Sezione di Perugia, Italy
  • 36bUniversità di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
  • 37aINFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Italy
  • 37bUniversità degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
  • 38University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
  • 39Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS, CNRS, UPMC, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75005 Paris, France
  • 40University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
  • 41University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
  • 42Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H8, Canada
  • 43Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084 China
  • 44University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
  • 45Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
  • 46The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
  • 47Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
  • 48Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 49INFN, Sezione di Genova; I-16146 Genova, Italy
  • 50Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
  • 51Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
  • 52Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
  • 53The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010, Australia
  • 54Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
  • 55aINFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
  • 55bUniversità di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
  • 55cUniversità dell’Aquila, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy
  • 56University of Salerno, I-84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy and INFN (Sezione di Napoli), Italy
  • 57The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
  • 58RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary
  • 59aINFN, Gruppo Collegato di Trento, Italy
  • 59bUniversità di Trento, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
  • 59cINFN, Sezione di Padova, Italy
  • 59dUniversità di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
  • 60Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
  • 61California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
  • 62Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
  • 63University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
  • 64The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
  • 65Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, 1117 Hungary
  • 66University of Szeged, 6720 Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Hungary
  • 67Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
  • 68Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, HSIC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
  • 69Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
  • 70National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 305-390, Korea
  • 71Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada
  • 72University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
  • 73University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
  • 74University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
  • 75University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
  • 76Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Korea
  • 77Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
  • 78Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
  • 79Lund Observatory, Box 43, SE-221 00, Lund, Sweden
  • 80Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
  • 81Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
  • 82University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
  • 83Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
  • 84University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
  • 85Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
  • 86University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN (Sezione di Napoli), Italy
  • 87Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
  • 88McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana 70609, USA
  • 89Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA
  • 90Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
  • 91Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA

Phys. Rev. D 85, 102004 – Published 24 May, 2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.102004

Abstract

We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of nonspinning intermediate mass black holes in the total mass range 100450M and with the component mass ratios between 11 and 41. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the intermediate mass black holes mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on 88+88M, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per Mpc3 per Myr at the 90% confidence level.

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