Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals

Abbott, B. et al. (2008) Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals. Physical Review D, 78(4), 042002. (doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002)

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Publisher's URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002

Abstract

We report in the methods and results of the first dedicated search for gravitational waves emitted during the inspiral of compact binaries with spinning component bodies. We analyze 788 hours of data collected during the third science run (S3) of the LIGO detectors. We searched for binary systems using a detection template family specially designed to capture the effects of the spin-induced precession of the orbital plane. We present details of the techniques developed to enable this search for spin-modulated gravitational waves, highlighting the differences between this and other recent searches for binaries with nonspinning components. The template bank we employed was found to yield high matches with our spin-modulated target waveform for binaries with masses in the asymmetric range. 1.0<i>M</i>☉ < <i>m</i><sub>1</sub> <3.0<i>M</i>☉ and 12.0<i>M</i>☉ <<i>m</i><sub>2</sub> <20.0<i>M</i>☉ which is where we would expect the spin of the binary's components to have a significant effect. We find that our search of S3 LIGO data has good sensitivity to binaries in the Milky Way and to a small fraction of binaries in M31 and M33 with masses in the range 1.0<i>M</i>☉ <<i>m</i><sub>1</sub>, <i>m</i><sub>2</sub> < 20.0<i>M</i>☉. No gravitational wave signals were identified during this search. Assuming a binary population with spinning components and Gaussian distribution of masses representing a prototypical neutron star-black hole system with <i>m</i><sub>1</sub> ≅ 1.35<i>M</i>☉ and <i>m</i><sub>2</sub> ≅ 5<i>M</i>☉, we calculate the 90% confidence upper limit on the rate of coalescence of these systems to be 15.9 yr<sup>-1</sup> L<sub>10</sub><sup>-1</sup>, where L<sub>10</sub> is 10<sup>10</sup> times the blue light luminosity of the sun.

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Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Heptonstall, Dr Alastair and Grant, Mr Alastair and Cagnoli, Dr Gianpietro and Cantley, Dr Caroline and Rowan, Professor Sheila and Messenger, Dr Christopher and Bogenstahl, Miss Johanna and Martin, Dr Iain and Robertson, Professor Norna and Hild, Professor Stefan and Barr, Dr Bryan and Reid, Professor Stuart and Cumming, Dr Alan and Tokmakov, Dr Kirill and Veitch, Dr John and Plissi, Dr Michael and Woan, Professor Graham and Heng, Professor Ik Siong and Crooks, Dr David and Hough, Professor James and Ward, Professor Henry and Newton, Dr Gavin and Torrie, Dr Calum and Huttner, Dr Sabina and Strain, Professor Kenneth and Jones, Mr Russell and Pitkin, Dr Matthew and Murray, Dr Peter and Barton, Dr Mark
Authors: Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Agresti, J., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Amin, R., Anderson, S.B., Anderson, W.G., Arain, M., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Ashley, M., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Ballmer, S., Bantilan, H., Barish, B.C., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barton, M.A., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P.T., Bhawal, B., Bilenko, I.A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bogenstahl, J., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Brady, P.R., Braginsky, V.B., Brau, J.E., Brinkmann, M., Brooks, A., Brown, D.A., Bullington, A., Bunkowski, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Busby, D., Byer, R.L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Camp, J.B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Cantley, C.A., Cao, J., Cardenas, L., Castaldi, G., Cepeda, C., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chiadini, F., Christensen, N., Clark, J., Cochrane, P., Cokelaer, T., Coldwell, R., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T., Coyne, D., Creighton, J.D.E., Croce, R.P., Crooks, D.R.M., Cruise, A.M., Cumming, A., Dalrymple, J., D'Ambrosio, E., Danzmann, K., Davies, G., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Degree, M., Demma, T., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Diaz, M., Dickson, J., Di Credico, A., Diederichs, G., Dietz, A., Doomes, E.E., Drever, R.W.P., Dumas, J.-C., Dupuis, R.J., Dwyer, J.G., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fejer, M.M., Finn, L.S., Fiumara, V., Fotopoulos, N., Franzen, A., Franzen, K.Y., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V.V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Garofoli, J., Gholami, I., Giame, J.A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K.D., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L.M., González, G., Gossler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, J., Gretarsson, A.M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hammer, D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, 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Subjects:Q Science > QB Astronomy
Q Science > QC Physics
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
Research Centre:College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research
Journal Name:Physical Review D
Publisher:American Physical Society
ISSN:1550-7998
ISSN (Online):1089-4918

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