Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO's fifth science run
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2009
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Brooks, A.
Hosken, D.
Munch, J.
Ottaway, D.
Veitch, P.
Abbott, B.
Abbott, R.
Adhikari, R.
Ajith, P.
Allen, B.
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Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2009; 80(4):7101-1-7101-5
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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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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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©2009 American Physical Society