Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data

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dc.contributor.authorHosken, D.
dc.contributor.authorMunch, J.
dc.contributor.authorOttaway, D.
dc.contributor.authorVeitch, P.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B.
dc.contributor.authorAbbott, R.
dc.contributor.authorAdhikari, R.
dc.contributor.authorAjith, P.
dc.contributor.authorAllen, B.
dc.contributor.authorAllen, G.
dc.contributor.authorAmin, R.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, S.
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, W.
dc.contributor.authorArain, M.
dc.contributor.authorAraya, M.
dc.contributor.authorArmandula, H.
dc.contributor.authorArmor, P.
dc.contributor.authorAso, Y.
dc.contributor.authorAston, S.
dc.contributor.authorAufmuth, P.
dc.contributor.authoret al.
dc.date.issued2009
dc.description.abstractAccording to general relativity a perturbed black hole will settle to a stationary configuration by the emission of gravitational radiation. Such a perturbation will occur, for example, in the coalescence of a black hole binary, following their inspiral and subsequent merger. At late times the waveform is a superposition of quasinormal modes, which we refer to as the ringdown. The dominant mode is expected to be the fundamental mode, l=m=2. Since this is a well-known waveform, matched filtering can be implemented to search for this signal using LIGO data. We present a search for gravitational waves from black hole ringdowns in the fourth LIGO science run S4, during which LIGO was sensitive to the dominant mode of perturbed black holes with masses in the range of 10M⊙ to 500M⊙, the regime of intermediate-mass black holes, to distances up to 300 Mpc. We present a search for gravitational waves from black hole ringdowns using data from S4. No gravitational wave candidates were found; we place a 90%-confidence upper limit on the rate of ringdowns from black holes with mass between 85M⊙ and 390M⊙ in the local universe, assuming a uniform distribution of sources, of 3.2×10-5  yr-1 Mpc-3=1.6×10-3  yr-1L10-1,where L10 is 1010 times the solar blue-light luminosity.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityB. Abbott... D. J. Hosken... J. Munch... D. J. Ottaway... P. J. Veitch...et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
dc.identifier.citationPhysical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2009; 80(6):1-9
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevD.80.062001
dc.identifier.issn1550-7998
dc.identifier.issn1550-2368
dc.identifier.orcidOttaway, D. [0000-0001-6794-1591]
dc.identifier.orcidVeitch, P. [0000-0002-2597-435X]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/58907
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Soc
dc.relation.grantARC
dc.rights©2009 American Physical Society
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.80.062001
dc.titleSearch for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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