Phys. Rev. D
78,
042002
(2008)
[19 pages]
Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals
B. Abbott et al. LIGO Scientific Collaboration
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Yoshida28, N. Yunes32, M. Zanolin17, J. Zhang42, L. Zhang14, C. Zhao50, N. Zotov19, M. Zucker17, H. zur Mühlen36, and J. Zweizig14 (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
1Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
2Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
3Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA
4Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
5California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
6Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
7Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
8Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
9Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
10Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
11Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
12Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
13Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune-411007, India
14LIGO-California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
15LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
16LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
17LIGO-Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
18Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
19Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272, USA
20Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
21Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
22NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
23National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
24Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
25Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
26Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX United Kingdom
27San Jose State University, San Jose, California 95192, USA
28Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, Louisiana 70402, USA
29Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
30Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
31Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
32The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
33The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
34Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
35Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
36Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
37University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
38University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
39University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
40University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
41University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
42University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
43University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
44University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
45University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
46University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
47University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
48University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
49University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 98195, USA
50University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
51University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
52Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
Received 29 January 2008; published 6 August 2008
We report on 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 1.0M⊙<m1<3.0M⊙ and 12.0M⊙<m2<20.0M⊙ 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 1.0M⊙<m1, m2<20.0M⊙. 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 m1≃1.35M⊙ and m2≃5M⊙, we calculate the 90%-confidence upper limit on the rate of coalescence of these systems to be 15.9 yr-1L10-1, where L10 is 1010 times the blue light luminosity of the Sun.
© 2008 The American Physical Society
URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.042002
PACS:
95.85.Sz, 04.80.Nn, 07.05.Kf, 97.80.−d
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