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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McClelland, David
Gray, Malcolm
Lam, Ping Koy
McKenzie, Kirk
Mow-Lowry, C
Mullavey, Adam
Rabeling, David
Satterthwaite, Matthew
Scott, Susan M
Slagmolen, Bram
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American Physical Society
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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 3.6×10-3yr-1L10-1, respectively, where L10 is 1010 times the blue solar luminosity.
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Physical Review D-Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
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