Search for gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescences in the galactic halo
Date
2005
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Cusack, B J
McClelland, David
Scott, Susan M
Searle, Antony
Heefner, J
Heurs, M
Hough, J
Ivanov, A
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American Physical Society
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We use data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for the gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescence with component masses in the range 0.2-1.0M. The analysis requires a signal to be found in the data from both LIGO observatories, according to a set of coincidence criteria. No inspiral signals were found. Assuming a spherical halo with core radius 5 kpc extending to 50 kpc containing nonspinning black holes with masses in the range 0.2-1.0M, we place an observational upper limit on the rate of primordial black hole coalescence of 63 per year per Milky Way halo (MWH) with 90% confidence.
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Physical Review D
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