Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run
Creators: name: The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
name: The Virgo Collaboration
name: Aasi, J.
name: Abbott, B. P.
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name: Willis, J. L.
name: Willke, B.
name: Wimmer, M.
name: Winkler, W.
name: Wipf, C. C.
name: Wiseman, A. G.
name: Wittel, H.
name: Woan, G.
name: Worden, J.
name: Yablon, J.
name: Yakushin, I.
name: Yamamoto, H.
name: Yancey, C. C.
name: Yang, H.
name: Yang, Z.
name: Yoshida, S.
name: Yvert, M.
name: Zadrożny, A.
name: Zanolin, M.
name: Zendri, J. -P.
name: Zhang, Fan
name: Zhang, L.
name: Zhao, C.
name: Zhu, X. J.
name: Zucker, M. E.
name: Zuraw, S.
name: Zweizig, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper reports on an unmodeled, all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHB). The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of the LIGO and Virgo detectors (July 2009 - October 2010) and was sensitive to IMBHBs with a range up to $\sim 200$ Mpc, averaged over the possible sky positions and inclinations of the binaries with respect to the line of sight. No significant candidate was found. Upper limits on the coalescence-rate density of nonspinning IMBHBs with total masses between 100 and $450 \ \mbox{M}_{\odot}$ and mass ratios between $0.25$ and $1\,$ were placed by combining this analysis with an analogous search performed on data from the first LIGO-Virgo joint science run (November 2005 - October 2007). The most stringent limit was set for systems consisting of two $88 \ \mbox{M}_{\odot}$ black holes and is equal to $0.12 \ \mbox{Mpc}^{-3} \ \mbox{Myr}^{-1}$ at the $90\%$ confidence level. This paper also presents the first estimate, for the case of an unmodeled analysis, of the impact on the search range of IMBHB spin configurations: the visible volume for IMBHBs with nonspinning components is roughly doubled for a population of IMBHBs with spins aligned with the binary's orbital angular momentum and uniformly distributed in the dimensionless spin parameter up to 0.8, whereas an analogous population with antialigned spins decreases the visible volume by $\sim 20\%\,$.
description: 15 pages, 10 figures, data for plots and archived public version at https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P1300158/public, see also the public announcement at http://www.ligo.org/science/Publication-S6IMBH/index.php, updated bibliography