The Search for Low Mass Compact Binary Inspirals in the First Year of S5 LIGO Data

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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We report on the search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems with total mass from 2-35 solar masses in the LIGO Fifth Science run (S5) first calendar year data. We describe the pipeline employed by the LSC to search for such waveforms in LIGO data, how we suppress false signals originating from instrumental noise, how we evaluate the search efficiency for systems which may include spinning component objects, and how we establish confidence in likely detection candidates. Finally, we describe Bayesian coalescence rate calculations as a function of mass of the binary system and for several canonical mass systems including mass distributions representing binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole neutron star binaries.

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