@article{a4fbc1f6e62d4583b3fb67af76248b8b,
title = "Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010",
abstract = "We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The search was sensitive to astrophysical sources that produced damped sinusoid gravitational wave signals, also known as ringdowns, with frequency 50≤f0/Hz≤2000 and decay timescale 0.0001 τ/s 0.1 characteristic of those produced in mergers of IMBH pairs. No significant gravitational wave candidate was detected. We report upper limits on the astrophysical coalescence rates of IMBHs with total binary mass 50≤M/M ≤450 and component mass ratios of either 1:1 or 4:1. For systems with total mass 100≤M/M ≤150, we report a 90% confidence upper limit on the rate of binary IMBH mergers with nonspinning and equal mass components of 6.9×10-8Mpc-3yr-1. We also report a rate upper limit for ringdown waveforms from perturbed IMBHs, radiating 1% of their mass as gravitational waves in the fundamental, =m=2, oscillation mode, that is nearly three orders of magnitude more stringent than previous results.",
author = "{LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration} and J. Aasi and Abbott, {B. P.} and R. Abbott and T. Abbott and Abernathy, {M. R.} and F. Acernese and K. Ackley and C. Adams and T. Adams and P. Addesso and Adhikari, {R. X.} and C. Affeldt and M. Agathos and N. Aggarwal and Aguiar, {O. D.} and A. Ain and P. Ajith and A. Alemic and B. Allen and A. Allocca and D. Amariutei and M. Andersen and R. Anderson and Anderson, {S. B.} and Anderson, {W. G.} and K. Arai and Araya, {M. C.} and C. Arceneaux and J. Areeda and Aston, {S. M.} and P. Astone and P. Aufmuth and C. Aulbert and L. Austin and Aylott, {B. E.} and S. Babak and Baker, {P. T.} and G. Ballardin and Ballmer, {S. W.} and Barayoga, {J. C.} and M. Barbet and Barish, {B. C.} and D. Barker and F. Barone and B. Barr and L. Barsotti and M. Barsuglia and Barton, {M. A.} and I. Bartos and R. Bassiri and A. Basti and Batch, {J. C.} and J. Bauchrowitz and Bauer, {T. H.S.} and V. Bavigadda and B. Behnke and M. Bejger and Beker, {M. G.} and C. Belczynski and Bell, {A. S.} and C. Bell and M. Benacquista and G. Bergmann and D. Bersanetti and A. Bertolini and J. Betzwieser and Beyersdorf, {P. T.} and Bilenko, {I. A.} and G. Billingsley and J. Birch and S. Biscans and M. Bitossi and Bizouard, {M. A.} and E. Black and Blackburn, {J. K.} and L. Blackburn and D. Blair and S. Bloemen and O. Bock and Bodiya, {T. P.} and M. Boer and G. Bogaert and C. Bogan and C. Bond and F. Bondu and L. Bonelli and R. Bonnand and R. Bork and M. Born and V. Boschi and Sukanta Bose and L. Bosi and C. Bradaschia and Brady, {P. R.} and Braginsky, {V. B.} and M. Branchesi and Brau, {J. E.} and T. Briant and Bridges, {D. O.} and A. Brillet and M. Brinkmann and V. Brisson and Brooks, {A. F.} and Brown, {D. A.} and Brown, {D. A.} and F. Br{\"u}ckner and S. Buchman and T. Bulik and Bulten, {H. J.} and A. Buonanno and R. Burman and D. Buskulic and C. Buy and L. Cadonati and G. Cagnoli and Bustillo, {J. Calder{\'o}n} and E. Calloni and Camp, {J. B.} and P. Campsie and Cannon, {K. C.} and B. Canuel and J. Cao and Capano, {C. D.} and F. Carbognani and L. Carbone and S. Caride and A. Castiglia and S. Caudill and M. Cavagli{\`a} and F. Cavalier and R. Cavalieri and C. Celerier and G. Cella and C. Cepeda and E. Cesarini and R. Chakraborty and T. Chalermsongsak and Chamberlin, {S. J.} and S. Chao and P. Charlton and E. Chassande-Mottin and X. Chen and Y. Chen and A. Chincarini and A. Chiummo and Cho, {H. S.} and J. Chow and N. Christensen and Q. Chu and Chua, {S. S.Y.} and S. Chung and G. Ciani and F. Clara and Clark, {J. A.} and F. Cleva and E. Coccia and Cohadon, {P. F.} and A. Colla and C. Collette and M. Colombini and L. Cominsky and M. Constancio and A. Conte and D. Cook and Corbitt, {T. R.} and M. Cordier and N. Cornish and A. Corpuz and A. Corsi and Costa, {C. A.} and Coughlin, {M. W.} and S. Coughlin and Coulon, {J. P.} and S. Countryman and P. Couvares and Coward, {D. M.} and M. Cowart and Coyne, {D. C.} and R. Coyne and K. Craig and Creighton, {J. D.E.} and Crowder, {S. G.} and A. Cumming and L. Cunningham and E. Cuoco and K. Dahl and Canton, {T. Dal} and M. Damjanic and Danilishin, {S. L.} and S. D'Antonio and K. Danzmann and V. Dattilo and H. Daveloza and M. Davier and Davies, {G. S.} and Daw, {E. J.} and R. Day and T. Dayanga and G. Debreczeni and J. Degallaix and S. Del{\'e}glise and {Del Pozzo}, W. and T. Denker and T. Dent and H. Dereli and V. Dergachev and {De Rosa}, R. and Derosa, {R. T.} and R. Desalvo and S. Dhurandhar and M. D{\'i}az and {Di Fiore}, L. and {Di Lieto}, A. and {Di Palma}, I. and {Di Virgilio}, A. and V. Dolique and A. Donath and F. Donovan and Dooley, {K. L.} and S. Doravari and S. Dossa and R. Douglas and Downes, {T. P.} and M. Drago and Drever, {R. W.P.} and Driggers, {J. C.} and Z. Du and M. Ducrot and S. Dwyer and T. Eberle and T. Edo and M. Edwards and A. Effler and H. Eggenstein and P. Ehrens and J. Eichholz and Eikenberry, {S. S.} and G. Endroczi and R. Essick and T. Etzel and M. Evans and T. Evans and M. Factourovich and V. Fafone and S. Fairhurst and Q. Fang and S. Farinon and B. Farr and Hosken, {D. J.}",
year = "2014",
month = may,
day = "27",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevD.89.102006",
language = "English",
volume = "89",
journal = "Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology",
issn = "1550-7998",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "10",
}