[PDF] Top 20 Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs

... stellar-mass binary black holes ( BBHs ) may retain eccentric orbits ( e > ...with eccentric orbits, rendering the search less ef fi cient for eccentric binary ...a ... See full document

... produce mergers with alignment between the spins of the constituent BHs and the orbital angular momentum of the system ( Tutukov & Yungelson 1993; Kalogera 2000; Grandclément et ... See full document

... All upper limits on the IMBHB merger rate reported in past searches [42,54,55] were obtained using models for the GW signal that include only the dominant radiating mode, namely ðl; mÞ ¼ ð2; 2Þ, of the GW emission [62]. ... See full document

... groups. The next three columns report the sensitive distance reach for each of the individual analyses (cWB, GstLAL, and PyCBC), where we use the loudest event threshold of P = 0.14 for each analysis for comparison ... See full document

... of black holes are affected by a number of uncertain processes which occur during the evolution of the ...a black hole should be related to the rotation of the core of its pro- genitor star, ... See full document

... Figure 8. Inferred distribution of spin magnitude for a parametric (top) and non-parametric binned model (bot- tom). Both component magnitudes are included in these dis- tributions. The solid lines show the median and ... See full document

... Using the O1 and O2 combined detection efficiency, we place constraints on the string tension Gµ (c = 1), where G is the Newton’s constant and µ is the mass per unit length. This is achieved by comparing the experi- ... See full document

... offline search (Abbott et al. 2016e), as an online CBC search for BBHs was not running at the ...online search (Abbott et ...the first event to be confidently detected by Virgo and the ... See full document

... offline search (Abbott et al. 2016e), as an online CBC search for BBHs was not running at the ...online search (Abbott et ...the first event to be confidently detected by Virgo and the ... See full document

... of advanced detectors, the LSC and Virgo will search in near real-time for CBC and burst signals for the purpose of rapidly identifying event ...by LIGO–Virgo might enable follow-up ... See full document

... The second observation run lasted from November 25, 2016 to August 25, ...the first and second observing runs, a series of fixes and upgrades of the two LIGO detectors in ... See full document

... of advanced detectors, the LSC and Virgo will search in near real-time for CBC and burst signals for the purpose of rapidly identifying event ...by LIGO–Virgo might enable follow-up ... See full document

... online search identi fi ed a total of eight unique GW candidate events with a false-alarm rate ( FAR ) less than 6 yr − 1 ...rejected during the event validation as they were associated with known ... See full document

... as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic out fl ows, giving rise to non-thermal high-energy ...from Advanced LIGO from its ... See full document

... – black hole ( NSBH ) mergers, as was demonstrated in the case of GW170817 ( at least for the BNS case ) .... Binary black hole ( BBH ) mergers are not typically expected ... See full document

... its first observing run, Advanced LIGO has observed gravitational waves from the coalescence of two stellar-mass BBHs, GW150914 and GW151226, with a third candidate LVT151012 also likely to be ... See full document

... the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO ...for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical ... See full document

... a first-order cosmological phase transition can occur when two local minima of the free energy coexist, during which our Universe could be realizable in the metastable vacuum, or a false-vacuum state for ... See full document

... the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for ... See full document

... Tighter constraints are obtained when probing the stochastic background of GWs produced by cosmic strings. For model 3, the parameter space studied here is almost entirely excluded by the new constraint de- rived from ... See full document