[PDF] Top 20 Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo network

... for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research, the ... 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

... This search has detected 7 of the 10 BBH events that were identi fi ed by template-based searches ( its sensitivity compared to template-based searches is higher for higher-mass binaries; see Table 1 ... 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

... The spins of BHs are affected by a number of uncertain processes that occur during the evolution of the binary. As a consequence, the magnitude distribution is dif fi cult to predict from theoretical models of these ... See full document

... a black hole. White dwarf binaries, while often formed with components below one solar mass, are not sufficiently compact to be a LIGO/Virgo gravitational wave ...or black ... See full document

... The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors [1, 2] have completed their second observing run (O2) which lasted from November 30, 2016 to August 25, ...binary black ... See full document

... in Advanced LIGO [1] and Ad- vanced Virgo’s [2] second observing run, which included the first observation of gravitational waves from a bi- nary neutron star merger [3] and seven of ... 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 ... See full document

... detectors LIGO and Virgo are currently being upgraded to their advanced con- figurations, and the next joint observation is planned for ...Another advanced detector, LCGT [37,38], is being ... See full document

... all-sky search for gravitational waves from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries ...The search was performed on data from the second joint science run of ... See full document

... the mass, redshift and spin-dependent selection effects, and incorporate them into our population analysis according to Equation ...detector network to a given population of BBH mergers is by carrying out ... See full document

... different mass distribu- tion models in subsection ...primordial black holes (Mandic et ...future observing runs and may enable us to discriminate between different formation rate histories or ... See full document

... (62.7 hr) and 4U 1543-47 (26.9 hr), the secondary dominates the optical and IR emission in quiescence (this is true even in the case of the cool companion in V404 Cyg where the disk contributes less than about 15% in ... See full document

... all-sky search for un- modeled long-duration (10–500 s) transient GW ...a black hole ...stellar- mass black hole, emitting GWs ... See full document

... pixel containing the true source location. In other words, it is the smallest area on the sky that one would be required to image to ensure the true source location is imaged. A complimentary fig- ure of merit is the ... See full document

... our search was sensitive to such ...a first step towards quantify- ing the sensitivity of the search to spinning waveforms over a broad parameter space, we use the IMRPhenomB waveform family [13] ... See full document

... to search for transients that last between 2 – 500 s and span a frequency band of 24 – 2048 ...to search for patterns, corresponding to gravitational waves, within ...The first is seed- based (Khan ... See full document

... Invariants from GSF theory, such as z, provide strong-field O (q) information that can be applied to calibrate and enhance the Effective One-Body (EOB) model [63–66]. As the EOB model generates waveforms for ... See full document

... our search criteria, most of which were located within 350 ...the first attempt to characterize soft X-ray confusion sources for counterparts to Advanced LIGO/Virgo merger events, and ... See full document