Journal
PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 96, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.96.022001
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- Department of Science and Technology, India
- Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India
- Ministry of Human Resource Development, India
- Spanish Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
- Vicepresidencia i Conselleria d'Innovacio, Recerca i Turisme
- Conselleria d'Educacio i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears
- National Science Centre of Poland
- European Commission
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation
- International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR)
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During their first observational run, the two Advanced LIGO detectors attained an unprecedented sensitivity, resulting in the first direct detections of gravitational-wave signals produced by stellar-mass binary black hole systems. This paper reports on an all-sky search for gravitational waves (GWs) from merging intermediate mass black hole binaries (IMBHBs). The combined results from two independent search techniques were used in this study: the first employs a matched-filter algorithm that uses a bank of filters covering the GW signal parameter space, while the second is a generic search for GW transients (bursts). No GWs from IMBHBs were detected; therefore, we constrain the rate of several classes of IMBHB mergers. The most stringent limit is obtained for black holes of individual mass 100 M-circle dot, with spins aligned with the binary orbital angular momentum. For such systems, the merger rate is constrained to be less than 0.93 Gpc(-3) yr(-1) in comoving units at the 90% confidence level, an improvement of nearly 2 orders of magnitude over previous upper limits.
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