First search for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries using TAMA300 data
Author(s) -
Hideyuki Tagoshi,
Nobuyuki Kanda,
Takahiro Tanaka,
Daisuke Tatsumi,
S. Telada,
Masaki Ando,
K. Arai,
Akito Araya,
Hideki Asada,
M. A. Barton,
Masa-Katsu Fujimoto,
Mitsuhiro Fukushima,
Toshifumi Futamase,
Gerhard Heinzel,
G. Horikoshi,
Hideki Ishizuka,
N. Kamikubota,
K. Kawabe,
Seiji Kawamura,
Nobuki Kawashima,
Yasufumi Kojima,
Y. Kozai,
Kazuaki Kuroda,
Namio Matsuda,
Sumihiro Matsumura,
S. Miki,
Norikatsu Mio,
O. Miyakawa,
Shoken M. Miyama,
S. Miyoki,
E. Mizuno,
Shigenori Moriwaki,
Mitsuru Musha,
Shigeo Nagano,
Ken’ichi Nakagawa,
Takashi Nakamura,
Kenichi Nakao,
Kenji Numata,
Yujiro Ogawa,
M. Ohashi,
N. Ohishi,
Akira Okutomi,
Ken-ichi Oohara,
Shigemi Otsuka,
Yoshio Saito,
Misao Sasaki,
Shuichi Sato,
Atsushi Sekiya,
Masaru Shibata,
Kazumichi Shirakata,
K. Somiya,
T. Suzuki,
Ryutaro Takahashi,
Akiteru Takamori,
Shinsuke Taniguchi,
Kuniharu Tochikubo,
T. Tomaru,
Kimio Tsubono,
Nobuhiro TSUDA,
Takashi Uchiyama,
Akitoshi Ueda,
Ken-ichi Ueda,
Kozo Ueda,
Koichi Waseda,
Yuko Watanabe,
Hiromi Yakura,
Kazuhiro Yamamoto,
Toshitaka Yamazaki
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
physical review. d. particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/physical review. d. particles and fields
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1089-4918
pISSN - 0556-2821
DOI - 10.1103/physrevd.63.062001
Subject(s) - gravitational wave , physics , signal (programming language) , sky , detector , noise (video) , mass ratio , astrophysics , limit (mathematics) , position (finance) , signal to noise ratio (imaging) , event (particle physics) , optics , computer science , mathematics , mathematical analysis , finance , artificial intelligence , economics , image (mathematics) , programming language
We analyzed 6 hours of data from the TAMA300 detector by matched filtering,searching for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries. Weincorporated a two-step hierarchical search strategy in matched filtering. Weobtained an upper limit of 0.59/hour (C.L.=90%) on the event rate of inspiralsof compact binaries with mass between 0.3M_solar and 10M_solar and withsignal-to-noise ratio greater than 7.2. The distance of 1.4M_solar (0.5M_solar)binaries which produce the signal-to-noise ratio 7.2 was estimated to be 6.2kpc(2.9kpc) when the position of the source on the sky and the inclination angleof the binaries were optimal.Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures. To appear Phsical Review
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