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Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes
J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, P. Ajith, B. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. A. Arain, M. Araya, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. T. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Thomas Bauer, M. Bebronne, D. Beck, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M. G. Beker, A. S. Bell, A. Bellétoile, Ilya Belopolski, M. Benacquista, J. M. Berliner, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, R. Biswas, M. Bitossi, M. A. Bizouard, E. Black, J. K. Blackburn, Lindy Blackburn, D. G. Blair, B. Bland, M. Blom, O. Bock, T. P. Bodiya, C. Bogan, R. Bondarescu, F. Bondu, L. Bonelli, R. Bonnand, R. Bork, M. Born, V. Boschi, S. Bose, L. Bosi, B. Bouhou, S. Braccini, C. Bradaschia, P. R. Brady, V. B. Braginsky, M. Branchesi, J. E. Brau, J. Breyer, T. Briant, D. O. Bridges, A. Brillet, M. Brinkmann, V. Brisson, M. Britzger, A. F. Brooks, D. Brown, T. Bulik, H. J. Bulten, A. Buonanno, J. Burguet–Castell, D. Buskulic, C. Buy, R. L. Byer, L. Cadonati, G. Cagnoli, E. Calloni, J. B. Camp, P. Campsie, J. K. Cannizzo, K. C. Cannon, B. Canuel, J. Cao, C. D. Capano, F. Carbognani, L. Carbone, S. Caride, S. Caudill, M. Cavaglià, F. Cavalier, G. Cella, C. Cepeda, E. Cesarini, O. Chaibi, T. Chalermsongsak, P. Charlton, E. Chassande‐Mottin, S. Chelkowski, Wei Chen, X. Chen, Yu‐Hung Chen, A. Chincarini, A. Chiummo, H. Cho, J. H. Chow, N. Christensen, S. Chua, Christine Chung, S. Chung, G. Ciani, F. Clara, Daniel E. Clark, J. A. Clark, J. H. Clayton, F. Cleva, E. Coccia, P.‐F. Cohadon, C. N. Colacino, J. Colas, A. Colla, M. Colombini, A. Conte, R. Conte, D. Cook, T. R. Corbitt, M. Cordier, Neil J. Cornish, A. Corsi, C. A. Costa, M. W. Coughlin, J.-P. Coulon, P. Couvares, D. M. Coward, M. J. Cowart, D. C. Coyne, J. D. E. Creighton, A. M. Cruise, A. Cumming, L. Cunningham, E. Cuoco, R. M. Cutler, K. Dahl, S. L. Danilishin, R. Dannenberg, S. D’Antonio, K. Danzmann, V. Dattilo, B. Daudert, H. Daveloza, M. Davier, E. J. Daw, R. Day, T. Dayanga, R. De Rosa, D. DeBra, G. Debreczeni, W. Del Pozzo, M. Del Prete, T. Dent, V. Dergachev, R. DeRosa, R. DeSalvo, S. Dhurandhar, L. Di Fiore, A. Di Lieto, I. Di Palma, M. Di Paolo Emilio, A. Di Virgilio, M. Díaz, A. Dietz, F. Donovan, K. L. Dooley, M. Drago, R. W. P. Drever, J. C. Driggers, Zhihui Du, J.-C. Dumas, S. E. Dwyer, T. Eberle, M. Edgar, M. C. Edwards, A. Effler, P. Ehrens, G. Endrőczi, R. Engel, T. Etzel, K. Evans, M. Evans, T. M. Evans, M. Factourovich, V. Fafone, S. Fairhurst, Y. Fan, B. Farr, D. Fazi, H. Fehrmann, D. Feldbaum, F. Feroz, I. Ferrante, F. Fidecaro, L. S. Finn, I. Fiori, R. P. Fisher, R. 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Heidmann, M. C. Heintze, H. Heitmann, P. Hello, M. A. Hendry, I. S. Heng, A. W. Heptonstall, Víctor Gallego Herrera, M. Hewitson, S. Hild, D. Hoak, K. A. Hodge, K. Holt, M. Holtrop, S. Hooper, David J. Hosken, J. Hough, E. J. Howell, B. Hughey, S. Husa, S. H. Huttner, T. Huynh–Dinh, D. R. Ingram, R. Inta, T. Isogai, A. Ivanov, K. Izumi, M. Jacobson, E. James, Y. J. Jang, P. Jaranowski, E. Jesse, W. W. Johnson, D. I. Jones, Gareth Jones, R. Jones, L. Ju, P. Kalmus, V. Kalogera, S. Kandhasamy, G. Kang, J. B. Kanner, Rangachar Kasturi, E. Katsavounidis, W. Katzman, H. Kaufer, K. Kawabe, Seiji Kawamura, F. Kawazoe, D. B. Kelley, W. Kells, D. G. Keppel, Zoltán Keresztes, A. Khalaidovski, F. Y. Khalili, Е. А. Хазанов, B. Kim, C. Kim, H. Kim, K. Kim, N. Kim, Y.‐M. Kim, Peter King, D. L. Kinzel, J. S. Kissel, S. Klimenko, K. Kokeyama, V. Kondrashov, S. Koranda, W. Z. Korth, I. Kowalska, D. B. Kozak, O. Kranz, V. Kringel, S. Krishnamurthy, B. Krishnan, A. Królak, S. Kumar, P. 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Mercer, S. Meshkov, C. Messenger, M. S. Meyer, H. Miao, C. Michel, L. Milano, J. Miller, Y. Minenkov, V. P. Mitrofanov, G. Mitselmakher, R. Mittleman, O. Miyakawa, B. Moe, M. Mohan, Soumya D. Mohanty, S. R. P. Mohapatra, D. Moraru, G. Moreno, N. Morgado, A. Morgia, Toshiyuki Mori, S. R. Morriss, S. Mosca, K. Mossavi, B. Mours, C. M. Mow–Lowry, C. Mueller, G. Mueller, Suvodip Mukherjee, A. Mullavey, H. Müller‐Ebhardt, J. Münch, D. Murphy, P. G. Murray, A. Mytidis, T. Nash, L. Naticchioni, V. Necula, John H. Nelson, G. Newton, T. Nguyen, A. Nishizawa, A. Nitz, F. Nocera, D. Nolting, M. E. N. Normandin, L. K. Nuttall, E. Ochsner, J. O’Dell, E. Oelker, G. H. Ogin, J. J. Oh, S. H. Oh, B. O’Reilly, R. O’Shaughnessy, C. Osthelder, C. D. Ott, D. J. Ottaway, R. S. Ottens, H. Overmier, B. J. Owen, Amanda J. Page, G. Pagliaroli, L. Palladino, C. Palomba, Y. Pan, C. Pankow, F. Paoletti, M. A. Papa, M. Parisi, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, P. Patel, M. Pedraza, P. Peiris, L. 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Sato, P. R. Saulson, R. L. Savage, R. Schilling, R. Schnabel, R. M. S. Schofield, E. Schreiber, B. Schulz, B. F. Schutz, P. Schwinberg, J. Scott, S. M. Scott, F. Seifert, D. Sellers, D. Sentenac, A. Sergeev, D. A. Shaddock, M. Shaltev, B. Shapiro, P. Shawhan, D. H. Shoemaker, A. Sibley, X. Siemens, D. Sigg, A. Singer, L. Singer, A. M. Sintes, G. Skelton, B. J. J. Slagmolen, J. Slutsky, J. R. Smith, M. Smith, R. J. E. Smith, N. D. Smith-Lefebvre, K. Somiya, B. Sorazu, J. Soto, F. C. Speirits, L. Sperandio, Michael Stefszky, A. J. Stein, Leo C. Stein, E. Steinert, J. Steinlechner, S. Steinlechner, S. Steplewski, A. Stochino, R. Stone, K. A. Strain, S. E. Strigin, A. Stroeer, R. Sturani, A. L. Stuver, T. Z. Summerscales, M. Sung, S. Susmithan, P. J. Sutton, B. L. Swinkels, M. Tacca, L. Taffarello, D. Talukder, D. B. Tanner, S. P. Tarabrin, J. R. Taylor, R. Taylor, P. Thomas, K. A. Thorne, K. S. Thorne, E. Thrane, A. Thüring, K. V. Tokmakov, C. Tomlinson, A. Toncelli, M. Tonelli, O. 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Bibliographic record
VenuePhysical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D, Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Canadian institutionsCanadian Institute for Theoretical AstrophysicsPerimeter InstituteUniversity of Toronto
FundersIstituto Nazionale di Fisica NucleareCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationScience and Technology Facilities CouncilNational Science Foundation
KeywordsLIGOPhysicsAstrophysicsGravitational waveSolar massBinary black holeMass ratioBinAstronomySpinningRange (aeronautics)Binary numberStars
Abstract
We present the results of a weakly modeled burst search for gravitational waves from mergers of nonspinning intermediate mass black holes in the total mass range $100--450\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{M}}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$ and with the component mass ratios between $1\ensuremath{\mathbin:}1$ and $4\ensuremath{\mathbin:}1$. The search was conducted on data collected by the LIGO and Virgo detectors between November of 2005 and October of 2007. No plausible signals were observed by the search which constrains the astrophysical rates of the intermediate mass black holes mergers as a function of the component masses. In the most efficiently detected bin centered on $88+88\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{M}}_{\ensuremath{\bigodot}}$, for nonspinning sources, the rate density upper limit is 0.13 per ${\mathrm{Mpc}}^{3}$ per Myr at the 90% confidence level.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.004
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.368
Teacher spread0.340 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".
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Published2012
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