First search for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries using TAMA300 data

Hideyuki Tagoshi*, Nobuyuki Kanda, Takahiro Tanaka, Daisuke Tatsumi, Souichi Telada, Masaki Ando, Koji Arai, Akito Araya, Hideki Asada, Mark A. Barton, Masa Katsu Fujimoto, Mitsuhiro Fukushima, Toshifumi Futamase, Gerhard Heinzel, Ge N.Ichi Horikoshi, Hideki Ishizuka, Norihiko Kamikubota, Keita Kawabe, Seiji Kawamura, Nobuki KawashimaYasufumi Kojima, Yoshihide Kozai, Kazuaki Kuroda, Namio Matsuda, Sumihiro Matsumura, Satoshi Miki, Norikatsu Mio, Osamu Miyakawa, Shoken Miyama, Shinji Miyoki, Eiichi Mizuno, Shigenori Moriwaki, Mitsuru Musha, Shigeo Nagano, Ke N.Ichi Nakagawa, Takashi Nakamura, Ken Ichi Nakao, Kenji Numata, Yujiro Ogawa, Masatake Ohashi, Naoko Ohishi, Akira Okutomi, Ken Ichi Oohara, Shigemi Otsuka, Yoshio Saito, Misao Sasaki, Shuichi Sato, Atsushi Sekiya, Masaru Shibata, Kazumichi Shirakata, Kentaro Somiya, Toshikazu Suzuki, Ryutaro Takahashi, Akiteru Takamori, Shinsuke Taniguchi, Kuniharu Tochikubo, Takayuki Tomaru, Kimio Tsubono, Nobuhiro Tsuda, Takashi Uchiyama, Akitoshi Ueda, Ken Ichi Ueda, Kozo Ueda, Koichi Waseda, Yuko Watanabe, Hiromi Yakura, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Toshitaka Yamazaki

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Abstract

We analyzed 6 hours of data from the TAMA300 detector by matched filtering, searching for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries. We incorporated a two-step hierarchical search strategy in matched filtering. We obtained an upper limit of 0.59/hour (C.L.=90%) on the event rate of inspirals of compact binaries with a mass between (Formula presented) and (Formula presented) and with a signal-to-noise ratio greater than 7.2. The distance of (Formula presented) binaries which produce the signal-to-noise ratio 7.2 was estimated to be 6.2 kpc (2.9 kpc) when the position of the source in the sky and the inclination angle of the binaries were optimal.

Original languageEnglish
Number of pages1
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume63
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2001 Jan 1
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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