Searching for asymmetric and heavily precessing Binary Black Holes in the gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo third Observing Run
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| author | Schmidt, Stefano Caudill, Sarah Creighton, Jolien D. E. Tsukada, Leo Ray, Anarya Adhicary, Shomik Baral, Pratyusava Baylor, Amanda Cannon, Kipp Cousins, Bryce Ewing, Becca Fong, Heather George, Richard N. Godwin, Patrick Hanna, Chad Harada, Reiko Huang, Yun-Jing Huxford, Rachael Joshi, Prathamesh Kennington, James Kuwahara, Soichiro Li, Alvin K. Y. Magee, Ryan Meacher, Duncan Messick, Cody Morisaki, Soichiro Mukherjee, Debnandini Niu, Wanting Pace, Alex Posnansky, Cort Sachdev, Surabhi Sakon, Shio Singh, Divya Shah, Urja Tapia, Ron Tsutsui, Takuya Ueno, Koh Viets, Aaron Wade, Leslie Wade, Madeline |
| author_facet | Schmidt, Stefano Caudill, Sarah Creighton, Jolien D. E. Tsukada, Leo Ray, Anarya Adhicary, Shomik Baral, Pratyusava Baylor, Amanda Cannon, Kipp Cousins, Bryce Ewing, Becca Fong, Heather George, Richard N. Godwin, Patrick Hanna, Chad Harada, Reiko Huang, Yun-Jing Huxford, Rachael Joshi, Prathamesh Kennington, James Kuwahara, Soichiro Li, Alvin K. Y. Magee, Ryan Meacher, Duncan Messick, Cody Morisaki, Soichiro Mukherjee, Debnandini Niu, Wanting Pace, Alex Posnansky, Cort Sachdev, Surabhi Sakon, Shio Singh, Divya Shah, Urja Tapia, Ron Tsutsui, Takuya Ueno, Koh Viets, Aaron Wade, Leslie Wade, Madeline |
| contents | Leveraging the features of the GstLAL pipeline, we present the results of a matched filtering search for asymmetric binary black hole systems with heavily misaligned spins in LIGO and Virgo data taken during the third observing run. Our target systems show strong imprints of precession whereas current searches have non-optimal sensitivity in detecting them. After measuring the sensitivity improvement brought by our search over standard spin-aligned searches, we report the detection of 30 gravitational wave events already discovered in the latest version of the Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog. However, we do not find any additional significant gravitational wave candidates. Our results allow us to place an upper limit of $R_{90\%} = 0.28^{+0.33}_{-0.04}\;\; \mathrm{Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}$ on the merger rate of a hypothetical subpopulation of asymmetric, heavily precessing signals, not identified by other searches. Since our upper limit is consistent with the latest rate estimates from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, our findings rule out the existence of a yet-to-be-discovered population of precessing binaries. |
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| spellingShingle | Searching for asymmetric and heavily precessing Binary Black Holes in the gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo third Observing Run Schmidt, Stefano Caudill, Sarah Creighton, Jolien D. E. Tsukada, Leo Ray, Anarya Adhicary, Shomik Baral, Pratyusava Baylor, Amanda Cannon, Kipp Cousins, Bryce Ewing, Becca Fong, Heather George, Richard N. Godwin, Patrick Hanna, Chad Harada, Reiko Huang, Yun-Jing Huxford, Rachael Joshi, Prathamesh Kennington, James Kuwahara, Soichiro Li, Alvin K. Y. Magee, Ryan Meacher, Duncan Messick, Cody Morisaki, Soichiro Mukherjee, Debnandini Niu, Wanting Pace, Alex Posnansky, Cort Sachdev, Surabhi Sakon, Shio Singh, Divya Shah, Urja Tapia, Ron Tsutsui, Takuya Ueno, Koh Viets, Aaron Wade, Leslie Wade, Madeline General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Leveraging the features of the GstLAL pipeline, we present the results of a matched filtering search for asymmetric binary black hole systems with heavily misaligned spins in LIGO and Virgo data taken during the third observing run. Our target systems show strong imprints of precession whereas current searches have non-optimal sensitivity in detecting them. After measuring the sensitivity improvement brought by our search over standard spin-aligned searches, we report the detection of 30 gravitational wave events already discovered in the latest version of the Gravitational Wave Transient Catalog. However, we do not find any additional significant gravitational wave candidates. Our results allow us to place an upper limit of $R_{90\%} = 0.28^{+0.33}_{-0.04}\;\; \mathrm{Gpc^{-3}yr^{-1}}$ on the merger rate of a hypothetical subpopulation of asymmetric, heavily precessing signals, not identified by other searches. Since our upper limit is consistent with the latest rate estimates from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration, our findings rule out the existence of a yet-to-be-discovered population of precessing binaries. |
| title | Searching for asymmetric and heavily precessing Binary Black Holes in the gravitational wave data from the LIGO and Virgo third Observing Run |
| topic | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17832 |