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LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and study gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of gravitational wa…

astro-ph2007★ 141 cited

The Total Merger Rate of Compact Object Binaries In The Local Universe

Aleksander Sadowski, Krzysztof Belczynski, Tomasz Bulik +3

Using a population synthesis approach, we compute the total merger rate in the local Universe for double neutron stars, double black holes, and black hole -- neutron star binaries.…

astro-ph2007★ 186 cited

Host Galaxies Catalog Used in LIGO Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events

Ravi Kumar Kopparapu, Chad R. Hanna, Vicky Kalogera +4

An up-to-date catalog of nearby galaxies considered as hosts of binary compact objects is provided with complete information about sky position, distance, extinction-corrected blue…

gr-qc2007★ 195 cited

Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott, M. Kramer +1

We present upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars based on data from the third and fourth science runs of the LIGO and GEO600 gravitational wave dete…

astro-ph2007★ 67 cited

Dynamical Interactions and the Black Hole Merger Rate of the Universe

Ryan O'Leary, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Frederic Rasio

Binary black holes can form efficiently in dense young stellar clusters, such as the progenitors of globular clusters, via a combination of gravitational segregation and cluster ev…