Observational Limit on Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars in the 
Galaxy

Allen, Bruce; Blackburn, J. K.; Brady, P. R.; Creighton, J. D. E.; Creighton, T.; Droz, S.; Gillespie, A. D.; Hughes, S. A.; Kawamura, S.; Lyons, T. T.; Mason, J. E.; Owen, B. J.; Raab, F.; Regehr, M. W.; Sathyaprakash, B. S.; Savage, R. L.; Whitcomb, S.; Wiseman, A. G.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1498

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Observational Limit on Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars in the Galaxy

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Allen, Bruce
Observational Relativity and Cosmology, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Allen, B., Blackburn, J. K., Brady, P. R., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T., Droz, S., et al. (1999). Observational Limit on Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars in the Galaxy. Physical Review Letters, 83(8), 1498-1501. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1498.

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Using optimal matched filtering, we search 25 hours of data from the LIGO 40-m prototype laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector for gravitational-wave chirps emitted by coalescing binary systems within our Galaxy. This is the first test of this filtering technique on real interferometric data. An upper limit on the rate R of neutron star binary inspirals in our Galaxy is obtained: with 90% confidence, R<0.5 h-1. Similar experiments with LIGO interferometers will provide constraints on the population of tight binary neutron star systems in the Universe.