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Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run

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Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run. / LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration.
In: Physical review letters, Vol. 129, No. 6, 061104, 05.08.2022.

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration 2022, 'Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run', Physical review letters, vol. 129, no. 6, 061104. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2022). Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run. Physical review letters, 129(6), Article 061104. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run. Physical review letters. 2022 Aug 5;129(6):061104. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.061104

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration. / Search for Subsolar-Mass Binaries in the First Half of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observing Run. In: Physical review letters. 2022 ; Vol. 129, No. 6.

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abstract = "We report on a search for compact binary coalescences where at least one binary component has a mass between 0.2 M and 1.0 M in Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo data collected between 1 April 2019 1500 UTC and 1 October 2019 1500 UTC. We extend our previous analyses in two main ways: we include data from the Virgo detector and we allow for more unequal mass systems, with mass ratio q≥0.1. We do not report any gravitational-wave candidates. The most significant trigger has a false alarm rate of 0.14 yr-1. This implies an upper limit on the merger rate of subsolar binaries in the range [220-24200] Gpc-3 yr-1, depending on the chirp mass of the binary. We use this upper limit to derive astrophysical constraints on two phenomenological models that could produce subsolar-mass compact objects. One is an isotropic distribution of equal-mass primordial black holes. Using this model, we find that the fraction of dark matter in primordial black holes in the mass range 0.2 M",
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