Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors

Author(s): J Abadie , B P Abbott , R Abbott , M Abernathy , T Accadia , F Acernese , C Adams , R Adhikari , P Ajith , B Allen , G Allen , E Amador Ceron , R S Amin , S B Anderson , W G Anderson , F Antonucci , S Aoudia , M A Arain , M Araya , M Aronsson , K G Arun , Y Aso , S Aston , P Astone , D E Atkinson , P Aufmuth , C Aulbert , S Babak , P Baker , G Ballardin , S Ballmer , D Barker , S Barnum , F Barone , B Barr , P Barriga , L Barsotti , M Barsuglia , M A Barton , I Bartos , R Bassiri , M Bastarrika , J Bauchrowitz , Th S Bauer , B Behnke , M G Beker , M Benacquista , A Bertolini , J Betzwieser , N Beveridge , P T Beyersdorf , S Bigotta , I A Bilenko , G Billingsley , J Birch , S Birindelli , R Biswas , M Bitossi , M A Bizouard , E Black , J K Blackburn , L Blackburn , D Blair , B Bland , M Blom , A Blomberg , C Boccara , O Bock , T P Bodiya , R Bondarescu , F Bondu , L Bonelli , R Bork , M Born , S Bose , L Bosi , M Boyle , S Braccini , C Bradaschia , P R Brady , V B Braginsky , J E Brau , J Breyer , D O Bridges , A Brillet , M Brinkmann , V Brisson , M Britzger , A F Brooks , D A Brown , R Budzyński , T Bulik , H J Bulten , A Buonanno , J Burguet-Castell , O Burmeister , D Buskulic , R L Byer , L Cadonati , G Cagnoli , E Calloni , J B Camp , E Campagna , P Campsie , J Cannizzo , K C Cannon , B Canuel , J Cao , C Capano , F Carbognani , S Caride , S Caudill , M Cavaglià , F Cavalier , R Cavalieri , G Cella , C Cepeda , E Cesarini , T Chalermsongsak , E Chalkley , P Charlton , E Chassande Mottin , S Chelkowski , Y Chen , A Chincarini , N Christensen , S S Y Chua , C T Y Chung , D Clark , J Clark , J H Clayton , F Cleva , E Coccia , C N Colacino , J Colas , A Colla , M Colombini , R Conte , D Cook , T R Corbitt , C Corda , N Cornish , A Corsi , C A Costa , J P Coulon , D Coward , D C Coyne , J D E Creighton , T D Creighton , A M Cruise , R M Culter , A Cumming , L Cunningham , E Cuoco , K Dahl , S L Danilishin , R Dannenberg , S D'Antonio , K Danzmann , A Dari , K Das , V Dattilo , B Daudert , M Davier , G Davies , A Davis , E J Daw , R Day , T Dayanga , R De Rosa , D DeBra , J Degallaix , M del Prete , V Dergachev , R DeRosa , R DeSalvo , P Devanka , S Dhurandhar , L Di Fiore , A Di Lieto , I Di Palma , M Di Paolo Emilio , A Di Virgilio , M Díaz , A Dietz , F Donovan , K L Dooley , E E Doomes , S Dorsher , E S D Douglas , M Drago , R W P Drever , J C Driggers , J Dueck , J C Dumas , T Eberle , M Edgar , M Edwards , A Effler , P Ehrens , R Engel , T Etzel , M Evans , T Evans , V Fafone , S Fairhurst , Y Fan , B F Farr , D Fazi , H Fehrmann , D Feldbaum , I Ferrante , F Fidecaro , L S Finn , I Fiori , R Flaminio , M Flanigan , K Flasch , S Foley , C Forrest , E Forsi , N Fotopoulos , J D Fournier , J Franc , S Frasca , F Frasconi , M Frede , M Frei , Z Frei , A Freise , R Frey , T T Fricke , D Friedrich , P Fritschel , V V Frolov , P Fulda , M Fyffe , L Gammaitoni , J A Garofoli , F Garufi , G Gemme , E Genin , A Gennai , I Gholami , S Ghosh , J A Giaime , S Giampanis , K D Giardina , A Giazotto , C Gill , E Goetz , L M Goggin , G González , M L Gorodetsky , S Goßler , R Gouaty , C Graef , M Granata , A Grant , S Gras , C Gray , R J S Greenhalgh , A M Gretarsson , C Greverie , R Grosso , H Grote , S Grunewald , G M Guidi , E K Gustafson , R Gustafson , B Hage , P Hall , J M Hallam , D Hammer , G Hammond , J Hanks , C Hanna , J Hanson , J Harms , G M Harry , I W Harry , E D Harstad , K Haughian , K Hayama , J Heefner , H Heitmann , P Hello , I S Heng , A Heptonstall , M Hewitson , S Hild , E Hirose , D Hoak , K A Hodge , K Holt , D J Hosken , J Hough , E Howell , D Hoyland , D Huet , B Hughey , S Husa , S H Huttner , T Huynh-Dinh , D R Ingram , R Inta , T Isogai , A Ivanov , P Jaranowski , W W Johnson , D I Jones , G Jones , R Jones , L Ju ,   P Kalmus , V Kalogera , S Kandhasamy , J Kanner , E Katsavounidis , K Kawabe , S Kawamura , F Kawazoe , W Kells , D G Keppel , A Khalaidovski , F Y Khalili , E A Khazanov , C Kim , H Kim , P J King , D L Kinzel , J S Kissel , S Klimenko , V Kondrashov , R Kopparapu , S Koranda , I Kowalska , D Kozak , T Krause , V Kringel , S Krishnamurthy , B Krishnan , A Królak , G Kuehn , J Kullman , R Kumar , P Kwee , M Landry , M Lang , B Lantz , N Lastzka , A Lazzarini , P Leaci , J Leong , I Leonor , N Leroy , N Letendre , J Li , T G F Li , H Lin , P E Lindquist , N A Lockerbie , D Lodhia , M Lorenzini , V Loriette , M Lormand , G Losurdo , P Lu , J Luan , M Lubinski , A Lucianetti , H Lück , A Lundgren , B Machenschalk , M MacInnis , J M Mackowski , M Mageswaran , K Mailand , E Majorana , C Mak , N Man , I Mandel , V Mandic , M Mantovani , F Marchesoni , F Marion , S Márka , Z Márka , E Maros , J Marque , F Martelli , I W Martin , R M Martin , J N Marx , K Mason , A Masserot , F Matichard , L Matone , R A Matzner , N Mavalvala , R McCarthy , D E McClelland , S C McGuire , G McIntyre , G McIvor , D J A McKechan , G Meadors , M Mehmet , T Meier , A Melatos , A C Melissinos , G Mendell , D F Menéndez , R A Mercer , L Merill , S Meshkov , C Messenger , M S Meyer , H Miao , C Michel , L Milano , J Miller , Y Minenkov , Y Mino , S Mitra , V P Mitrofanov , G Mitselmakher , R Mittleman , B Moe , M Mohan , S D Mohanty , S R P Mohapatra , D Moraru , J Moreau , G Moreno , N Morgado , A Morgia , T Morioka , K Mors , S Mosca , V Moscatelli , K Mossavi , B Mours , C MowLowry , G Mueller , S Mukherjee , A Mullavey , H Müller-Ebhardt , J Munch , P G Murray , T Nash , R Nawrodt , J Nelson , I Neri , G Newton , A Nishizawa , F Nocera , D Nolting , E Ochsner , J O'Dell , G H Ogin , R G Oldenburg , B O'Reilly , R O'Shaughnessy , C Osthelder , D J Ottaway , R S Ottens , H Overmier , B J Owen , A Page , G Pagliaroli , L Palladino , C Palomba , Y Pan , C Pankow , F Paoletti , M A Papa , S Pardi , M Pareja , M Parisi , A Pasqualetti , R Passaquieti , D Passuello , P Patel , M Pedraza , L Pekowsky , S Penn , C Peralta , A Perreca , G Persichetti , M Pichot , M Pickenpack , F Piergiovanni , M Pietka , L Pinard , I M Pinto , M Pitkin , H J Pletsch , M V Plissi , R Poggiani , F Postiglione , M Prato , V Predoi , L R Price , M Prijatelj , M Principe , S Privitera , R Prix , G A Prodi , L Prokhorov , O Puncken , M Punturo , P Puppo , V Quetschke , F J Raab , O Rabaste , D S Rabeling , T Radke , H Radkins , P Raffai , M Rakhmanov , B Rankins , P Rapagnani , V Raymond , V Re , C M Reed , T Reed , T Regimbau , S Reid , D H Reitze , F Ricci , R Riesen , K Riles , P Roberts , N A Robertson , F Robinet , C Robinson , E L Robinson , A Rocchi , S Roddy , C Röver , S Rogstad , L Rolland , J Rollins , J D Romano , R Romano , J H Romie , D Rosińska , S Rowan , A Rüdiger , P Ruggi , K Ryan , S Sakata , M Sakosky , F Salemi , L Sammut , L Sancho de la Jordana , V Sandberg , V Sannibale , L Santamaría , G Santostasi , S Saraf , B Sassolas , B S Sathyaprakash , S Sato , M Satterthwaite , P R Saulson , R Savage , R Schilling , R Schnabel , R Schofield , B Schulz , B F Schutz , P Schwinberg , J Scott , S M Scott , A C Searle , F Seifert , D Sellers , A S Sengupta , D Sentenac , A Sergeev , D A Shaddock , B Shapiro , P Shawhan , D H Shoemaker , A Sibley , X Siemens , D Sigg , A Singer , A M Sintes , G Skelton , B J J Slagmolen , J Slutsky , J R Smith , M R Smith , N D Smith , K Somiya , B Sorazu , F C Speirits , A J Stein , L C Stein , S Steinlechner , S Steplewski , A Stochino , R Stone , K A Strain , S Strigin , A Stroeer , R Sturani , A L Stuver , T Z Summerscales , M Sung , S Susmithan , P J Sutton , B Swinkels , D Talukder , D B Tanner , S P Tarabrin , J R Taylor , R Taylor , P Thomas , K A Thorne , K S Thorne , E Thrane , A Thüring , C Titsler , K V Tokmakov , A Toncelli , M Tonelli , C Torres , C I Torrie , E Tournefier , F Travasso , G Traylor , M Trias , J Trummer , K Tseng , D Ugolini , K Urbanek , H Vahlbruch , B Vaishnav , G Vajente , M Vallisneri , J F J van den Brand , C Van Den Broeck , S van der Putten , M V van der Sluys , A A van Veggel , S Vass , R Vaulin , M Vavoulidis , A Vecchio , G Vedovato , J Veitch , P J Veitch , C Veltkamp , D Verkindt , F Vetrano , A Viceré , A Villar , J-Y Vinet , H Vocca , C Vorvick , S P Vyachanin , S J Waldman , L Wallace , A Wanner , R L Ward , M Was , P Wei , M Weinert , A J Weinstein , R Weiss , L Wen , S Wen , P Wessels , M West , T Westphal , K Wette , J T Whelan , S E Whitcomb , D J White , B F Whiting , C Wilkinson , P A Willems , L Williams , B Willke , L Winkelmann , W Winkler , C C Wipf , A G Wiseman , G Woan , R Wooley , J Worden , I Yakushin , H Yamamoto , K Yamamoto , D Yeaton-Massey , S Yoshida , P P Yu , M Yvert , M Zanolin , L Zhang , Z Zhang , C Zhao , N Zotov , M E Zucker , J Zweizig , K Belczynski , The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration

Publication date (Electronic): July 16 2010

Journal: Classical and Quantum Gravity

Publisher: IOP Publishing