Searching for Gravitational Waves from Binary Inspirals with LIGO

TL;DR

This paper reviews the status and progress of LIGO's search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals, highlighting the transition from the first to the second scientific run and methodological improvements.

Contribution

It provides a comparative overview of search methods and results between LIGO's first and second scientific runs, outlining future goals.

Findings

Results from LIGO's first scientific run (S1) are summarized.

Differences in search methods between S1 and S2 are described.

Goals for the upcoming S2 data analysis are outlined.

Abstract

We describe the current status of the search for gravitational waves from inspiralling compact binary systems in LIGO data. We review the result from the first scientific run of LIGO (S1). We present the goals of the search of data taken in the second scientific run (S2) and describe the differences between the methods used in S1 and S2.