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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 135072 |
| Journal | Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics |
| Volume | 800 |
| Early online date | 31 Oct 2019 |
| Publication status | Published - 10 Jan 2020 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Abstract
Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). A close binary of CDOs orbiting in the interior of solar system bodies can be a loud source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the LIGO and VIRGO detectors. We perform the first search ever for this type of signal and rule out close binaries, with separations of order 300 m, orbiting near the center of the Sun with GW frequencies (twice the orbital frequency) between 50 and 550 Hz and CDO masses above ≈10−9M⊙. This mass limit is eight orders of magnitude lower than the mass probed in a LIGO search at extra galactic distances.
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- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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In: Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics, Vol. 800, 135072, 10.01.2020.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Search for compact dark matter objects in the solar system with LIGO data
AU - Horowitz, C. J.
AU - Papa, M. A.
AU - Reddy, S.
N1 - Funding Information: CJH thanks the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover for its hospitality. CJH is supported in part by DOE grants DE-FG02-87ER40365 and DE-SC0018083. SR acknowledges support from the US Department of Energy Grant No. DE-FG02-00ER41132. This research has made use of data, software and/or web tools obtained from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (https://www.gw-openscience.org), a service of LIGO Laboratory, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. LIGO is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Virgo is funded by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale della Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by Polish and Hungarian institutes.
PY - 2020/1/10
Y1 - 2020/1/10
N2 - Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). A close binary of CDOs orbiting in the interior of solar system bodies can be a loud source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the LIGO and VIRGO detectors. We perform the first search ever for this type of signal and rule out close binaries, with separations of order 300 m, orbiting near the center of the Sun with GW frequencies (twice the orbital frequency) between 50 and 550 Hz and CDO masses above ≈10−9M⊙. This mass limit is eight orders of magnitude lower than the mass probed in a LIGO search at extra galactic distances.
AB - Dark matter could be composed of compact dark objects (CDOs). A close binary of CDOs orbiting in the interior of solar system bodies can be a loud source of gravitational waves (GWs) for the LIGO and VIRGO detectors. We perform the first search ever for this type of signal and rule out close binaries, with separations of order 300 m, orbiting near the center of the Sun with GW frequencies (twice the orbital frequency) between 50 and 550 Hz and CDO masses above ≈10−9M⊙. This mass limit is eight orders of magnitude lower than the mass probed in a LIGO search at extra galactic distances.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135072
DO - 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135072
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VL - 800
JO - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
JF - Physics Letters, Section B: Nuclear, Elementary Particle and High-Energy Physics
SN - 0370-2693
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