Searches for continuous gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 and XTE J1705-305

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We report here the non-detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron star systems and neutron-star--black-hole systems during the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. In particular we searched for gravitational wave signals from binary neutron star systems with component masses textdollar1,3] Mtextunderscoretextbraceleftodottextbracerighttextdollar and component dimensionless spins textdollar.05star--black-hole systems with the same neutron star parameters, black hole mass textdollar2,99] Mtextunderscoretextbraceleftodottextbraceright and find that they could have detected the merger of binary neutron star systems with component mass distributions of .35.13 Mtextunderscoretextbraceleftodottextbracerightweighted average distance of textdollarsim0Mpc, and for neutron-star--black-hole systems with neutron star masses of .4Mtextunderscoreodottextdollar and black hole masses of at least Mtextunderscoreodot a volume-weighted average distance of at least textdollarsim10Mpc. From this we constrain with 902,600 Gpctextdollartextasciicircum3textbracerighttextdollaryrtextdollartextasciicircum1textbracerightneutron star systems and less than 3,600 Gpctextdollartextasciicircum3textbracerighttextdollaryrtextdollartextasciicircum1textbracerightstar--black-hole systems. We find that if no detection of neutron-star binary mergers is made in the next two Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observing runs we would place significant constraints on the merger rates. Finally, assuming a rate of 0textasciicircum20textbracerighttextunderscore7textbracerighttextdollarGpctextdollartextasciicircum3textbracerighttextdollaryrtextdollartextasciicircum1textbracerightray bursts have binary-neutron-star (neutron-star--black-hole) progenitors we can use our 90ray burst to be greater than textdollar.3textasciicircum1.7textbracerighttextunderscore1.1textbracerighttextbracerighttextasciicircumtextbraceleftcirctextbracerighttextdollar.3textasciicircum3.1textbracerighttextunderscore1.9textbracerighttextbracerighttextasciicircumtextbraceleftcirctextbraceright.

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