Talk detail

Participant	Prodi, Giovanni Andrea
Institution	Universitá di Trento and INFN - via Sommarive 14 - Trento - Trento - Italy

Session	GW2	Accepted	Yes	Order	6	Time	20' + 2'
Talk	Oral abstract	Title	Searching for intermediate mass black holes mergers
Co-authors	for the LSC and Virgo Collaborations
Abstract	Discovery of intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) would help shed light on the evolution of supermassive black holes and globular clusters. Gravitational waves emitted by the coalescence of lower mass IMBH binaries are expected to be detectable by long-arm ground-based interferometers, and astrophysical limits on the rate has already been set by LIGO and Virgo. Upcoming second generation interferometric detectors will significantly improve their sensitivity thus expanding the detection volume, as well as the range of detectable masses. In particular, we will discuss the prospects of searches for gravitational waves from IMBH binaries with total mass in the range 100-1000 Msun, whose detectable signal is dominated by the merger and ringdown phases. Work is in progress to enable a characterization of such events in terms of reconstruction of signal parameters.