Template banks for binary black hole searches with numerical relativity waveforms

Prayush Kumar, Ilana MacDonald, Duncan A. Brown, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Kipp Cannon, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Abdul H. Mroué, Mark A. Scheel, Béla Szilágyi, and Anıl Zenginoğlu Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H4, Canada LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, 180 Dundas St. West, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z8, Canada Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA Theoretical Astrophysics 350-17, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA (Received 13 November 2013; published 18 February 2014)