Sub-threshold binary neutron star search in Advanced LIGO's first observing run

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We present a search for gravitational waves from double neutron star binaries inspirals in Advanced LIGO's first observing run.

• The search considers a narrow range of binary chirp masses motivated by the population of known double neutron star binaries in the nearby universe.
• This search differs from previously published results by providing the most sensitive published survey of neutron stars in Advanced LIGO's first observing run within this narrow mass range and including times when only one of the two LIGO detectors was in operation in the analysis.
• The search was sensitive to binary neutron star inspirals to an average distance of ~85 Mpc over 93.2 days.