THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914

THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914

A transient gravitational-wave signal, GW150914, was identified in the twin Advanced LIGO detectors on 2015 September 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC. To assess the implications of this discovery, the detectors remained in operation with unchanged configurations over a period of 39 days around the time of the...

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Main Authors: LIGO Collaboration (Author), Virgo Collaboration (Author), Aggarwal, Nancy (Contributor), Barsotti, Lisa (Contributor), Biscans, Sebastien (Contributor), Bodiya, Timothy P. (Contributor), Brown, N. M. (Contributor), Buikema, Aaron (Contributor), Donovan, Frederick J (Contributor), Essick, Reed Clasey (Contributor), Evans, Matthew J (Contributor), Fritschel, Peter K (Contributor), Gras, Slawomir (Contributor), Isogai, Tomoki (Contributor), Katsavounidis, Erotokritos (Contributor), Kontos, Antonios (Contributor), Libson, Adam A. (Contributor), Lynch, Ryan Christopher (Contributor), MacInnis, Myron E (Contributor), Mason, Kenneth R (Contributor), Matichard, Fabrice (Contributor), Mavalvala, Nergis (Contributor), Miller, John (Contributor), Mittleman, Richard K (Contributor), Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan (Contributor), Oelker, Eric Glenn (Contributor), Shoemaker, David H (Contributor), Tse, Maggie (Contributor), Vaulin, Ruslan (Contributor), Vitale, Salvatore (Contributor), Weiss, Rainer (Contributor), Kuwayama, Hajime (Contributor), Yu, H. (Contributor), Zucker, Michael E (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2018-03-20T18:43:04Z.
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