SUPPLEMENT: "THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)

This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient (GW) signal GW150914. In that work we reported various rate estimates whose 90% confidence intervals fell in t...

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Main Authors: 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 Hiram (Contributor), Fritschel, Peter K (Contributor), Gras, Slawomir (Contributor), Isogai, Tomoki (Contributor), Katsavounidis, Erotokritos (Contributor), Kontos, Antonios (Contributor), Libson, Adam A. (Contributor), MacInnis, Myron E (Contributor), Mason, Kenneth R (Contributor), Matichard, Fabrice (Contributor), Mavalvala, Nergis (Contributor), Miller, J. (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), Yam, William (Contributor), Yu, Hang (Contributor), Zhang, Fan (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)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society, 2018-03-23T18:45:59Z.
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