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, Virgo Collaboration, Aggarwal, Nancy, Barsotti, Lisa, Biscans, Sebastien, Bodiya, Timothy P., Brown, N. M., Buikema, Aaron, Donovan, Frederick J, Essick, Reed Clasey, Evans, Matthew J, Fritschel, Peter K, Gras, Slawomir, Isogai, Tomoki, Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, Kontos, Antonios, Libson, Adam A., Lynch, Ryan Christopher, MacInnis, Myron E, Mason, Kenneth R, Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis, Miller, John, Mittleman, Richard K, Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan, Oelker, Eric Glenn, Shoemaker, David H, Tse, Maggie, Vaulin, Ruslan, Vitale, Salvatore, Weiss, Rainer, Kuwayama, Hajime, Yu, H., Zucker, Michael E
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Published: American Astronomical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114238
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