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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| author | Aggarwal, Nancy Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy P. Brown, N. M. Buikema, Aaron Donovan, Frederick J Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew Hiram Fritschel, Peter K Gras, Slawomir Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kontos, Antonios Libson, Adam A. MacInnis, Myron E Mason, Kenneth R Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, J. Mittleman, Richard K Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Yam, William Yu, Hang Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Aggarwal, Nancy Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy P. Brown, N. M. Buikema, Aaron Donovan, Frederick J Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew Hiram Fritschel, Peter K Gras, Slawomir Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kontos, Antonios Libson, Adam A. MacInnis, Myron E Mason, Kenneth R Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, J. Mittleman, Richard K Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Yam, William Yu, Hang Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E |
| author_sort | Aggarwal, Nancy |
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| description | 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 the range 2-600 Gpc[superscript -3] yr[superscript -1]. Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.© 2016 The American Astronomical Society |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1142722022-09-23T11:26:43Z SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) Aggarwal, Nancy Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy P. Brown, N. M. Buikema, Aaron Donovan, Frederick J Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew Hiram Fritschel, Peter K Gras, Slawomir Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kontos, Antonios Libson, Adam A. MacInnis, Myron E Mason, Kenneth R Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, J. Mittleman, Richard K Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Yam, William Yu, Hang Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology) MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research Aggarwal, Nancy Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy P. Brown, N. M. Buikema, Aaron Donovan, Frederick J Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew Hiram Fritschel, Peter K Gras, Slawomir Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kontos, Antonios Libson, Adam A. MacInnis, Myron E Mason, Kenneth R Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, J. Mittleman, Richard K Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Yam, William Yu, Hang Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E 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 the range 2-600 Gpc[superscript -3] yr[superscript -1]. Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.© 2016 The American Astronomical Society National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2018-03-23T18:45:59Z 2018-03-23T18:45:59Z 2016-11 2016-05 2018-02-16T16:27:18Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1538-4365 0067-0049 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114272 Abbott, B. P., et al. “SUPPLEMENT: ‘THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914’ (2016, ApJL, 833, L1).” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 227, no. 2, Nov. 2016, p. 14. © 2016 The American Astronomical Society https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0026-3877 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9635-7527 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9409-5757 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8196-9267 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1983-3187 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8150-7062 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6550-3045 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1347-0680 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2047-3166 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0219-9706 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2815-7387 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4147-2560 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1510-4921 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-0767 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8018-3278 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-6190 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2544-1596 http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf American Astronomical Society |
| spellingShingle | Aggarwal, Nancy Barsotti, Lisa Biscans, Sebastien Bodiya, Timothy P. Brown, N. M. Buikema, Aaron Donovan, Frederick J Essick, Reed Clasey Evans, Matthew Hiram Fritschel, Peter K Gras, Slawomir Isogai, Tomoki Katsavounidis, Erotokritos Kontos, Antonios Libson, Adam A. MacInnis, Myron E Mason, Kenneth R Matichard, Fabrice Mavalvala, Nergis Miller, J. Mittleman, Richard K Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan Oelker, Eric Glenn Shoemaker, David H Tse, Maggie Vaulin, Ruslan Vitale, Salvatore Weiss, Rainer Yam, William Yu, Hang Zhang, Fan Zucker, Michael E SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) |
| title | SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) |
| title_full | SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) |
| title_fullStr | SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) |
| title_full_unstemmed | SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) |
| title_short | SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1) |
| title_sort | supplement the rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced ligo observations surrounding gw150914 2016 apjl 833 l1 |
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