Authors
Benjamin P Abbott, Rich Abbott, TD Abbott, Fausto Acernese, Kendall Ackley, Carl Adams, Thomas Adams, Paolo Addesso, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, Christoph Affeldt, Mohammad Afrough, Bhanu Agarwal, Michalis Agathos, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Nancy Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, Lorenzo Aiello, Anirban Ain, P Ajith, Bruce Allen, Gabrielle Allen, Annalisa Allocca, PA Altin, Alex Amato, Alena Ananyeva, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, SV Angelova, Sarah Antier, Stephen Appert, Koji Arai, MC Araya, JS Areeda, Nicolas Arnaud, KG Arun, Stefano Ascenzi, Gregory Ashton, M Ast, SM Aston, Pia Astone, DV Atallah, Peter Aufmuth, Carsten Aulbert, K AultONeal, Corey Austin, A Avila-Alvarez, Stanislav Babak, Philippe Bacon, MKM Bader, Sangwook Bae, Matthew Bailes, PT Baker, Francesca Baldaccini, Giulio Ballardin, SW Ballmer, Sharan Banagiri, JC Barayoga, SE Barclay, BC Barish, David Barker, Kevin Barkett, Fabrizio Barone, Bryan Barr, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Daniel Barta, SD Barthelmy, Jeffrey Bartlett, Imre Bartos, Riccardo Bassiri, Andrea Basti, JC Batch, Mateusz Bawaj, JC Bayley, Marco Bazzan, Bence Bécsy, Christian Beer, Michal Bejger, Imene Belahcene, AS Bell, BK Berger, Gerald Bergmann, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, JJ Bero, CPL Berry, Diego Bersanetti, Alessandro Bertolini, Joseph Betzwieser, Swetha Bhagwat, Rohan Bhandare, IA Bilenko, Garilynn Billingsley, CR Billman, Jeremy Birch, Ross Birney, Ofek Birnholtz, Sebastien Biscans, Sylvia Biscoveanu, Aparna Bisht, Massimiliano Bitossi, Christopher Biwer, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, Jonathan Blackman, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, Steven Bloemen, Oliver Bock, Nina Bode, Michel Boer, Gilles Bogaert, Alejandro Bohe, Francois Bondu, Edgard Bonilla, Romain Bonnand, BA Boom, Rolf Bork, Valerio Boschi, Sukanta Bose, Ken Bossie, Yann Bouffanais, Antonella Bozzi, Carlo Bradaschia, PR Brady, Marica Branchesi, JE Brau, Tristan Briant, Alain Brillet, Marc Brinkmann, Violette Brisson, Patrick Brockill, JE Broida, AF Brooks, DA Brown, DD Brown, Sharon Brunett, CC Buchanan, Aaron Buikema, Tomasz Bulik, HJ Bulten, Alessandra Buonanno, Damir Buskulic, Christelle Buy, RL Byer, Miriam Cabero, Laura Cadonati, Giampietro Cagnoli, Craig Cahillane
Publication date
2017/10/16
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Volume
119
Issue
16
Pages
161101
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
On August 17, 2017 at 12∶41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The signal, GW170817, was detected with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of 32.4 and a false-alarm-rate estimate of less than one per . We infer the component masses of the binary to be between 0.86 and , in agreement with masses of known neutron stars. Restricting the component spins to the range inferred in binary neutron stars, we find the component masses to be in the range , with the total mass of the system . The source was localized within a sky region of (90% probability) and had a luminosity distance of , the closest and most precisely localized gravitational-wave signal yet. The association with the -ray burst GRB 170817A, detected by Fermi-GBM 1.7 s after the coalescence …
Scholar articles
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