Authors
Benjamin P Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, Fausto Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, Paolo Addesso, RX Adhikari, VB Adya, Christoph Affeldt, M Agathos, K Agatsuma, N Aggarwal, OD Aguiar, L Aiello, A Ain, P Ajith, Bruce Allen, Annalisa Allocca, PA Altin, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, K Arai, MC Araya, CC Arceneaux, JS Areeda, N Arnaud, KG Arun, S Ascenzi, G Ashton, M Ast, SM Aston, P Astone, P Aufmuth, C Aulbert, S Babak, P Bacon, MKM Bader, PT Baker, Francesca Baldaccini, G Ballardin, SW Ballmer, JC Barayoga, SE Barclay, BC Barish, D Barker, Fabrizio Barone, B Barr, L Barsotti, M Barsuglia, D Barta, J Bartlett, I Bartos, R Bassiri, Andrea Basti, JC Batch, C Baune, V Bavigadda, Marco Bazzan, M Bejger, AS Bell, BK Berger, G Bergmann, CPL Berry, D Bersanetti, A Bertolini, J Betzwieser, S Bhagwat, R Bhandare, IA Bilenko, G Billingsley, J Birch, R Birney, O Birnholtz, S Biscans, A Bisht, M Bitossi, C Biwer, MA Bizouard, JK Blackburn, CD Blair, DG Blair, RM Blair, S Bloemen, O Bock, M Boer, G Bogaert, C Bogan, A Bohe, C Bond, F Bondu, R Bonnand, BA Boom, R Bork, Valerio Boschi, S Bose, Y Bouffanais, A Bozzi, C Bradaschia, PR Brady, VB Braginsky, Marica Branchesi, JE Brau, T Briant, A Brillet, M Brinkmann, V Brisson, P Brockill, JE Broida, AF Brooks, DA Brown, DD Brown, NM Brown, S Brunett, CC Buchanan, A Buikema, T Bulik, HJ Bulten, A Buonanno, D Buskulic, C Buy, RL Byer, M Cabero, L Cadonati, G Cagnoli, C Cahillane, J Calderón Bustillo, T Callister, E Calloni, JB Camp, KC Cannon, J Cao, CD Capano, E Capocasa, F Carbognani, S Caride, J Casanueva Diaz, C Casentini, S Caudill, M Cavaglià, F Cavalier, R Cavalieri, G Cella, CB Cepeda, L Cerboni Baiardi, G Cerretani, E Cesarini, SJ Chamberlin
Publication date
2016/10/1
Journal
Physical Review X
Volume
6
Issue
4
Pages
041015
Publisher
American Physical Society
Description
The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper, we present full results from a search for binary black hole merger signals with total masses up to and detailed implications from our observations of these systems. Our search, based on general-relativistic models of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole systems, unambiguously identified two signals, GW150914 and GW151226, with a significance of greater than over the observing period. It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with substantially lower significance and with an 87% probability of being of astrophysical origin. We provide detailed estimates of the parameters of the observed systems. Both GW150914 and GW151226 provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the two …
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