Article
The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
12-10-2016
Disciplines
Abstract/Description
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 signal. At the detection statistic threshold corresponding to that observed for GW150914, our search of the 16 days of simultaneous two-detector observational data is estimated to have a false-alarm rate (FAR) of
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/833/1/L1
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society
Citation Information
B. P. Abbott, K. Gill, B. Hughey, M. J. Szczepańczyk, et al.. "The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914" The Astrophysical Journal Letters Vol. 833 Iss. L1 (2016) p. 1 - 8 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/michele_zanolin/32/
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