GW150914: First Results from the Search for Binary Black Hole Coalescence with Advanced LIGO
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-7-2016
Journal / Book Title
Physical Review D
Abstract
On September 14, 2015, at 0950:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole merger GW150914. We report the results of a matched-filter search using relativistic models of compact-object binaries that recovered GW150914 as the most significant event during the coincident observations betweenn the two LIGO detectors from September 12 to October 20, 2015 GW150914 was observed with a matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 24 and a false alarm rate estimated to be less than 1 event per 203000 years, equivalent to a significance greater than 5.1 σ.
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003
MSU Digital Commons Citation
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Favata, Marc; Ghosh, Shaon; and Martin, Rodica, "GW150914: First Results from the Search for Binary Black Hole Coalescence with Advanced LIGO" (2016). Department of Physics and Astronomy Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 67.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/physics-astron-facpubs/67
Published Citation
Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., ... & Baiardi, L. C. (2016). GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 93(12), 122003.
Comments
This work is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration. Additional authors may be found on the publication.