GW150914: First Results from the Search for Binary Black Hole Coalescence with Advanced LIGO

Authors

B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Abbott, Louisiana State University
T. D. Abbott, University of Salerno
M. R. Abernathy, California Institute of Technology
F. Acernese, University of Florida
K. Ackley, Universite de Savoie
C. Adams, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
Marc Favata, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Shaon Ghosh, Montclair State UniversityFollow
Rodica Martin, Montclair State UniversityFollow

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 between 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

Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; 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.