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GW150914: The advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:32:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-03-31; Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016. With a strain sensitivity of 10-23/Hz at 100 Hz, the product of observable volume and measurement time exceede...
GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from bi...
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:34:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-03-31; The LIGO detection of the gravitational wave transient GW150914, from the inspiral and merger of two black holes with masses 30M, suggests a population of binary black holes with relatively high mass. This observation implies that the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes, cre...
Tests of General Relativity with GW150914
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:35:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-05-31; Science and Technology Facilities Council; The LIGO detection of GW150914 provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large-velocity, highly nonlinear regime, and to witness the final merger of the binary and the excitation of uniquely relativisti...
Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:37:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-07; European Commission; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; Ministry of Science and Technology; Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; National Research Foundation of Korea; National Stroke Foundation; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund; Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Scottish Fundi...
GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with ...
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:39:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-07; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; Ministry of Science and Technology; Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences; National Research Foundation of Korea; National Stroke Foundation; Hungarian Scientific Research Fund; Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Scottish Funding Council; Science a...
Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:40:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-14; On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the source and its parameters. The data around the time of the event were analyzed coherently across the LIGO network using a suite ...
High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with...
Adrián-Martínez, S.; Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Ardid, M.; Aubert, J. J.; Avgitas, T.; Baret, B.; Barrios-Martí, J.; Basa, S.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:43:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-23; We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015. We search for coincident neutrino candidates within the data recorded by the IceCube and Antares neutrino detectors. A possible joi...
Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration rad...
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:48:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-20; Science and Technology Facilities Council; We present an archival search for transient gravitational-wave bursts in coincidence with 27 single-pulse triggers from Green Bank Telescope pulsar surveys, using the LIGO, Virgo, and GEO interferometer network. We also discuss a check for gravitational-wave si...
First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernov...
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:55:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-11-15; We present results from a search for gravitational-wave bursts coincident with two core-collapse supernovae observed optically in 2007 and 2011. We employ data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO), the Virgo gravitational-wave observatory, and the GEO 600 gravitational-wav...
Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T07:26:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-02-11; On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz with a peak gravitational-wave strain of 1.0×10-21. It matches the wa...