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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...
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 ...
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black ...
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 2022-04-29T07:42:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-06-15; We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, was observed by the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on December 26, 2015 at 03:38:53 UTC. The signal was initially ...
Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations fo...
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 2022-04-29T07:52:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-09-14; We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, including several performed specifically to reproduce this event. Our calculations go beyond existing semianalytic models, because for all simulations - including sources with two independent, preces...
Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model
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 2022-04-29T07:53:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2016-01-01; This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 [Abbott et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016).]. Abbott et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016).] pre...
Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO's First...
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 2022-04-29T08:00:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-03-24; We employ gravitational-wave radiometry to map the stochastic gravitational wave background expected from a variety of contributing mechanisms and test the assumption of isotropy using data from the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory's (aLIGO) first observing run. We also searc...
Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO...
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 2022-04-29T08:02:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-03-24; A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW151226, the rate and mass of coalescing binary black holes appear to be greater than many previous expectations. As a result, th...
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 2022-04-29T08:04:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-04-01; Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, first published a century ago, was described by physicist Max Born as the greatest feat of human thinking about nature.We report on two major scientific breakthroughs involving key predictions of Einstein's theory: the first direct detection of gravitation...
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run
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 2022-04-29T08:07:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-02-16; We present the results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January 2016. The search algorithms use minimal assumptions on the signal morphology, so they are sensitive to a wide range of sourc...
Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and can...
Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; Ardid, M.; Aubert, J. J.; Avgitas, T.; Baret, B.; Barrios-Martí, J.; Basa, S.; Bertin, V.; Biagi, S.Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:09:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-07-15; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare; Ministry of Science and Technology; MPS España; National Research Foundation of Korea; Norsk Sykepleierforbund; Russian Foundation for Basic Research; Scottish Funding Council;...