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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:08:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-03-28; In Advanced LIGO, detection and astrophysical source parameter estimation of the binary black hole merger GW150914 requires a calibrated estimate of the gravitational-wave strain sensed by the detectors. Producing an estimate from each detector's differential arm length control loop readout signals requ...
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...