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 2022-04-29T07:42:17Z (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 ...