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Type: Journal article
Title: Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions
Author: Abbott, B.P.
LIGO Scientific Collaboration,
Virgo Collaboration,
Abbott, R.
Abbott, T.D.
Abernathy, M.R.
Acernese, F.
Ackley, K.
Adams, C.
Adams, T.
Addesso, P.
Adhikari, R.X.
Adya, V.B.
Affeldt, C.
Agathos, M.
Agatsuma, K.
Aggarwal, N.
Aguiar, O.D.
Aiello, L.
Ain, A.
et al.
Citation: Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2016; 93(12):122004-1-122004-20
Publisher: American Physical Society
Issue Date: 2016
ISSN: 1550-7998
1550-2368
Statement of
Responsibility: 
B. P. Abbott ... S. E. Hollitt ... D. J. Hosken ... E. J. King ... J. Munch ... D. J. Ottaway ... P. J. Veitch ... et al. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration)
Abstract: The gravitational-wave signal GW150914 was first identified on September 14, 2015, by searches for short-duration gravitational-wave transients. These searches identify time-correlated transients in multiple detectors with minimal assumptions about the signal morphology, allowing them to be sensitive to gravitational waves emitted by a wide range of sources including binary black hole mergers. Over the observational period from September 12 to October 20, 2015, these transient searches were sensitive to binary black hole mergers similar to GW150914 to an average distance of ∼600  Mpc. In this paper, we describe the analyses that first detected GW150914 as well as the parameter estimation and waveform reconstruction techniques that initially identified GW150914 as the merger of two black holes. We find that the reconstructed waveform is consistent with the signal from a binary black hole merger with a chirp mass of ∼30  M⊙ and a total mass before merger of ∼70  M⊙ in the detector frame.
Description: Published 7 June 2016
Rights: © 2016 American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004
Grant ID: ARC
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.93.122004
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