SUPPLEMENT: "THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)

被引:77
作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [1 ]
Acernese, F. [3 ,4 ]
Ackley, K.
Adams, C. [6 ]
Adams, T.
Addesso, P. [3 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [8 ]
Affeldt, C. [8 ]
Agathos, M. [9 ]
Agatsuma, K. [9 ]
Aggarwal, N. [10 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [11 ]
Aiello, L. [12 ,13 ]
Ain, A. [1 ,14 ]
Ajith, P. [15 ]
Allen, B. [8 ,16 ,17 ]
Allocca, A. [18 ,19 ]
Altin, P. A. [20 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [16 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Arceneaux, C. C. [21 ]
Areeda, J. S. [22 ]
Arnaud, N. [23 ]
Arun, K. G. [24 ]
Ascenzi, S. [13 ,25 ]
Ashton, G. [26 ]
Ast, M. [27 ]
Aston, S. M. [6 ]
Astone, P. [28 ]
Aufmuth, P. [8 ]
Aulbert, C. [8 ]
Babak, S. [29 ]
Bacon, P. [30 ]
Bader, M. K. M. [9 ]
Baker, P. T. [31 ]
Baldaccini, F. [32 ,33 ]
Ballardin, G. [34 ]
Ballmer, S. W. [35 ]
Barayoga, J. C. [1 ]
Barclay, S. E. [36 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, D. [37 ]
Barone, F. [3 ,4 ]
Barr, B. [36 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[4] INFN, Sez Napoli, Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[5] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[6] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[7] Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, CNRS IN2P3, LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[8] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Nikhef, Sci Pk, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[10] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[11] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[12] INFN, Gran Sasso Sci Inst, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[13] INFN, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[14] Inter Univ Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[15] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
[16] Univ Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[17] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[18] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[19] INFN, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[20] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[21] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[22] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[23] Univ Paris Saclay, Univ Paris Sud, LAL, CNRS IN2P3, F-91400 Orsay, France
[24] Chennai Math Inst, Chennai 603103, Tamil Nadu, India
[25] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[26] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[27] Univ Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[28] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[29] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
[30] Univ Paris Diderot, APC, CNRS IN2P3, CEA Irfu,Observ Paris,Sorbonne Paris Cite, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[31] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[32] Univ Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[33] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[34] EGO, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[35] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[36] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[37] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[38] RMKI, Wigner RCP, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
[39] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[40] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[41] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[42] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[43] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[44] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[45] Univ Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[46] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[47] RRCAT, Indore 452013, Madhya Pradesh, India
[48] Lomonosov Moscow State Univ, Fac Phys, Moscow 119991, Russia
[49] Univ West Scotland, SUPA, Paisley PA1 2BE, Renfrew, Scotland
[50] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会;
关键词
gravitational waves; stars: black holes;
D O I
10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient (GW) signal GW150914. In that work we reported various rate estimates whose 90% confidence intervals fell in the range 2-600. Gpc(-3). yr(-1). Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.
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