Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions

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作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [1 ]
Acernese, F. [3 ,4 ]
Ackley, K. [5 ]
Adams, C. [6 ]
Adams, T. [7 ]
Addesso, P. [3 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [8 ]
Affeldt, C. [8 ]
Agathos, M. [9 ]
Agatsuma, K. [9 ]
Aggarwa, N. [10 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [11 ]
Aiello, L. [12 ,13 ]
Ain, A. [14 ,94 ]
Ajith, P. [15 ]
Allen, B. [8 ,16 ,17 ]
Allocca, A. [18 ,19 ]
Altin, P. A. [20 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. C. [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] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, 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-030167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Nikhef, Sci Pk, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[10] MIT, LIGO, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[11] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Paulo, Brazil
[12] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Gran Sasso Sci Inst, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[13] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[14] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[15] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
[16] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[17] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[18] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[20] Australian Natl Univ, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[21] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[22] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[23] Univ Paris Saclay, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL,Univ Paris Sud, F-91400 Orsay, France
[24] Chennai Math Inst, Madras 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 Golm, Germany
[30] Univ Paris Diderot, APC AstroParticule & Cosmol, Sorbonne Paris Cite, CNRS,IN2P3,CEA,Irfu,Observ Paris, 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] Moscow MV Lomonosov 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
美国国家科学基金会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会;
关键词
ADVANCED LIGO;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
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 similar to 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 similar to 30 M-circle dot and a total mass before merger of similar to 70 M-circle dot in the detector frame.
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