Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

被引:1010
作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Ackley, K. [6 ]
Adams, C. [7 ]
Adams, T. [8 ]
Addesso, P. [9 ,10 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [11 ]
Affeldt, C. [11 ]
Agathos, M. [12 ]
Agatsuma, K. [12 ]
Aggarwal, N. [13 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [14 ]
Aiello, L. [15 ,16 ]
Ain, A. [17 ,111 ]
Ajith, P. [18 ]
Allen, B. [11 ,19 ,20 ]
Allocca, A. [21 ]
Altin, P. A. [23 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [19 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Arceneaux, C. C. [24 ]
Areeda, J. S. [25 ]
Arnaud, N. [26 ]
Arun, K. G. [27 ]
Ascenzi, S. [28 ]
Ashton, G. [29 ]
Ast, M. [30 ]
Aston, S. M. [7 ]
Astone, P. [31 ]
Aufmuth, P. [20 ]
Aulbert, C. [11 ]
Babak, S. [32 ]
Bacon, P. [33 ]
Bader, M. K. M. [12 ]
Baker, P. T. [34 ]
Baldaccini, F. [35 ]
Ballardin, G. [37 ]
Ballmer, S. W. [38 ]
Barayoga, J. C. [1 ]
Barclay, S. E. [39 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, D. [40 ]
Barone, F. [4 ]
Barr, B. [39 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Amer Univ, Washington, DC 20016 USA
[4] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[5] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[6] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[7] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[8] Univ Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Annecy le Vieux Phys Particules LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[9] Univ Sannio Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80100 Naples, Italy
[11] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[12] Nikhef, Sci Pk, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[13] MIT, LIGO, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[15] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Gran Sasso Sci Inst, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[17] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[18] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
[19] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[20] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[21] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[23] Australian Natl Univ, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[24] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[25] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[26] Univ Paris 11, CNRS IN2P3, Univ Paris Saclay, LAL, F-91898 Orsay, France
[27] Chennai Math Inst, Madras 603103, Tamil Nadu, India
[28] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[29] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[30] Univ Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[31] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[32] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[33] Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS IN2P3, Sorbonne Paris Cite, APC AstroParticule & Cosmol,CEA Irfu,Observ Paris, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[34] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[35] Univ Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[36] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[37] EGO, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[38] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[39] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[40] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[41] Wigner RCP, RMKI, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
[42] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[43] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[44] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[46] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[47] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[48] Univ Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[50] RRCAT, Indore 452013, Madhya Pradesh, India
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW X | 2016年 / 6卷 / 04期
基金
美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
INSPIRALLING COMPACT BINARIES; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE TRANSIENTS; NEUTRON-STAR; PARAMETER-ESTIMATION; COMMON ENVELOPE; (POST)(5/2)-NEWTONIAN ORDER; COALESCING BINARIES; MASS-DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM MASS; STELLAR;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper, we present full results from a search for binary black hole merger signals with total masses up to 100M. and detailed implications from our observations of these systems. Our search, based on general-relativistic models of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole systems, unambiguously identified two signals, GW150914 and GW151226, with a significance of greater than 5 sigma over the observing period. It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with substantially lower significance and with an 87% probability of being of astrophysical origin. We provide detailed estimates of the parameters of the observed systems. Both GW150914 and GW151226 provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime. We do not observe any deviations from general relativity, and we place improved empirical bounds on several highorder post-Newtonian coefficients. From our observations, we infer stellar-mass binary black hole merger rates lying in the range 9-240 Gpc(-3) yr(-1). These observations are beginning to inform astrophysical predictions of binary black hole formation rates and indicate that future observing runs of the Advanced detector network will yield many more gravitational-wave detections.
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