GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

By B. Abbott, The Ligo Scientific Collaboration, T. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams and 970 more. 2021

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Citations in the corpus

• THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914 (2016, methodology): “…detector data streams with source-frame masses and spins sampled from the posterior distributions from the PE of the GW150914 trigger described in Abbott et al. (2016c, 2016e), random orientations and sky locations, and a fixed redshift distribution.140 The waveforms correspond to BBH systems…”
• Measuring the Binary Black Hole Mass Spectrum with an Astrophysically Motivated Parameterization (2018, methodology): “Accounting for these factors, we calculate Vobs(Θ), the sensitive volume for a binary with parameters Θ, following Abbott et al. (2016c), using semianalytic noise models corresponding to different sensitivities (Abbott et al. 2016e).”
• SciPy 1.0-Fundamental Algorithms for Scientific Computing in Python (2019, background): “In 2001, Eric Jones and Travis Vaught founded Enthought Scientific Computing Solutions (now Enthought, Inc.) in Austin, Texas, USA.”
• GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs (2018, methodology): “This reflects a more conservative noise hypothesis within the GstLAL analysis, and follows the procedures and motivations detailed in section IV of [3].”
• Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1 (2019, background): “The search results in [14] originate from two modeled searches and one weakly modeled search [5, 11, 14, 15].”
• Hierarchical analysis of gravitational-wave measurements of binary black hole spin–orbit misalignments (2017, methodology): “GW searches often assume BBHs have aligned spins as this simplification makes the search less computationally demanding (Abbott et al. 2016c).”
• 1-OGC: The First Open Gravitational-wave Catalog of Binary Mergers from Analysis of Public Advanced LIGO Data (2018, methodology): “We independently verify the discovery of GW150914 and GW151226 and report an improved significance of the candidate event LVT151012, which we claim should be viewed as a confident detection.”
• Detecting Binary Compact-object Mergers with Gravitational Waves: Understanding and Improving the Sensitivity of the PyCBC Search (2017, methodology): “However, the noise distributions in real data are quite different across different templates and between different detectors (Abbott et al. 2016d).”
• DYNAMICAL FORMATION OF THE GW150914 BINARY BLACK HOLE (2016, background): “…detection rate for the first observing run of Advanced LIGO (O1) over a 16 day period (consistent with the GW150914 detection) and over a ∼50 day period (the length of O1, assuming a ∼4 month duration; Abbott et al. 2016c; with a double-coincident runtime fraction of 16/ 39; Abbott et al. 2016d).”
• Reproducing GW150914: The First Observation of Gravitational Waves From a Binary Black Hole Merger (2020, methodology): “Our main goal was to reproduce the results of the PyCBC search shown in Figure 4 of Abbott et al.,3 shown on the left-hand side of our Figure 1, since this is the result used to make the statement that the signal is detected with a “significance greater than 5:1 s” in the “Abstract” section of this ”
• GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run (2020, background): “IV, are insensitive to typical levels of systematic error in calibration [75], so low-latency data may be used for additional offline analyses without concern.”
• An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A (2017, methodology): “, consistent with the location and distance reported by LIGO/Virgo.”