ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914

By B. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, Rana X. Adhikari and 950 more. 2016

429 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/9f302f69146c7e086bf9fb95daa9c30f575043df

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Michela Mapelli
2. N. Giacobbo
3. Ilya Mandel
4. Mario Spera
5. D. Holz
6. F. Antonini
7. Maya Fishbach
8. F. Rasio

Citations in the corpus

• A detached stellar-mass black hole candidate in the globular cluster NGC 3201 (2018, background): “As shown by Abbott et al. (2016c) or Askar et al. (2017), dense star clusters represent a preferred environment for the merging of such black hole binaries.”
• Detection of the gravitational redshift in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole (2018, background): “The most stringent are tests that employ solar mass pulsars in binary systems (Kramer et al. 2006), and gravitational waves from 10−30 M black hole in-spiral events (Abbott et al. 2016a,c,b).”
• The cosmic merger rate of stellar black hole binaries from the Illustris simulation (2017, methodology): “…we focus on the properties of simulated systems that match the three observed GW events, GW150914 (mp = 36.2 +5.2 −3.8 M , ms = 29.1 +3.7 −4.4 M , Abbott et al. 2016a), GW151226 (mp = 14.2 +8.3 −3.7 M , ms = 7.5 +2.3 −2.3 M , Abbott et al. 2016a), and GW170104 (mp = 31.2 +8.4 −6.0 M , ms =…”
• 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).”
• Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2018, methodology): “Observational constraints on the BBH merger rate(Abbott et al. 2016c, 2018a) generally assume a rate density that is uniform in the comoving volume.”
• MOCCA-SURVEY Database - I. Coalescing binary black holes originating from globular clusters (2016, methodology): “Following the detection of GW150914 (Abbott et al. 2016b), subsequently one more confirmed BBH merger, GW151226 was detected by LIGO along with the detection of a BBH merger candidate LVT151012 (Abbott et al. 2016c).”
• Assisted inspirals of stellar mass black holes embedded in AGN discs: solving the ‘final au problem’ (2016, background): “Advanced LIGO recently announced the discovery of the gravitational wave event GW150914, shown to be a BHB with initial component masses M1 ≈ 36M and M2 ≈ 29M (Abbott et al. 2016).”
• Modules for Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics ( ): Convective Boundaries, Element Diffusion, and Massive Star Explosions (2017, background): “…new era, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) has demonstrated the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems (Abbott et al. 2016a, 2016b, 2016c, 2017a, 2017b) and continues to monitor the sky with broadband detectors for gravitational waves from compact…”
• Bayesian inference for compact binary coalescences with bilby: validation and application to the first LIGO–Virgo gravitational-wave transient catalogue (2020, methodology): “…Belczynski et al. 2018; Bavera et al. 2020), the equation of state of neutron-star matter (Abbott et al. 2018c; Most et al. 2018; Essick et al. 2020; Abbott et al. 2020b), and the nature of gravity (Yunes & Siemens 2013; Abbott et al. 2016b; Yunes et al. 2016; Abbott et al. 2019i; Isi et al. 2019).”
• One Channel to Rule Them All? Constraining the Origins of Binary Black Holes Using Multiple Formation Pathways (2020, methodology): “…progenitor systems, such as the types of galactic environments they were born in and their formation processes, the complex stellar evolution that persisted throughout their lives, and the physics of the supernovae that marked their deaths (Abbott et al. 2016a; Mandel & Farmer 2018; Vitale 2020).”
• Greatly Enhanced Merger Rates of Compact-object Binaries in Non-spherical Nuclear Star Clusters (2017, background): “Particularly exciting is the possibility that many, or maybe even most, of the merging compact object binaries that are soon to be detected by Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) (Abbott et al. 2016a,b) are formed near MBHs through the LK mechanism (Antonini & Perets 2012; VanLandingham et al. 2016).”
• MERGING BLACK HOLE BINARIES IN GALACTIC NUCLEI: IMPLICATIONS FOR ADVANCED-LIGO DETECTIONS (2016, background): “Abbott et al. (2016d) did not consider the possibility that BH binaries can be dynamically assembled inside NSCs which we discuss here.”
• Primordial Black Hole Scenario for the Gravitational-Wave Event GW150914. (2016, background): “[2] and references therein), the answer is yet to be elucidated.”