Details
Originalsprache | Englisch |
---|---|
Aufsatznummer | 031040 |
Seitenumfang | 49 |
Fachzeitschrift | Physical Review X |
Jahrgang | 9 |
Ausgabenummer | 3 |
Publikationsstatus | Veröffentlicht - 4 Sept. 2019 |
Abstract
We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 Ma™ during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run (O2), which ran from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, saw the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral, in addition to the observation of gravitational waves from a total of seven binary black hole mergers, four of which we report here for the first time: GW170729, GW170809, GW170818, and GW170823. For all significant gravitational-wave events, we provide estimates of the source properties. The detected binary black holes have total masses between 18.6-0.7+3.2 Mâ™ and 84.4-11.1+15.8 Mâ™ and range in distance between 320-110+120 and 2840-1360+1400 Mpc. No neutron star-black hole mergers were detected. In addition to highly significant gravitational-wave events, we also provide a list of marginal event candidates with an estimated false-alarm rate less than 1 per 30 days. From these results over the first two observing runs, which include approximately one gravitational-wave detection per 15 days of data searched, we infer merger rates at the 90% confidence intervals of 110-3840 Gpc-3 y-1 for binary neutron stars and 9.7-101 Gpc-3 y-1 for binary black holes assuming fixed population distributions and determine a neutron star-black hole merger rate 90% upper limit of 610 Gpc-3 y-1.
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
- Physik und Astronomie (insg.)
- Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie
Zitieren
- Standard
- Harvard
- Apa
- Vancouver
- BibTex
- RIS
in: Physical Review X, Jahrgang 9, Nr. 3, 031040, 04.09.2019.
Publikation: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift › Artikel › Forschung
}
TY - JOUR
T1 - GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
AU - The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
AU - The Virgo Collaboration
AU - Abbott, B. P.
AU - Abbott, R.
AU - Abbott, T. D.
AU - Abraham, S.
AU - Acernese, F.
AU - Ackley, K.
AU - Adams, C.
AU - Adhikari, R. X.
AU - Adya, V. B.
AU - Affeldt, C.
AU - Agathos, M.
AU - Agatsuma, K.
AU - Aggarwal, N.
AU - Aguiar, O. D.
AU - Aiello, L.
AU - Ain, A.
AU - Ajith, P.
AU - Allen, G.
AU - Allocca, A.
AU - Aloy, M. A.
AU - Altin, P. A.
AU - Amato, A.
AU - Ananyeva, A.
AU - Anderson, S. B.
AU - Anderson, W. G.
AU - Angelova, S. V.
AU - Antier, S.
AU - Appert, S.
AU - Arai, K.
AU - Araya, M. C.
AU - Areeda, J. S.
AU - Arène, M.
AU - Arnaud, N.
AU - Arun, K. G.
AU - Ascenzi, S.
AU - Ashton, G.
AU - Aston, S. M.
AU - Astone, P.
AU - Aubin, F.
AU - Danilishin, S. L.
AU - Danzmann, K.
AU - Heurs, M.
AU - Hreibi, A.
AU - Lück, H.
AU - Steinmeyer, D.
AU - Vahlbruch, H.
AU - Wei, L.-w.
AU - Wilken, D. M.
AU - Willke, B.
AU - Wittel, H.
AU - Bose, Sukanta
AU - Brown, D. D.
AU - Chen, Y. B.
AU - Hanke, Manuela
AU - Hennig, J.
AU - Kumar, Sanjeev
AU - Lang, R. N.
AU - Lee, H. K.
AU - Lee, H. M.
AU - Lee, H. W.
AU - Lee, J.
AU - Li, X.
AU - Sanders, J. R.
AU - Schmidt, Patricia
AU - Sun, L.
AU - White, L. V.
AU - Wu, D. S.
AU - Zhang, L.
AU - Zhu, X. J.
AU - Zhou, Minchuan
AU - Bergmann, Gerald
AU - Bisht, Aparna
AU - Bode, Nina
AU - Booker, P.
AU - Brinkmann, Marc
AU - Cabero, M.
AU - de Varona, O.
AU - Hochheim, S.
AU - Dent, T.
AU - Doravari, S.
AU - Junker, J.
AU - Kaufer, Stefan
AU - Kirchhoff, R.
AU - Koch, Patrick
AU - Karvinen, Kai S.
AU - Khan, S.
AU - Koper, N.
AU - Köhlenbeck, S. M.
AU - Kringel, Volker
AU - Kuehn, G.
AU - Leavey, S.
AU - Lehmann, J.
AU - Lough, James
AU - Mehmet, Moritz
AU - Mukherjee, Arunava
AU - Mukund, Nikhil
AU - Nery, M.
AU - Ohme, F.
AU - Oppermann, P.
AU - Schreiber, Emil
AU - Schulte, B. W.
AU - Rüdiger, A.
AU - Phelps, M.
AU - Papa, M. A.
AU - Puncken, O.
AU - Setyawati, Y.
AU - Steinke, M.
AU - Standke, M.
AU - Thies, Fabian
AU - Weinert, Michael
AU - Wellmann, F.
AU - Weßels, Peter
AU - Wimmer, Maximilian H.
AU - Winkler, W.
AU - Woehler, J.
AU - Aufmuth, Peter
N1 - Funding information: The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO consortium. The authors also gratefully acknowledge research support from these agencies as well as by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación, the Vicepresidència i Conselleria d’Innovació, Recerca i Turisme and the Conselleria d’Educació i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears, the Conselleria d’Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, the European Commission, the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the Paris Île-de-France Region, the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFIH), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Research Corporation, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, and the Kavli Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF, STFC, MPS, INFN, CNRS, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for provision of computational resources.
PY - 2019/9/4
Y1 - 2019/9/4
N2 - We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 Ma™ during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run (O2), which ran from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, saw the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral, in addition to the observation of gravitational waves from a total of seven binary black hole mergers, four of which we report here for the first time: GW170729, GW170809, GW170818, and GW170823. For all significant gravitational-wave events, we provide estimates of the source properties. The detected binary black holes have total masses between 18.6-0.7+3.2 Mâ™ and 84.4-11.1+15.8 Mâ™ and range in distance between 320-110+120 and 2840-1360+1400 Mpc. No neutron star-black hole mergers were detected. In addition to highly significant gravitational-wave events, we also provide a list of marginal event candidates with an estimated false-alarm rate less than 1 per 30 days. From these results over the first two observing runs, which include approximately one gravitational-wave detection per 15 days of data searched, we infer merger rates at the 90% confidence intervals of 110-3840 Gpc-3 y-1 for binary neutron stars and 9.7-101 Gpc-3 y-1 for binary black holes assuming fixed population distributions and determine a neutron star-black hole merger rate 90% upper limit of 610 Gpc-3 y-1.
AB - We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 Ma™ during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run (O2), which ran from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, saw the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral, in addition to the observation of gravitational waves from a total of seven binary black hole mergers, four of which we report here for the first time: GW170729, GW170809, GW170818, and GW170823. For all significant gravitational-wave events, we provide estimates of the source properties. The detected binary black holes have total masses between 18.6-0.7+3.2 Mâ™ and 84.4-11.1+15.8 Mâ™ and range in distance between 320-110+120 and 2840-1360+1400 Mpc. No neutron star-black hole mergers were detected. In addition to highly significant gravitational-wave events, we also provide a list of marginal event candidates with an estimated false-alarm rate less than 1 per 30 days. From these results over the first two observing runs, which include approximately one gravitational-wave detection per 15 days of data searched, we infer merger rates at the 90% confidence intervals of 110-3840 Gpc-3 y-1 for binary neutron stars and 9.7-101 Gpc-3 y-1 for binary black holes assuming fixed population distributions and determine a neutron star-black hole merger rate 90% upper limit of 610 Gpc-3 y-1.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85074412140&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040
M3 - Article
VL - 9
JO - Physical Review X
JF - Physical Review X
SN - 2160-3308
IS - 3
M1 - 031040
ER -