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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 055002 |
| Number of pages | 55 |
| Journal | Classical and quantum gravity |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| Publication status | Published - 6 Feb 2020 |
Abstract
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have cataloged eleven confidently detected gravitational-wave events during the first two observing runs of the advanced detector era. All eleven events were consistent with being from well-modeled mergers between compact stellar-mass objects: black holes or neutron stars. The data around the time of each of these events have been made publicly available through the gravitational-wave open science center. The entirety of the gravitational-wave strain data from the first and second observing runs have also now been made publicly available. There is considerable interest among the broad scientific community in understanding the data and methods used in the analyses. In this paper, we provide an overview of the detector noise properties and the data analysis techniques used to detect gravitational-wave signals and infer the source properties. We describe some of the checks that are performed to validate the analyses and results from the observations of gravitational-wave events. We also address concerns that have been raised about various properties of LIGO-Virgo detector noise and the correctness of our analyses as applied to the resulting data.
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- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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In: Classical and quantum gravity, Vol. 37, No. 5, 055002, 06.02.2020.
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T1 - A guide to LIGO–Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals
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 - 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 - Alford, T
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, C. H.
AU - Lee, H. K.
AU - Lee, H. M.
AU - Lee, H. W.
AU - Lee, J.
AU - Lee, K.
AU - Li, X.
AU - Sanders, J. R.
AU - Schmidt, Patricia
AU - Sun, L.
AU - Wang, Y. F.
AU - Wu, D. S.
AU - Zhang, L.
AU - Zhu, X. J.
AU - Zhou, Minchuan
AU - Bergmann, G.
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 - Karvinen, Kai S.
AU - Khan, S.
AU - Koch, Patrick
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 - Mukund, Nikhil
AU - Nery, M.
AU - Ohme, F.
AU - Oppermann, P.
AU - Schreiber, Emil
AU - Schulte, B. W.
AU - Rüdiger, A.
AU - Puncken, O.
AU - Phelps, M.
AU - Setyawati, Y.
AU - Standke, M.
AU - Steinke, M.
AU - Weinert, Michael
AU - Wellmann, F.
AU - Weßels, Peter
AU - Wimmer, Maximilian H.
AU - Winkler, W.
AU - Woehler, J.
AU - Aufmuth, Peter
AU - Arunava Mukherjee, Mukherjee
AU - Thies, Fabian
PY - 2020/2/6
Y1 - 2020/2/6
N2 - The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have cataloged eleven confidently detected gravitational-wave events during the first two observing runs of the advanced detector era. All eleven events were consistent with being from well-modeled mergers between compact stellar-mass objects: black holes or neutron stars. The data around the time of each of these events have been made publicly available through the gravitational-wave open science center. The entirety of the gravitational-wave strain data from the first and second observing runs have also now been made publicly available. There is considerable interest among the broad scientific community in understanding the data and methods used in the analyses. In this paper, we provide an overview of the detector noise properties and the data analysis techniques used to detect gravitational-wave signals and infer the source properties. We describe some of the checks that are performed to validate the analyses and results from the observations of gravitational-wave events. We also address concerns that have been raised about various properties of LIGO-Virgo detector noise and the correctness of our analyses as applied to the resulting data.
AB - The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration have cataloged eleven confidently detected gravitational-wave events during the first two observing runs of the advanced detector era. All eleven events were consistent with being from well-modeled mergers between compact stellar-mass objects: black holes or neutron stars. The data around the time of each of these events have been made publicly available through the gravitational-wave open science center. The entirety of the gravitational-wave strain data from the first and second observing runs have also now been made publicly available. There is considerable interest among the broad scientific community in understanding the data and methods used in the analyses. In this paper, we provide an overview of the detector noise properties and the data analysis techniques used to detect gravitational-wave signals and infer the source properties. We describe some of the checks that are performed to validate the analyses and results from the observations of gravitational-wave events. We also address concerns that have been raised about various properties of LIGO-Virgo detector noise and the correctness of our analyses as applied to the resulting data.
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U2 - 10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e
DO - 10.1088/1361-6382/ab685e
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