Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model

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  • The LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  • The Virgo Collaboration
  • Karl Danzmann
  • Michele Heurs
  • Harald Lück
  • Daniel Steinmeyer
  • Henning Fedor Cornelius Vahlbruch
  • Benno Willke
  • Holger Wittel

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  • Louisiana State University
  • American University Washington DC
  • Universita di Salerno
  • Monte S. Angelo University Federico II
  • University of Florida (UF)
  • Universite de Savoie
  • University of Sannio
  • Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
  • National Institute for Subatomic Physics (Nikhef)
  • LIGO Laboratory
  • Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais
  • Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
  • Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics India
  • Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR HYD)
  • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
  • University of Pisa
  • Sezione di Pisa
  • Australian National University
  • Carson College of Business
  • University of Birmingham
  • University of Glasgow
  • Seoul National University
  • University of Melbourne
  • Tsinghua University
  • University of Western Australia
  • Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (OCA)
  • Rochester Institute of Technology
  • Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA)
  • Northwestern University
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Original languageEnglish
Article number041014
JournalPhysical Review X
Volume6
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 4 Jun 2016

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This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 [Abbott et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016).]. Abbott et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016).] presented parameter estimation of the source using a 13-dimensional, phenomenological precessing-spin model (precessing IMRPhenom) and an 11-dimensional nonprecessing effective-one body (EOB) model calibrated to numerical-relativity simulations, which forces spin alignment (nonprecessing EOBNR). Here, we present new results that include a 15-dimensional precessingspin waveform model (precessing EOBNR) developed within the EOB formalism. We find good agreement with the parameters estimated previously [Abbott et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016).], and we quote updated component masses of 35 +5 -3 M· and 30 +5 -3 M· (where errors correspond to 90% symmetric credible intervals). We also present slightly tighter constraints on the dimensionless spin magnitudes of the two black holes, with a primary spin estimate < 0.65 and a secondary spin estimate < 0.75 at 90% probability. Abbott et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241102 (2016).] estimated the systematic parameter-extraction errors due to waveform-model uncertainty by combining the posterior probability densities of precessing IMRPhenom and nonprecessing EOBNR. Here, we find that the two precessing-spin models are in closer agreement, suggesting that these systematic errors are smaller than previously quoted.

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Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model. / The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; The Virgo Collaboration; Danzmann, Karl et al.
In: Physical Review X, Vol. 6, No. 4, 041014, 04.06.2016.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Danzmann, K, Heurs, M, Lück, H, Steinmeyer, D, Vahlbruch, HFC, Willke, B, Wittel, H, Aufmuth, P, Bisht, A, Kaufer, S, Krüger, C, Lough, JD, Sawadsky, A & Singh Mehra, A 2016, 'Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model', Physical Review X, vol. 6, no. 4, 041014. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041014, https://doi.org/10.15488/1999
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Danzmann, K., Heurs, M., Lück, H., Steinmeyer, D., Vahlbruch, H. F. C., Willke, B., Wittel, H., Aufmuth, P., Bisht, A., Kaufer, S., Krüger, C., Lough, J. D., Sawadsky, A., & Singh Mehra, A. (2016). Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model. Physical Review X, 6(4), Article 041014. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041014, https://doi.org/10.15488/1999
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Danzmann K, Heurs M, Lück H, Steinmeyer D et al. Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model. Physical Review X. 2016 Jun 4;6(4):041014. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041014, 10.15488/1999
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration ; The Virgo Collaboration ; Danzmann, Karl et al. / Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model. In: Physical Review X. 2016 ; Vol. 6, No. 4.
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