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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 104036 |
| Number of pages | 30 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue number | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Nov 2019 |
Abstract
The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional astronomical observations and laboratory tests. We present four tests of the consistency of the data with binary black hole gravitational waveforms predicted by general relativity. One test subtracts the best-fit waveform from the data and checks the consistency of the residual with detector noise. The second test checks the consistency of the low- and high-frequency parts of the observed signals. The third test checks that phenomenological deviations introduced in the waveform model (including in the post-Newtonian coefficients) are consistent with 0. The fourth test constrains modifications to the propagation of gravitational waves due to a modified dispersion relation, including that from a massive graviton. We present results both for individual events and also results obtained by combining together particularly strong events from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, as collected in the catalog GWTC-1. We do not find any inconsistency of the data with the predictions of general relativity and improve our previously presented combined constraints by factors of 1.1 to 2.5. In particular, we bound the mass of the graviton to be mg≤4.7×10-23 eV/c2 (90% credible level), an improvement of a factor of 1.6 over our previously presented results. Additionally, we check that the four gravitational-wave events published for the first time in GWTC-1 do not lead to stronger constraints on alternative polarizations than those published previously.
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In: Physical Review D, Vol. 100, No. 10, 104036, 20.11.2019.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1
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 - Henning, J.
AU - Hübner, M. T.
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 - Wang, Y. F.
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 - Dent, T.
AU - Doravari, S.
AU - Hochheim, S.
AU - Junker, J.
AU - Kaufer, Stefan
AU - Kirchhoff, R.
AU - Koch, Patrick
AU - Koper, N.
AU - Köhlenbeck, S. M.
AU - Kringel, Volker
AU - Kuehn, G.
AU - Karvinen, Kai S.
AU - Khan, S.
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 - Rüdiger, A.
AU - Phelps, M.
AU - Puncken, O.
AU - Schreiber, Emil
AU - Schulte, B. W.
AU - Setyawati, Y.
AU - Standke, M.
AU - Steinke, M.
AU - Thies, Fabian
AU - Weinert, Michael
AU - Wellmann, F.
AU - Weßels, Peter
AU - Winkler, W.
AU - Woehler, J.
PY - 2019/11/20
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N2 - The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional astronomical observations and laboratory tests. We present four tests of the consistency of the data with binary black hole gravitational waveforms predicted by general relativity. One test subtracts the best-fit waveform from the data and checks the consistency of the residual with detector noise. The second test checks the consistency of the low- and high-frequency parts of the observed signals. The third test checks that phenomenological deviations introduced in the waveform model (including in the post-Newtonian coefficients) are consistent with 0. The fourth test constrains modifications to the propagation of gravitational waves due to a modified dispersion relation, including that from a massive graviton. We present results both for individual events and also results obtained by combining together particularly strong events from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, as collected in the catalog GWTC-1. We do not find any inconsistency of the data with the predictions of general relativity and improve our previously presented combined constraints by factors of 1.1 to 2.5. In particular, we bound the mass of the graviton to be mg≤4.7×10-23 eV/c2 (90% credible level), an improvement of a factor of 1.6 over our previously presented results. Additionally, we check that the four gravitational-wave events published for the first time in GWTC-1 do not lead to stronger constraints on alternative polarizations than those published previously.
AB - The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional astronomical observations and laboratory tests. We present four tests of the consistency of the data with binary black hole gravitational waveforms predicted by general relativity. One test subtracts the best-fit waveform from the data and checks the consistency of the residual with detector noise. The second test checks the consistency of the low- and high-frequency parts of the observed signals. The third test checks that phenomenological deviations introduced in the waveform model (including in the post-Newtonian coefficients) are consistent with 0. The fourth test constrains modifications to the propagation of gravitational waves due to a modified dispersion relation, including that from a massive graviton. We present results both for individual events and also results obtained by combining together particularly strong events from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, as collected in the catalog GWTC-1. We do not find any inconsistency of the data with the predictions of general relativity and improve our previously presented combined constraints by factors of 1.1 to 2.5. In particular, we bound the mass of the graviton to be mg≤4.7×10-23 eV/c2 (90% credible level), an improvement of a factor of 1.6 over our previously presented results. Additionally, we check that the four gravitational-wave events published for the first time in GWTC-1 do not lead to stronger constraints on alternative polarizations than those published previously.
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