On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the source and its parameters. The data around the time of the event were analyzed coherently across the LIGO network using a suite of accurate waveform models that describe gravitational waves from a compact binary system in general relativity. GW150914 was produced by a nearly equal mass binary black hole of masses 36þ5 −4M⊙ and 29þ4 −4M⊙; for each parameter we report the median value and the range of the 90% credible interval. The dimensionless spin magnitude of the more massive black hole is bound to be < 0.7 (at 90% probability). The luminosity distance to the source is 410þ160 −180 Mpc, corresponding to a redshift 0.09þ0.03 −0.04 assuming standard cosmology. The source location is constrained to an annulus section of 610 deg2, primarily in the southern hemisphere. The binary merges into a black hole of mass 62þ4 −4M⊙ and spin 0.67þ0.05 −0.07 . This black hole is significantly more massive than any other inferred from electromagnetic observations in the stellar-mass regime.

Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914 / Abbott, B.P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T.D., Abernathy, M.R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R.X., Adya, V.B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O.D., Aiello, L., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 116:24(2016). [10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102]

Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914

Mangano, V.;Di Giovanni, M.
2016-01-01

Abstract

On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the source and its parameters. The data around the time of the event were analyzed coherently across the LIGO network using a suite of accurate waveform models that describe gravitational waves from a compact binary system in general relativity. GW150914 was produced by a nearly equal mass binary black hole of masses 36þ5 −4M⊙ and 29þ4 −4M⊙; for each parameter we report the median value and the range of the 90% credible interval. The dimensionless spin magnitude of the more massive black hole is bound to be < 0.7 (at 90% probability). The luminosity distance to the source is 410þ160 −180 Mpc, corresponding to a redshift 0.09þ0.03 −0.04 assuming standard cosmology. The source location is constrained to an annulus section of 610 deg2, primarily in the southern hemisphere. The binary merges into a black hole of mass 62þ4 −4M⊙ and spin 0.67þ0.05 −0.07 . This black hole is significantly more massive than any other inferred from electromagnetic observations in the stellar-mass regime.
2016
Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914 / Abbott, B.P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T.D., Abernathy, M.R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R.X., Adya, V.B., Affeldt, C., Agathos, M., Agatsuma, K., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O.D., Aiello, L., Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., et al.. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 116:24(2016). [10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241102]
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