Submitting Campus

Prescott

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

6-7-2016

Abstract/Description

The gravitational-wave signal GW150914 was first identified on September 14, 2015, by searches for short-duration gravitational-wave transients. These searches identify time-correlated transients in multiple detectors with minimal assumptions about the signal morphology, allowing them to be sensitive to gravitational waves emitted by a wide range of sources including binary black hole mergers. Over the observational period from September 12 to October 20, 2015, these transient searches were sensitive to binary black hole mergers similar to GW150914 to an average distance of ∼600  Mpc. In this paper, we describe the analyses that first detected GW150914 as well as the parameter estimation and waveform reconstruction techniques that initially identified GW150914 as the merger of two black holes. We find that the reconstructed waveform is consistent with the signal from a binary black hole merger with a chirp mass of ∼30  M⊙ and a total mass before merger of ∼70  M⊙ in the detector frame.

Publication Title

Physical Review D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004

Publisher

American Physical Society

Additional Information

The link provided is to a postprint approved according to publisher rules.

Large collaboration paper, only first author and ERAU authors listed. Other authors and authors' institutional affiliations listed on paper.

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