Submitting Campus
Prescott
Department
Physics and Astronomy
Document Type
Article
Publication/Presentation Date
6-6-2016
Abstract/Description
On September 14, 2015, a gravitational wave signal from a coalescing black hole binary system was observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors. This paper describes the transient noise backgrounds used to determine the significance of the event (designated GW150914) and presents the results of investigations into potential correlated or uncorrelated sources of transient noise in the detectors around the time of the event. The detectors were operating nominally at the time of GW150914. We have ruled out environmental influences and non-Gaussian instrument noise at either LIGO detector as the cause of the observed gravitational wave signal.
Publication Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/33/13/134001
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Scholarly Commons Citation
B P Abbott et al 2016 Class. Quantum Grav. 33 134001
Additional Information
This is a large collaboration paper, with only the first author and ERAU authors listed. Other authors' names and institutional affiliations appear on the article.