GW150914: First Results from the Search for Binary Black Hole Coalescence with Advanced LIGO

Authors

Tiffany Summerscales, Andrews UniversityFollow
LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-7-2016

Keywords

Gravitational waves, Black holes

Abstract

On September 14, 2015, at 09∶50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole merger GW150914. We report the results of a matched-filter search using relativistic models of compact-object binaries that recovered GW150914 as the most significant event during the coincident observations between the two LIGO detectors from September 12 to October 20, 2015 GW150914 was observed with a matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 24 and a false alarm rate estimated to be less than 1 event per 203000 years, equivalent to a significance greater than 5.1 σ.

Journal Title

Physical Review D

Volume

93

Issue

12

First Page

122003

Last Page

122003

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003

First Department

Physics

Recommended Citation

Summerscales, Tiffany and LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, "GW150914: First Results from the Search for Binary Black Hole Coalescence with Advanced LIGO" (2016). Faculty Publications. 296.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/296