doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. Epub 2016 Feb 11.
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
B P Abbott 1, R Abbott 1, T D Abbott 2, M R Abernathy 1, F Acernese 3 4, K Ackley 5, C Adams 6, T Adams 7, P Addesso 3, R X Adhikari 1, V B Adya 8, C Affeldt 8, M Agathos 9, K Agatsuma 9, N Aggarwal 10, O D Aguiar 11, L Aiello 12 13, A Ain 14, P Ajith 15, B Allen 8 16 17, A Allocca 18 19, P A Altin 20, S B Anderson 1, W G Anderson 16, K Arai 1, M A Arain 5, M C Araya 1, C C Arceneaux 21, J S Areeda 22, N Arnaud 23, K G Arun 24, S Ascenzi 13 25, G Ashton 26, M Ast 27, S M Aston 6, P Astone 28, P Aufmuth 8, C Aulbert 8, S Babak 29, P Bacon 30, M K M Bader 9, P T Baker 31, F Baldaccini 32 33, G Ballardin 34, S W Ballmer 35, J C Barayoga 1, S E Barclay 36, B C Barish 1, D Barker 37, F Barone 3 4, B Barr 36, L Barsotti 10, M Barsuglia 30, D Barta 38, J Bartlett 37, M A Barton 37, I Bartos 39, R Bassiri 40, A Basti 18 19, J C Batch 37, C Baune 8, V Bavigadda 34, M Bazzan 41 42, B Behnke 29, M Bejger 43, C Belczynski 44, A S Bell 36, C J Bell 36, B K Berger 1, J Bergman 37, G Bergmann 8, C P 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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
B P Abbott et al. Phys Rev Lett..
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On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz with a peak gravitational-wave strain of 1.0×10(-21). It matches the waveform predicted by general relativity for the inspiral and merger of a pair of black holes and the ringdown of the resulting single black hole. The signal 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 203,000 years, equivalent to a significance greater than 5.1σ. The source lies at a luminosity distance of 410(-180)(+160) Mpc corresponding to a redshift z=0.09(-0.04)(+0.03). In the source frame, the initial black hole masses are 36(-4)(+5)M⊙ and 29(-4)(+4)M⊙, and the final black hole mass is 62(-4)(+4)M⊙, with 3.0(-0.5)(+0.5)M⊙c(2) radiated in gravitational waves. All uncertainties define 90% credible intervals. These observations demonstrate the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems. This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger.
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