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GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO
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posted on 2023-05-21, 11:38 authored by Abbott, BP, Abbott, R, Karelle SiellezKarelle SiellezOn 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.
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Publication title
Physical Review D: covering particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmologyVolume
93Issue
12Article number
122003Number
122003Pagination
1-21ISSN
2470-0010Department/School
School of Natural SciencesPublisher
American Physical SocietyPlace of publication
United StatesRights statement
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