Browsing by Author "Yablon, J."
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All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-02)We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in two sets of data collected by the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detectors between November 5, 2005 and September 30, 2007, and July ... -
Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-10)The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper, we present full results ... -
Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Ackley, K.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2017-03)In Advanced LIGO, detection and astrophysical source parameter estimation of the binary black hole merger GW150914 requires a calibrated estimate of the gravitational-wave strain sensed by the detectors. Producing an ... -
Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-08) -
Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data
Aasi, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T.; Abernathy, M. R.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2015-03)We present results of a search for continuously emitted gravitational radiation, directed at the brightest low-mass x-ray binary, Scorpius X-1. Our semicoherent analysis covers 10 days of LIGO S5 data ranging from 50–550 Hz, ... -
Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations for binary black hole coalescence
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-09)We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, including several performed specifically to reproduce this event. Our calculations go beyond existing semianalytic ... -
First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals
Aasi, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-02)In this paper we present the results of the first low frequency all-sky search of continuous gravitational wave signals conducted on Virgo VSR2 and VSR4 data. The search covered the full sky, a frequency range between 20 ... -
First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-11)We present results from a search for gravitational-wave bursts coincident with two core-collapse supernovae observed optically in 2007 and 2011. We employ data from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory ... -
GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-06)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 ... -
GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-03)The LIGO detection of the gravitational wave transient GW150914, from the inspiral and merger of two black holes with masses ≳30M[subscript ⊙], suggests a population of binary black holes with relatively high mass. This ... -
GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-03)Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016. With a strain sensitivity ... -
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-06)We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, was observed by the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave ... -
High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube
Adrián-Martínez, S.; Albert, A.; André, M.; Anghinolfi, M.; Anton, G.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-06)We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015. We search for coincident neutrino candidates ... -
Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-10)This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 [Abbott et al. Phys. Rev. ... -
Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009–2010 LIGO and Virgo Data
Aasi, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T.; Abernathy, M. R.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2014-12)Gravitational waves from a variety of sources are predicted to superpose to create a stochastic background. This background is expected to contain unique information from throughout the history of the Universe that is ... -
Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube
Aartsen, M. G.; Ackermann, M.; Adams, J.; Aguilar, J. A.; Ahlers, M.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2014-11)We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neutrino detector, including periods of joint ... -
Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data
Aasi, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T.; Abernathy, M. R.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2015-01)In this paper we present the results of a coherent narrow-band search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the Crab and Vela pulsars conducted on Virgo VSR4 data. In order to take into account a possible small ... -
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-02)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 ... -
Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-06)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 ... -
Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Abernathy, M. R.; Acernese, F.; e.a. (American Physical Society, 2016-06)On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the source and its parameters. The data around the ...