SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)
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Aggarwal, Nancy; Barsotti, Lisa; Biscans, Sebastien; Bodiya, Timothy P.; Brown, N. M.; Buikema, Aaron; Donovan, Frederick J; Essick, Reed Clasey; Evans, Matthew Hiram; Fritschel, Peter K; Gras, Slawomir; Isogai, Tomoki; Katsavounidis, Erotokritos; Kontos, Antonios; Libson, Adam A.; MacInnis, Myron E; Mason, Kenneth R; Matichard, Fabrice; Mavalvala, Nergis; Miller, J.; Mittleman, Richard K; Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan; Oelker, Eric Glenn; Shoemaker, David H; Tse, Maggie; Vaulin, Ruslan; Vitale, Salvatore; Weiss, Rainer; Yam, William; Yu, Hang; Zhang, Fan; Zucker, Michael E; ... Show more Show less
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This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient (GW) signal GW150914. In that work we reported various rate estimates whose 90% confidence intervals fell in the range 2-600 Gpc[superscript -3] yr[superscript -1]. Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.© 2016 The American Astronomical Society
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2016-11Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology); MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space ResearchJournal
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
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American Astronomical Society
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Abbott, B. P., et al. “SUPPLEMENT: ‘THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914’ (2016, ApJL, 833, L1).” The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 227, no. 2, Nov. 2016, p. 14. © 2016 The American Astronomical Society
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1538-4365
0067-0049