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GWTC-1: A gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs

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GWTC-1: A gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs. Physical Review X 9 (3) , 031040. 10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040

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We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1     M ⊙ during the first and second observing runs of the advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run ( O 1 ), from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run ( O 2 ), which ran from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, saw the first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral, in addition to the observation of gravitational waves from a total of seven binary black hole mergers, four of which we report here for the first time: GW170729, GW170809, GW170818, and GW170823. For all significant gravitational-wave events, we provide estimates of the source properties. The detected binary black holes have total masses between 18.6 + 3.2 − 0.7     M ⊙ and 84.4 + 15.8 − 11.1     M ⊙ and range in distance between 320 + 120 − 110 and 2840 + 1400 − 1360     Mpc . No neutron star–black hole mergers were detected. In addition to highly significant gravitational-wave events, we also provide a list of marginal event candidates with an estimated false-alarm rate less than 1 per 30 days. From these results over the first two observing runs, which include approximately one gravitational-wave detection per 15 days of data searched, we infer merger rates at the 90% confidence intervals of 110 − 3840     Gpc − 3   y − 1 for binary neutron stars and 9.7 − 101     Gpc − 3   y − 1 for binary black holes assuming fixed population distributions and determine a neutron star–black hole merger rate 90% upper limit of 610     Gpc − 3   y − 1 .

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Physics and Astronomy
Publisher: American Physical Society
ISSN: 2160-3308
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 14 November 2019
Date of Acceptance: 4 September 2019
Last Modified: 12 Jul 2024 14:57
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/126818

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