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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
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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+5M⊙ and 29−4+4M⊙, and the final black hole mass is 62−4+4M⊙, with 3.0−0.5+0.5M⊙c2 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. Published by the American Physical Society 2016
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- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2016-02-11
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 061102-061102
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2252795400
- Cited by
- 14,151
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 831.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
- Australian Research Council
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
- Department of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology
- Science and Engineering Research Board
- Ministry of Human Resource Development
- Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad
- Agència per a la Competitivitat de l’Empresa
- Narodowe Centrum Nauki
- Seventh Framework Programme
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alapprogramok
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Leverhulme Trust
- Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China
- Kavli Foundation
- MPS España
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- State of Niedersachsen, Germany
- Cultura i Universitats of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Lyon Institute of Origins
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