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

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E Zucker J Zweizig Ligo Sci Collaboration And Virgo Collaboration

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Astrofísica DYNAMICS Gravitació neutron star: binary Astronomy General Physics and Astronomy Binary number Astrophysics Astrophysics 01 natural sciences General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 010305 fluids & plasmas gravitational waves black holes Astrophysic SIGNALS Population Distributions LIGO QC QB Physics High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)astro-ph.HE Settore FIS/01 gravitational radiation detector: network PROGENITORS Physics gravitational waves Physical Sciences astro-ph.CO [PHYS.GRQC]Physics [physics]/General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology [gr-qc]Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena METALLICITY Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics Gravitation Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)QC1-999 gr-qc Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Physics Multidisciplinary FOS: Physical sciences General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics MASS Astrophysics; Gravitation General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Binary black hole binary: coalescence SYSTEMS 0103 physical sciences 010306 general physics STFC Science & Technology Gravitational wave gravitational radiation RCUK Gravitational Wave Physics binary: compact LIGO EVOLUTION Black hole Neutron star VIRGO Physics and Astronomy black hole: binary gravitational radiation: emission BLACK-HOLE RADIATION INFERENCE [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]

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We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1$\mathrm{M}_\odot$ during the first and second observing runs of the Advanced gravitational-wave detector network. During the first observing run (O1), from September $12^\mathrm{th}$, 2015 to January $19^\mathrm{th}$, 2016, gravitational waves from three binary black hole mergers were detected. The second observing run (O2), which ran from November $30^\mathrm{th}$, 2016 to August $25^\mathrm{th}$, 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 $18.6_{-0.7}^{+3.2}\mathrm{M}_\odot$, and $84.4_{-11.1}^{+15.8} \mathrm{M}_\odot$, and range in distance between $320_{-110}^{+120}$ Mpc and $2840_{-1360}^{+1400}$ 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 $110\, -\, 3840$ $\mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\,\mathrm{y}^{-1}$ for binary neutron stars and $9.7\, -\, 101$ $\mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\,\mathrm{y}^{-1}$ for binary black holes assuming fixed population distributions, and determine a neutron star - black hole merger rate 90% upper limit of $610$ $\mathrm{Gpc}^{-3}\,\mathrm{y}^{-1}$.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2019-09-04

10.1103/physrevx.9.031040 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29709