Published October 6, 2017
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GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence
- Creators
- Abbott, B. P.
- Abbott, R.
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Adhikari, R. X.
- Ananyeva, A.
- Anderson, S. B.
- Appert, S.
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Arai, K.
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Araya, M. C.
- Barayoga, J. C.
- Barish, B. C.
- Berger, B. K.
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Billingsley, G.
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Biscans, S.
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Blackburn, J. K.
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Blair, C. D.
- Bork, R.
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Brooks, A. F.
- Brunett, S.
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Cahillane, C.
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Callister, T. A.
- Cepeda, C. B.
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Coughlin, M. W.
- Couvares, P.
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Coyne, D. C.
- Ehrens, P.
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Eichholz, J.
- Etzel, T.
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Feicht, J.
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Fries, E. M.
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Gossan, S. E.
- Gushwa, K. E.
- Gustafson, E. K.
- Heptonstall, A. W.
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Isi, M.
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Kamai, B.
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Kanner, J. B.
- Kondrashov, V.
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Korth, W. Z.
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Kozak, D. B.
- Lazzarini, A.
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Markowitz, A.
- Maros, E.
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Massinger, T. J.
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Matichard, F.
- McIntyre, G.
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McIver, J.
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Meshkov, S.
- Nevin, L.
- Pedraza, M.
- Perreca, A.
- Quintero, E. A.
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Reitze, D. H.
- Robertson, N. A.
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Rollins, J. G.
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Sachdev, S.
- Sanchez, E. J.
- Sanchez, L. E.
- Schmidt, P.
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Smith, R. J. E.
- Taylor, R.
- Torrie, C. I.
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Tso, R.
- Urban, A. L.
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Vajente, G.
- Vass, S.
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Venugopalan, G.
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Wade, A. R.
- Wallace, L.
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Weinstein, A. J.
- Whitcomb, S. E.
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Williams, R. D.
- Willis, J. L.
- Wipf, C. C.
- Xiao, S.
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Yamamoto, H.
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Zhang, L. Y.
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Zucker, M. E.
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Zweizig, J.
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Barkett, K.
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Blackman, J.
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Chen, Y.
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Ma, Y.
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Pang, B.
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Scheel, M.1
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Varma, V.
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Chatziioannou, K.
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- Virgo Collaboration
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California Institute of Technology
Chicago
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Abstract
On August 14, 2017 at 10:30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar mass black holes, with a false-alarm-rate of ≾ 1 in 27000 years. The signal was observed with a three-detector network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 18. The inferred masses of the initial black holes are 30.5^(+5.7)_(-3.0)M⊙ and 25.3^(+2.8)_(-4.2)M⊙ (at the 90% credible level). The luminosity distance of the source is 540^(+130)_(-210) Mpc, corresponding to a redshift of z =0.11^(+0.03)_(-0.04). A network of three detectors improves the sky localization of the source, reducing the area of the 90% credible region from 1160 deg^2 using only the two LIGO detectors to 60 deg^2 using all three detectors. For the first time, we can test the nature of gravitational wave polarizations from the antenna response of the LIGO-Virgo network, thus enabling a new class of phenomenological tests of gravity.
Additional Information
Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Received 23 September 2017; published 6 October 2017. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/ Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector and the creation and support of the EGO consortium. The authors also gratefully acknowledge research support from these agencies as well as by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Department of Science and Technology, India, the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, the Ministry of Human Resource Development, India, the Spanish Agencia Estatal de Investigación, the Vicepresidència I Conselleria d'Innovació, Recerca i Turisme and the Conselleria d'Educació i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears, the Conselleria d'Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana, the National Science Centre of Poland, the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, the Russian Science Foundation, the European Commission, the European Regional Development Funds (ERDF), the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), the Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO), the National Research, Development and Innovation Office Hungary (NKFI), the National Research Foundation of Korea, Industry Canada and the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation, the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada, the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Leverhulme Trust, the Research Corporation, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan and the Kavli Foundation. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the NSF, STFC, MPS, INFN, CNRS and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for provision of computational resources.Attached Files
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- NSF
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max-Planck-Society (MPS)
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Australian Research Council
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO)
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (India)
- Department of Science and Technology (India)
- Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
- Ministry of Human Resource Development (India)
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación
- Vicepresidència I Conselleria d'Innovació, Recerca i Turisme
- Conselleria d'Educació i Universitat del Govern de les Illes Balears
- Conselleria d'Educació, Investigació, Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana
- National Science Centre (Poland)
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research
- Russian Science Foundation
- European Commission
- European Regional Development Fund
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO)
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office (Hungary)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
- Industry Canada
- Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovação e Comunicação
- International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR)
- Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
- National Natural Science Foundation of China
- Leverhulme Trust
- Research Corporation
- Ministry of Science and Technology (Taipei)
- Kavli Foundation
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- LIGO, Astronomy Department