Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS
Pub Date
12-20-2017
Volume
851
Issue
2
Abstract
On 2017 June 8 at 02:01:16.49 UTC, a gravitational-wave (GW) signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes was observed by the two Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detectors with a network signal-to-noise ratio of. 13. This system is the lightest black hole binary so far observed, with component masses of 12(2)(+7) M-circle dot and 7(2)(+2) M-circle dot (90% credible intervals). These lie in the range of measured black hole masses in low-mass X-ray binaries, thus allowing us to compare black holes detected through GWs with electromagnetic observations. The source's luminosity distance is 340(-140)(+140) Mpc, corresponding to redshift 0.07(-0.03)(+0.03). We verify that the signal waveform is consistent with the predictions of general relativity.
Recommended Citation
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R. X.; Adya, V. B.; Affeldt, C.; Afrough, M.; Agarwal, B.; Agathos, M.; Agatsuma, K.; Aggarwal, N.; Aguiar, O. D.; Aiello, L.; Ain, A.; Ajith, P.; Allen, B.; Allen, G.; Allocca, A.; Mikhailov, Eugeniy E.; and Zhang, M., GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence (2017). ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS, 851(2).
10.3847/2041-8213/aa9f0c
DOI
10.3847/2041-8213/aa9f0c
