Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Physics
Journal Title
Physical Review D
Pub Date
2016
Volume
93
Issue
12
Abstract
On September 14, 2015, at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole merger GW150914. We report the results of a matched-filter search using relativistic models of compact-object binaries that recovered GW150914 as the most significant event during the coincident observations between the two LIGO detectors from September 12 to October 20, 2015 GW150914 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 203000 years, equivalent to a significance greater than 5.1 sigma.
Recommended Citation
Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abernathy, M. R.; Mikhailov, E. E.; Rew, H.; Romanov, G.; and Zhang, M., GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO (2016). Physical Review D, 93(12).
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122003
