[PDF] Top 20 Binary black hole mergers in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

... The first observing run (O1) of the Advanced LIGO detectors took place from September 12, 2015, to January 19, ...stellar-mass binary black holes ...the first ... See full document

... for Advanced Research, the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, Innovations, and Communications, the International Center for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research ... See full document

... the LIGO interferometers is improving and the frequency sen- sitivity band is being extended to lower frequencies makes us hopeful that the first detection of gravitational waves from the inspiral phase of ... See full document

... DQ vetoes are produced for all analysis time based on systematic instrumental conditions without any regard for the presence of gravitational wave signals. All data are treated equally; the removal of data with excess ... See full document

... Results are presented from a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the brightest low-mass X-ray binary, Scorpius X-1, using data collected during the first Advanced LIGO ... See full document

... X-ray binary be- lieved to host a neutron star that is potentially spun up through accretion, in which gravitational wave emission may provide a balancing spin-down torque [18, 19, 35, ...the binary orbital ... See full document

... In this paper, we present an all-sky search for un- modeled long-duration (10–500 s) transient GW events. Astrophysical compact sources undergoing complex dy- namics and hydrodynamic instabilities are expected to emit ... See full document

... The S / Ns reported by our searches are quadratically sensitive to calibration errors because they are maximized over arrival time, waveform phase, and a template bank of waveforms ( Allen 1996; Brown & LIGO ... See full document

... two Advanced LIGO detectors began their fi rst observing run ( O1 ) , lasting four ...of binary black holes ( BBHs; Abbott et ...second Advanced LIGO ... See full document

... of binary black hole (BBH) coalescences in- ferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient gravitational wave (GW) signal ... See full document

... as binary neutron star and black hole mergers or core-collapse supernovae, can drive relativistic out fl ows, giving rise to non-thermal high-energy ...from Advanced LIGO from its ... See full document

... the first observing run (O1) of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 2015 to January ...The first 16 days of coincident data have already been analyzed, resulting in a ... See full document

... LIGO’s first observing run. No viable gravitational wave candidates were identified. We briefly describe the data analyzed and the anticipated sensitivity to sub-solar-mass ultracompact objects, as ... See full document

... that black holes with masses accessi- ble to ground based interferometers could have formed deep in the radiation era from the prompt collapse of large primordial over-densities on the scale of the early time ... See full document

... two Advanced LIGO detectors began their first observing run (O1), lasting four ...of binary black holes (BBHs; Abbott et ...second Advanced LIGO observing ... See full document

... two Advanced LIGO detectors began their fi rst observing run ( O1 ) , lasting four ...of binary black holes ( BBHs; Abbott et ...second Advanced LIGO ... See full document

... – black hole ( NSBH ) mergers, as was demonstrated in the case of GW170817 ( at least for the BNS case ) .... Binary black hole ( BBH ) mergers are not typically expected ... See full document

... x-ray binary believed to host a neutron star that is potentially spun up through accretion, in which gravitational-wave emission may provide a balancing spin-down torque ... See full document

... the Advanced LIGO second observation run; we search for gravitational-wave transients of 2 – 500 s duration in the 24 – 2048 Hz frequency band with minimal assumptions about signal properties such as ... See full document

... rotating black holes (ISCOchirp) (van Putten 2016), inspiral- only compact binary coalescence waveforms up to 2nd post-Newtonian order (Blanchet et ...compact binary coales- cence waveforms (ECBC) ... See full document