[PDF] Top 20 GW150914 : implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes

... support from these agencies as well as by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, Department of Science and Technology, India, Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), India, Ministry ... See full document

... of gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron ...of binary neutron stars estimated from this event suggests that distant, unresolvable binary neutron stars create a ... See full document

... a stochastic gravitational-wave ...of GW150914 and GW151226, the rate and mass of coalescing binary black holes appear to be greater than many previous ...the ... See full document

... a stochastic gravitational-wave ...of GW150914 and GW151226, the rate and mass of coalescing binary black holes appear to be greater than many previous ...the ... See full document

... ferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) [1] Scientific and Virgo [2] Collaborations detected a new gravitational-wave source: the coalescence of two neu- tron stars ...after ... See full document

... real gravitational wave signal, as for GW150914, the back- ground used to determine the significance of other events is reestimated without the contribution of this ...the background ... See full document

... signals from BBH ...results from numerical relativity (NR) simu- lations, giving further evidence that this signal is consistent with expectations from general ...the implications of this ... See full document

... the gravitational constant and speed of light. Estimating f and f _ from the data in ...the binary components to 2 GM=c 2 ≳ 210 ...the gravitational-wave frequency) the objects must ... See full document

... of black holes in binaries is not well known [136], there are examples of black holes in X-ray binaries which have been observed to have a large spin ...a binary with spinning ... See full document

... the gravitational constant and speed of light. Estimating f and f _ from the data in ...the binary components to 2 GM=c 2 ≳ 210 ...the gravitational-wave frequency) the objects must ... See full document

... near black hole horizons. Such structures may reflect gravitational waves, causing echoes that follow the main gravitational waves from binary black hole ...a stochastic ... See full document

... direct gravitational-wave detection was made by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Ob- servatory on September 14, ...The GW150914 signal was strong enough to be ... See full document

... E ulðcutoffÞ ν;tot ¼ 6 . 6 × 10 51 –3 . 7 × 10 54 erg ð 2 Þ with the first and second lines of the equation correspond- ing to the spectral models without and with cutoff, respectively. For comparison, the total energy ... See full document

... that GW150914 was formed by random coincidence of detec- tor noise is extremely ...that GW150914 is a gravitational-wave ...coalescing binary signal in the data from both ... See full document

... near-maximal black hole spin [52–54]; and for many or- bits before coalescence [27, ...of gravitational wave detection and parameter estimation prompted the development of revised standards for ... See full document

... derived from GW observations are comparable in strength to what we typically obtain from X-ray data analyses ( for reviews, see McClintock et ...made from analysis of the X-ray spectra of accretion ... See full document

... frequencies from approximately ...waves from an earthquake [ 11 ] , are the most likely to adversely impact data quality by rendering the detectors inoperable or inducing low frequency optic motion that ... See full document

... rate from only the GW150914 trigger using a high- signi fi cance threshold on the false-alarm probability ( FAP ) , and a correspondingly restrictive selection function to estimate sensitive time-volumes, so ... See full document

... the gravitational wave strain signal h ( t ) is investigated using injection studies, where an intentional stimulus is introduced and the responses of both PEM sensors and the instrument are ...culated ... See full document

... SPINNING BINARY SYSTEMS We briefly review the current literature regarding the formation and evolution of spinning binary ...in binary orbit. As it evolves away from the main sequence, the ... See full document