ASTROPHYSICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGER GW150914

The discovery of the gravitational-wave (GW) source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black hole (BH) systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the universe. Such BH mergers have been predicted in two main types of...

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Main Authors: LIGO Scientific Collaboration (Author), Virgo Collaboration (Author), Arggarwal, Nancy (Author), Barsotti, Lisa (Contributor), Biscans, Sebastien (Contributor), Brown, N. M. (Contributor), Buikema, Aaron (Contributor), Essick, Reed Clasey (Contributor), Gras, Slawomir (Contributor), Isogai, Tomoki (Contributor), Katsavounidis, Erotokritos (Contributor), Kontos, Antonios (Contributor), Lynch, Ryan Christopher (Contributor), Matichard, Fabrice (Contributor), Mavalvala, Nergis (Contributor), Miller, Jeffrey B. (Contributor), Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan (Contributor), Oelker, Eric Glenn (Contributor), Tse, Maggie (Contributor), Vaulin, Ruslan (Contributor), Vitale, Salvatore (Contributor), Weiss, Rainer (Contributor), Yam, William (Contributor), Yu, Haocun (Contributor), Zhang, F. (Contributor), Aggarwal, Nancy (Contributor), Libson, Adam A. (Author), MacInnis, Myron E (Author), Mason, Kenneth R (Author), Mittleman, Richard K (Author), Shoemaker, David H (Author), Zucker, Michael E (Author), Bodiya, Timothy P. (Author), Donovan, Frederick J (Author), Evans, Matthew J (Author), Fritschel, Peter K (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor), Bodiya, Timothy Paul (Contributor), Donovan, Frederick J. (Contributor), Evans, M. (Contributor), Fritschel, Peter K. (Contributor), Libson, Adam (Contributor), MacInnis, Myron E. (Contributor), Mason, Kenneth R. (Contributor), Mittleman, Richard K. (Contributor), Shoemaker, David H. (Contributor), Zucker, Michael E. (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), 2016-06-02T19:46:53Z.
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