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B. L. Pearlstone
Researcher at University of Glasgow
Publications - 136
Citations - 55060
B. L. Pearlstone is an academic researcher from University of Glasgow. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 72, co-authored 136 publications receiving 44830 citations.
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Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Sheelu Abraham,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,M. A. Aloy,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,Alena Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,M. Arène,N. Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,F. Aubin,P. Aufmuth,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,V. Avendano,A. Avila-Alvarez,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,P. T. Baker,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,S. Banagiri,J. C. Barayoga,S. E. Barclay,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Kevin Barkett,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,D. Beniwal,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,J. J. Bero,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,J. Bidler,I. A. Bilenko,S. A. Bilgili,G. Billingsley,Jens Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,N. Bode,M. Boer,Y. Boetzel,G. Bogaert,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,P. Booker,B. A. Boom,Callum Dale Booth,R. Bork,V. Boschi,S. Bose,K. Bossie,V. Bossilkov,J. Bosveld,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,A. Bramley,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,J. H. Briggs,F. Brighenti,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,A. F. Brooks,D. D. Brown,S. Brunett,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,Riccardo Buscicchio,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Miriam Cabero,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,W. A. Campbell,Maurizio Canepa,K. C. Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,M. F. Carney,Gregorio Carullo,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Pablo Cerdá-Durán,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,O. Chaibi,K. Chakravarti,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Sung-Po Chao,P. Charlton,E. A. Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Debarati Chatterjee,M. Chaturvedi,Katerina Chatziioannou,B. D. Cheeseboro,H. S. Chen,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,C. K. Cheong,H. Y. Chia,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,G. Cho,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. Chua,K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,A. A. Ciobanu,Riccardo Ciolfi,F. Cipriano,A. Cirone,F. Clara,John A. Clark,P. Clearwater,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,D. Cohen,R. Colgan,Marta Colleoni,Christophe Collette,C. Collins,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. J. Cooper,P. Corban,Thomas Corbitt,Isabel Cordero-Carrión,K. R. Corley,Neil J. Cornish,A. Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,R. Cotesta,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,P. B. Covas,E. E. Cowan,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,M. Croquette,S. G. Crowder,Torrey Cullen,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Anirban Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,L. E. H. Datrier,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,Douglas Davis,E. J. Daw,D.B. DeBra,M. Deenadayalan,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,Lindsay DeMarchi,Nicholas Demos,Thomas Dent,R. De Pietri,J. Derby,R. De Rosa,C. De Rossi,R. DeSalvo,O. de Varona,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,Tim Dietrich,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,Binlei Ding,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,F. Di Renzo,A. Dmitriev,Zoheyr Doctor,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,Turlough P. Downes,M. Drago,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J.-G. Ducoin,P. Dupej,S. E. Dwyer,P. J. Easter,T. B. Edo,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,M. Eisenmann,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,Héctor Estellés,D. Estevez,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,T. M. Evans,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xiaohui Fan,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,W. M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,Marc Favata,M. Fays,Mariana Fazio,C. Fee,J. Feicht,Martin M. Fejer,Fangchen Feng,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,T. A. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Maya Fishbach,Rebecca Fisher,J. M. Fishner,M. Fitz-Axen,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,Eric B. Flynn,H. Fong,José A. Font,P. W. F. Forsyth,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,J. R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,M. R. Ganija,S. G. Gaonkar,Alyssa Garcia,Cecilio García-Quirós,F. Garufi,B. Gateley,Sergio Gaudio,G. Gaur,V. Gayathri,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,D. George,Jimin George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,Bruno Giacomazzo,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,K. Gill,G. Giordano,L. Glover,Patrick Godwin,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,B. Goncharov,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,Mikhail L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,Aniello Grado,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,P. Grassia,C. Gray,R. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,R. Green,E. M. Gretarsson,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,G. M. Guidi,H. K. Gulati,Ying Guo,Anchal Gupta,Milan Gupta,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,L. Haegel,O. Halim,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,E. Z. Hamilton,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,O. A. Hannuksela,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,K. Haris,Jan Harms,G. M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,F. J. Hayes,J. Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,P. Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,Jörg Hennig,A. W. Heptonstall,Francisco Hernandez Vivanco,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,Tanja Hinderer,D. Hoak,S. Hochheim,David Jonathan Hofman,A. M. Holgado,N. A. Holland,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,Philip F. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,Charlie Hoy,A. Hreibi,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,M. Hulko,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,B. Idzkowski,A. Iess,C. Ingram,R. Inta,Giuseppe Intini,B. Irwin,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,S. J. Jadhav,Karan Jani,N. N. Janthalur,Piotr Jaranowski,Alexander C. Jenkins,J. Jiang,Daniel Johnson,A. W. Jones,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,C. V. Kalaghatgi,V. Kalogera,Brittany Kamai,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. J. Kapadia,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,Rahul Kashyap,M. Kasprzack,S. Katsanevas,E. Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,N. V. Keerthana,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,R. D. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,H. Khan,I. Khan,Sebastian Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,M. Khursheed,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. S. Kim,W. S. Kim,Yongjung Kim,C. Kimball,E. J. King,P. J. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,J. H. Klika,S. Klimenko,T. D. Knowles,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,G. Koekoek,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,N. Koper,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,Irina Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,N. V. Krishnendu,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,A. Kumar,P. Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,S. Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,S. Kwang,B. D. Lackey,K. H. Lai,T. L. Lam,M. Landry,B. B. Lane,Ryan N. Lang,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,R. K. Lanza,A. Lartaux-Vollard,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,Y. K. Lecoeuche,C-H. Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,J. S. H. Lee,Kejia Lee,J. Lehmann,A. K. Lenon,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Y. Levin,J. Li,Kwan-Lok Li,Tenglin Li,Xiuling Li,F-L. Lin,F. L. Linde,S. D. Linker,Tyson Littenberg,Jun Liu,X. Liu,Rico K. L. Lo,N. A. Lockerbie,Lionel London,Alessandro Longo,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,Marcus E. Lower,Harald Lück,D. Lumaca,Andrew Lundgren,Ryan S. Lynch,Y. Ma,R. Macas,S. Macfoy,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,A. Macquet,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,R. M. Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,Al Imran Malik,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Michela Mapelli,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,Sylvain Marsat,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,Denis Martynov,K. Mason,E. Massera,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Andrew Matas,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,J. J. McCann,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,Lee McCuller,S. C. McGuire,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,Andrew Mehta,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,L. Mereni,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,C. Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,Arnold Miller,Margaret Millhouse,J. C. Mills,M. C. Milovich-Goff,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,Alec Mishkin,Chandra Kant Mishra,T. Mistry,S. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Geoffrey Mo,D. Moffa,K. Mogushi,S. R. P. Mohapatra,M. Montani,Christopher J. Moore,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,Soichiro Morisaki,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,S. Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. M. Muniz,M. Muratore,P. G. Murray,Alessandro Nagar,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,J. Neilson,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,Ken K. Y. Ng,S. W. S. Ng,P. H. Nguyen,David A. Nichols,Samaya Nissanke,F. Nocera,C. North,L. K. Nuttall,Martin Obergaulinger,J. Oberling,B. D. O'Brien,G. D. O'Dea,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,Frank Ohme,H. Ohta,M. A. Okada,M. Oliver,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,R. G. Ormiston,L. F. Ortega,Richard O'Shaughnessy,S. Ossokine,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,A. E. Pace,G. Pagano,M. A. Page,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Huang-Wei Pan,B. Pang,Peter T. H. Pang,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,A. Parida,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,Mandar Patil,B. Patricelli,B. L. Pearlstone,Christian Pedersen,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,A. Pele,S. Penn,C. J. Perez,A. Perreca,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,K. S. Phukon,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,M. Pirello,Matthew Pitkin,Rosa Poggiani,D. Y. T. Pong,S. Ponrathnam,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,Jade Powell,A. K. Prajapati,J. Prasad,Kiran Prasai,R. Prasanna,Geraint Pratten,T. Prestegard,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. G. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,V. Quetschke,P. J. Quinonez,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,N. Radulescu,P. Raffai,S. Raja,C. Rajan,B. Rajbhandari,M. Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,Antoni Ramos-Buades,Javed Rana,K. Rao,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,J. F. Read,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,W. Ren,F. Ricci,C. J. Richardson,Jonathan Richardson,Paul M. Ricker,K. Riles,Manuela Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Marco Romanelli,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,J. H. Romie,Keith Rose,D. Rosińska,Shawn Rosofsky,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,G. Rutins,Kris Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,E. J. Sanchez,L. E. Sanchez,N. Sanchis-Gual,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,K. A. Santiago,Nikhil Sarin,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,P. Schale,Mark A. Scheel,Jacob Scheuer,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,S. G. Schwalbe,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,N. Sennett,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. J. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,M. B. Shaner,Lijing Shao,Pradeep Kumar Sharma,P. Shawhan,Hongyu Shen,R. Shink,David H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,S. ShyamSundar,K. Siellez,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,Leo Singer,Narendra Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,S. Sitmukhambetov,V. Skliris,B. J. J. Slagmolen,T. J. Slaven-Blair,J. R. Smith,Rory Smith,Surendra Nadh Somala,E. J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,E. Sowell,A. P. Spencer,Mario Spera,A. K. Srivastava,V. Srivastava,Kai Staats,C. Stachie,M. Standke,Daniele A. Steer,Michael Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,S. Stevenson,D. Stocks,Robert Stone,D. J. Stops,Kenneth A. Strain,G. Stratta,S. E. Strigin,A. Strunk,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,Vivishek Sudhir,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,Jishnu Suresh,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. 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TL;DR: In this paper, the mass, spin, and redshift distributions of binary black hole (BBH) mergers with LIGO and Advanced Virgo observations were analyzed using phenomenological population models.
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GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Matthew Abernathy,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,C. C. Arceneaux,J. S. Areeda,N. Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,M. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,M. K. M. Bader,P. T. Baker,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,J. C. Barayoga,S. E. Barclay,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,Dániel Barta,J. G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,B. Behnke,Michał Bejger,A. S. Bell,C. J. Bell,B. K. Berger,J. Bergman,G. Bergmann,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,Swetha Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,R. Birney,Sebastien Biscans,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher M. Biwer,Marie-Anne Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,C. Bogan,Alejandro Bohé,P. Bojtos,Charlotte Bond,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,Marica Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,N. M. Brown,C. C. Buchanan,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,J. B. Camp,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,Collin D. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,Giancarlo Cella,Carlos Cepeda,L. Cerboni Baiardi,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,R. Chakraborty,T. Chalermsongsak,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Yi Chen,Chia-Liang Cheng,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,Sheon Chua,S. Chung,G. Ciani,F. Clara,John A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Pierre-François Cohadon,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,A. Conte,L. Conti,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,E. E. Cowan,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Kieran Craig,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,S. G. Crowder,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,N. S. Darman,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,D.B. DeBra,G. Debreczeni,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,T. 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TL;DR: In this article, the authors improved initial estimates of the binary's properties, including component masses, spins, and tidal parameters, using the known source location, improved modeling, and recalibrated Virgo data.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present four tests of the consistency of the data with binary black hole gravitational waveforms predicted by general relativity, including the best-fit waveform from the data and the consistency with detector noise.