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G. Pillant
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G. Pillant is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 132 publications receiving 40433 citations.
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GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,M. Afrough,B. Agarwal,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,A. Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koya Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,N. Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,M. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,D. V. Atallah,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,A. Avila-Alvarez,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,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,K. Barkett,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,C. Beer,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,J. J. Bero,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,Swetha Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,C. R. Billman,Jens Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher M. Biwer,Marie-Anne Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Jonathan Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,O. Bock,N. Bode,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,A. Bohe,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,K. Bossie,Yann Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,Jacob Broida,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,S. Brunett,C. C. Buchanan,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,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,Maurizio Canepa,Priscilla Canizares,Kipp Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,Collin Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,M. F. Carney,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,Pablo Cerdá-Durán,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. A. Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Debarati Chatterjee,Katerina Chatziioannou,B. D. Cheeseboro,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Xin Chen,Y. R. Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,H. Y. Chia,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,T. Chmiel,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,A. J. K. Chua,S. S. Y. Chua,A. K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,Riccardo Ciolfi,C. E. Cirelli,A. Cirone,F. Clara,John A. Clark,P. Clearwater,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P.-F. Cohadon,David Cohen,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,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,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,S. G. Crowder,Torrey Cullen,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Anirban Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,Douglas Davis,E. J. Daw,B. Day,Soumi De,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,N. Demos,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,R. De Pietri,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,R. T. DeRosa,C. De Rossi,R. DeSalvo,O. de Varona,J. Devenson,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,F. Di Renzo,Zoheyr Doctor,V. Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,R. Douglas,M. Dovale Álvarez,Turlough P. Downes,M. Drago,C. Dreissigacker,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,M. Ducrot,P. Dupej,S. E. Dwyer,T. B. Edo,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,D. Estevez,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xiaohui Fan,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,Marc Favata,M. Fays,C. Fee,H. Fehrmann,J. Feicht,Martin M. Fejer,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,D. Finstad,I. Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Maya Fishbach,R. P. Fisher,M. Fitz-Axen,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,José A. Font,P. W. F. Forsyth,S. S. Forsyth,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,E. M. Fries,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,Cecilio García-Quirós,F. Garufi,B. Gateley,Sergio Gaudio,G. Gaur,V. Gayathri,N. Gehrels,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,D. George,Jimin George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,K. Gill,L. Glover,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,S. Gomes,B. Goncharov,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,A. Grado,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,E. M. Gretarsson,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,G. M. Guidi,X. Guo,Anchal Gupta,M. K. Gupta,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,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,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,J. Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,P. Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,Jörg Hennig,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,T. Hinderer,D. Hoak,David Jonathan Hofman,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,Philip F. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Eric Howell,A. Hreibi,Yi-Ming Hu,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,N. Indik,R. Inta,Giuseppe Intini,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,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,M. Kasprzack,M. Katolik,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,Athol J. Kemball,R. D. Kennedy,C. Kent,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,Sebastian Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. S. Kim,W. S. Kim,Yongjung Kim,S. J. Kimbrell,E. J. King,P. J. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,T. D. Knowles,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,Carsten Kramer,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,P. Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,S. Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,S. Kwang,B. D. Lackey,K. H. Lai,M. Landry,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,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,H. W. Lee,Kejia Lee,J. Lehmann,A. K. Lenon,M. Leonardi,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,Tjonnie G. F. Li,S. D. Linker,Tyson Littenberg,Jun Liu,Rico K. L. Lo,N. A. Lockerbie,Lionel London,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,Harald Lück,D. Lumaca,Andrew Lundgren,Ryan Lynch,Y. Ma,R. Macas,S. Macfoy,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,I. Magaña Hernandez,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,R. M. Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,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,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,Lee McCuller,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,L. McNeill,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,J. Meidam,E. Mejuto-Villa,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,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,L. Milano,A. L. Miller,B. B. Miller,J. S. Miller,Margaret Millhouse,M. C. Milovich-Goff,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,Chandra Kant Mishra,S. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,D. Moffa,A. Moggi,K. Mogushi,M. Mohan,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,M. Montani,Christopher J. Moore,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,S. R. Morriss,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,S. Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. M. Muniz,M. Muratore,P. G. Murray,Kevin Napier,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,J. Neilson,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,L. Nevin,Jonathan Newport,G. P. Newton,Ken K. Y. Ng,T. T. Nguyen,David A. Nichols,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,A. Nitz,A. Noack,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,C. North,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,G. D. O'Dea,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,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,J. Page,M. A. Page,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Howard Pan,Huang-Wei Pan,B. Pang,Peter T. H. Pang,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,A. Paoli,Maria Alessandra Papa,A. Parida,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,Mandar Patil,B. Patricelli,B. L. Pearlstone,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,L. Pekowsky,A. Pele,Steven D. Penn,C. J. Perez,A. Perreca,L. M. Perri,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,M. Pirello,Matthew Pitkin,M. Poe,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,J. W. W. Pratt,Geraint Pratten,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. G. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,C. Rajan,B. Rajbhandari,M. Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,Antoni Ramos-Buades,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,Jocelyn Read,T. Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,W. Ren,Steven Reyes,F. Ricci,Paul M. Ricker,S. Rieger,K. Riles,Manuela Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,G. Rutins,Kevin M. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,Laura Sampson,E. J. Sanchez,L. E. Sanchez,N. Sanchis-Gual,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. E. S. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Mark A. Scheel,Jacob Scheuer,Jochen Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,S. G. Schwalbe,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. J. Shaffer,A. A. Shah,M. S. Shahriar,M. B. Shaner,Lijing Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,D. H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,Leo Singer,A. P. Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,Beverly J. Smith,J. R. Smith,Rory Smith,Surendra Nadh Somala,E. J. Son,J. A. Sonnenberg,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,A. P. Spencer,A. K. Srivastava,Kai Staats,A. Staley,Michael Steinke,J. Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,S. Stevenson,Robert Stone,D. J. Stops,Kenneth A. Strain,G. Stratta,S. E. Strigin,A. Strunk,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,Jishnu Suresh,Patrick J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. Szczepańczyk,M. Tacca,S. C. Tait,Colm Talbot,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,Márton Tápai,Andrea Taracchini,Jay D. Tasson,Joseph Ashley Taylor,R. Taylor,Sumanta Tewari,T. Theeg,F. Thies,E. Thomas,Mark Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,S. N. Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,K. Toland,M. Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,Alejandro Torres-Forné,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,J. Trinastic,M. C. Tringali,L. 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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the signal waveform is consistent with the predictions of general relativity and verify that the signals from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes in the LIGO detectors are consistent with these predictions.
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Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger gw150914
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,P. 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,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,B. Behnke,M. Bejger,C. Belczynski,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,Jens 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. 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TL;DR: The discovery of the GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the Universe as mentioned in this paper.
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GW190425: Observation of a Compact Binary Coalescence with Total Mass $\sim 3.4 M_{\odot}$
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TL;DR: In 2019, the LIGO Livingston detector observed a compact binary coalescence with signal-to-noise ratio 12.9 as mentioned in this paper, which is consistent with the individual binary components being neutron stars.
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TL;DR: Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016, and observed a transient gravitational-wave signal determined to be the coalescence of two black holes.
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GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO
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TL;DR: In this paper, 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 were reported.