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Leo Singer
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 344
Citations - 98557
Leo Singer is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 100, co-authored 326 publications receiving 76449 citations. Previous affiliations of Leo Singer include California Institute of Technology & Max Planck Society.
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The Zwicky Transient Facility: Science Objectives
Matthew J. Graham,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Eric C. Bellm,Scott M. Adams,Cristina Barbarino,Nadejda Blagorodnova,Dennis Bodewits,Dennis Bodewits,Bryce Bolin,Patrick Brady,S. Bradley Cenko,S. Bradley Cenko,Chan-Kao Chang,Michael W. Coughlin,Kaushik De,Gwendolyn Eadie,Tony L. Farnham,Ulrich Feindt,Anna Franckowiak,Christoffer Fremling,Suvi Gezari,Suvi Gezari,Sourav Ghosh,Daniel A. Goldstein,V. Zach Golkhou,Ariel Goobar,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Daniela Huppenkothen,Željko Ivezić,R. Lynne Jones,Mario Juric,David L. Kaplan,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Michael S. P. Kelley,Thomas Kupfer,Thomas Kupfer,Chien De Lee,Hsing Wen Lin,Hsing Wen Lin,Ragnhild Lunnan,Ashish Mahabal,Adam A. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Chow-Choong Ngeow,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Eran O. Ofek,Thomas A. Prince,L. Rauch,Jan van Roestel,Steve Schulze,Leo Singer,Leo Singer,Jesper Sollerman,Francesco Taddia,Lin Yan,Quanzhi Ye,Po-Chieh Yu,Tom A. Barlow,James Bauer,Ron Beck,Justin Belicki,Rahul Biswas,V. Brinnel,Tim Brooke,Brian D. Bue,Mattia Bulla,Rick Burruss,Andrew J. Connolly,John Cromer,Virginia Cunningham,Richard Dekany,Alex Delacroix,Vandana Desai,Dmitry A. Duev,Michael Feeney,David Flynn,Sara Frederick,Avishay Gal-Yam,Matteo Giomi,Steven Groom,Eugean Hacopians,David Hale,George Helou,John Henning,David Hover,Lynne A. Hillenbrand,Justin Howell,Tiara Hung,David Imel,Wing-Huen Ip,Wing-Huen Ip,Edward Jackson,Shai Kaspi,Stephen Kaye,Marek Kowalski,E. A. Kramer,Michael A. Kuhn,Walter Landry,Russ R. Laher,Peter H. Mao,Frank J. Masci,Serge Monkewitz,Patrick J. Murphy,Jakob Nordin,Maria T. Patterson,Bryan E. Penprase,Michael Porter,Umaa Rebbapragada,Daniel J. Reiley,Reed Riddle,Mickael Rigault,Hector Rodriguez,Ben Rusholme,J. V. Santen,David L. Shupe,Roger M. H. Smith,Maayane T. Soumagnac,Robert Stein,Jason Surace,Paula Szkody,Scott Terek,Angela Van Sistine,Sjoert van Velzen,W. Thomas Vestrand,Richard Walters,Charlotte Ward,Chaoran Zhang,Jeffry Zolkower +128 more
TL;DR: The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) as mentioned in this paper is a new time-domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope with a 47 deg^2 field of view and an 8 second readout time.
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The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,M. R. 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,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,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,C. Bond,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Suvadeep Bose,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,M. 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,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,Jordan 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,G. 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,S. Chua,S. Chung,G. Ciani,F. Clara,J. A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,A. Conte,L. Conti,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Neil J. Cornish,A. 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,L. 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,Soumi De,D.B. DeBra,G. Debreczeni,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,T. Denker,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,H. Dereli,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,S. Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,A. Di Lieto,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,A. Di Virgilio,G. Dojcinoski,V. Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,R. Douglas,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Z. Du,M. Ducrot,S. E. Dwyer,T. B. Edo,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,W. Engels,Reed Essick,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,R. Everett,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,X. Fan,Qi Fang,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,M. Favata,M. Fays,H. Fehrmann,Martin M. Fejer,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,R. P. Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,J.-D. Fournier,S. Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,Alberto Gatto,G. Gaur,Neil Gehrels,G. Gemme,Bruce Gendre,E. Genin,A. Gennai,J. George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Karl Gill,A. Glaefke,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,A. Gopakumar,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,C. Graef,P. B. Graff,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,X. Guo,A. Gupta,M. K. Gupta,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,J. J. Hacker,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,M. T. Hartman,C.-J. Haster,K. Haughian,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,David Jonathan Hofman,S. E. Hollitt,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,P. Hopkins,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Eric Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,S. Huang,E. A. Huerta,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,A. Idrisy,N. Indik,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,G. Islas,T. Isogai,B. R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,H. J. Jang,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,Haris K,C. V. Kalaghatgi,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,M. Kasprzack,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,Tejinder Kaur,K. Kawabe,Fumiko Kawazoe,Fumiko Kawazoe,Fabien Kéfélian,M. S. Kehl,David Keitel,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,R. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,S. Khan,Z. Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Nam-Gyu Kim,Namjun Kim,Y.-M. Kim,E. J. King,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,S. M. Koehlenbeck,K. Kokeyama,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,C. Krueger,G. Kuehn,P. Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,B. D. Lackey,M. Landry,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,Paul D. Lasky,A. Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,E. O. Lebigot,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,H. K. Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,K. Lee,A. Lenon,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,B. M. Levine,Tjonnie G. F. Li,Adam A. Libson,Tyson Littenberg,N. A. Lockerbie,J. Logue,A. L. Lombardi,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,J. D. Lough,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,J. Luo,Ryan Lynch,Y. Q. Ma,Timothy MacDonald,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magaña-Sandoval,R. M. Magee,M. Mageswaran,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,V. Malvezzi,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,G. Mazzolo,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,D. Mendoza-Gandara,R. A. Mercer,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,C. Messick,P. M. Meyers,F. Mezzani,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,John Miller,Margaret Millhouse,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,S. Mirshekari,C. Mishra,S. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,A. Moggi,M. Mohan,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,M. Montani,Blake Moore,Christopher J. Moore,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,S. R. Morriss,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,Subroto Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,V. Necula,K. Nedkova,Gijs Nelemans,M. Neri,A. Neunzert,G. P. Newton,T. T. Nguyen,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,Alexander H. Nitz,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,M. E. N. Normandin,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,Evan Ochsner,J. O'Dell,Eric Oelker,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,M. Oliver,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Huang-Wei Pan,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,M. A. Papa,H. R. Paris,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,B. Patricelli,Z. Patrick,B. L. Pearlstone,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,Larne Pekowsky,A. Pele,Steven D. Penn,A. Perreca,M. Phelps,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,V. Predoi,S. S. Premachandra,T. Prestegard,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. G. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,Michael Pürrer,H. Qi,Jiayi Qin,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,M. Rakhmanov,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,M. Razzano,V. Re,Jocelyn Read,C. M. Reed,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,D. H. Reitze,H. Rew,Steven Reyes,F. Ricci,K. Riles,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Rocco Romano,Gleb Romanov,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,Francesco Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,L. Sammut,Laura Sampson,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,B. Sandeen,J. R. Sanders,J. R. Sanders,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Roland Schilling,Jochen Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,D. Schuette,Bernard F. Schutz,J. Scott,Susan M. Scott,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,G. Serna,Y. Setyawati,A. Sevigny,Daniel A. Shaddock,Sweta Shah,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,Z. Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,D. H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,D. Simakov,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Aviral Singh,Robinjeet Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,Nicholas Smith,Rory Smith,E. J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,T. Souradeep,A. K. Srivastava,A. Staley,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,D. Steinmeyer,B. C. Stephens,Simon Stevenson,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,N. Straniero,G. Stratta,N. A. Strauss,S. E. Strigin,R. Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. Szczepańczyk,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,M. Tápai,S. P. Tarabrin,Andrea Taracchini,R. Taylor,T. Theeg,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,Elizabeth R. Thomas,Mark Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Tomlinson,M. Tonelli,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,Daniele Trifirò,M. C. Tringali,L. Trozzo,Maggie Tse,M. Turconi,D. Tuyenbayev,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,A. L. Urban,S. A. Usman,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,G. Valdes,Michele Vallisneri,N. van Bakel,M. van Beuzekom,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van Den Broeck,D. C. Vander-Hyde,D. C. Vander-Hyde,L. van der Schaaf,J. V. van Heijningen,A. A. van Veggel,M. Vardaro,S. Vass,M. Vasúth,Ruslan Vaulin,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,Serena Vinciguerra,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,D. V. Voss,W. D. Vousden,S. P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,M. Wade,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Hua Wang,Meng Wang,X. F. Wang,Y. Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,B. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,Linqing Wen,Peter Weßels,T. Westphal,K. Wette,J. T. Whelan,J. T. Whelan,D. J. White,Bernard F. Whiting,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Worden,J. L. Wright,G. Wu,Joshua Yablon,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,M. J. Yap,Haocun Yu,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,L. Zangrando,M. Zanolin,J.-P. Zendri,Michael Zevin,Fan Zhang,L. Zhang,Mi Zhang,Yanxi Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,Mingliang Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Michael E Zucker,Michael E Zucker,S. E. Zuraw,J. Zweizig +988 more
Abstract: A transient gravitational-wave signal, GW150914, was identified in the twin Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC. To assess the implications of this discovery, the detectors remained in operation with unchanged configurations over a period of 39 d around the time of the signal. At the detection statistic threshold corresponding to that observed for GW150914, our search of the 16 days of simultaneous two-detector observational data is estimated to have a false alarm rate (FAR) of < 4.9 × 10^(−6) yr^(−1), yielding a p-value for GW150914 of < 2 × 10^(−7). Parameter estimation followup on this trigger identifies its source as a binary black hole (BBH) merger with component masses (m_1, m_2) = (36^(+5)_(−4), 29^(+4)_(−4)) M_⊙ at redshift z = 0.09^(+0.03)_(−0.04) (median and 90\% credible range). Here we report on the constraints these observations place on the rate of BBH coalescences. Considering only GW150914, assuming that all BBHs in the Universe have the same masses and spins as this event, imposing a search FAR threshold of 1 per 100 years, and assuming that the BBH merger rate is constant in the comoving frame, we infer a 90% credible range of merger rates between 2--53 Gpc^(−3) yr^(−1) (comoving frame). Incorporating all search triggers that pass a much lower threshold while accounting for the uncertainty in the astrophysical origin of each trigger, we estimate a higher rate, ranging from 13--600 Gpc^(−3) yr^(−1) depending on assumptions about the BBH mass distribution. All together, our various rate estimates fall in the conservative range 2--600 Gpc^(−3) yr^(−1).
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astroquery: An Astronomical Web-Querying Package in Python
Adam Ginsburg,Brigitta Sipőcz,C. E. Brasseur,Philip S. Cowperthwaite,Matt Craig,Christoph Deil,James Guillochon,Giannina Guzman,Simon Liedtke,Pey Lian Lim,Kelly E. Lockhart,Michael Mommert,Brett M. Morris,Henrik Norman,Madhura Parikh,Magnus Persson,Thomas P. Robitaille,J. C. Segovia,Leo Singer,Erik Tollerud,Miguel de Val-Borro,Ivan Valtchanov,Julien Woillez +22 more
TL;DR: The philosophy, basic structure, and development model of the astroquery package is described, which enables the creation of fully reproducible workflows from data acquisition through publication.
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Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
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,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Tomotada Akutsu,Benjamin William Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,A. Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Masaki Ando,S. Appert,Koji Arai,A. Araya,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,N. Arnaud,K. G. Arun,Hideki Asada,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,Yoichi Aso,M. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,S. Atsuta,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,A. Avila-Alvarez,K. Awai,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,M. K. M. Bader,L. Baiotti,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,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,Christian Beer,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,M. Belgin,A. S. Bell,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,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,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,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,A. Bohe,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,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,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,Kipp Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,Collin D. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. 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Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,S. S. Forsyth,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,E. M. Fries,V. V. Frolov,Y. Fujii,Masa-Katsu Fujimoto,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,G. Gaur,V. Gayathri,N. Gehrels,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,J. George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,S. Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Karl Gill,A. Glaefke,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,A. Gopakumar,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,Aniello Grado,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,X. Guo,Anchal Gupta,M. K. Gupta,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,J. J. Hacker,A. Hagiwara,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,M. T. Hartman,C.-J. Haster,K. Haughian,K. Hayama,J. Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,J. P. Henry,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,E. Hirose,D. Hoak,David Jonathan Hofman,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,P. Hopkins,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Eric Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,N. Indik,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,Kunihito Ioka,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,Yousuke Itoh,B. R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,R. W. L. Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,T. Kagawa,T. Kajita,Masako Kakizaki,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,M. Kamiizumi,Nobuyuki Kanda,S. Kandhasamy,Shinya Kanemura,M. Kaneyama,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,M. Kasprzack,Yousuke Kataoka,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,Tejinder Kaur,K. 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Ono,K. Oohara,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,A. E. Pace,J. Page,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Huang-Wei Pan,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,M. A. Papa,H. R. Paris,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,B. Patricelli,B. L. Pearlstone,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,L. Pekowsky,A. Pele,F. E. Peña Arellano,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,Matthew Pitkin,M. Poe,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,J. W. W. Pratt,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,Jiayi Qin,S. Qiu,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,C. Rajan,M. Rakhmanov,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,M. Razzano,V. Re,Jocelyn Read,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,H. Rew,Steven Reyes,E. Rhoades,F. Ricci,K. Riles,M. Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Rocco Romano,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,N. Sago,Motoyuki Saijo,Y. Saito,K. Sakai,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,Laura Sampson,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,Y. Sasaki,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,S. Sato,T. Sato,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Jacob Scheuer,E. E. Schmidt,J. Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,Bernard F. Schutz,S. G. Schwalbe,J. Scott,S. M. Scott,T. Sekiguchi,Yuichiro Sekiguchi,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,Masaru Shibata,Yutaka Shikano,T. Shimoda,A. Shoda,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,A. Singer,Leo Singer,A. P. Singh,R. N. Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,Britton D. Smith,J. R. Smith,Rory Smith,Kentaro Somiya,E. J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,T. Souradeep,A. P. Spencer,A. K. Srivastava,A. Staley,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,B. C. Stephens,S. Stevenson,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,N. Straniero,G. Stratta,S. E. Strigin,R. Sturani,A. L. Stuver,Y. Sugimoto,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,P. J. Sutton,Toshikazu Suzuki,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. Szczepańczyk,M. Tacca,Hideyuki Tagoshi,Suguru Takada,Hirotaka Takahashi,R. Takahashi,A. Takamori,D. Talukder,H. Tanaka,Kazuyuki Tanaka,Takahiro Tanaka,David B. Tanner,M. Tápai,Andrea Taracchini,Daisuke Tatsumi,R. Taylor,Souichi Telada,T. Theeg,E. 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Wang,Y. Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,Jennifer Watchi,B. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Linqing Wen,Peter Weßels,T. Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Whittle,David A. Williams,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Woehler,J. Worden,J. L. Wright,D. S. Wu,G. Wu,W. Yam,H. Yamamoto,Kazuhiro Yamamoto,T. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,K. Yano,M. J. Yap,Jun'ichi Yokoyama,T. Yokozawa,Tai Hyun Yoon,H. Yuzurihara,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,L. Zangrando,M. Zanolin,Simon Zeidler,J.-P. Zendri,Michael Zevin,L. Zhang,Mi Zhang,T. Zhang,Y.-H. Zhang,C. Zhao,Mingliang Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Sylvia J. Zhu,Xing-Jiang Zhu,J. Zweizig,Nancy Aggarwal,Lisa Barsotti,Sebastien Biscans,N. M. Brown,Aaron Buikema,F. Donovan,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,Alvaro-Miguel Fernandez Galiana,Peter Fritschel,Slawomir Gras,T. Isogai,Erik Katsavounidis,Antonios Kontos,R. K. Lanza,Adam A. Libson,Ryan Lynch,M. MacInnis,Denis Martynov,K. Mason,Fabrice Matichard,Nergis Mavalvala,J. S. Miller,R. Mittleman,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,Eric Oelker,David H. Shoemaker,Maggie Tse,Salvatore Vitale,Rainer Weiss,William Yam,Hang Yu,Haocun Yu,Michael E Zucker,Matthew Evans +1101 more
TL;DR: The sensitivity of the LIGO network to transient gravitational-wave signals is estimated, and the capability of the network to determine the sky location of the source is studied, to facilitate planning for multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves.
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A Radio Counterpart to a Neutron Star Merger
Gregg Hallinan,A. Corsi,Kunal Mooley,Kenta Hotokezaka,Kenta Hotokezaka,Ehud Nakar,Mansi M. Kasliwal,David L. Kaplan,Dale A. Frail,S. T. Myers,Tara Murphy,Tara Murphy,Kaushik De,Dougal Dobie,Dougal Dobie,Dougal Dobie,James R. Allison,James R. Allison,Keith W. Bannister,Varun Bhalerao,Poonam Chandra,Tracy Clarke,Simona Giacintucci,Anna Y. Q. Ho,Assaf Horesh,Namir E. Kassim,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Emil Lenc,Emil Lenc,Felix J. Lockman,Christene Lynch,Christene Lynch,David A. Nichols,Samaya Nissanke,Nipuni Palliyaguru,Wendy Peters,Tsvi Piran,Javed Rana,Elaine M. Sadler,Elaine M. Sadler,Leo Singer +40 more
TL;DR: Radio observations constrain the energy and geometry of relativistic material ejected from a binary neutron star merger, and the detection of a counterpart radio source that appears 16 days after the event is reported, allowing us to diagnose the energetics and environment of the merger.