Leo Singer

TL;DR: In this article, features of the signal visible in the data are analyzed using concepts from Newtonian physics and general relativity, accessible to anyone with a general physics background, consistent with the fully general-relativistic analyses published elsewhere, showing that the signal was produced by the inspiral and subsequent merger of two black holes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the first constraints on the progenitor of GW170817 at the time of the second supernova (SN) and found these constraints to be comparable to those for Galactic BNS progenitors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an implementation of the Gehrels et al. (2016) galaxy-targeted strategy for gravitational-wave follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the PyCBC pipeline was used to search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, and the output of PyCBC was used as a metric for improvement.

TL;DR: Details of the method and computations are given, including information about the search pipelines, a derivation of the likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on the computational methods, and an analytic method of estimating the detector sensitivity that is calibrated to the measurements.