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Seog Oh
Researcher at Duke University
Publications - 570
Citations - 124429
Seog Oh is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Large Hadron Collider & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 129, co-authored 570 publications receiving 105111 citations. Previous affiliations of Seog Oh include Chinese Academy of Sciences & Max Planck Society.
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Binary Black Hole Mergers in the first Advanced LIGO Observing Run
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,L. 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,Paul 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,M. Bejger,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,J. Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,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,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,C. Bogan,A. Bohe,Charlotte Bond,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Yann 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,N. M. 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,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,Collin 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,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,B. D. Cheeseboro,H. S. Chen,Yi Chen,Chia-Liang Cheng,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. S. Y. Chua,S. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,John 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,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,Anirban Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,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,Thomas Dent,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,R. C. Devine,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,A. Di Virgilio,V. Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,R. Douglas,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,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,Xiaohui Fan,Qi Fang,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,W. M. Farr,Marc Favata,M. Fays,H. Fehrmann,Martin M. Fejer,E. Fenyvesi,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,I. Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Rebecca Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,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,S. M. Gaebel,J. R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,G. Gaur,N. Gehrels,G. Gemme,P. Geng,E. Genin,A. Gennai,Jimin George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,S. Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,K. Gill,A. Glaefke,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,A. Grado,C. Graef,Philip 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,H. F. Hamilton,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,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,J. Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,Jörg Hennig,J. P. Henry,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,David Jonathan Hofman,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,Philip F. Hopkins,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Eric Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,S. Huang,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,N. Indik,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,T. Isogai,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,H. J. Jang,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,L. Jian,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,K. Haris,C. V. Kalaghatgi,V. Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. J. Kapadia,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,M. Kasprzack,E. Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,Tejinder Kaur,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,M. S. Kehl,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,R. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,Imran Khan,Sebastian Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chi-Woong Kim,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Namjun Kim,W. S. Kim,Y. M. Kim,S. J. Kimbrell,E. J. King,P. J. King,J. S. Kissel,B. Klein,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,Irina Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,C. Krueger,G. Kuehn,P. Kumar,Rahul Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,B. D. Lackey,M. Landry,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,Kejia Lee,A. K. Lenon,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,J. B. Lewis,Tjonnie G. F. Li,Adam A. Libson,Tyson Littenberg,N. A. Lockerbie,A. L. Lombardi,Lionel London,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,Ryan S. Lynch,Y. Q. Ma,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,R. M. Magee,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,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,C. Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,F. Mezzani,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,L. Milano,A. L. Miller,Arnold Miller,B. B. Miller,John Miller,Margaret Millhouse,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,S. Mirshekari,Chandra Kant Mishra,Subhabrata 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,Guido Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,K. Nedkova,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Neri,A. Neunzert,G. P. Newton,T. T. Nguyen,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,A. 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,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Howard Pan,Yi Pan,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,A. Paoli,Maria Alessandra 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,L. Pekowsky,A. Pele,S. Penn,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,Edward K. Porter,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,Reinhard Prix,G. A. Prodi,L. 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,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,V. Re,Jocelyn Read,C. M. Reed,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,H. Rew,Steven Reyes,F. Ricci,K. Riles,Manuela Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,Gleb Romanov,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kris Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,B. Sandeen,J. R. Sanders,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. E. S. 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,Bernard F. Schutz,John D. Scott,S. M. Scott,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. J. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,D. H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,A. Singer,Leo Singer,A. P. Singh,Rajeev Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,R. J. E. Smith,Edwin J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,A. K. Srivastava,A. Staley,Michael Steinke,J. Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,B. C. Stephens,S. Stevenson,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,N. Straniero,G. Stratta,N. A. Strauss,S. E. Strigin,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. Szczepańczyk,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,Márton Tápai,S. P. Tarabrin,Andrea Taracchini,R. Taylor,T. Theeg,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,E. Thomas,M. Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,K. Toland,C. Tomlinson,M. Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,Daniele Trifirò,M. C. Tringali,L. Trozzo,M. Tse,M. Turconi,D. Tuyenbayev,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,Alexander 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,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,S. Vinciguerra,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,D. V. Voss,W. D. Vousden,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,M. Wade,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Hua Wang,Meng Wang,X. F. Wang,Yu Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,B. A. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J.R. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,Peter Wessels,T. Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,Bernard F. Whiting,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Woehler,John Worden,J. L. Wright,D. S. Wu,G. Wu,Joshua Yablon,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,H. Yu,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,L. Zangrando,Michele Zanolin,J. P. Zendri,M. Zevin,L. Zhang,Mi Zhang,Y.-H. Zhang,C. Zhao,Minchuan Zhou,Zefeng Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Michael E Zucker,S. E. Zuraw,J. Zweizig +972 more
TL;DR: The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers as discussed by the authors.
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GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 Solar Mass Black Hole with a 2.6 Solar Mass Compact Object
Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Sheelu Abraham,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,M. Agathos,K. Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,O. D. Aguiar,A. Aich,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Sarp Akcay,Sarp Akcay,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,S. Anand,A. Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,S. Ansoldi,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,M. Arène,N. Arnaud,S. M. Aronson,K. G. Arun,Y. Asali,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,F. Aubin,P. Aufmuth,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,V. Avendano,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,A. M. Baer,J. Baird,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,A. Bals,A. Balsamo,G. Baltus,S. Banagiri,D. Bankar,R. S. Bankar,J. C. Barayoga,Cesare Barbieri,Cesare Barbieri,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,K. Barkett,P. Barneo,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. Bartlett,I. Bartos,R. Bassiri,A. Basti,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,D. Beniwal,M. G. Benjamin,R. Benkel,J. D. Bentley,F. Bergamin,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,A. V. Bhandari,J. Bidler,E. Biggs,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,R. Birney,O. Birnholtz,O. Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,Sebastien Biscans,M. Bischi,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,G. Bissenbayeva,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,J. Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Fabrizio Bobba,N. Bode,N. Bode,M. Boer,Y. Boetzel,G. Bogaert,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,P. Booker,P. Booker,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,V. Bossilkov,J. Bosveld,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,A. Bramley,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,M. Breschi,Tristan Briant,J. H. Briggs,F. Brighenti,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,M. Brinkmann,Richard Brito,Richard Brito,P. Brockill,A. F. Brooks,J. Brooks,D. D. Brown,S. 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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the observation of a compact binary coalescence involving a 222 −243 M ⊙ black hole and a compact object with a mass of 250 −267 M ⋆ (all measurements quoted at the 90% credible level) The gravitational-wave signal, GW190814, was observed during LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run on 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC and has a signal-to-noise ratio of 25 in the three-detector network.
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A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant
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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,Sebastien Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher M. Biwer,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,J. Blackman,Carl Blair,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,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,J. E. 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. 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TL;DR: A measurement of the Hubble constant is reported that combines the distance to the source inferred purely from the gravitational-wave signal with the recession velocity inferred from measurements of the redshift using the electromagnetic data.
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TL;DR: It is inferred that the primary black hole mass lies within the gap produced by (pulsational) pair-instability supernova processes, with only a 0.32% probability of being below 65 M⊙, which can be considered an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH).
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TL;DR: The data around the time of the event were analyzed coherently across the LIGO network using a suite of accurate waveform models that describe gravitational waves from a compact binary system in general relativity.