Parameter Estimation Method that Directly Compares Gravitational Wave Observations to Numerical Relativity
J. S. Lange,Richard O'Shaughnessy,Michael Boyle,J. Calderón Bustillo,Manuela Campanelli,T. K. Chu,T. K. Chu,John A. Clark,N. Demos,H. Fong,James Healy,Daniel A. Hemberger,Ian Hinder,Karan Jani,B. Khamesra,Lawrence E. Kidder,P. Kumar,Pablo Laguna,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,S. Ossokine,Harald P. Pfeiffer,Harald P. Pfeiffer,Harald P. Pfeiffer,Mark A. Scheel,Deirdre Shoemaker,Béla Szilágyi,Béla Szilágyi,Saul A. Teukolsky,Saul A. Teukolsky,Yosef Zlochower +30 more
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This study of this new parameter estimation method demonstrates that it can quantify and understand the systematic and statistical error, and allows us to use higher order modes from numerical relativity simulations to better constrain the black hole binary parameters.Abstract:
We present and assess a Bayesian method to interpret gravitational wave signals from binary black holes Our method directly compares gravitational wave data to numerical relativity (NR) simulations In this study, we present a detailed investigation of the systematic and statistical parameter estimation errors of this method This procedure bypasses approximations used in semianalytical models for compact binary coalescence In this work, we use the full posterior parameter distribution for only generic nonprecessing binaries, drawing inferences away from the set of NR simulations used, via interpolation of a single scalar quantity (the marginalized log likelihood, lnL) evaluated by comparing data to nonprecessing binary black hole simulations We also compare the data to generic simulations, and discuss the effectiveness of this procedure for generic sources We specifically assess the impact of higher order modes, repeating our interpretation with both l ≤ 2 as well as l ≤ 3 harmonic modes Using the l ≤ 3 higher modes, we gain more information from the signal and can better constrain the parameters of the gravitational wave signal We assess and quantify several sources of systematic error that our procedure could introduce, including simulation resolution and duration; most are negligible We show through examples that our method can recover the parameters for equal mass, zero spin, GW150914-like, and unequal mass, precessing spin sources Our study of this new parameter estimation method demonstrates that we can quantify and understand the systematic and statistical error This method allows us to use higher order modes from numerical relativity simulations to better constrain the black hole binary parametersread more
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GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M
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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: In this article, the authors present 39 candidate gravitational wave events from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between 1 April 2019 15:00 UTC and 1 October 2019 15.00.
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GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present 39 candidate gravitational wave events from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between 1 April 2019 15:00 UTC and 1 October 2019 15.00.
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Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1
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TL;DR: This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger, and these observations demonstrate the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems.
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GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence
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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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C. Batch,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,Christian Beer,Christian Beer,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,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,J. Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,Sebastien Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher M. Biwer,M. A. 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,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. 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 D. Capano,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,Carlos Cepeda,Pablo Cerdá-Durán,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. A. Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Deep Chatterjee,K. Chatziioannou,B. D. Cheeseboro,H. S. Chen,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,H. Y. Chia,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,T. Chmiel,Hee-Suk Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,A. J.K. Chua,Sheon Chua,A. K. W. Chung,S. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,Giacomo Ciani,Riccardo Ciolfi,C. E. Cirelli,A. Cirone,F. Clara,John A. Clark,P. Clearwater,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,D. E. 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,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,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,S. L. Danilishin,S. L. Danilishin,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,Nicholas 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,Tim Dietrich,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,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,C. Dreissigacker,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,M. Ducrot,R. Dudi,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,Rebecca 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. 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Haughian,James Healy,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,Tanja Hinderer,Wynn C. G. Ho,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,W. Kastaun,M. Katolik,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,Athol J. Kemball,R. Kennedy,C. Kent,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,Saniya Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. S. Kim,W. S. Kim,Young-Min 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,C. Krämer,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,P. Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,Sanjay 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,Shane L. Larson,A. Lartaux-Vollard,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,Kejia Lee,Johannes Lehmann,A. K. Lenon,E. Leon,M. Leonardi,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,Tenglin Li,S. D. Linker,Tyson Littenberg,J. Liu,Xuesong Liu,R. 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. Q. Ma,R. Macas,S. Macfoy,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,I. Magaña Hernandez,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,Ryan Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,Szabolcs Marka,Zsuzsa Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,Paul Marsh,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,E. Massera,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Andrew Matas,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,Robert J. 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,Duncan 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. 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GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence
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,Stefan 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,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,Jens Birch,R. 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