Supplement : "The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)
Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N.A. and Tokmakov, K.V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2016) Supplement : "The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1). Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 227 (2). 14. ISSN 0067-0049 (https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14)
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Abstract
This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient (GW) signal GW150914. In that work we reported various rate estimates whose 90% confidence intervals fell in the range 2-600 Gpc-3yr-1. Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.
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Abbott, B. P., Jawahar, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4945-691X, Lockerbie, N.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-3260 and Tokmakov, K.V. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2808-6593;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 60961 Dates: DateEvent30 November 2016Published22 September 2016AcceptedNotes: Please consult manuscript for full attribution details. Subjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 15 Jun 2017 11:07 Last modified: 07 Oct 2024 16:42 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/60961