Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817
Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, Svetoslava and Lockerbie, Nicholas and Reid, Stuart and Tokmakov, Kirill, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X, 9 (1). 011001. ISSN 2160-3308 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.011001)
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Abstract
On August 17, 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors observed a low-mass compact binary inspiral. The initial sky localization of the source of the gravitational-wave signal, GW170817, allowed electromagnetic observatories to identify NGC 4993 as the host galaxy. In this work, we improve initial estimates of the binary's properties, including component masses, spins, and tidal parameters, using the known source location, improved modeling, and recalibrated Virgo data. We extend the range of gravitational-wave frequencies considered down to 23 Hz, compared to 30 Hz in the initial analysis. We also compare results inferred using several signal models, which are more accurate and incorporate additional physical effects as compared to the initial analysis. We improve the localization of the gravitational-wave source to a 90% credible region of 16 deg2. We find tighter constraints on the masses, spins, and tidal parameters, and continue to find no evidence for nonzero component spins. The component masses are inferred to lie between 1.00 and 1.89 M when allowing for large component spins, and to lie between 1.16 and 1.60 M (with a total mass 2.73-0.01+0.04 M) when the spins are restricted to be within the range observed in Galactic binary neutron stars. Using a precessing model and allowing for large component spins, we constrain the dimensionless spins of the components to be less than 0.50 for the primary and 0.61 for the secondary. Under minimal assumptions about the nature of the compact objects, our constraints for the tidal deformability parameter Λ are (0,630) when we allow for large component spins, and 300-230+420 (using a 90% highest posterior density interval) when restricting the magnitude of the component spins, ruling out several equation-of-state models at the 90% credible level. Finally, with LIGO and GEO600 data, we use a Bayesian analysis to place upper limits on the amplitude and spectral energy density of a possible postmerger signal.
ORCID iDs
Abbott, B. P., Angelova, Svetoslava, Lockerbie, Nicholas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1678-3260, Reid, Stuart and Tokmakov, Kirill ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2808-6593;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 68545 Dates: DateEvent2 January 2019Published30 September 2018AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics Department: Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Science > PhysicsDepositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 20 Jun 2019 11:47 Last modified: 12 Dec 2024 08:12 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/68545