GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

Abbott, B.P.; Abbott, R.; Abbott, T.D.; Acernese, F.; Ackley, K.; Adams, C.; Adams, T.; Addesso, P.; Adhikari, R.X.; Adya, V.B.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101

GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

LIGO Scientific and
Virgo

Collaborations

Sep 27, 2017

16 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.Lett. 119 (2017) 14, 141101

Published: Oct 6, 2017

e-Print:

1709.09660 [gr-qc]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101

Experiments:

LIGO,
VIRGO

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Abstract: (APS)

On August 14, 2017 at 10∶30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar mass black holes, with a false-alarm rate of ≲1 in 27 000 years. The signal was observed with a three-detector network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 18. The inferred masses of the initial black holes are 30.5-3.0+5.7M⊙ and 25.3-4.2+2.8M⊙ (at the 90% credible level). The luminosity distance of the source is 540-210+130 Mpc, corresponding to a redshift of z=0.11-0.04+0.03. A network of three detectors improves the sky localization of the source, reducing the area of the 90% credible region from 1160 deg2 using only the two LIGO detectors to 60 deg2 using all three detectors. For the first time, we can test the nature of gravitational-wave polarizations from the antenna response of the LIGO-Virgo network, thus enabling a new class of phenomenological tests of gravity.

gravitational radiation: polarization
gravitational radiation
gravitational radiation detector
gravitational radiation: direct detection
gravitational radiation: emission
black hole: binary: coalescence
black hole: mass
detector: network
LIGO
localization

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