2017
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.141101
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GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence

Abstract: 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

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“…The gravitational wave (GW) was detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific and Virgo collaborations, which further supports General Relativity (GR) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. It is also a new tool to probe gravitational physics in the high speed, strong field regime.…”
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confidence: 96%
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“…The gravitational wave (GW) was detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Scientific and Virgo collaborations, which further supports General Relativity (GR) [1][2][3][4][5][6]. It is also a new tool to probe gravitational physics in the high speed, strong field regime.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…In fact, GW170814 was the first GW event to test the polarization content of GWs. The analysis revealed that the pure tensor polarizations are favored against pure vector and pure scalar polarizations [4,15]. With the advent of more advanced detectors, there exists a better chance to pin down the polarization content and thus, the nature of gravity in the near future.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…These telescopes have fields of view on the order of 10 deg 2 or less [54][55][56]. The addition of Virgo has improved the localization ability of the network by about an order magnitude [3,57]. Extra detectors in India and Japan will further reduce localization regions, allowing many signals to be localized to within tens of square degrees [6,[58][59][60].…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The third observational window to the Universe opened up on 14th September 2015 [3], when the two Advanced LIGO observatories firstly detected a gravitational wave (GW) signal, emanated from the coalescence of two astrophysical black holes (BH). Up to date four GW detections together with a lower significance candidate from binary black hole sources, and a GW detection from colliding neutron stars were announced by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration [3][4][5][6][7][8].…”
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confidence: 99%