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gr-qc2016★ 312 cited

Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +992

A wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological sources are expected to contribute to a stochastic gravitational-wave background. Following the observations of GW150914 and GW1512…

gr-qc2016★ 102 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +986

We present the results from an all-sky search for short-duration gravitational waves in the data of the first run of the Advanced LIGO detectors between September 2015 and January…

gr-qc2016★ 138 cited

Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +999

Parameter estimates of GW150914 were obtained using Bayesian inference, based on three semi-analytic waveform models for binary black hole coalescences. These waveform models diffe…

gr-qc2016★ 105 cited

The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +953

The first direct gravitational-wave detection was made by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory on September 14, 2015. The GW150914 signal was strong eno…

gr-qc2016★ 25 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +953

We describe a directed search for continuous gravitational waves in data from the sixth LIGO science run. The target was the nearby globular cluster NGC 6544 at a distance of 2.7 k…

gr-qc2016★ 35 cited

Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration

We report results of a deep all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars in data from the S6 LIGO science run. The search was possible thanks to the…

gr-qc2016★ 3.5k cited

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

We report the observation of a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar-mass black holes. The signal, GW151226, was observed by the twin detectors of th…

gr-qc2016★ 155 cited

Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +979

We compare GW150914 directly to simulations of coalescing binary black holes in full general relativity, accounting for all the spin-weighted quadrupolar modes, and separately acco…

gr-qc2016★ 163 cited

An improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +973

This paper presents updated estimates of source parameters for GW150914, a binary black-hole coalescence event detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (…

gr-qc2016★ 92 cited

A First Targeted Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Core-Collapse Supernovae in Data of First-Generation Laser Interferometer Detectors

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +964

We present results from a search for gravitational-wave bursts coincident with a set of two core-collapse supernovae observed between 2007 and 2011. We employ data from the Laser I…

gr-qc2016★ 42 cited

Comprehensive All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Sixth Science Run LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +959

We report on a comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the frequency band 100-1500 Hz and with a frequency time derivative in the range of $[-1.18, +1.00]\…

gr-qc2016★ 383 cited

GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

The LIGO detection of the gravitational wave transient GW150914, from the inspiral and merger of two black holes with masses , suggests a population of…

gr-qc2016★ 754 cited

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration

Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and…

gr-qc2016★ 14.2k cited

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. Th…

gr-qc2016★ 360 cited

Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

On September 14, 2015, a gravitational wave signal from a coalescing black hole binary system was observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors. This paper describes the transient noise…

gr-qc2016★ 1.8k cited

Tests of general relativity with GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +978

The LIGO detection of GW150914 provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime, and to…

gr-qc2016★ 1k cited

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +987

On September 14, 2015, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detected a gravitational-wave transient (GW150914); we characterize the properties of the sour…

gr-qc2016★ 503 cited

GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +979

On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole merger GW150…