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Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1245
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are actively monitoring the sky and collecting gravitational-wave strain data with sufficient sensitivity to detect signals routinely. In this pape…
emcee v3: A Python ensemble sampling toolkit for affine-invariant MCMC
Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Will M. Farr, Manodeep Sinha +10
emcee is a Python library implementing a class of affine-invariant ensemble samplers for Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC). This package has been widely applied to probabilistic mode…
The Most Massive Binary Black Hole Detections and the Identification of Population Outliers
Maya Fishbach, Will M. Farr, Daniel E. Holz
Advanced LIGO and Virgo detected ten binary black holes (BBHs) in their first two observing runs (O1 and O2). Analysis of these events found strong evidence for a dearth of BBHs wi…
Understanding in Gravitational Wave Experiments
Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Stephen R. Taylor, B. S. Sathyaprakash +1
In this paper we provide a comprehensive derivation of the energy density in the stochastic gravitational-wave background , and show how this quantity is measured…
A Future Percent-Level Measurement of the Hubble Expansion at Redshift 0.8 With Advanced LIGO
Will M. Farr, Maya Fishbach, Jiani Ye +1
Simultaneous measurements of distance and redshift can be used to constrain the expansion history of the universe and associated cosmological parameters. Merging binary black hole…
The Impact of metallicity evolution of the universe on the maximum mass of LIGO binary black holes
Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh, Will M. Farr
We can be biased against observing massive black holes to merge in the local universe as the bounds on the maximum black hole mass () depends on the assumptions r…