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Validating gravitational-wave detections: The Advanced LIGO hardware injection system
C. Biwer, D. Barker, J. C. Batch +44
Hardware injections are simulated gravitational-wave signals added to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The detectors' test masses are physically disp…
The effects of host galaxy properties on merging compact binaries detectable by LIGO
Richard O'Shaughnessy, Jillian Bellovary, Alyson Brooks +3
Cosmological simulations of galaxy formation can produce present-day galaxies with a large range of assembly and star formation histories. A detailed study of the metallicity evolu…
Modeling the source of GW150914 with targeted numerical-relativity simulations
Geoffrey Lovelace, Carlos O. Lousto, James Healy +11
In fall of 2015, the two LIGO detectors measured the gravitational wave signal GW150914, which originated from a pair of merging black holes. In the final 0.2 seconds (about 8 grav…
The Effect of Pair-Instability Mass Loss on Black Hole Mergers
K. Belczynski, A. Heger, W. Gladysz +9
Mergers of two stellar origin black holes are a prime source of gravitational waves and are under intensive investigations. One crucial ingredient in their modeling has so far been…
The first gravitational-wave source from the isolated evolution of two 40-100 Msun stars
Krzysztof Belczynski, Daniel E. Holz, Tomasz Bulik +1
The merger of two massive 30 Msun black holes has been detected in gravitational waves (1,GW150914). This discovery validates recent predictions (2-4) that massive binary black hol…