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

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作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Ackley, K. [6 ]
Adams, C. [7 ]
Adams, T. [8 ]
Addesso, P. [9 ,10 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [11 ]
Affeldt, C. [11 ]
Agathos, M. [12 ]
Agatsuma, K. [12 ]
Aggarwal, N. [13 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [14 ]
Aiello, L. [15 ,16 ]
Ain, A. [17 ]
Ajith, P. [18 ]
Allen, B. [11 ,19 ,20 ]
Allocca, A. [21 ,22 ]
Altin, P. A. [23 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [19 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Arceneaux, C. C. [24 ]
Areeda, J. S. [25 ]
Arnaud, N. [26 ]
Arun, K. G. [27 ]
Ascenzi, S. [16 ,28 ]
Ashton, G. [29 ]
Ast, M. [30 ]
Aston, S. M. [7 ]
Astone, P. [31 ]
Aufmuth, P. [20 ]
Aulbert, C. [11 ]
Babak, S. [32 ]
Bacon, P. [33 ]
Bader, M. K. M. [12 ]
Baker, P. T. [34 ]
Baldaccini, F. [35 ,36 ]
Ballardin, G. [37 ]
Ballmer, S. W. [38 ]
Barayoga, J. C. [1 ]
Barclay, S. E. [39 ]
Barish, B. C. [1 ]
Barker, D. [40 ]
Barone, F. [4 ,5 ]
Barr, B. [39 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Amer Univ, Washington, DC 20016 USA
[4] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[5] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[6] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[7] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[8] Univ Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Annecy Le Vieux Phys Particules, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[9] Univ Sannio Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
[10] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80100 Naples, Italy
[11] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[12] Nikhef, Sci Pk, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[13] MIT, LIGO, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[14] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[15] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Gran Sasso Sci Inst, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[16] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[17] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[18] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bangalore 560012, Karnataka, India
[19] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[20] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[21] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[22] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[23] Australian Natl Univ, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[24] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[25] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[26] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, Univ Paris Saclay,LAL, F-91405 Orsay, France
[27] Chennai Math Inst, Madras 603103, Tamil Nadu, India
[28] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[29] Univ Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, Hants, England
[30] Univ Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[31] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[32] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
[33] Sorbonne Paris Cite, Univ Paris Diderot, AstroParticule & Cosmol, Observ Paris,CNRS,IN2P3,CEA Irfu,APC, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[34] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[35] Univ Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[36] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[37] European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[38] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[39] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[40] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[41] RMKI, Wigner RCP, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
[42] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[43] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[44] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[45] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Padova, I-35131 Padua, Italy
[46] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[47] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[48] Univ Genoa, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[49] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, I-16146 Genoa, Italy
[50] RRCAT, Indore 452013, MP, India
基金
匈牙利科学研究基金会; 美国国家科学基金会; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 巴西圣保罗研究基金会;
关键词
MASS-DISTRIBUTION; MAXIMUM MASS; STELLAR; RADIATION; CHOICE; MERGER;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.241103
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
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 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on December 26, 2015 at 03: 38: 53 UTC. The signal was initially identified within 70 s by an online matched-filter search targeting binary coalescences. Subsequent off-line analyses recovered GW151226 with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13 and a significance greater than 5 sigma. The signal persisted in the LIGO frequency band for approximately 1 s, increasing in frequency and amplitude over about 55 cycles from 35 to 450 Hz, and reached a peak gravitational strain of 3.4(-0.9)(+0.7) x 10(-22). The inferred source-frame initial black hole masses are 14.2(-3.7)(+8.3) M-circle dot and 7.5(-2.3)(+2.3) M-circle dot, and the final black hole mass is 20.8(-1.7)(+6.1) M-circle dot. We find that at least one of the component black holes has spin greater than 0.2. This source is located at a luminosity distance of 440(-190)(+180) Mpc corresponding to a redshift of 0.09(-0.04)(+0.03). All uncertainties define a 90% credible interval. This second gravitational-wave observation provides improved constraints on stellar populations and on deviations from general relativity.
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