SUPPLEMENT: “THE RATE OF BINARY BLACK HOLE MERGERS INFERRED FROM ADVANCED LIGO OBSERVATIONS SURROUNDING GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)

Journal Article · Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14· OSTI ID:22661124

Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abernathy, M. R.; Adhikari, R. X. ^[1]; Abbott, T. D. ^[2]; Acernese, F.; Addesso, P. ^[3]; Ackley, K. ^[4]; Adams, C. ^[5]; Adams, T. ^[6]; Adya, V. B.; Affeldt, C.; Allen, B. ^[7]; Agathos, M.; Agatsuma, K. ^[8]; Aggarwal, N. ^[9]; Aguiar, O. D. ^[10]; Aiello, L. ^[11]; Ain, A. ^[12]; Ajith, P. ^[13] ; others, and

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1. LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125 (United States)
2. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (United States)
3. Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno (Italy)
4. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 (United States)
5. LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, LA 70754 (United States)
6. Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux (France)
7. Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover (Germany)
8. Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam (Netherlands)
9. LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139 (United States)
10. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo (Brazil)
11. INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L’Aquila (Italy)
12. Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007 (India)
13. International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560012 (India)

This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient (GW) signal GW150914. In that work we reported various rate estimates whose 90% confidence intervals fell in the range 2–600 Gpc{sup −3} yr{sup −1}. Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.

• OSTI ID: 22661124
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, Vol. 227, Issue 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0067-0049
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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SENSITIVITY
SIGNALS
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