Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run
Abstract
This paper presents a parameter estimation analysis of the seven binary black hole mergers—GW170104, GW170608, GW170729, GW170809, GW170814, GW170818, and GW170823—detected during the second observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo observatories using the gravitational-wave open data. We describe the methodology for parameter estimation of compact binaries using gravitational-wave data, and we present the posterior distributions of the inferred astrophysical parameters. We release our samples of the posterior probability density function with tutorials on using and replicating our results presented in this paper.
- Authors:
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- Syracuse Univ., Syracuse, NY (United States)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover (Germany); Leibniz Univ. Hannover, Hannover (Germany)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- National Science Foundation (NSF); USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1532724
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-19-22468
Journal ID: ISSN 2052-4463
- Grant/Contract Number:
- 89233218CNA000001
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Scientific Data
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2052-4463
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Citation Formats
De, Soumi, Biwer, Christopher M., Capano, Collin D., Nitz, Alexander H., and Brown, Duncan A. Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41597-019-0086-6.
De, Soumi, Biwer, Christopher M., Capano, Collin D., Nitz, Alexander H., & Brown, Duncan A. Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0086-6
De, Soumi, Biwer, Christopher M., Capano, Collin D., Nitz, Alexander H., and Brown, Duncan A. Mon .
"Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0086-6. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532724.
@article{osti_1532724,
title = {Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run},
author = {De, Soumi and Biwer, Christopher M. and Capano, Collin D. and Nitz, Alexander H. and Brown, Duncan A.},
abstractNote = {This paper presents a parameter estimation analysis of the seven binary black hole mergers—GW170104, GW170608, GW170729, GW170809, GW170814, GW170818, and GW170823—detected during the second observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo observatories using the gravitational-wave open data. We describe the methodology for parameter estimation of compact binaries using gravitational-wave data, and we present the posterior distributions of the inferred astrophysical parameters. We release our samples of the posterior probability density function with tutorials on using and replicating our results presented in this paper.},
doi = {10.1038/s41597-019-0086-6},
journal = {Scientific Data},
number = 1,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Jun 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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Table 1: Results from PyCBC Inference analysis of binary black hole events from LIGO-Virgo’s second observing run. Quoted are the median and 90% credible interval values for a subset of the inferred model parameters.
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