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GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration
VIRGO, Scientific Collaboration (numerous Scientists)
Abbot, B.
Abbott, R.
Abbott, T. D.
Abernathy, M.
Acernese, F.
Ackley, K.
Adams, C.
Adams, T.

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American Physical Society

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On September 14, 2015, at 09∶50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) simultaneously observed the binary black hole merger GW150914. We report the results of a matched-filter search using relativistic models of compact-object binaries that recovered GW150914 as the most significant event during the coincident observations between the two LIGO detectors from September 12 to October 20, 2015 GW150914 was observed with a matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 24 and a false alarm rate estimated to be less than 1 event per 203000 years, equivalent to a significance greater than 5.1 σ.

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Physical Review D : Covering Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology

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