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GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries.
Authors :
Abbott BP Abbott R Abbott TD Abernathy MR Acernese F Ackley K Adams C Adams T Addesso P Adhikari RX Adya VB Affeldt C Agathos M Agatsuma K Aggarwal N Aguiar OD Aiello L Ain A Ajith P Allen B Allocca A Altin PA Anderson SB Anderson WG Arai K Araya MC Arceneaux CC Areeda JS Arnaud N Arun KG Ascenzi S Ashton G Ast M Aston SM Astone P Aufmuth P Aulbert C Babak S Bacon P Bader MK Baker PT Baldaccini F Ballardin G Ballmer SW Barayoga JC Barclay SE Barish BC Barker D Barone F Barr B Barsotti L Barsuglia M Barta D Bartlett J Bartos I Bassiri R Basti A Batch JC Baune C Bavigadda V Bazzan M Behnke B Bejger M Bell AS Bell CJ Berger BK Bergman J Bergmann G Berry CP Bersanetti D Bertolini A Betzwieser J Bhagwat S Bhandare R Bilenko IA Billingsley G Birch J Birney R Biscans S Bisht A Bitossi M Biwer C Bizouard MA Blackburn JK Blair CD Blair DG Blair RM Bloemen S Bock O Bodiya TP Boer M Bogaert G Bogan C Bohe A Bojtos P Bond C Bondu F Bonnand R Boom BA Bork R Boschi V Bose S Bouffanais Y Bozzi A Bradaschia C Brady PR Braginsky VB Branchesi M Brau JE Briant T Brillet A Brinkmann M Brisson V Brockill P Brooks AF Brown DA Brown DD Brown NM Buchanan CC Buikema A Bulik T Bulten HJ Buonanno A Buskulic D Buy C Byer RL Cadonati L Cagnoli G Cahillane C Calderón Bustillo J Callister T Calloni E Camp JB Cannon KC Cao J Capano CD Capocasa E Carbognani F Caride S Casanueva Diaz J Casentini C Caudill S Cavaglià M Cavalier F Cavalieri R Cella G Cepeda CB Cerboni Baiardi L Cerretani G Cesarini E Chakraborty R Chalermsongsak T Chamberlin SJ Chan M Chao S Charlton P Chassande-Mottin E Chen HY Chen Y Cheng C Chincarini A Chiummo A Cho HS Cho M Chow JH Christensen N Chu Q Chua S Chung S Ciani G Clara F Clark JA Cleva F Coccia E Cohadon PF Colla A Collette CG Cominsky L Constancio M Conte A Conti L Cook D Corbitt TR Cornish N Corsi A Cortese S Costa CA Coughlin MW Coughlin SB Coulon JP Countryman ST Couvares P Cowan EE Coward DM Cowart MJ Coyne DC Coyne R Craig K Creighton JD Cripe J Crowder SG Cumming A Cunningham L Cuoco E Dal Canton T Danilishin SL D'Antonio S Danzmann K Darman NS Dattilo V Dave I Daveloza HP Davier M Davies GS Daw EJ Day R DeBra D Debreczeni G Degallaix J De Laurentis M Deléglise S Del Pozzo W Denker T Dent T Dereli H Dergachev V DeRosa RT De Rosa R DeSalvo R Dhurandhar S Díaz MC Di Fiore L Di Giovanni M Di Lieto A Di Pace S Di Palma I Di Virgilio A Dojcinoski G Dolique V Donovan F Dooley KL Doravari S Douglas R Downes TP Drago M Drever RW Driggers JC Du Z Ducrot M Dwyer SE Edo TB Edwards MC Effler A Eggenstein HB Ehrens P Eichholz J Eikenberry SS Engels W Essick RC Etzel T Evans M Evans TM Everett R Factourovich M Fafone V Fair H Fairhurst S Fan X Fang Q Farinon S Farr B Farr WM Favata M Fays M Fehrmann H Fejer MM Ferrante I Ferreira EC Ferrini F Fidecaro F Fiori I Fiorucci D Fisher RP Flaminio R Fletcher M Fournier JD Franco S Frasca S Frasconi F Frei Z Freise A Frey R Frey V Fricke TT Fritschel P Frolov VV Fulda P Fyffe M Gabbard HA Gair JR Gammaitoni 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Wallace L Walsh S Wang G Wang H Wang M Wang X Wang Y Ward RL Warner J Was M Weaver B Wei LW Weinert M Weinstein AJ Weiss R Welborn T Wen L Weßels P Westphal T Wette K Whelan JT Whitcomb SE White DJ Whiting BF Williams RD Williamson AR Willis JL Willke B Wimmer MH Winkler W Wipf CC Wittel H Woan G Worden J Wright JL Wu G Yablon J Yam W Yamamoto H Yancey CC Yap MJ Yu H Yvert M Zadrożny A Zangrando L Zanolin M Zendri JP Zevin M Zhang F Zhang L Zhang M Zhang Y Zhao C Zhou M Zhou Z Zhu XJ Zucker ME Zuraw SE Zweizig J
Source :
Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2016 Apr 01; Vol. 116 (13), pp. 131103. Date of Electronic Publication: 2016 Mar 31.
Publication Year :
2016
Abstract
Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016. With a strain sensitivity of 10^{-23}/sqrt[Hz] at 100 Hz, the product of observable volume and measurement time exceeded that of all previous runs within the first 16 days of coincident observation. On September 14, 2015, the Advanced LIGO detectors observed a transient gravitational-wave signal determined to be the coalescence of two black holes [B. P. Abbott et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016)], launching the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. The event, GW150914, was observed with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of 24 in coincidence by the two detectors. Here, we present the main features of the detectors that enabled this observation. At full sensitivity, the Advanced LIGO detectors are designed to deliver another factor of 3 improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio for binary black hole systems similar in mass to GW150914.
Details
Language :
English
ISSN :
1079-7114
Volume :
116
Issue :
13
Database :
MEDLINE
Journal :
Physical review letters
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
27081966
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131103