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PHYSICAL REVIEW X
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.041015
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- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
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- Department of Science and Technology, India
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- Ministry of Human Resource Development, India
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- Conselleria d'Economia i Competitivitat and Conselleria d'Educacio
- Cultura i Universitats of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- National Science Centre of Poland
- European Commission
- Royal Society
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- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
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- Lyon Institute of Origins (LIO)
- National Research Foundation of Korea
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- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- Natural Science and Engineering Research Council Canada
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation
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The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, saw the first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. In this paper, we present full results from a search for binary black hole merger signals with total masses up to 100M. and detailed implications from our observations of these systems. Our search, based on general-relativistic models of gravitational-wave signals from binary black hole systems, unambiguously identified two signals, GW150914 and GW151226, with a significance of greater than 5 sigma over the observing period. It also identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with substantially lower significance and with an 87% probability of being of astrophysical origin. We provide detailed estimates of the parameters of the observed systems. Both GW150914 and GW151226 provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large velocity, highly nonlinear regime. We do not observe any deviations from general relativity, and we place improved empirical bounds on several highorder post-Newtonian coefficients. From our observations, we infer stellar-mass binary black hole merger rates lying in the range 9-240 Gpc(-3) yr(-1). These observations are beginning to inform astrophysical predictions of binary black hole formation rates and indicate that future observing runs of the Advanced detector network will yield many more gravitational-wave detections.
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