• DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
Corpus ID: 124959784

Reproducing GW150914: the first observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger

@article{Brown2016ReproducingGT,
  title={Reproducing GW150914: the first observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger},
  author={Duncan A. Brown and K. Vahi and M. Taufer and V. Welch and E. Deelman},
  journal={Physical review letters},
  year={2016},
  volume={116 6},
  pages={
          061102
        }
}

• Duncan A. Brown, K. Vahi, +2 authors E. Deelman
• Published 2016
• Computer Science, Physics, Medicine
• Physical review letters

On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from 35 to 250 Hz with a peak gravitational-wave strain of 1.0×10(-21). It matches the waveform predicted by general relativity for the inspiral and merger of a pair of black holes and the ringdown of the resulting single black hole. The signal was observed with a matched-filter… Expand