Supplement: "The Rate Of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced Ligo Observations Surrounding Gw150914" (2016, Apjl, 833, L1)

LIGO Scientific Collaboration; Virgo Collaboration

doi:10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14

Supplement: "The Rate Of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred From Advanced Ligo Observations Surrounding Gw150914" (2016, Apjl, 833, L1)

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

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Abstract

This article provides supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the transient (GW) signal GW150914. In that work we reported various rate estimates whose 90% confidence intervals fell in the range 2-600. Gpc(-3). yr(-1). Here we give details on our method and computations, including information about our search pipelines, a derivation of our likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on our computational methods, a description of the effects and our model for calibration uncertainty, and an analytic method for estimating our detector sensitivity, which is calibrated to our measurements.

Original language	English
Article number	14
Number of pages	11
Journal	Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume	227
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/227/2/14
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2016
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

gravitational waves
stars: black holes

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