In:
Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society (APS), Vol. 118, No. 22 ( 2017-6-1)
Abstract:
We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. The signal was measured on January 4, 2017 at 10∶11:58.6 UTC by the twin advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory during their second observing run, with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13 and a false alarm rate less than 1 in 70 000 years. The inferred component black hole masses are 31. 2 − 6.0 + 8.4 M ⊙ and 19. 4 − 5.9 + 5.3 M ⊙ (at the 90% credible level). The black hole spins are best constrained through measurement of the effective inspiral spin parameter, a mass-weighted combination of the spin components perpendicular to the orbital plane, χ eff = − 0.1 2 − 0.30 + 0.21 . This result implies that spin configurations with both component spins positively aligned with the orbital angular momentum are disfavored. The source luminosity distance is 88 0 − 390 + 450 Mpc corresponding to a redshift of z = 0.1 8 − 0.07 + 0.08 . We constrain the magnitude of modifications to the gravitational-wave dispersion relation and perform null tests of general relativity. Assuming that gravitons are dispersed in vacuum like massive particles, we bound the graviton mass to m g ≤ 7.7 × 10 − 23 eV / c 2 . In all cases, we find that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity. Published by the American Physical Society 2017
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0031-9007
,
1079-7114
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101
Language:
English
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Publication Date:
2017
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208853-8
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