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GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

B. P. Abbott¹, R. Abbott¹, T. D. Abbott², F. Acernese^3,4, K. Ackley⁵, C. Adams⁶, T. Adams⁷, P. Addesso⁸, R. X. Adhikari¹ et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration)

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¹LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
²Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
³Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
⁴INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
⁵University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
⁶LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
⁷Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy, France
⁸University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy
⁹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
¹⁰The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
¹¹NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
¹²University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
¹³Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
¹⁴LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
¹⁵Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
¹⁶Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy
¹⁷INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
¹⁸Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India
¹⁹International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru 560089, India
²⁰University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
²¹Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
²²Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
²³INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
²⁴OzGrav, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
²⁵Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
²⁶LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91898 Orsay, France
²⁷California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA
²⁸European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy
²⁹Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India
³⁰Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
³¹Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
³²INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy
³³Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
³⁴Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
³⁵APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
³⁶Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 34141, Korea
³⁷West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
³⁸Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
³⁹Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
⁴⁰INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
⁴¹Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
⁴²University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
⁴³SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
⁴⁴LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
⁴⁵Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary
⁴⁶Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
⁴⁷Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
⁴⁸Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
⁴⁹Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy
⁵⁰INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
⁵¹MTA Eötvös University, “Lendulet” Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest 1117, Hungary
⁵²Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00-716, Warsaw, Poland
⁵³University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
⁵⁴Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
⁵⁵INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
⁵⁶RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India
⁵⁷Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
⁵⁸SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
⁵⁹Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
⁶⁰OzGrav, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
⁶¹Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands
⁶²Artemis, Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire Côte d’Azur, CNRS, CS 34229, F-06304 Nice Cedex 4, France
⁶³Institut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France
⁶⁴Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
⁶⁵Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo,” I-61029 Urbino, Italy
⁶⁶INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
⁶⁷University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
⁶⁸Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France
⁶⁹Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
⁷⁰Astronomical Observatory Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland
⁷¹VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
⁷²University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
⁷³Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
⁷⁴Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
⁷⁵Università di Napoli “Federico II,” Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
⁷⁶NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
⁷⁷RESCEU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
⁷⁸OzGrav, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
⁷⁹Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
⁸⁰Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
⁸¹Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA
⁸²The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
⁸³National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China
⁸⁴Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia
⁸⁵Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada
⁸⁶University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
⁸⁷Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Korea
⁸⁸The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
⁸⁹INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Vicolo dell’Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
⁹⁰INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
⁹¹Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Roma, Italy
⁹²Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels 1050, Belgium
⁹³Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA
⁹⁴Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
⁹⁵Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
⁹⁶Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
⁹⁷Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3–IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
⁹⁸The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
⁹⁹Bellevue College, Bellevue, Washington 98007, USA
¹⁰⁰Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India
¹⁰¹The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
¹⁰²University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, California 90292, USA
¹⁰³California State University, Los Angeles, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, California 90032, USA
¹⁰⁴Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
¹⁰⁵Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA
¹⁰⁶National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
¹⁰⁷Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA
¹⁰⁸School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
¹⁰⁹University and Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar Gujarat 382007, India
¹¹⁰IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India
¹¹¹University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary
¹¹²Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India
¹¹³INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, I-80131, Napoli, Italy
¹¹⁴University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
¹¹⁵American University, Washington, D.C. 20016, USA
¹¹⁶Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
¹¹⁷University of Białystok, 15-424 Białystok, Poland
¹¹⁸SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
¹¹⁹University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
¹²⁰University of Washington Bothell, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, Washington 98011, USA
¹²¹Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
¹²²Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea
¹²³Inje University Gimhae, South Gyeongsang 50834, Korea
¹²⁴National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 34047, Korea
¹²⁵NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland
¹²⁶Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 00656 Warsaw, Poland
¹²⁷OzGrav, School of Physics & Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton 3800, Victoria, Australia
¹²⁸Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Korea
¹²⁹NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama 35811, USA
¹³⁰ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
¹³¹Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
¹³²OzGrav, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
¹³³College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
¹³⁴Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai 600036, India
¹³⁵IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India
¹³⁶Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, I-56126 Pisa, Italy
¹³⁷Université de Lyon, F-69361 Lyon, France
¹³⁸Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
¹³⁹Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland
¹⁴⁰University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
¹⁴¹King’s College London, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
¹⁴²Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India
¹⁴³International Institute of Physics, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal RN 59078-970, Brazil
¹⁴⁴Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA
¹⁴⁵Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
¹⁴⁶Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
¹⁴⁷Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA

^*Full author list given at the end of the Letter.
^*Deceased, March 2016.
^†Deceased, March 2017.
^‡Deceased, February 2017.
^§Deceased, December 2016.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 – Published 1 June, 2017Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 129901 (2018)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.221101

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 $m_{g} \leq 7.7 \times 10^{- 23} eV / c^{2}$ . In all cases, we find that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity.

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Erratum: GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 [Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 221101 (2017)]

B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaboration)

Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 129901 (2018)

Synopsis

LIGO Picks Up on the Third Ring

Published 1 June, 2017

The LIGO collaboration reports its third detection of gravitational waves coming from the merger of two black holes.

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