Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
California Institute of Technology · University of Glasgow · +96 more institutions
Abstract
We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the Initial and Advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical estimates for compact-binary coalescence rates depend on a number of assumptions and unknown model parameters, and are still uncertain. The most confident among these estimates are the rate predictions for coalescing binary neutron stars which are based on extrapolations from observed binary pulsars in our Galaxy. These yield a likely coalescence rate of 100 per Myr per Milky Way Equivalent Galaxy (MWEG), although the rate could plausibly range from 1 per Myr per MWEG to…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 69.80
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 85
Authors
710- JAJ. AbadieCorresponding
California Institute of Technology
- BPB. P. Abbott
California Institute of Technology
- RAR. Abbott
California Institute of Technology
- MRM. R. Abernathy
University of Glasgow
- TAT. Accadia
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire d’Annecy de Physique des Particules, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules
Topics & keywords
- LIGO
- Physics
- Neutron star
- Gravitational wave
- Astrophysics
- Milky Way
- Galaxy
- Binary number
Funding
- NSNational Science Foundation
- NANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
- APAlfred P. Sloan Foundation
- LTLeverhulme Trust
- SFScottish Funding Council
- SUScottish Universities Physics AllianceAward: GEO600
- ECEuropean Commission
- COCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
- FNFundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej
- NONederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- CNCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- INIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- GDGovern de les Illes Balears
- SAScience and Technology Facilities CouncilAwards: PP/F00110X/1, ST/F002289/1, Gravitational Waves, ST/I001085/1, ST/I000518/1, PP/F001096/1, ST/G504284/1, PP/E001203/1, PP/F001118/1, ST/H008519/1