Tests of General Relativity with GW150914
California Institute of Technology · LIGO Scientific Collaboration · +150 more institutions
Abstract
The LIGO detection of GW150914 provides an unprecedented opportunity to study the two-body motion of a compact-object binary in the large-velocity, highly nonlinear regime, and to witness the final merger of the binary and the excitation of uniquely relativistic modes of the gravitational field. We carry out several investigations to determine whether GW150914 is consistent with a binary black-hole merger in general relativity. We find that the final remnant's mass and spin, as determined from the low-frequency (inspiral) and high-frequency (postinspiral) phases of the signal, are mutually consistent with the binary black-hole solution in general relativity. Furthermore, the data following the peak of GW150914…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 133.00
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 102
Authors
980- BPB. P. AbbottCorresponding
California Institute of Technology, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- RAR. Abbott
California Institute of Technology, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- TDT. D. Abbott
Louisiana State University
- MRM. R. Abernathy
California Institute of Technology, LIGO Scientific Collaboration
- FAF. Acernese
University of Salerno, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli
Topics & keywords
- Physics
- Tests of general relativity
- General relativity
- Graviton
- LIGO
- Gravitational wave
- Black hole (networking)
- Binary black hole
Funding
- NSNational Science Foundation
- KFKavli Foundation
- RCResearch Corporation for Science Advancement
- CICanadian Institute for Advanced Research
- IDInstitut des Origines de Lyon
- OMOntario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation
- LTLeverhulme Trust
- RSRoyal Society
- SFScottish Funding Council
- SUScottish Universities Physics Alliance
- ECEuropean Commission
- NRNational Research Foundation
- COCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research, India
- RFRussian Foundation for Basic Research
- ICIndustry Canada
- NONederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- MDMinisterio de Economía y Competitividad
- HSHungarian Scientific Research Fund
- NRNational Research Foundation of Korea
- NCNarodowe Centrum Nauki
- MOMinistry of Education, India
- MOMinistry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
- CNCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- MDMinistero dello Sviluppo Economico
- INIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- GDGovern de les Illes Balears
- NSNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- SAScience and Technology Facilities CouncilAwards: ST/I006242/1, ST/N000064/1, ST/K005014/1, ST/L000946/1, ST/I006269/1, ST/M004090/1, ST/H002006/1, ST/L003465/1, Gravitational Waves, ST/I006285/1, ST/N000633/1, ST/N00003X/1, 1654298, ST/M005844/1, ST/K000845/1, ST/N005716/1, ST/J000019/1, ST/J00166X/1, ST/N000072/1, ST/N000080/1, ST/N005430/1
- ARAustralian Research Council
- SAScience and Engineering Research Board
- INInstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- DODivision of Human Resource Development