articlePhysical review. D/Physical review. D.Nov 20, 2019BRONZE OA

Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1

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Abstract

The detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo provides an opportunity to test general relativity in a regime that is inaccessible to traditional astronomical observations and laboratory tests. We present four tests of the consistency of the data with binary black hole gravitational waveforms predicted by general relativity. One test subtracts the best-fit waveform from the data and checks the consistency of the residual with detector noise. The second test checks the consistency of the low- and high-frequency parts of the observed signals. The third test checks that phenomenological deviations introduced in the waveform model (including in the post-Newtonian coefficients) are…

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  • LIGO
  • Physics
  • Gravitational wave
  • General relativity
  • Binary black hole
  • Tests of general relativity
  • Consistency (knowledge bases)
  • Graviton
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