Reanalysis of LIGO black-hole coalescences with alternative prior assumptions
Abstract
We present a critical reanalysis of the black-hole binary coalescences detected during LIGO's first observing run under different Bayesian prior assumptions. We summarize the main findings of Vitale et al. (2017) and show additional marginalized posterior distributions for some of the binaries' intrinsic parameters.
These findings were presented at IAU Symposium 338, held on October 16-19, 2017 in Baton Rouge, LA, USA.- Publication:
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Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: Early Results from Gravitational Wave Searches and Electromagnetic Counterparts
- Pub Date:
- October 2018
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921318003587
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1712.06635
- Bibcode:
- 2018IAUS..338...22G
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- Proceedings of IAU Symposium 338: Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (Baton Rouge, LA, October 2017)