GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
Abstract
On August 17, 2017 at 12∶41:04 UTC the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors made their first observation of a binary neutron star inspiral. The signal, GW170817, was detected with a combined signal-to-noise ratio of 32.4 and a false-alarm-rate estimate of less than one per
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- October 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.161101
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1710.05832
- Bibcode:
- 2017PhRvL.119p1101A
- Keywords:
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- Gravitation and Astrophysics;
- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 161101 (2017)