Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger.

Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., et al. (2016). Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Physical Review Letters, 116(6).

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2016

DOI

10.1103/physrevlett.116.061102

Link

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102

Cited from

cognitive_science, philosophy, statistics_experimental_design

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Primes

• Residual Analysis
  • The residual-as-signal move ports from statistics to the physical sciences without modification — the Uranus-to-Neptune inference is the canonical case, and the same logic powers gravitational-wave template subtraction and cosmic-microwave-background foreground removal.

    This sourceRecovers a gravitational-wave signal via matched-filter template subtraction, the residual-as-signal move in physics.

• Signal Detection Theory
  • In astronomy and gravitational-wave detection, it is matched-filter threshold-setting against detector noise.

    This sourceMatched-filter detection of a gravitational-wave signal against detector noise with explicit threshold and significance setting (matched-filter SNR 24, false-alarm rate < 1 per 203,000 yr).

• Signal Extraction
  • The signal model is an explicit template — the chirp \(h(t)\) predicted by general relativity for a given pair of inspiralling masses, sweeping up in frequency and amplitude as the bodies spiral together.

    This sourceMatched-filtering a relativistic chirp template, weighted by the detector noise power spectral density, with residual and coincidence diagnostics.

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