Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3 — mentioned by topquark

Mon, 15 Feb 2016 09:15:51 GMT

It sounds like you've already read about how we estimate the false-alarm rate for signals, so I'll just add that the estimated rate of BBH mergers was highly uncertain before this observation; the error bars spanned three orders of magnitude. See, for example, Fig 5 of http://arxiv.org/abs/1111.7314, which compares the previous LIGO-Virgo upper limits on similar events to the expected rate from population synthesis models and observations of high-mass X-ray binaries, known BNS systems, etc. The rate inferred from GW150914 is on the high end of the rate estimates from astronomers, but it's…

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Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3 — mentioned by topquark