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GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes

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posted on 2023-05-21, 11:39 authored by Abbott, BP, Abbott, R, Karelle SiellezKarelle Siellez, Zweizig, J
The LIGO detection of the gravitational wave transient GW150914, from the inspiral and merger of two black holes with masses ≳30M&odot, suggests a population of binary black holes with relatively high mass. This observation implies that the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes, created from the incoherent superposition of all the merging binaries in the Universe, could be higher than previously expected. Using the properties of GW150914, we estimate the energy density of such a background from binary black holes.

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Publication title

Physical Review Letters

Volume

116

Issue

13

Article number

131102

Number

131102

Pagination

1-12

ISSN

0031-9007

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School of Natural Sciences

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American Physical Soc

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One Physics Ellipse, College Pk, USA, Md, 20740-3844

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