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GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence

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posted on 2023-05-21, 11:15 authored by Abbott, BP, Abbott, R, Karelle SiellezKarelle Siellez, Zweizig, J
On 2017 June 8 at 02:01:16.49 UTC, a gravitational-wave (GW) signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes was observed by the two Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detectors with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13.

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The Astrophysical Journal. Letters

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851

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L35

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L35

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1-11

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2041-8205

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School of Natural Sciences

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Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd.

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United Kingdom

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© 2017. The American Astronomical Society. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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