Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

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author: Paolo Addesso, Vaishali Adya, Odylio D. Aguiar, Odylio D. Aguiar, Lorenzo Aiello, Bruce Allen, Koji Arai, Stefano Ascenzi, Gregory Ashton, Bryan Barr, Viswanath Bavigadda, Christopher P. L. Berry, Diego Bersanetti, Ross Birney, Michel Boër, François Bondu, Valerio Boschi, Patrick R Brady, Aidan Brooks, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Thomas Callister, Kipp Cannon, Collin Capano, Giovanni Cerretani, Elisabetta Cesarini, Philip Charlton, Andrea Chincarini, Jong H. Chow, Eugenio Coccia, Livia Conti, Cesar Costa, Elena Cuoco, Gareth S Davies, Martina De Laurentis, Walter Del Pozzo, Timo Denker, Alberto Di Lieto, Angela DiVirgilio, Vincent Dolique, Marco Drago, Zhihui Du, Zachariah B. Etienne, Stephen Fairhurst, Isidoro Ferrante, Andreas Freise, Fabio Garufi, Alberto Gatto, Bruce Gendre, László Árpád Gergely, Massimo Granata, Anna Green, Paul J. Groot, Gianluca Guidi, Giles D. Hammond, Maria Haney, Jan Harms, Sophie Hollitt, Eric Howell, Yi-Ming Hu, Eliu A. Huerta, Sascha Husa, Piotr Jaranowski, Li Ju, David Keitel, Alexander Khalaidovski, Mikhail Korobko, Badri Krishnan, Prayush Kumar, Paul Lasky, Claudia Lazzaro, Matteo Leonardi, Matteo Lorenzini, Giovanni Losurdo, Andrew Lundgren, Ettore Majorana, Valentina Mangano, Thomas J. Massinger, David E. McClelland, Chris J. Messenger, Haixing Miao, Hannah Middleton, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Chandra Kant Mishra, Conor M Mow-Lowry, David J. Murphy, Luca Naticchioni, Gijs Nelemans, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Laura Kate Nuttall, Frank Ohme, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Benjamin J. Owen, Francesco Pannarale, M. Alessandra Papa, Roberto Passaquieti, Barbara Patricelli, Harald Pfeiffer, Ornella Juliana Piccinni, Francesco Piergiovanni, Vincenzo Pierro, Innocenzo M. Pinto, Matthew D. Pitkin, Rosa Poggiani, Jade Powell, Maria Principe, Giovanni Andrea Prodi, Eric A. Quintero, Piero Rapagnani, Massimiliano Razzano, Alessio Rocchi, Rocco Romano, Christian Röver, Francesco Salemi, Daniel Sigg, Bram Slagmolen, Borja Sorazu, Fiodor Sorrentino, Simon Stevenson, Kenneth Strain, Giulia Stratta, Amber L. Stuver, Bas L. Swinkels, David B. Tanner, Márton Tápai, Eric Thrane, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Joris van Heijningen, Alex Vano-Vinuales, Alberto Vecchio, Andrea Viceré, Salvatore Vitale, Helios Vocca, Robert L. Ward, Linqing Wen, Benno Willke, Graham Woan, Chunnong Zhao, Xing-Jiang Zhu, John Zweizig, Michel Davier, Saul A. Teukolsky, Mauro Tonelli, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Pablo Laguna, Gabriela González, Orion Eli Sauter, Ronald Drever, Beverly Berger, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Richard K. Mittleman, Dennis Ugolini, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Benjamin P. 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