GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary 
Black Hole Coalescence

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Affeldt, C.
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Allen, B.
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Aufmuth, P.
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Aulbert, C.
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Babak, S.
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Behnke, B.
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Bock, O.
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Bork, R.
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Buonanno, A.
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Capano, C.
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Danzmann, K.
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Denker, T.
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Dent, T.
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Di Palma, I.
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Dooley, K.
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Drago, M.
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Fehrmann, H.
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Fricke, T.
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Goetz, E.
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Graef, C.
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Grote, H.
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Grunewald, S.
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Heurs, M.
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Khalaidovski, A.
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Kuehn, G.
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Leaci, P.
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Lundgren, A.
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Mossavi, K.
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Papa, M. A.
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Schilling, R.
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Schnabel, R.
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Schuette, D.
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Schutz, B. F.
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Steinlechner, S.
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Vahlbruch, H.
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Wette, K.
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Willke, B.
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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Abernathy, M. R., et al. (2017). GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Physical Review Letters, 119: 141101. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101.

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Abstract

On August 14, 2017 at 10 ∶ 30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of two stellar mass black holes, with a false-alarm rate of ≲ 1 in 27 000 years. The signal was observed with a three-detector network matched-filter signal-to-noise ratio of 18. The inferred masses of the initial black holes are 30 . 5 þ 5 . 7 − 3 . 0 M ⊙ and 25 : 3 þ 2 . 8 − 4 . 2 M ⊙ (at the 90% credible level). The luminosity distance of the source is 540 þ 130 − 210 Mpc, corresponding to a redshift of z ¼ 0 . 11 þ 0 . 03 − 0 . 04 . A network of three detectors improves the sky localization of the source, reducing the area of the 90% credible region from 1160 deg 2 using only the two LIGO detectors to 60 deg 2 using all three detectors. For the first time, we can test the nature of gravitational-wave polarizations from the antenna response of the LIGO-Virgo network, thus enabling a new class of phenomenological tests of gravity.