GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2статья
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Аннотация:We describe the observation of GW170104, a gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of a pair of stellar-mass black holes. The signal was measured on January 4, 2017 at 10∶11:58.6 UTC by the twin advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory during their second observing run, with a network signal-to-noise ratio of 13 and a false alarm rate less than 1 in 70 000 years. The inferred component black hole masses are
31.
2
+
8.4
−
6.0
M
⊙
and
19.
4
+
5.3
−
5.9
M
⊙
(at the 90% credible level). The black hole spins are best constrained through measurement of the effective inspiral spin parameter, a mass-weighted combination of the spin components perpendicular to the orbital plane,
χ
eff
=
−
0.1
2
+
0.21
−
0.30
. This result implies that spin configurations with both component spins positively aligned with the orbital angular momentum are disfavored. The source luminosity distance is
88
0
+
450
−
390
Mpc
corresponding to a redshift of
z
=
0.1
8
+
0.08
−
0.07
. We constrain the magnitude of modifications to the gravitational-wave dispersion relation and perform null tests of general relativity. Assuming that gravitons are dispersed in vacuum like massive particles, we bound the graviton mass to
m
g
≤
7.7
×
10
−
23
eV
/
c
2
. In all cases, we find that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity.