Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo’s second observing run

Soumi De, Christopher M. Biwer, Collin D. Capano, Alexander H. Nitz, Duncan A. Brown

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Abstract

This paper presents a parameter estimation analysis of the seven binary black hole mergers—GW170104, GW170608, GW170729, GW170809, GW170814, GW170818, and GW170823—detected during the second observing run of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo observatories using the gravitational-wave open data. We describe the methodology for parameter estimation of compact binaries using gravitational-wave data, and we present the posterior distributions of the inferred astrophysical parameters. We release our samples of the posterior probability density function with tutorials on using and replicating our results presented in this paper.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number81
JournalScientific data
Volume6
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Information Systems
  • Education
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
  • Library and Information Sciences

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