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

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2019-06-05 v3 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

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.

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@article{arxiv.1811.09232,
  title  = {Posterior samples of the parameters of binary black holes from Advanced LIGO, Virgo's second observing run},
  author = {Soumi De and Christopher M. Biwer and Collin D. Capano and Alexander H. Nitz and Duncan A. Brown},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.09232},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures