GW190814 : Gravitational waves from the coalescence of a 23 solar mass black hole with a 2.6 solar mass compact object
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 92230190
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3847/2041-8213/ab960f
- Title of journal
- Astrophysical Journal Letters
- Article number
- L44
- First page
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- Volume
- 896
- Issue
- 2
- ISSN
- 2041-8205
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- June
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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999
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 165
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- Mow-Lowry has made major technical contributions to the LIGO apparatus that were used in o obtain this result. Most pertinently, during the upgrade prior to the second observing run, he spent several months on-site directly working on accurately measuring and improving the performance of LIGO's vibration isolation systems at low frequencies, improving the integration of the novel Beam Rotation Sensor devices and redesigning the feed-forward system that applies that information to the observatory. These improvements led to significant improvements in operational time and stability of the observatory which contributed to new discoveries such as GW190814.
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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