@article{2ca0e6e3137c4fa894d7247919479229,
title = "GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence",
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 30.5-3.0+5.7M and 25.3-4.2+2.8M (at the 90% credible level). The luminosity distance of the source is 540-210+130 Mpc, corresponding to a redshift of z=0.11-0.04+0.03. A network of three detectors improves the sky localization of the source, reducing the area of the 90% credible region from 1160 deg2 using only the two LIGO detectors to 60 deg2 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.",
author = "Abbott, {B. P.} and R. Abbott and Abbott, {T. D.} and F. Acernese and K. Ackley and C. Adams and T. Adams and P. Addesso and Adhikari, {R. X.} and Adya, {V. B.} and C. Affeldt and M. Afrough and B. Agarwal and M. Agathos and K. Agatsuma and N. Aggarwal and Aguiar, {O. D.} and L. Aiello and A. Ain and Altin, {P. A.} and Chow, {J. H.} and S. Chua and J. Eichholz and Evans, {T. M.} and Forsyth, {P. W.F.} and R. Inta and J. Junker and N. Kijbunchoo and Mansell, {G. L.} and M. Manske and McClelland, {D. E.} and McManus, {D. J.} and T. McRae and J. Miller and Mow-Lowry, {C. M.} and A. Mullavey and Nguyen, {T. T.} and Rabeling, {D. S.} and R. Schnabel and Scott, {S. M.} and Shaddock, {D. A.} and Slagmolen, {B. J.J.} and L. Sun and D. T{\"o}yr{\"a} and Wade, {A. R.} and Ward, {R. L.} and K. Wette and Whiting, {B. F.} and Wright, {J. L.} and Yap, {M. J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 authors. Published by the American Physical Society.",
year = "2017",
month = oct,
day = "6",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.141101",
language = "English",
volume = "119",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "14",
}