Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, describes the results of his team’s search for new events in the publicly available LIGO data that nearly doubles the catalog of binary black hole mergers. Credit:
Lee Sandberg
Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of six new binary black hole mergers that exceed the detection thresholds defined by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC), the group responsible for the first direct observation of gravitational waves on February 11, 2016.
Taking data made public by the LVC, the IAS team applied a unique set of signal processing techniques to detect these cataclysmic events, nearly doubling the total number of binary black hole mergers found during LVC’s second ...
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