Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

E. Thrane,V. Dolique,F. Acernese,K. Ackley,C. Adams,P. Addesso,R. Adhikari,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,K. Agatsuma,N. Aggarwal,O. Aguiar,L. Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,B. Allen,A. Allocca,P. Altin,S. Anderson,W. Anderson,K. Arai,M. Araya,C. Arceneaux,J. Areeda,N. Arnaud,K. Arun,S. Ascenzi,G. Ashton,M. Ast,S. Aston,P. Astone,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,S. Babak,P. Bacon,K. Siellez,P. Baker,F. Bondu,F. Barone,S. Ballmer,J. Barayoga,S. Barclay,B. Barish,D. Barker,B. Barr,L. Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. Bartlett,I. Bartos,R. Bassiri,A. Basti,V. Bavigadda,M. Bazzan,B. Behnke,M. Bejger,J. Behr,C. Bell,B. Berger,J. Bergman,G. Bergmann,C. Berry,D. Bersanetti,A. Bertolini,S. Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,I. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,R. Birney,S. Biscans,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,C. Biwer,M. Bizouard,J. Blackburn,C. Blair,D. Blair,S. Bloemen,O. Bock,T. Bodiya,M. Boër,G. Bogaert,A. Bohé,P. Bojtos,C. Bond,B. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,S. Bose,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,P. Brady,V. Braginsky,M. Branchesi,R. Frey,H. Overmier,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,A. Brooks,D. Brown,N. Brown,C. Buchanan,A. Buikema,T. Bulik,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,R. Byer,L. Cadonati,G. Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Bustillo,T. Callister,E. Calloni,Chiara Caprini,K. Cannon,C. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,J. Diaz,C. Casentini,M. Cavaglià,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Giuseppe Castaldi,L. Baiardi,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,S. Chamberlin,M. Chan,S. Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande‐Mottin,H. Chen,Yao Chen,C. Cheng,A. Chincarini,A. Chiummo,H. Cho,M. Cho,Jong Chow,N. Christensen,S. Chua,S. Chung,G. Ciani,F. Clara,J. Clark,E. Coccia,Christophe Collette,M. Constancio,A. Conte,L. Conti,D. Cook,T. Corbitt,N. Cornish,A. Corsi,S. Cortese,C. Costa,Michael Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. Countryman,P. Couvares,D. Coward,S. Cooper,A. Cumming,K. Craig,J. Cripe,S. Crowder,E. Cuoco,S. Danilishin,A. Postigo,K. Danzmann,N. Darman,V. Dattilo,H. Daveloza,M. Davier,G. Davies,E. Daw,D. DeBra,G. Debreczeni,J. Degallaix,M. Laurentis,S. Deléglise,W. Pozzo,T. Denker,T. Dent,R. Rosa,R. DeRosa,Caleb Devine,S. Dhurandhar,L. Fiore,A. Lieto,S. Pace,I. Palma,A. Virgilio,G. Dojcinoski,K. Dooley,S. Doravari,R. Douglas,T. Downes,M. Drago,R. Drever,Zhihui Du,S. Dwyer,A. Effler,M. Edwards,H.-B. Eggenstein,P. Ehrens,W. Engels,R. Essick,T. Etzel,M. Evans,Thomas Mikal-Evans,R. Everett,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,S. Fairhurst,B. Farr,Q. Fang,Will Farr,M. Favata,H. Fehrmann,M. Fejer,I. Ferrante,F. Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,D. Fiorucci,R. Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,J.-D. Fournier,Sebastián Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,A. Freise,P. Fritschel,M. Fyffe,H. Gabbard,S. Gaebel,J. Gair,L. Gammaitoni,F. Garufi,Alberto Gatto,G. Gaur,N. Gehrels,B. Gendre,E. Genin,A. Gennai,J. George,L. Gergely,Archisman Ghosh,S. Ghosh,K. Giardina,A. Giazotto,K. Gill,E. Goetz,G. González,A. Gopakumar,Neil Gordon,M. Gorodetsky,S. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,A. Grado,P. Graff,M. Granata,S. Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. Green,H. Grote,S. Grünewald,X. Guo,A. Gupta,Manoj Gupta,R. Gustafson,J. Hacker,E. Hall,J. Hanks,M. Haney,C. Hanna,M. Hannam,J. Hanson,J. Harms,I. Harry,M. Hartman,K. Haughian,A. Heidmann,P. Hello,G. Hemming,J. Hennig,M. Heurs,S. Hild,D. Hofman,S. Hollitt,K. Holt,Daniel Holz,Philip Hopkins,David Hosken,J. Hough,E. Houston,E. Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,S. Huang,E. Huerta,B. Hughey,S. Huttner,T. Huynh–Dinh,A. Idrisy,N. Indik,D. Ingram,R. Inta,H. Isa,J.‐M. Isac,M. Isi,G. Islas,B. Iyer,T. Jacqmin,P. Jaranowski,K. Jani,F. Jiménez‐Forteza,Nathan Johnson-McDaniel,D. Jones,R. Jones,L. Ju,C. Kalaghatgi,V. Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. Kanner,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,E. Katsavounidis,P. Leaci,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,F. Kéfélian,M. Kehl,D. Keitel,D. Kelley,A. Kemball,J. Key,A. Khalaidovski,I. Khan,S. Khan,Е. Хазанов,C. Kim,J. Kim,K. Kim,Namgyu Kim,Namjun Kim,Y.-M. Kim,E. King,Peter King,D. Kinzel,J. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,V. Kondrashov,K. Kokeyama,A. Kontos,M. Korobko,I. Kowalska,V. Kringel,B. Krishnan,A. Królak,C. Krueger,P. Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,B. Lackey,M. Landry,J. Lange,B. Lantz,P. Lasky,A. Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,S. Leavey,Chang‐Hwan Lee,H. Lee,A. Lenon,N. Letendre,J. Leong,Y. Levin,B. Levine,T. Li,A. Libson,T. Littenberg,N. Lockerbie,J. Logue,M. Lorenzini,L. London,Janet Lord,G. Losurdo,Carlos Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,A. Lundgren,Yongcheng Deng,Ryan Lynch,T. MacDonald,B. Machenschalk,D. Macleod,F. Magaña‐Sandoval,R. Magee,D. McClelland,E. Majorana,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,V. Mandic,G. Mansell,M. Manske,M. Mantovani,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. Markosyan,E. Maros,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,R. Martin,K. Mason,J. Marx,A. Masserot,L. Matone,M. Masso‐Reid,N. Mavalvala,G. Mazzolo,J. McIver,D. McManus,S. McWilliams,J. Meidam,A. Melatos,D. Mendoza-Gandara,E. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messick,P. Meyers,F. Mezzani,H. Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Е. Михайлов,L. Milano,J. Miller,M. Millhouse,Y. Minenkov,A. Mennella,G. Mitselmakher,C. Mishra,A. Moggi,M. Mohan,S. Mohapatra,M. Montani,C. Moore,G. Moreno,C. Mow–Lowry,K. Mossavi,B. Mours,Cornelia Müller,A. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,Suvodip Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,J. Münch,P. Murray,B. Whiting,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,K. Nedkova,G. Nelemans,A. Neunzert,G. Newton,T. Nguyen,David Nichols,D. Nolting,F. Raab,L. Nuttall,E. Ochsner,E. Oelker,J. Oh,S. Oh,F. Ohme,R. O’Shaughnessy,R. Ottens,B. Owen,C. Palomba,S. Pai,G. Pagliaroli,H. Pan,C. Pankow,F. Pannarale,F. Paoletti,M. Papa,H. Paris,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,R. Passaquieti,B. Patricelli,I. Pinto,R. Pedurand,L. Pekowsky,A. Pele,C. Peralta,O. Piccinni,Harald Pfeiffer,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,V. Pierro,M. Pitkin,R. Poggiani,A. Post,J. Powell,V. Predoi,S. Premachandra,M. Principe,Larry Price,G. Prodi,H. Radkins,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,J. Qin,R. Quitzow-James,D. Rabeling,P. Raffai,V. Raymond,M. Rakhmanov,P. Rapagnani,M. Razzano,C. Reed,T. Regimbau,S. Reid,D. Reitze,H. Rew,S. Reyes,F. Ricci,K. Riles,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,J. Rollins,R. Romano,Irina Novikova,A. Rüdiger,Christian Röver,S. Rowan,P. Ruggi,K. Ryan,S. Sachdev,F. Salemi,L. Sadeghian,Mairi Sakellariadou,M. Saleem,B. Sandeen,B. Sassolas,B. Sathyaprakash,O. Sauter,R. Savage,P. Schale,J. Schmidt,P. Schmidt,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,B. Schutz,J. Scott,A. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,M. Shaltev,Y. Setyawati,D. Sigg,D. Shaddock,M. Shahriar,J. Smith,Lijing Shao,D. Shoemaker,A. Silva,D. Simakov,A. Singer,A. Singh,R. Singh,A. Singhal,A. Sintes,B. Slagmolen,T. Shintomi,R. Smith,B. Sorazu,F. Sorrentino,A. Srivastava,M. Steinke,J. Steinlechner,S. Steinlechner,R. Stone,K. Strain,N. Straniero,G. Stratta,A. Stuver,L. Sun,S. Solimeno,M. Tacca,D. Tanner,A. Taracchini,T. Theeg,P. Thomas,E. Thomas,G. Vajente,K. Thorne,V. Tiwari,K. Tokmakov,C. Tomlinson,K. Toland,Z. Tornasi,D. Töyrä,E. Tournefier,D. Trifirò,M. Tringali,M. Turconi,D. Tuyenbayev,D. Ugolini,A. Urban,S. Usman,H. Vahlbruch,N. Bakel,M. Beuzekom,J. Brand,D. Vander‐Hyde,F. Marchesoni,J. Heijningen,Alex Vañó-Viñuales,M. Vardaro,A. Vecchio,M. Vasúth,J. Veitch,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,S. Vinciguerra,D. Vine,Salvatore Vitale,M. Yvert,D. Voss,A. Wade,M. Wade,M. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,G. Wang,H. Wang,M. Wang,X. Wang,Y. Wang,R. Ward,M. Was,B. Willke,L.‐W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. Weinstein,R. Weiss,K. Wette,J. Whelan,D. Williams,A. Williamson,J. Willis,G. Woan,J. Worden,J. Wright,Guanglei Wu,D. Wysocki,H. Yamamoto,S. Xiao,Haocun Yu,Hang Yu,A. Zadroźny,M. Zanolin,C. Zhao,M. Zevin,F. Zhang,L. Zhang,M. Zhang,Y. Zhang,M. Zhou,X. Zhu,M. Zucker,S. Zuraw,J. Zweizig,M. Boyle,B. Brügamin,Manuela Campanelli,Michael Clark,D. Hamberger,Larry Kidder,M. Kinsey,Pablo Laguna,Serguei Ossokine,Mark Scheel,Béla Szilágyi,Saul Teukolsky,Yosef Zlochower