@article{e380f3a03637491b8369dc63e9132cf1,
title = "Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914",
abstract = "On 14 September 2015, a gravitational wave signal from a coalescing black hole binary system was observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors. This paper describes the transient noise backgrounds used to determine the significance of the event (designated GW150914) and presents the results of investigations into potential correlated or uncorrelated sources of transient noise in the detectors around the time of the event. The detectors were operating nominally at the time of GW150914. We have ruled out environmental influences and non-Gaussian instrument noise at either LIGO detector as the cause of the observed gravitational wave signal.",
keywords = "detector characterization, gravitational waves, GW150914",
author = "Abbott, {B P} and R Abbott and Abbott, {T D} and Abernathy, {M R} and F Acernese and K Ackley and M Adamo and C Adams and T Adams and P Addesso and Adhikari, {R X} and Adya, {V B} and C Affeldt and M Agathos and K Agatsuma and N Aggarwal and Aguiar, {O D} and L Aiello and A Ain and P Ajith and B Allen and A Allocca and Altin, {P A} and Anderson, {S B} and Anderson, {W G} and K Arai and Araya, {M C} and Arceneaux, {C C} and Areeda, {J S} and N Arnaud and Arun, {K G} and S Ascenzi and G Ashton and M Ast and Aston, {S M} and P Astone and P Aufmuth and C Aulbert and S Babak and P Bacon and Bader, {M K M} and Baker, {P T} and F Baldaccini and G Ballardin and Ballmer, {S W} and {The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration} and Lasky, {P D} and Y Levin and Premachandra, {S S} and L Sammut and E Thrane and Xingjiang Zhu and Ilya Mandel",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1088/0264-9381/33/13/134001",
language = "English",
volume = "33",
pages = "1--34",
journal = "Classical and Quantum Gravity",
issn = "0264-9381",
publisher = "IOP Publishing",
number = "13",
}