Abstract:
The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors saw the
first detections of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers. Our
search, based on general-relativistic models of gravitational wave signals from
binary black hole systems, unambiguously identified two signals, GW150914 and
GW151226 and identified a third possible signal, LVT151012, with substantially
lower significance. We discuss what can be inferred about the properties of
these systems and the implications for future runs.
