@article{2fa06b5f83224a62b9944497daa6e165,
title = "GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M_{⊙}",
abstract = "On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio of 14.7, and an estimated false-alarm rate of 1 in 4900 yr using a search sensitive to generic transients. If GW190521 is from a quasicircular binary inspiral, then the detected signal is consistent with the merger of two black holes with masses of 85_{-14}^{+21} M_{⊙} and 66_{-18}^{+17} M_{⊙} (90% credible intervals). We infer that the primary black hole mass lies within the gap produced by (pulsational) pair-instability supernova processes, with only a 0.32% probability of being below 65 M_{⊙}. We calculate the mass of the remnant to be 142_{-16}^{+28} M_{⊙}, which can be considered an intermediate mass black hole (IMBH). The luminosity distance of the source is 5.3_{-2.6}^{+2.4} Gpc, corresponding to a redshift of 0.82_{-0.34}^{+0.28}. The inferred rate of mergers similar to GW190521 is 0.13_{-0.11}^{+0.30} Gpc^{-3} yr^{-1}.",
author = "{LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaborations} and R. Abbott and Abbott, {T. D.} and C. Adams and G. Allen and S. Anand and Anderson, {S. B.} and Anderson, {W. G.} and Aston, {S. M.} and C. Austin and Bader, {M. K.M.} and J. Baird and J. Bartlett and Bell, {A. S.} and Bentley, {J. D.} and Berry, {C. P.L.} and E. Biggs and Bilenko, {I. A.} and J. Blackman and Blair, {C. D.} and Blair, {D. G.} and M. Boer and S. Bose and V. Bossilkov and J. Bosveld and Brady, {P. R.} and Briggs, {J. H.} and Brooks, {A. F.} and J. Brooks and Brown, {D. D.} and H. Cao and J. Cao and C. Chan and M. Chan and K. Chandra and Chen, {H. Y.} and X. Chen and Y. Chen and Cheng, {H. P.} and Cheong, {C. K.} and Chia, {H. Y.} and Q. Chu and S. Chua and Chung, {K. W.} and S. Chung and Clark, {J. A.} and D. Cohen and C. Collins and Cooper, {S. J.} and Costa, {C. A.} and Coward, {D. M.} and A. Cumming and R. Cummings and L. Cunningham and Danilishin, {S. L.} and Davies, {G. S.} and D. Davis and J. Degallaix and B. Ding and Dwyer, {S. E.} and A. Effler and M. Evans and Evans, {T. M.} and X. Fan and Farr, {W. M.} and F. Feng and Ferguson, {D. L.} and Fisher, {R. P.} and E. Flynn and D. George and J. George and S. Ghosh and Gibson, {D. R.} and B. Grace and S. Gras and C. Gray and R. Gray and Green, {A. C.} and R. Green and Grimm, {S. J.} and Y. Guo and A. Gupta and P. Gupta and Hall, {E. D.} and Hamilton, {E. Z.} and G. Hammond and Hansen, {T. J.} and J. Hanson and Heng, {I. S.} and Holland, {N. A.} and K. Holt and P. Hopkins and Howell, {E. J.} and Y. Huang and C. Ingram and Iyer, {B. R.} and James, {A. L.} and Jenkins, {A. C.} and J. Jiang and Johns, {G. R.} and Jones, {A. W.} and Jones, {D. I.} and Jones, {J. D.} and P. Jones and R. Jones and L. Ju and G. Kang and R. Kashyap and R. Kennedy and Key, {J. S.} and I. Khan and S. Khan and Khan, {Z. A.} and K. Kim and Kim, {J. C.} and K. Kim and Kim, {Y. M.} and King, {P. J.} and P. Kumar and Rahul Kumar and S. Kumar and L. Kuo and Lam, {T. L.} and Lane, {B. B.} and Lang, {R. N.} and J. Lange and Lasky, {P. D.} and Lee, {C. H.} and Lee, {H. M.} and Lee, {H. W.} and J. Lee and K. Lee and Li, {A. K.Y.} and J. Li and K. Li and Li, {T. G.F.} and X. Li and J. Liu and X. Liu and A. Lockwood and Y. Ma and Macleod, {D. M.} and MacMillan, {I. A.O.} and Magee, {R. M.} and A. Malik and N. Man and Martin, {R. M.} and K. Mason and McCann, {J. J.} and R. McCarthy and McClelland, {D. E.} and McGuire, {S. C.} and McManus, {D. J.} and T. McRae and McWilliams, {S. T.} and Mehta, {A. K.} and Merritt, {J. D.} and H. Miao and H. Middleton and Miller, {A. L.} and Mills, {J. C.} and S. Mitra and Moore, {C. J.} and S. Mukherjee and Murray, {P. G.} and Neil, {B. F.} and Ng, {K. Y.} and S. Ng and C. Nguyen and P. Nguyen and D. Nichols and Nichols, {S. A.} and O'Brien, {B. D.} and Oh, {J. J.} and Oh, {S. H.} and M. Oliver and Ottaway, {D. J.} and Page, {M. A.} and W. Parker and E. Payne and Pedersen, {A. J.} and J. Powell and J. Read and S. Reid and Richardson, {C. J.} and Richardson, {J. W.} and Robertson, {N. A.} and R. Romano and Rose, {C. A.} and D. Rose and Ross, {M. P.} and K. Ryan and Sanders, {J. R.} and Savage, {R. L.} and J. Scott and Scott, {S. M.} and A. Sharma and P. Sharma and H. Shen and K. Siellez and N. Singh and Slagmolen, {B. J.J.} and Slaven-Blair, {T. J.} and Smith, {J. R.} and Smith, {R. J.E.} and Spencer, {A. P.} and Srivastava, {A. K.} and S. Stevenson and L. Sun and C. Talbot and R. Taylor and R. Tenorio and M. Thomas and P. Thomas and Thompson, {J. E.} and S. Tiwari and M. Tse and {Van Heijningen}, {J. V.} and Veitch, {P. J.} and Vine, {D. J.} and Vyatchanin, {S. P.} and Wade, {L. E.} and M. Wade and M. Walker and Wallace, {G. S.} and L. Wallace and S. Walsh and Wang, {J. Z.} and S. Wang and Wang, {W. H.} and Ward, {R. L.} and J. Warner and Wei, {L. W.} and Weinstein, {A. J.} and R. Weiss and F. Wellmann and L. Wen and Whelan, {J. T.} and D. Williams and Willis, {J. L.} and Wong, {I. C.F.} and Wright, {J. L.} and Wu, {D. S.} and Wysocki, {D. M.} and H. Yamamoto and L. Yang and Y. Yang and Z. Yang and Yap, {M. J.} and Hang Yu and J. Zhang and L. Zhang and T. Zhang and C. Zhao and G. Zhao and M. Zhou and Z. Zhou and Zhu, {X. J.}",
year = "2020",
month = sep,
day = "4",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.101102",
language = "English",
volume = "125",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society",
number = "10",
}