Science
Benjamin P. Abbott
LIGO collaboration researcher
Also known as B. P. Abbott
Who they are
Benjamin P. Abbott coauthored the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration’s report announcing GW150914 in 2016. The work interprets coincident signals in the two LIGO detectors as gravitational waves from a merging pair of black holes. His place here is as one participant in a large international collaboration.
His profile provides a resolved identity within the collective authorship of the first gravitational-wave detection report.
Selected contributions
- Coauthored the collaboration report on the GW150914 detection.Source ↗
Selected works
Academic paper · 2016 · Peer-reviewed collaboration paper
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration describe the GW150914 signal measured by LIGO’s two detectors. Its waveform matches a binary black-hole merger, opening a direct observational channel in gravitational-wave astronomy.
Reading scope & citation
Reused prior inspected evidence: Supporting observation, detector-status and conclusion passages inspected; no raw-data reanalysis or full companion-paper audit.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102
In the timeline
Biography sources
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ↗Physical Review Letters / APS; LIGO Document Control Center copy
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger ↗Missouri University of Science and Technology, Scholars’ Mine
- Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger ↗Penn State Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos