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Re:Astrophysicists do a 3-day long AMA about the discovery o... by topquark on Monday February 15, 2016 @03:49AM (#11102223)
In http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03840 we describe the various parameters that we were able to measure for this signal, and in http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03841 we compare the results to the predictions from general relativity.

In Figs 6 and 7 of the second paper you can see the constraints from GW150914 on what are known as the "post-Newtonian" expansion terms of Newtonian gravity. Previously, terms beyond first order were only loosed bound, mostly from observations of the Double Pulsar system J0737-3039.

Just from this one event, we can also constrain the mass of the graviton to an order of magnitude less than the previous best measurement.

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