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A. J. Stein
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 52
Citations - 7438
A. J. Stein is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 43, co-authored 52 publications receiving 6970 citations.
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Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
J. Abadie,B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,M. R. Abernathy,T. Accadia,Fausto Acernese,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,G. S. Allen,E. Amador Ceron,R. S. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,F. Antonucci,Sofiane Aoudia,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,M. Aronsson,K.G. Arun,K.G. Arun,Yoichi Aso,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,D. Atkinson,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,P. Baker,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,D. Barker,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Pablo Barriga,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,M. Bastarrika,Joeran Bauchrowitz,Th. S. Bauer,B. Behnke,M. G. Beker,Matthew Benacquista,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,N. Beveridge,P. T. Beyersdorf,Stefano Bigotta,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,S. Birindelli,Rahul Biswas,M. Bitossi,Marie-Anne Bizouard,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,M. Blom,A. Blomberg,Claude Boccara,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,Ruxandra Bondarescu,François Bondu,L. Bonelli,R. Bork,M. Born,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,Michael Boyle,S. Braccini,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,J. Breyer,D. O. Bridges,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,M. Britzger,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,Robert J. Budzyński,Tomasz Bulik,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,Jordi Burguet-Castell,O. Burmeister,D. Buskulic,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,E. Campagna,P. Campsie,John K. Cannizzo,Kipp Cannon,B. Canuel,Junwei Cao,C. D. Capano,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,Elena Cesarini,T. Chalermsongsak,E. Chalkley,P. Charlton,E. Chassande Mottin,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,Andrea Chincarini,Nelson Christensen,Sheon Chua,C. T. Y. Chung,Damon A. Clark,John A. Clark,J. H. Clayton,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,C. N. Colacino,J. Colas,A. Colla,M. Colombini,Roberto Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Christian Corda,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,C. A. Costa,J.-P. Coulon,David Coward,D. C. Coyne,J. De Creighton,Teviet Creighton,A. M. Cruise,R. M. Culter,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,Katrin Dahl,S. L. Danilishin,R. Dannenberg,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,Anna Dari,K. Das,V. Dattilo,B. Daudert,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,A. Davis,E. J. Daw,R. Day,T. Dayanga,R. De Rosa,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,M. Del Prete,Vladimir Dergachev,Ryan DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,P. Devanka,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Lieto,I. Di Palma,M. Di Paolo Emilio,A. Di Virgilio,Marco Aurelio Diaz,A. Dietz,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,E. E. Doomes,S. Dorsher,Ewan S. Douglas,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,J. Dueck,J. C. Dumas,Tobias Eberle,Matthew P. Edgar,M. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,R. Engel,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,Yaohui Fan,Ben Farr,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,D. Feldbaum,I. Ferrante,F. Fidecaro,Lee Samuel Finn,I. Fiori,R. Flaminio,M. Flanigan,K. Flasch,S. Foley,Chad Forrest,E. Forsi,N. Fotopoulos,J.-D. Fournier,J. Franc,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Maik Frede,M. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,D. Friedrich,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Paul Fulda,M. Fyffe,Luca Gammaitoni,J. Garofoli,F. Garufi,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,I. Gholami,Saranya Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,C. Gill,Evan Goetz,Lisa M. Goggin,Gabriela Gonzalez,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. Goßler,R. Gouaty,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. Js Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Greverie,R. Grosso,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Boris Hage,Peter Hall,J. M. Hallam,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,K. Haughian,Kazuhiro Hayama,J. Heefner,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,E. Hirose,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,D. Hoyland,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,T. Isogai,Anton B. Ivanov,Piotr Jaranowski,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,G. T. Jones,Roger Jones,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,Jonah Kanner,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,Fumiko Kawazoe,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Efim A. Khazanov,Chunglee Kim,Hoon-Sik Kim,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,S. Klimenko,V. Kondrashov,Ravi Kumar Kopparapu,Scott Koranda,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,T. Krause,V. Kringel,Subramanian Krishnamurthy,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,J. Kullman,Rajesh Kumar,P. Kwee,M. Landry,Matthew Lang,B. Lantz,N. Lastzka,Albert Lazzarini,P. Leaci,J. R. Leong,I. Leonor,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Jingsong Li,Tjonnie G. F. Li,H. Lin,P. E. Lindquist,N. A. Lockerbie,D. Lodhia,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,P. Lu,J. Luan,M. J. Lubinski,Antonio Lucianetti,Harald Lück,Harald Lück,A. Lundgren,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,J.-M. Mackowski,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Ettore Majorana,C. Mak,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,E. Maros,J. Marque,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,G. McIvor,D. Ja McKechan,Grant David Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,T. Meier,Andrew Melatos,A. C. Melissinos,G. Mendell,D. F. Menéndez,R. A. Mercer,L. Merill,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,M. S. Meyer,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,Leopoldo Milano,Jon M. Miller,Y. Minenkov,Yasushi Mino,Subhasish Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,B. Moe,M. Mohan,Soumya D. Mohanty,S. Rp Mohapatra,D. Moraru,Julien Moreau,G. Moreno,N. Morgado,A. Morgia,T. Morioka,K. Mors,S. Mosca,V. Moscatelli,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,A. Mullavey,H. Müller-Ebhardt,Jesper Munch,P. G. Murray,T. Nash,Ronny Nawrodt,John Nelson,Igor Neri,G. P. Newton,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,Evan Ochsner,J. O'Dell,G. H. Ogin,R. G. Oldenburg,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,C. Osthelder,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Amanda J. Page,Giulia Pagliaroli,L. Palladino,C. Palomba,Yi Pan,C. Pankow,F. Paoletti,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,Silvio Pardi,M. Pareja,M. Parisi,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,P. Patel,M. Pedraza,Larne Pekowsky,S. Penn,C. Peralta,A. Perreca,Gianluca Persichetti,M. Pichot,M. Pickenpack,F. Piergiovanni,M. Pietka,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,H. J. Pletsch,M. V. Plissi,Rosa Poggiani,Fabio Postiglione,Mirko Prato,V. Predoi,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,Reinhard Prix,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,O. Rabaste,D. S. Rabeling,T. Radke,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,Malik Rakhmanov,B. Rankins,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,V. Re,C. M. Reed,T. Reed,Tania Regimbau,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,F. Ricci,R. Riesen,K. Riles,Paul Roberts,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,F. Robinet,C. Robinson,Emma L. Robinson,A. Rocchi,S. Roddy,Christian Röver,S. Rogstad,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,S. Sakata,M. Sakosky,Francesco Salemi,L. Sammut,L. Sancho De La Jordana,V. Sandberg,Virginio Sannibale,Lucía Santamaría,G. Santostasi,S. Saraf,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Susumu Sato,Mark A. Satterthwaite,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,B. Schulz,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,A. C. Searle,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,A. M. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,A. Singer,Alicia M. Sintes,G. R. Skelton,B. Jj Slagmolen,J. Slutsky,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,Kentaro Somiya,B. Sorazu,Fiona C. Speirits,A. J. Stein,Leo C. Stein,Sebastian Steinlechner,S. Steplewski,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,S. E. Strigin,A. Stroeer,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,M. Sung,Sunil Susmithan,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,S. P. Tarabrin,J. R. Taylor,R. Taylor,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,A. Thüring,C. Titsler,K. V. Tokmakov,K. V. Tokmakov,Alessandra Toncelli,M. Tonelli,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,C. I. Torrie,E. Tournefier,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,Miquel Trias,J. Trummer,K. Tseng,D. Ugolini,Karel E. Urbanek,H. Vahlbruch,B. Vaishnav,G. Vajente,Michele Vallisneri,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van Den Broeck,S. Van Der Putten,M. V. van der Sluys,A. A. van Veggel,S. Vass,Ruslan Vaulin,M. Vavoulidis,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,C. Veltkamp,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,A. E. Villar,J. Y. Vinet,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,S. P. Vyachanin,Samuel J. Waldman,L. Wallace,A. Wanner,R. L. Ward,M. Was,P. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,Linqing Wen,S. Wen,Peter Wessels,Matthew West,Tobias Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,D. J. White,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,J. Worden,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Kazuhiro Yamamoto,D. Yeaton-Massey,Sanichiro Yoshida,P. Yu,M. Yvert,Michele Zanolin,Lei Zhang,Zhenyu Zhang,C. Zhao,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig,Krzysztof Belczynski,Krzysztof Belczynski +722 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Kalogera et al. presented an up-to-date summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the initial and advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo.
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Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors
J. Abadie,B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,Matthew Abernathy,T. Accadia,Fausto Acernese,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Gabrielle Allen,E. Amador Ceron,R. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,F. Antonucci,Sofiane Aoudia,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,M. Aronsson,K. G. Arun,Yoichi Aso,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,D. Atkinson,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,S. Babak,Paul T. Baker,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,D. Barker,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Pablo Barriga,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,M. Bastarrika,J. Bauchrowitz,Th. S. Bauer,B. Behnke,M. G. Beker,M. Benacquista,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,N. Beveridge,P. T. Beyersdorf,Stefano Bigotta,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,S. Birindelli,Rahul Biswas,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,M. Blom,A. Blomberg,Claude Boccara,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,Ruxandra Bondarescu,François Bondu,L. Bonelli,R. Bork,M. Born,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,Michael Boyle,S. Braccini,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,J. Breyer,D. O. Bridges,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,M. Britzger,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,Robert J. Budzyński,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,Jordi Burguet-Castell,O. Burmeister,D. Buskulic,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,E. Campagna,P. Campsie,John K. Cannizzo,Kipp Cannon,B. Canuel,Junwei Cao,Collin Capano,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,E. Cesarini,T. Chalermsongsak,E. Chalkley,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Simon Chelkowski,Y. R. Chen,Andrea Chincarini,Nelson Christensen,Sheon Chua,C. T. Y. Chung,Damon A. Clark,John A. Clark,J. H. Clayton,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,C. N. Colacino,J. Colas,A. Colla,M. Colombini,Roberto Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Christian Corda,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,C. A. Costa,J.-P. Coulon,David Coward,D. C. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,A. M. Cruise,R. M. Culter,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,Katrin Dahl,S. L. Danilishin,R. Dannenberg,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Anna Dari,K. Das,V. Dattilo,B. Daudert,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,A. Davis,E. J. Daw,R. Day,T. Dayanga,R. De Rosa,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,M. Del Prete,Vladimir Dergachev,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,P. Devanka,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Lieto,I. Di Palma,M. Di Paolo Emilio,A. Di Virgilio,Marco Aurelio Diaz,A. Dietz,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,E. E. Doomes,S. Dorsher,Ewan S. Douglas,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,J. Dueck,J. C. Dumas,Tobias Eberle,Matthew P. Edgar,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,Ralph Engel,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Theodore A. Evans,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,Yaohui Fan,Ben Farr,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,D. Feldbaum,I. Ferrante,F. Fidecaro,Lee Samuel Finn,I. Fiori,R. Flaminio,M. Flanigan,K. Flasch,S. Foley,Chad Forrest,E. Forsi,N. Fotopoulos,J.-D. Fournier,J. Franc,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Maik Frede,M. A. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,D. Friedrich,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,Luca Gammaitoni,J. Garofoli,F. Garufi,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,I. Gholami,S. Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,C. Gill,E. Goetz,L. M. Goggin,Gabriela Gonzalez,Michael L. Gorodetsky,Stefan Goßler,R. Gouaty,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Greverie,R. Grosso,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Boris Hage,Peter Hall,J. M. Hallam,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,K. Haughian,K. Hayama,J. Heefner,H. Heitmann,P. Hello,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,Eiichi Hirose,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,D. Hoyland,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,T. Isogai,Andrew Ivanov,Piotr Jaranowski,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,G. T. Jones,Roger Jones,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,J. B. Kanner,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,F. Kawazoe,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,A. Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Efim A. Khazanov,Chunglee Kim,Hyun Kyung Kim,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,S. Klimenko,V. Kondrashov,Ravi Kumar Kopparapu,Scott Koranda,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,T. Krause,V. Kringel,Subramanian Krishnamurthy,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,J. Kullman,Rahul Kumar,P. Kwee,M. Landry,Matthew Lang,B. Lantz,Nico Lastzka,Albert Lazzarini,P. Leaci,J. R. Leong,I. Leonor,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,J. Li,Tjonnie G. F. Li,Huan Lin,P. E. Lindquist,N. A. Lockerbie,D. Lodhia,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,P. Lu,J. Luan,M. J. Lubinski,Antonio Lucianetti,Harald Lück,A. P. Lundgren,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,J.-M. Mackowski,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Ettore Majorana,C. Mak,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,E. Maros,J. Marque,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,G. McIvor,D. J. A. McKechan,G. D. Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,T. Meier,Andrew Melatos,A. C. Melissinos,G. Mendell,D. F. Menéndez,R. A. Mercer,L. Merill,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,M. S. Meyer,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,L. Milano,J. S. Miller,Y. Minenkov,Yasushi Mino,Subhasish Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,B. Moe,M. Mohan,Soumya D. Mohanty,S. R. P. Mohapatra,D. Moraru,Julien Moreau,G. Moreno,N. Morgado,A. Morgia,T. Morioka,K. Mors,Simona Mosca,V. Moscatelli,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,A. Mullavey,H. Müller-Ebhardt,Jesper Munch,P. G. Murray,Thomas Nash,Ronny Nawrodt,Jenny Nelson,Igor Neri,G. P. Newton,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,Evan Ochsner,J. O'Dell,G. H. Ogin,R. G. Oldenburg,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,C. Osthelder,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Amanda J. Page,G. Pagliaroli,L. Palladino,C. Palomba,Yi Pan,C. Pankow,F. Paoletti,Maria Alessandra Papa,Silvio Pardi,M. Pareja,M. Parisi,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,P. M. Patel,M. Pedraza,L. Pekowsky,S. Penn,C. Peralta,A. Perreca,Gianluca Persichetti,M. Pichot,M. Pickenpack,F. Piergiovanni,M. Pietka,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,Holger J. Pletsch,M. V. Plissi,Rosa Poggiani,Fabio Postiglione,Mirko Prato,V. Predoi,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,Reinhard Prix,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,O. Rabaste,D. S. Rabeling,T. Radke,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,M. Rakhmanov,B. Rankins,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,V. Re,C. M. Reed,T. Reed,T. Regimbau,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,F. Ricci,R. Riesen,K. Riles,Paul Roberts,N. A. Robertson,F. Robinet,C. Robinson,Emma L. Robinson,A. Rocchi,S. Roddy,Christian Röver,S. Rogstad,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kris Ryan,S. Sakata,M. Sakosky,F. Salemi,L. Sammut,L. Sancho De La Jordana,V. Sandberg,Virginio Sannibale,Lucía Santamaría,G. Santostasi,S. Saraf,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Susumu Sato,Mark A. Satterthwaite,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,Bastian Schulz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,A. C. Searle,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,A. M. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,A. Singer,Alicia M. Sintes,G. R. Skelton,B. J. J. Slagmolen,Jacob Slutsky,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,Kentaro Somiya,B. Sorazu,Fiona C. Speirits,A. J. Stein,Leo C. Stein,Sebastian Steinlechner,S. Steplewski,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,S. E. Strigin,A. Stroeer,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,M. Sung,Sunil Susmithan,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,S. P. Tarabrin,James Taylor,Richard J. K. Taylor,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,A. Thüring,C. Titsler,K. V. Tokmakov,Alessandra Toncelli,M. Tonelli,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,E. Tournefier,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,Miquel Trias,J. Trummer,K. Tseng,D. Ugolini,Karel E. Urbanek,H. Vahlbruch,B. Vaishnav,G. Vajente,Michele Vallisneri,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van Den Broeck,S. Van Der Putten,M. V. van der Sluys,A. A. van Veggel,S. Vass,Ruslan Vaulin,M. Vavoulidis,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,C. Veltkamp,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,A. E. Villar,J. Y. Vinet,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,S. P. Vyachanin,Samuel J. Waldman,L. Wallace,Alexander Wanner,R. L. Ward,M. Was,P. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J.R. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,S. Wen,Peter Wessels,Matthew West,T. Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,D. J. White,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,John Worden,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Kazuhiro Yamamoto,D. Yeaton-Massey,Sanichiro Yoshida,P. Yu,M. Yvert,Michele Zanolin,Lei Zhang,Zhenyu Zhang,C. Zhao,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig,K. Belczynski +709 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an up-to-date summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the Initial and Advanced versions of the ground-based LIGO and Virgo Astrophysical estimates for compact-binary coalescence rates depend on a number of assumptions and unknown model parameters.
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A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit
J. Abadie,B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,M. R. Abernathy,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,C. Affeldt,Benjamin William Allen,G. S. Allen,E. Amador Ceron,D. Amariutei,R. S. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,S. M. Aston,D. Atkinson,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,B. E. Aylott,Stanislav Babak,P. T. Baker,S. W. Ballmer,D. Barker,B. Barr,P. Barriga,Lisa Barsotti,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,M. Bastarrika,J. C. Batch,Jöran Bauchrowitz,B. Behnke,A. S. Bell,Ilya Belopolski,Matthew Benacquista,J. M. Berliner,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,N. Beveridge,P. T. Beyersdorf,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,Rahul Biswas,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,C. Bogan,Ruxandra Bondarescu,R. Bork,M. Born,Suvadeep Bose,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,J. Breyer,D. O. Bridges,M. Brinkmann,M. Britzger,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,A. Brummitt,Alessandra Buonanno,Jordi Burguet-Castell,Oliver Burmeister,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Jordan Camp,P. Campsie,John K. Cannizzo,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,C. D. Capano,S. Caride,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,Carlos Cepeda,T. Chalermsongsak,E. Chalkley,P. Charlton,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,Nelson Christensen,H. S. Cho,Sheon Chua,S. Chung,C. T. Y. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,D. E. Clark,John A. Clark,J. H. Clayton,R. Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,M. Cordier,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,P. Couvares,David Coward,D. C. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,A. M. Cruise,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,R. M. Cutler,Katrin Dahl,S. L. Danilishin,R. Dannenberg,Karsten Danzmann,B. Daudert,H. P. Daveloza,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,T. Dayanga,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,T. Dent,Vladimir Dergachev,Ryan DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,James DiGuglielmo,I. Di Palma,Marco Aurelio Diaz,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Dorsher,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J. C. Dumas,S. E. Dwyer,Tobias Eberle,Matthew P. Edgar,M. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,R. Engel,T. Etzel,K. Evans,Matthew Evans,Theodore A. Evans,M. Factourovich,Stephen Fairhurst,Yaohui Fan,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,D. Feldbaum,Lee Samuel Finn,Rebecca Fisher,M. Flanigan,S. Foley,E. Forsi,N. Fotopoulos,Maik Frede,M. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Daniel Friedrich,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Paul Fulda,M. Fyffe,Miftar Ganija,J. Garcia,J. Garofoli,R. Geng,László Á. Gergely,I. Gholami,Saranya Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,C. Gill,Evan Goetz,Lisa M. Goggin,Gabriela Gonzalez,Michael L. Gorodetsky,Stefan Goßler,C. Graef,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,Norman Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,R. Grosso,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,C. J. Guido,Ranjan Gupta,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,T. Ha,Boris Hage,J. M. Hallam,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,M. T. Hartman,K. Haughian,Kazuhiro Hayama,J. Heefner,Matthew Heintze,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,V. Herrera,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,Theodore S. Hong,Shaun Hooper,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,B. Hughey,T. Huynh-Dinh,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,T. Isogai,Anton B. Ivanov,K. Izumi,M. Jacobson,H. J. Jang,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,G. T. Jones,Roger Jones,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,I. Kamaretsos,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,Jonah Kanner,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,Henning Kaufer,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,Fumiko Kawazoe,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,Zoltán Keresztes,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Efim A. Khazanov,B. K. Kim,Chunglee Kim,D. Kim,Hyun Kyung Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Namjun Kim,Y. M. Kim,P. J. King,M. Kinsey,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,S. Klimenko,Keiko Kokeyama,V. Kondrashov,Ravi Kumar Kopparapu,Scott Koranda,W. Z. Korth,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,Subramanian Krishnamurthy,Badri Krishnan,G. Kuehn,Rajesh Kumar,P. Kwee,Ping Koy Lam,M. Landry,Matthew Lang,B. Lantz,Nico Lastzka,C. Lawrie,Albert Lazzarini,P. Leaci,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyung Mok Lee,Nick Leindecker,J. R. Leong,I. Leonor,Jui-Lin Li,P. E. Lindquist,N. A. Lockerbie,D. Lodhia,M. Lormand,J. Luan,M. J. Lubinski,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,E. Macdonald,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,Alireza Marandi,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,G. Mazzolo,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,Jessica McIver,D. J. A. McKechan,Grant David Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,T. Meier,Andrew Melatos,A. C. Melissinos,G. Mendell,D. F. Menéndez,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,M. S. Meyer,Haixing Miao,John Miller,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,O. Miyakawa,B. Moe,P. Moesta,Soumya D. Mohanty,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,Takao Mori,Kasem Mossavi,C. M. Mow-Lowry,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,A. Mullavey,Helge Müller-Ebhardt,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,T. Nash,Ronny Nawrodt,V. Necula,John Nelson,G. P. Newton,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,D. Nolting,L. K. Nuttall,J. O'Dell,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,Evan Ochsner,Eric Oelker,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,G. H. Ogin,R. G. Oldenburg,C. Osthelder,Christian D. Ott,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Amanda J. Page,Yi Pan,C. Pankow,Maria Alessandra Papa,P. Ajith,P. Patel,M. Pedraza,P. Peiris,Larne Pekowsky,S. Penn,C. Peralta,A. Perreca,M. Phelps,M. Pickenpack,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,Holger J. Pletsch,M. V. Plissi,Jan Hendrik Pöld,Fabio Postiglione,V. Predoi,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,Reinhard Prix,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,Malik Rakhmanov,C. R. Ramet,B. Rankins,S. R. P. Mohapatra,V. Raymond,K. Redwine,C. M. Reed,T. Reed,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,R. Riesen,K. Riles,N. A. Robertson,C. Robinson,Emma L. Robinson,S. Roddy,Carl L. Rodriguez,M. Rodruck,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,J. H. Romie,Christian Röver,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Kris Ryan,H. Ryll,P. Sainathan,M. Sakosky,Francesco Salemi,Aiko Samblowski,L. Sammut,L. Sancho De La Jordana,V. Sandberg,S. Sankar,Virginio Sannibale,Lucía Santamaría,I. Santiago-Prieto,G. Santostasi,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Susumu Sato,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,Roland Schilling,Stephan Schlamminger,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,Bastian Schulz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,A. C. Searle,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,A. M. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,M. Shaltev,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Alicia M. Sintes,G. R. Skelton,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. Slutsky,R. J.E. Smith,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,Kentaro Somiya,B. Sorazu,J. Soto,Fiona C. Speirits,A. J. Stein,E. Steinert,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,S. Steplewski,M. Stefszky,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,S. E. Strigin,A. S. Stroeer,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,M. Sung,Sunil Susmithan,Patrick J. Sutton,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,S. P. Tarabrin,J. R. Taylor,R. Taylor,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Andre Thüring,C. Titsler,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,G. Traylor,Miquel Trias,K. Tseng,D. Ugolini,Karel E. Urbanek,H. Vahlbruch,Michele Vallisneri,A. A. van Veggel,S. Vass,Ruslan Vaulin,Alberto Vecchio,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,C. Veltkamp,A. E. Villar,Salvatore Vitale,C. Vorvick,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,Samuel J. Waldman,L. Wallace,Y. Wan,Alexander Wanner,Xuan Wang,Zhentian Wang,R. L. Ward,P. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,S. Wen,P. Wessels,Matthew West,T. Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,D. J. White,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,H. R. Williams,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,H. Wittel,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,John Worden,Joshua Yablon,I. Yakushin,Kazuhiro Yamamoto,H. Yamamoto,Huan Yang,D. Yeaton-Massey,Sanichiro Yoshida,P. Yu,Michele Zanolin,Lei Zhang,Weiya Zhang,Zhenyu Zhang,C. Zhao,N. Zotov,M. E. Zweizig,J. Zucker +614 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate the squeezed-light enhancement of GEO600, which will be the GW observatory operated by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration in its search for GWs for the next 3-4 years.
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Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy
Denis Martynov,E. D. Hall,B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,Ruth A. Anderson,S. B. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. A. Arain,S. M. Aston,L. Austin,S. W. Ballmer,M. Barbet,D. Barker,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,J. G. Bartlett,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,J. C. Batch,A. S. Bell,Ilya Belopolski,J. Bergman,J. Betzwieser,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,Sebastien Biscans,Christopher M. Biwer,E. Black,Carl Blair,C. Bogan,R. Bork,D. O. Bridges,A. F. Brooks,C. Celerier,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,Douglas R. Cook,S. T. Countryman,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,M. Damjanic,R. Dannenberg,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,C. F. Da Silva Costa,E. J. Daw,D.B. DeBra,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,J. C. Driggers,S. E. Dwyer,A. Effler,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,M. Factourovich,H. Fair,D. Feldbaum,D. Feldbaum,Rebecca Fisher,S. Foley,Maik Frede,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,Vincenzo Galdi,Joseph A. Giaime,Joseph A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,Joseph Gleason,R. Goetz,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,Hartmut Grote,C. J. Guido,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,G. D. Hammond,J. Hanks,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,G. M. Harry,J. Heefner,M. C. Heintze,A. W. Heptonstall,D. Hoak,J. H. Hough,Anton B. Ivanov,K. Izumi,M. Jacobson,Elizabeth A. James,Roger Jones,S. Kandhasamy,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,W. Kells,N. Kijbunchoo,E. J. King,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,K. Kokeyama,W. Z. Korth,G. Kuehn,P. Kwee,M. Landry,B. Lantz,A. Le Roux,B. M. Levine,J. B. Lewis,V. Lhuillier,N. A. Lockerbie,M. Lormand,M. J. Lubinski,Andrew Lundgren,Timothy MacDonald,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,T. J. Massinger,Fabrice Matichard,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,E. L. Merilh,Manuel Meyer,P. M. Meyers,Jon M. Miller,R. Mittleman,G. Moreno,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,J. O'Dell,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,C. Osthelder,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,J. R. Palamos,H. R. Paris,William Parker,Z. Patrick,A. Pele,S. Penn,M. Phelps,M. Pickenpack,Vincenzo Pierro,Innocenzo M. Pinto,J. Poeld,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,C. R. Ramet,C. M. Reed,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,David H. Reitze,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,J. H. Romie,Sheila Rowan,Kevin M. Ryan,T. Sadecki,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,Virginio Sannibale,R. L. Savage,R. M. S. Schofield,B. Schultz,P. Schwinberg,D. Sellers,A. Sevigny,Daniel A. Shaddock,Z. Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,D. Sigg,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith-Lefebvre,B. Sorazu,A. Staley,A. J. Stein,A. Stochino,Kenneth A. Strain,R. Taylor,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,C. I. Torrie,G. Traylor,G. Vajente,G. Valdes,A. A. van Veggel,M. Vargas,Alberto Vecchio,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,T. Vo,C. Vorvick,S. J. Waldman,Michelle E. Walker,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,B. A. Weaver,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,P. Weßels,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,Lutz Winkelmann,C. C. Wipf,J. Worden,G. Wu,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,Haocun Yu,L. Zhang,Michael E Zucker,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +262 more
TL;DR: The first observation run of the Advanced LIGO detectors started in September 2015 and ended in January 2016 as discussed by the authors, which achieved a strain sensitivity of better than 10^(−23)/√Hz around 100 Hz.
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An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,Fausto Acernese,Rana X. Adhikari,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,G. S. Allen,M. Alshourbagy,R. S. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,F. Antonucci,Sofiane Aoudia,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,Helena Armandula,P. Armor,K. G. Arun,Yoichi Aso,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,P. Baker,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,C. Barker,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Pablo Barriga,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,M. Bastarrika,Th. S. Bauer,B. Behnke,M. G. Beker,Matthew Benacquista,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,Stefano Bigotta,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,S. Birindelli,Rahul Biswas,M. A. Bizouard,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,Claude Boccara,T. P. Bodiya,L. Bogue,François Bondu,L. Bonelli,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,S. Braccini,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. F. J. van den Brand,J. E. Brau,D. O. Bridges,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,C. Van Den Broeck,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,A. Brummit,G. Brunet,A. Bullington,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,O. Burmeister,D. Buskulic,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,E. Campagna,John K. Cannizzo,Kipp Cannon,B. Canuel,Junwei Cao,F. Carbognani,L. Cardenas,S. Caride,Giuseppe Castaldi,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,E. Cesarini,T. Chalermsongsak,E. Chalkley,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Shourov Chatterji,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,Yi Chen,Nelson Christensen,C. T. Y. Chung,Damon A. Clark,John A. Clark,J. H. Clayton,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Thomas Cokelaer,C. N. Colacino,J. Colas,A. Colla,M. Colombini,Roberto Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Christian Corda,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,J.-P. Coulon,David Coward,D. C. Coyne,J. D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,A. M. Cruise,R. M. Culter,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,S. L. Danilishin,S. 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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported limits on the amplitude of the stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from a two-year science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).