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B. M. Levine
Researcher at National Science Foundation
Publications - 52
Citations - 19841
B. M. Levine is an academic researcher from National Science Foundation. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 52 publications receiving 16852 citations.
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Gravitational waves from known pulsars: Results from the initial detector era
J. Aasi,J. Abadie,B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,M. R. Abernathy,T. Accadia,Fausto Acernese,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,A. Allocca,E. Amador Ceron,D. Amariutei,Ruth A. Anderson,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,C. C. Arceneaux,J. S. Areeda,S. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,L. Austin,B. E. Aylott,Stanislav Babak,P. T. Baker,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,J. C. Barayoga,D. Barker,S. H. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,J. Bauchrowitz,Th S. Bauer,M. Bebronne,B. Behnke,M. Bejger,M. G. Beker,A. S. Bell,C. J. Bell,I. Belopolski,G. Bergmann,J. M. Berliner,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,D. Bessis,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,T. Bhadbhade,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,Jens Birch,M. Bitossi,Marie-Anne Bizouard,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,M. Blom,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,M. Boer,C. Bogan,Charlotte Bond,François Bondu,L. Bonelli,R. Bonnand,R. Bork,M. Born,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,J. Bowers,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,M. Branchesi,C. A. Brannen,J. E. Brau,J. Breyer,Tristan Briant,D. O. Bridges,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,M. Britzger,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,F. Brückner,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,J. Calderón Bustillo,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,P. Campsie,Kipp Cannon,Benjamin Canuel,Junwei Cao,Collin Capano,F. Carbognani,Ludovico Carbone,S. Caride,A. Castiglia,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,E. Cesarini,R. Chakraborty,T. Chalermsongsak,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,Hee-Suk Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,Sheon Chua,S. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,D. E. Clark,John A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Pierre-François Cohadon,A. Colla,M. Colombini,M. Constancio,A. Conte,R. Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,M. Cordier,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,Kieran Craig,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,S. G. Crowder,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,Katrin Dahl,T. Dal Canton,M. Damjanic,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,V. Dattilo,B. Daudert,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,T. Dayanga,R. De Rosa,G. Debreczeni,Jerome Degallaix,W. Del Pozzo,E. Deleeuw,Samuel Deléglise,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,H. Dereli,Vladimir Dergachev,Ryan DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Lieto,I. Di Palma,A. Di Virgilio,Marco Aurelio Diaz,A. Dietz,K. Dmitry,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J. C. Dumas,S. E. Dwyer,Tobias Eberle,M. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,G. Endrczi,Reed Essick,T. Etzel,K. Evans,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,Qi Fang,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,Marc Favata,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,D. Feldbaum,D. Feldbaum,I. Ferrante,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Lee Samuel Finn,I. Fiori,Rebecca Fisher,R. Flaminio,E. Foley,S. Foley,E. Forsi,N. Fotopoulos,J.-D. Fournier,Stefaan Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Maik Frede,M. A. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Masa-Katsu Fujimoto,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,J. Garcia,F. Garufi,Neil Gehrels,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,László Á. Gergely,Saranya Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,S. Gil-Casanova,C. Gill,Joseph Gleason,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,S. Goßler,R. Gouaty,C. Graef,Philip Graff,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Griffo,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,K. Grover,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,C. J. Guido,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,G. M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,M. T. Hartman,K. Haughian,Kazuhiro Hayama,J. Heefner,Antoine Heidmann,Matthew Heintze,Matthew Heintze,H. Heitmann,P. Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,M. Holtrop,T. Hong,Shaun Hooper,Travis Horrom,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,Z. Hua,V. Huang,E. A. Huerta,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,M. Huynh,T. Huynh-Dinh,J. Iafrate,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,T. Isogai,Anton B. Ivanov,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,M. Jacobson,Eric W. James,H. J. Jang,Y. J. Jang,Piotr Jaranowski,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,D. Jones,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,K. Haris,Peter Kalmus,V. Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,M. Kasprzack,R. Kasturi,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,H. Kaufer,K. Kaufman,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,Fumiko Kawazoe,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Efim A. Khazanov,B. K. Kim,Chunglee Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Namjun Kim,W. S. Kim,Y. M. Kim,E. J. King,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,S. Klimenko,Jeffery Kline,S. M. Koehlenbeck,K. Kokeyama,V. Kondrashov,Scott Koranda,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,A. Kremin,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,C. Kucharczyk,S. Kudla,G. Kuehn,A. Kumar,Prayush Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,R. Kurdyumov,P. Kwee,Michael Landry,B. Lantz,Shane L. Larson,Paul D. Lasky,C. Lawrie,Albert Lazzarini,A. Le Roux,P. Leaci,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,J. Lee,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,B. M. Levine,J. B. Lewis,V. Lhuillier,Tenglin Li,A. C. Lin,Tyson Littenberg,V. Litvine,Fanghua Liu,Hsiang-Chuan Liu,Yunchao Liu,Zhi Liu,D. Lloyd,N. A. Lockerbie,V. Lockett,D. Lodhia,K. Loew,J. Logue,A. L. Lombardi,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,J. Luan,M. J. Lubinski,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,J. Macarthur,E. Macdonald,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magana-Sandoval,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,V. Malvezzi,N. Man,G. Manca,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,J. Marque,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,L. Martinelli,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,G. May,N. Mazumder,G. Mazzolo,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,Jessica McIver,Duncan Meacher,Grant David Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,J. Meidam,T. Meier,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,M. S. Meyer,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,John Miller,Y. Minenkov,Chiara M. F. Mingarelli,S. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,B. Moe,M. Mohan,Satya Mohapatra,Satya Mohapatra,F. Mokler,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,N. Morgado,Takao Mori,S. R. Morriss,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,Máté Nagy,D. Nanda Kumar,I. Nardecchia,T. Nash,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,V. Necula,Gijs Nelemans,Igor Neri,M. Neri,G. P. Newton,Thanh Vinh Nguyen,E. Nishida,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,A. Nitz,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,M. E. Normandin,L. K. Nuttall,Evan Ochsner,J. O'Dell,Eric Oelker,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,P. Oppermann,B. O'Reilly,W. Ortega Larcher,Richard O'Shaughnessy,C. Osthelder,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,J. Ou,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,C. Padilla,Archana Pai,C. Palomba,Yi Pan,Chris Pankow,F. Paoletti,Riccardo Paoletti,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,H. R. Paris,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,M. Pedraza,P. Peiris,S. Penn,A. Perreca,M. Phelps,M. Pichot,M. Pickenpack,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,L. Pinard,Bartosz Pindor,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,J. Poeld,Rosa Poggiani,V. Poole,C. Poux,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,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,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,István Rácz,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,P. Raffai,S. Raja,G. Rajalakshmi,Malik Rakhmanov,C. R. Ramet,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,V. Re,C. M. Reed,T. Reed,Tania Regimbau,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,F. Ricci,R. Riesen,K. Riles,N. A. Robertson,Florent Robinet,A. Rocchi,S. Roddy,Carl L. Rodriguez,M. Rodruck,C. Roever,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,Gleb Romanov,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,Francesco Salemi,L. Sammut,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,Virginio Sannibale,I. Santiago-Prieto,E. Saracco,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,B. Schulz,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,A. M. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,Sweta Shah,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,Trevor Sidery,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,D. Simakov,A. Singer,Leo Singer,A. M. Sintes,G. R. Skelton,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. Slutsky,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,R. J.E. Smith,N. D. Smith-Lefebvre,K. Soden,Edwin J. Son,B. Sorazu,Tarun Souradeep,L. Sperandio,A. Staley,E. Steinert,J. Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,S. Steplewski,Douglas E. Stevens,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,N. Straniero,S. E. Strigin,A. S. Stroeer,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,Sunil Susmithan,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,G. Szeifert,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,L. Tang,David B. Tanner,S. P. Tarabrin,R. Taylor,A. P. M. ter Braack,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Vaibhav Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Tomlinson,Alessandra Toncelli,M. Tonelli,O. Torre,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,M. Tse,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,Michele Vallisneri,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van Den Broeck,S. Van Der Putten,M. V. Van Der Sluys,J. V. van Heijningen,A. A. van Veggel,S. Vass,M. Vasúth,Ruslan Vaulin,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,D. Verkindt,S. Verma,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,R. Vincent-Finley,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,B. Vlcek,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,W. D. Vousden,Daniel Vrinceanu,S. P. Vyachanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,M. Wade,Samuel J. Waldman,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,Y. Wan,Jian-Siung Wang,Meng Wang,X. F. Wang,A. Wanner,R. L. Ward,M. Was,B. A. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,Linqing Wen,Peter Wessels,Matthew West,Tobias Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,D. J. White,B. F. Whiting,S. Wibowo,Karoline Wiesner,C. Wilkinson,L. Williams,Roy Williams,T. Williams,Joshua L. Willis,Benno Willke,Markus A. Wimmer,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Worden,Joshua Yablon,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,Huan Yang,D. Yeaton-Massey,Sanichiro Yoshida,Honam Yum,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,Michele Zanolin,J. P. Zendri,Fan Zhang,L. Zhang,C. Zhao,H. Zhu,Xing-Jiang Zhu,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,And J. Zweizig,S. Buchner,S. Buchner,Ismaël Cognard,Ismaël Cognard,Alessandro Corongiu,N. D'Amico,Cristobal M. Espinoza,Cristobal M. Espinoza,Paulo C. C. Freire,Eric V. Gotthelf,L. Guillemot,Jason W. T. Hessels,Jason W. T. Hessels,George Hobbs,Michael Kramer,Andrew Lyne,F. E. Marshall,A. Possenti,Scott M. Ransom,Paul S. Ray,Jayashree Roy,Ben Stappers +906 more
TL;DR: The results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo as discussed by the authors.
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Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era
J. Aasi,J. Abadie,B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,M. R. Abernathy,T. Accadia,Fausto Acernese,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,A. Allocca,E. Amador Ceron,D. Amariutei,Ruth A. Anderson,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,C. C. Arceneaux,J. S. Areeda,S. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,L. Austin,B. E. Aylott,Stanislav Babak,P. T. Baker,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,J. C. Barayoga,D. Barker,S. H. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,J. Bauchrowitz,Th S. Bauer,M. Bebronne,B. Behnke,M. Bejger,M. G. Beker,A. S. Bell,C. J. Bell,I. Belopolski,G. Bergmann,J. M. Berliner,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,D. Bessis,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,T. Bhadbhade,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,Jens Birch,M. Bitossi,Marie-Anne Bizouard,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,M. Blom,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,M. Boer,C. Bogan,Charlotte Bond,François Bondu,L. Bonelli,R. Bonnand,R. Bork,M. Born,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,J. Bowers,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,M. Branchesi,C. A. Brannen,J. E. Brau,J. Breyer,Tristan Briant,D. O. Bridges,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,M. Britzger,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,F. Brückner,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,J. Calderón Bustillo,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,P. Campsie,K. C. Cannon,Benjamin Canuel,Junwei Cao,Collin Capano,F. Carbognani,Ludovico Carbone,S. Caride,A. Castiglia,S. Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,E. Cesarini,R. Chakraborty,T. Chalermsongsak,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Xie Chen,Y. R. Chen,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,H. S. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,Sheon Chua,S. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,D. E. Clark,John A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Pierre-François Cohadon,A. Colla,M. Colombini,M. Constancio,A. Conte,Roberto Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,M. Cordier,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,Kieran Craig,Jolien D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,S. G. Crowder,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,Katrin Dahl,T. Dal Canton,M. Damjanic,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,V. Dattilo,B. Daudert,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,T. Dayanga,R. De Rosa,G. Debreczeni,Jerome Degallaix,W. Del Pozzo,E. Deleeuw,Samuel Deléglise,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,H. Dereli,Vladimir Dergachev,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Lieto,I. Di Palma,A. Di Virgilio,Marco Aurelio Diaz,A. Dietz,K. Dmitry,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J. C. Dumas,S. E. Dwyer,Tobias Eberle,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,G. Endrőczi,Reed Essick,T. Etzel,K. Evans,Matthew Evans,Theodore A. Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,Qi Fang,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,W. M. Farr,Marc Favata,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,D. Feldbaum,I. Ferrante,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Lee Samuel Finn,I. Fiori,Rebecca Fisher,R. Flaminio,E. Foley,S. Foley,E. Forsi,N. Fotopoulos,J.-D. Fournier,Stefaan Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Maik Frede,M. A. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Masa-Katsu Fujimoto,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,J. R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,J. Garcia,F. Garufi,Neil Gehrels,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,László Á. Gergely,S. Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,S. Gil-Casanova,C. Gill,Joseph Gleason,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,Stefan Goßler,R. Gouaty,C. Graef,Philip Graff,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Griffo,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,K. Grover,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,C. J. Guido,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,G. M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,M. T. Hartman,K. Haughian,Kazuhiro Hayama,J. Heefner,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,P. Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,M. Holtrop,T. Hong,Shaun Hooper,Travis Horrom,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,Z. Hua,V. Huang,E. A. Huerta,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,M. Huynh,T. Huynh-Dinh,J. Iafrate,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,T. Isogai,Andrew Ivanov,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,M. Jacobson,E. James,H. J. Jang,Y. J. Jang,Piotr Jaranowski,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,D. L. Jones,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,K. Haris,P. I. P. Kalmus,V. Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,M. Kasprzack,R. Kasturi,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,H. 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TL;DR: A search for the stochastic background with the latest data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors shows no evidence of a stochastically gravitational-wave signal, and the limits in these four bands are the lowest direct measurements to date on the stoChastic background.
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Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a dedicated photon radiation pressure actuator, with cross-checks provided by optical and radio frequency references, to validate the model and characterize its uncertainty.
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Constraints on cosmic strings from the ligo-virgo gravitational-wave detectors
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TL;DR: New constraints on cosmic string parameters are derived, which complement and improve existing limits from previous searches for a stochastic background of GWs from cosmic microwave background measurements and pulsar timing data.