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C. R. Ramet
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 53
Citations - 16410
C. R. Ramet is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 40, co-authored 53 publications receiving 13975 citations.
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Matthew Abernathy,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,C. C. Arceneaux,J. S. Areeda,N. Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,M. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,M. K. M. Bader,P. T. Baker,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,J. C. Barayoga,S. E. Barclay,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,B. Behnke,M. Bejger,C. Belczynski,A. S. Bell,Chris J Bell,B. K. Berger,J. Bergman,G. Bergmann,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,Swetha Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher M. Biwer,Marie-Anne Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,C. Bogan,Alejandro Bohé,P. Bojtos,Charlotte Bond,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,Marica Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,N. M. Brown,C. C. Buchanan,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Miriam Cabero,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,Collin D. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,Giancarlo Cella,Carlos Cepeda,L. Cerboni Baiardi,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,R. Chakraborty,T. Chalermsongsak,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Yi Chen,Chia-Liang Cheng,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. S. Y. Chua,S. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,John A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Pierre-François Cohadon,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,A. Conte,L. Conti,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,E. E. Cowan,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Kieran Craig,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,S. G. Crowder,A. M. Cruise,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,N. S. Darman,C. F. Da Silva Costa,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,Soumi De,D.B. DeBra,G. Debreczeni,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,H. Dereli,Vladimir Dergachev,R. T. DeRosa,R. De Rosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,Marco Aurelio Diaz,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,A. Di Lieto,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,A. Di Virgilio,G. Dojcinoski,V. Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,R. Douglas,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,M. Ducrot,S. E. Dwyer,T. B. Edo,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,W. Engels,Reed Essick,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,R. Everett,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xiaohui Fan,Qi Fang,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,Marc Favata,M. Fays,H. Fehrmann,Martin M. Fejer,D. Feldbaum,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Lee Samuel Finn,I. Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Rebecca Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,J.-D. Fournier,S. Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Maik Frede,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Paul Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,Alberto Gatto,G. Gaur,Neil Gehrels,Gianluca Gemme,Bruce Gendre,E. Genin,A. Gennai,Jimin George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,Joseph A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Karl Gill,A. Glaefke,Joseph Gleason,Evan Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,C. Graef,P. B. Graff,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,Andrew W. Green,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,G. M. Guidi,X. Guo,A. Gupta,M. K. Gupta,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,J. J. Hacker,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,M. T. Hartman,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,James Healy,J. Heefner,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,Gerhard Heinzel,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,David Jonathan Hofman,S. E. Hollitt,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,Philip F. Hopkins,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Eric Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,S. Huang,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,A. Idrisy,N. Indik,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,G. Islas,T. Isogai,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,M. Jacobson,Thibaut Jacqmin,H. J. Jang,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,K. Haris,C. V. Kalaghatgi,V. Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,Tejinder Kaur,K. Kawabe,F. Kawazoe,Fabien Kéfélian,M. S. Kehl,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,R. Kennedy,Drew Keppel,J. S. Key,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Imran Khan,Sebastian Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chi Woong Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Nam Gyu Kim,Namjun Kim,Y. M. Kim,E. J. King,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,Sergey Klimenko,S. M. Koehlenbeck,Keiko Kokeyama,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,Scott Koranda,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,C. Krueger,G. Kuehn,P. Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,P. Kwee,B. D. Lackey,M. Landry,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,Paul D. Lasky,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Hyung Mok Lee,Kejia Lee,A. Lenon,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,B. M. Levine,Tjonnie G. F. Li,Adam A. Libson,Tyson Littenberg,N. A. Lockerbie,J. Logue,A. L. Lombardi,Lionel London,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,J. Luo,Ryan Lynch,Y. Q. Ma,Timothy MacDonald,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magaña-Sandoval,R. M. Magee,M. Mageswaran,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,V. Malvezzi,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,Szabolcs Marka,Zsuzsa Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,G. Mazzolo,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,D. Mendoza-Gandara,R. A. Mercer,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,Cody Messick,P. M. Meyers,F. Mezzani,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,John Miller,Margaret Millhouse,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,S. Mirshekari,Chandra Kant Mishra,Subhasish Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,A. Moggi,M. Mohan,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,M. Montani,Blake Moore,Christopher J. Moore,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,S. R. Morriss,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,Debnandini Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,V. Necula,K. Nedkova,Gijs Nelemans,M. Neri,A. Neunzert,G. P. Newton,T. T. Nguyen,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,Alexander H. Nitz,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,M. E. Normandin,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,Evan Ochsner,J. O'Dell,Eric Oelker,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,M. Oliver,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,Christian D. Ott,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Howard Pan,Yi Pan,Chris Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,A. Paoli,Maria Alessandra Papa,H. R. Paris,William Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,B. Patricelli,Z. Patrick,B. L. Pearlstone,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,Larne Pekowsky,A. Pele,S. Penn,A. Perreca,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,M. Pickenpack,F. Piergiovanni,V. Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,J. Poeld,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,V. Predoi,S. S. Premachandra,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,Michael Pürrer,H. Qi,Jiayi Qin,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,Malik Rakhmanov,C. R. Ramet,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,V. Re,Jenny C. A. Read,C. Reed,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,H. Rew,Susana Reyes,F. Ricci,K. Riles,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,Gleb Romanov,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kris Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,Francesco Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,Laura Sampson,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,B. Sandeen,G. H. Sanders,J. R. Sanders,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. E. S. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Roland Schilling,Jochen Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,Bernard F. Schutz,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,G. Serna,Y. Setyawati,A. Sevigny,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. J. Shaffer,Sweta Shah,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,Z. Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,D. H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,D. Simakov,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Ajay Kumar Singh,Robinjeet Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,Mathew Smith,Nicholas Smith,Rory Smith,Edwin J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,A. K. Srivastava,A. Staley,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,B. C. Stephens,Simon Stevenson,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,N. Straniero,G. Stratta,N. A. Strauss,S. E. Strigin,R. Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Summerscales,L. Sun,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,Marek Szczepanczyk,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,Márton Tápai,S. P. Tarabrin,Andrea Taracchini,Robert Taylor,T. Theeg,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,Elizabeth R. Thomas,M. Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Tomlinson,M. Tonelli,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,Daniele Trifirò,M. C. Tringali,L. Trozzo,Maggie Tse,M. Turconi,D. Tuyenbayev,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,A. L. Urban,S. A. Usman,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,G. Valdes,Michele Vallisneri,N. van Bakel,M. van Beuzekom,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van Den Broeck,D. C. Vander-Hyde,L. van der Schaaf,J. V. van Heijningen,A. A. van Veggel,M. Vardaro,S. Vass,M. Vasúth,Ruslan Vaulin,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,Serena Vinciguerra,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,D. V. Voss,W. D. Vousden,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,Madeline Wade,S. J. Waldman,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Hua Wang,Meng Wang,X. F. Wang,Yanzhi Wang,H. Ward,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,B. A. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,Linqing Wen,Peter Weßels,T. Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,D. J. White,Bernard F. Whiting,K. Wiesner,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,L. Williams,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,Joshua L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,A. G. Wiseman,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,John Worden,J. L. Wright,G. Wu,Joshua Yablon,I. Yakushin,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,M. J. Yap,Haocun Yu,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,L. Zangrando,Michele Zanolin,J. P. Zendri,M. Zevin,Fan Zhang,Lei Zhang,Mi Zhang,Y.-H. Zhang,C. Zhao,Minchuan Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Michael E Zucker,S. E. Zuraw,J. Zweizig +1011 more
TL;DR: This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger, and these observations demonstrate the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems.
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Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run
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,Benjamin William Allen,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,Peter 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,Michał Bejger,M. G. Beker,A. S. Bell,C. J. Bell,Ilya Belopolski,G. Bergmann,J. M. Berliner,Alessandro Bertolini,D. Bessis,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,T. Bhadbhade,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. 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,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,B. 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,S. S. Y. 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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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Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light
J. Aasi,J. Abadie,B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Matthew Abernathy,C. Adams,T. Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,C. Affeldt,C. Affeldt,Odylio D. Aguiar,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,E. Amador Ceron,D. Amariutei,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,C. C. Arceneaux,Stefan Ast,Stefan Ast,S. M. Aston,D. Atkinson,Peter Aufmuth,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,C. Aulbert,L. Austin,B. E. Aylott,Stanislav Babak,P. T. Baker,S. W. Ballmer,Y. Bao,J. C. Barayoga,D. Barker,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,Riccardo Bassiri,J. C. Batch,Jöran Bauchrowitz,Jöran Bauchrowitz,B. Behnke,A. S. Bell,C. J. Bell,G. Bergmann,G. Bergmann,J. M. Berliner,Alessandro Bertolini,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,N. Beveridge,P. T. Beyersdorf,T. Bhadbhade,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,Sebastien Biscans,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,O. Bock,O. Bock,T. P. Bodiya,C. Bogan,C. Bogan,Charlotte Bond,R. Bork,M. Born,M. Born,Suvadeep Bose,J. Bowers,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,J. Breyer,J. Breyer,D. O. Bridges,M. Brinkmann,M. Brinkmann,Michael Britzger,Michael Britzger,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,K. Buckland,F. Brückner,Ben C. Buchler,Alessandra Buonanno,Jordi Burguet-Castell,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Jordan Camp,P. Campsie,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,Collin Capano,Ludovico Carbone,S. Caride,A. Castiglia,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,Carlos Cepeda,T. Chalermsongsak,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,H-S. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,Sheon Chua,C. T. Y. Chung,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,D. E. Clark,John A. Clark,M. Constancio Junior,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,M. Cordier,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,Kieran Craig,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,Katrin Dahl,Katrin Dahl,M. Damjanic,M. Damjanic,S. L. Danilishin,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,B. Daudert,H. P. Daveloza,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,T. Dayanga,E. Deleeuw,T. Denker,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,Thomas Dent,Vladimir Dergachev,Ryan DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,I. Di Palma,I. Di Palma,Marco Aurelio Diaz,A. Dietz,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,Steve Drasco,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J. C. Dumas,S. E. Dwyer,Tobias Eberle,Tobias Eberle,M. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,Stephen S. Eikenberry,R. Engel,Reed Essick,T. Etzel,K. Evans,Matthew Evans,Theodore A. Evans,M. Factourovich,Stephen Fairhurst,Qi Fang,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,Marc Favata,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,H. Fehrmann,D. Feldbaum,Lee Samuel Finn,Rebecca Fisher,S. Foley,E. Forsi,N. Fotopoulos,Maik Frede,Maik Frede,M. A. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,T. T. Fricke,Daniel Friedrich,Daniel Friedrich,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M-K. Fujimoto,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,Jonathan R. Gair,J. Garcia,N. Gehrels,G. Gelencser,László Á. Gergely,Saranya Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,S. Gil-Casanova,C. Gill,Joseph Gleason,Evan Goetz,Evan Goetz,Gabriela Gonzalez,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,Stefan Goßler,Stefan Goßler,C. Graef,C. Graef,Philip Graff,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Griffo,Hartmut Grote,Hartmut Grote,K. Grover,S. Grunewald,C. J. Guido,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,K. Haris,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,M. Heurs,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,M. Holtrop,T. Hong,Shaun Hooper,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,V. Huang,E. A. Huerta,B. Hughey,S. H. Huttner,M. Huynh,T. Huynh-Dinh,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,E. Jesse,W. W. Johnson,D. L. Jones,David Jones,Roger Jones,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,R. Kasturi,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,Henning Kaufer,Henning Kaufer,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,Fumiko Kawazoe,Fumiko Kawazoe,David Keitel,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,Drew Keppel,Alexander Khalaidovski,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Efim A. Khazanov,B. K. Kim,Chi-Woong Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Namjun Kim,Y. M. Kim,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,S. Klimenko,Jeffery Kline,K. Kokeyama,V. Kondrashov,Scott Koranda,W. Z. Korth,D. B. Kozak,Carlos Kozameh,A. Kremin,V. Kringel,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,Badri Krishnan,C. Kucharczyk,G. Kuehn,G. Kuehn,Prayush Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,B. J. Kuper,R. Kurdyumov,P. Kwee,Ping Koy Lam,M. Landry,B. Lantz,Paul D. Lasky,C. Lawrie,Albert Lazzarini,A. Le Roux,P. Leaci,C-H. Lee,Hyun Lee,Hyung Mok Lee,J. J. Lee,J. R. Leong,J. R. Leong,B. M. Levine,V. Lhuillier,A. C. Lin,V. Litvine,Yueh-Feng Liu,Zhen Liu,N. A. Lockerbie,D. Lodhia,K. Loew,J. Logue,A. L. Lombardi,M. Lormand,J. D. Lough,M. J. Lubinski,Harald Lück,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,Andrew Lundgren,J. Macarthur,E. Macdonald,B. Machenschalk,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magana-Sandoval,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,G. Manca,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,D. Martinov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,G. May,G. Mazzolo,G. Mazzolo,K. McAuley,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,Jessica McIver,Grant David Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,Moritz Mehmet,T. Meier,T. Meier,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,Christopher John Messenger,Manuel Meyer,Haixing Miao,John Miller,Chiara M. F. Mingarelli,Subhabrata Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,B. Moe,F. Mokler,F. Mokler,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,Takao Mori,S. R. Morriss,Kasem Mossavi,Kasem Mossavi,C. M. Mow-Lowry,C. M. Mow-Lowry,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,D. Nanda Kumar,T. Nash,R. K. Nayak,V. Necula,G. P. Newton,Thanh Vinh Nguyen,E. Nishida,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,A. Nitz,D. Nolting,M. E. Normandin,L. K. Nuttall,J. O'Dell,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,Evan Ochsner,Eric Oelker,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,P. Oppermann,P. Oppermann,C. Osthelder,Christian D. Ott,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,J. Ou,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,C. Padilla,Archana Pai,Yi Pan,Chris Pankow,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,H. R. Paris,W. Parkinson,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,C. Peralta,A. Perreca,M. Phelps,M. Pickenpack,M. Pickenpack,Vincenzo Pierro,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,Holger J. Pletsch,Holger J. Pletsch,Jan Hendrik Pöld,Jan Hendrik Pöld,Fabio Postiglione,C. Poux,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,M. Prijatelj,S. Privitera,L. G. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,Malik Rakhmanov,C. R. Ramet,V. Raymond,C. M. Reed,T. Reed,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,R. Riesen,K. Riles,Mallory S. E. Roberts,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,Emma L. Robinson,S. Roddy,Carl L. Rodriguez,L. Rodriguez,M. Rodruck,J. G. Rollins,J. H. Romie,Christian Röver,Christian Röver,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Albrecht Rüdiger,Kris Ryan,Francesco Salemi,Francesco Salemi,L. Sammut,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,S. Sankar,Virginio Sannibale,Lucía Santamaría,I. Santiago-Prieto,G. Santostasi,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,Roland Schilling,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,D. Schuette,D. Schuette,Bastian Schulz,Bastian Schulz,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,A. M. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,M. Shaltev,Z. Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,Trevor Sidery,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,D. Simakov,D. Simakov,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Alicia M. Sintes,G. R. Skelton,B. J. J. Slagmolen,Jacob Slutsky,Jacob Slutsky,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,R. J.E. Smith,N. D. Smith-Lefebvre,Edwin J. Son,B. Sorazu,Tarun Souradeep,M. Stefszky,E. Steinert,Jessica Steinlechner,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,S. Steplewski,Douglas E. Stevens,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,S. E. Strigin,A. S. Stroeer,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,Sunil Susmithan,Patrick J. Sutton,G. Szeifert,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,S. P. Tarabrin,S. P. Tarabrin,R. Taylor,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Vaibhav Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Tomlinson,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,C. I. Torrie,G. Traylor,M. Tse,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,H. Vahlbruch,H. Vahlbruch,Michele Vallisneri,M. V. van der Sluys,A. A. van Veggel,S. Vass,Ruslan Vaulin,Alberto Vecchio,P. J. Veitch,John Veitch,K. Venkateswara,S. Verma,R. Vincent-Finley,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,C. Vorvick,W. D. Vousden,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,M. Wade,Samuel J. Waldman,L. Wallace,Y. Wan,Meng Wang,J. Wang,Xuan Wang,Alexander Wanner,Alexander Wanner,R. L. Ward,M. Was,M. Was,M. Weinert,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,Linqing Wen,P. Wessels,P. Wessels,Matthew West,T. Westphal,T. Westphal,K. Wette,K. Wette,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,S. E. Whitcomb,A. G. Wiseman,D. J. White,Bernard F. Whiting,K. Wiesner,K. Wiesner,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,L. Williams,Roy Williams,Thomas N. Williams,Joshua L. Willis,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,M. H. Wimmer,Lutz Winkelmann,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,H. Wittel,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,John Worden,Joshua Yablon,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,Huan Yang,D. Yeaton-Massey,Sanichiro Yoshida,Honam Yum,Michele Zanolin,Fan Zhang,L. Zhang,C. Zhao,H. Zhu,Xing-Jiang Zhu,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +748 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors inject squeezed states to improve the performance of one of the detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) beyond the quantum noise limit, most notably in the frequency region down to 150 Hz.
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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.