D
David H. Shoemaker
Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publications - 262
Citations - 39596
David H. Shoemaker 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 87, co-authored 261 publications receiving 32246 citations. Previous affiliations of David H. Shoemaker include Centre national de la recherche scientifique & Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
Papers
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,T. Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,Mohammad Afrough,B. Agarwal,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,A. Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,Nicolas Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,M. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,K. AultONeal,A. Avila-Alvarez,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,P. T. Baker,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,S. Banagiri,J. C. Barayoga,S. E. Barclay,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,I. Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,M. Bawaj,Marco Bazzan,Bence Bécsy,C. Beer,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,Swetha Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,C. R. Billman,J. Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher M. Biwer,Marie-Anne Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,J. Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,O. Bock,N. Bode,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,Alejandro Bohé,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Suvadeep Bose,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,J. E. Broida,A. Brooks,David Brown,D. D. Brown,Nicolas Brown,S. Brunett,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,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,J. B. Camp,Maurizio Canepa,Priscilla Canizares,Kipp Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,Collin D. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,M. F. Carney,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,Giancarlo Cella,Carlos Cepeda,L. Cerboni Baiardi,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Deep Chatterjee,K. Chatziioannou,B. D. Cheeseboro,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Yi Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,T. Chmiel,Hee-Suk Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Niels Johan Christensen,Niels Johan Christensen,Q. Chu,Alvin J. K. Chua,Sheon Chua,A. K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,R. Ciolfi,C. E. Cirelli,A. Cirone,F. Clara,J. Clark,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. J. Cooper,P. Corban,Thomas Corbitt,K. R. Corley,Neil J. Cornish,A. Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,P. B. Covas,E. E. Cowan,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,S. G. Crowder,T. J. Cullen,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,S. L. Danilishin,Sabrina D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Abhijit Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,Derek Davis,E. J. Daw,B. Day,Soumi De,D. DeBra,Ewa Deelman,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,W. Del Pozzo,T. Denker,T. Dent,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,Ryan DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,J. Devenson,R. C. Devine,S. Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,F. Di Renzo,Zoheyr Doctor,Vincent Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,R. Douglas,M. Dovale Álvarez,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,M. Ducrot,John S. Duncan,S. E. Dwyer,T. B. Edo,M. Edwards,A. Effler,H.-B. Eggenstein,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xi-Long Fan,S. Farinon,Benjamin Farr,Will M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,M. Favata,M. Fays,H. Fehrmann,J. Feicht,Martin M. Fejer,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,R. P. Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,P. W. F. Forsyth,S. S. Forsyth,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Zsolt Frei,Andreas Freise,Rosemary Frey,V. Frey,E. M. Fries,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Paul Fulda,Paul Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,M. Gabel,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,Miftar Ganija,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,S. Gaudio,G. Gaur,V. Gayathri,Neil Gehrels,Gianluca Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,Daniel George,John George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Kiranjyot Gill,L. Glover,Evan Goetz,R. Goetz,S. Gomes,G. González,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,Aniello Grado,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,G. M. Guidi,X. Guo,A. Gupta,M. K. Gupta,K. E. Gushwa,Eric K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,Otto A. Hannuksela,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,James Healy,Antoine Heidmann,Matthew Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,J. P. Henry,A. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,David Jonathan Hofman,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,P. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Ellen S. Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,N. Indik,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,Giuseppe Intini,H. N. Isa,J. M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,B. R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,D. I. Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,M. Kasprzack,M. Katolik,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,Athol J. Kemball,R. Kennedy,C. Kent,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,Saniya Khan,Zeyaur R. Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,W. Kim,W. S. Kim,Y. M. Kim,Y. M. Kim,S. J. Kimbrell,E. J. King,P. J. King,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,Sergey Klimenko,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,C. Krämer,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,Andrzej Królak,G. Kuehn,Prayush Kumar,Rahul Kumar,Sanjay Kumar,Lynn Kuo,A. Kutynia,S. Kwang,B. D. Lackey,K. H. Lai,Michael Landry,Ryan N. Lang,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,R. K. Lanza,A. Lartaux-Vollard,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,A. Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,Chang-Hwan Lee,H. K. Lee,H. M. Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,Kin Sing Stephen Lee,Johannes Lehmann,A. Lenon,M. Leonardi,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,Tjonnie G. F. Li,A. Libson,Tyson Littenberg,J. Liu,R. K.L. Lo,N. A. Lockerbie,Lionel London,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Geoffrey Lovelace,H. Lück,D. Lumaca,Andrew Lundgren,R. S. Lynch,Y. Q. Ma,S. Macfoy,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,I. Magaña Hernandez,F. Magana-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,Ryan Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,M. Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,I. W. Martin,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Andrew Matas,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,Rajiv Mayani,N. Mazumder,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,Lee McCuller,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,Duncan Meacher,Grant David Meadors,J. Meidam,E. Mejuto-Villa,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,Cody Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,F. Mezzani,Haixing Miao,Christine Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,Arnold Miller,B. B. Miller,John Miller,Margaret Millhouse,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,C. 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,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,Debnandini Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. Muñiz,P. G. Murray,Kevin Napier,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Neri,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,J. M. Newport,G. Newton,K. K.Y. Ng,T. T. Nguyen,David A. Nichols,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,Alexander H. Nitz,A. Noack,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,M. E. N. Normandin,L. Nuttall,J. Oberling,E. Ochsner,Eric Oelker,G. H. Ogin,J. J. Oh,Seog Oh,Frank Ohme,M. Oliver,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,R. G. Ormiston,L. F. Ortega,Richard O'Shaughnessy,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,A. E. Pace,J. Page,M. A. Page,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,Oleg Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Huang-Wei Pan,B. Pang,P. T.H. Pang,Chris Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,M. A. Papa,H. R. Paris,William Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,Barbara Patricelli,B. L. Pearlstone,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,Larne Pekowsky,A. Pele,S. Penn,C. J. Perez,A. Perreca,A. Perreca,L. M. Perri,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,J. W. W. Pratt,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,Michael Pürrer,H. Qi,Jiayi Qin,S. Qiu,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,C. Rajan,M. Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,Jocelyn Read,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,S. Reid,David H. Reitze,David H. Reitze,H. Rew,Susana Reyes,F. Ricci,Paul M. Ricker,S. Rieger,K. Riles,M. Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,Florent Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,D. Rosińska,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,Mats Rynge,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,L. Sadeghian,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,Francesco Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,Laura Sampson,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,B. Sandeen,J. R. Sanders,Benoit Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,Richard L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Jacob Scheuer,E. E. Schmidt,Jochen Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,R. Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,Axel Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,S. G. Schwalbe,John K. Scott,Susan M. Scott,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. Shaffer,A. A. Shah,M. S. Shahriar,Lijing Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,David H. Shoemaker,Deirdre Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,Magdalena Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Aviral Singh,Robinjeet Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,Beverly J. Smith,J. R. Smith,Rory Smith,E. J. Son,J. A. Sonnenberg,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,A. P. Spencer,Arunima Srivastava,A. Staley,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,B. C. Stephens,Simon Stevenson,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,G. Stratta,S. E. Strigin,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,Pauline Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,Marek Szczepanczyk,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,M. Tápai,Andrea Taracchini,Joseph Ashley Taylor,R. Taylor,T. Theeg,E. G. Thomas,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,Vaibhav Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,K. Toland,Mauro Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,D. Trifirò,J. Trinastic,M. C. Tringali,L. Trozzo,K. W. Tsang,Maggie Tse,R. Tso,D. Tuyenbayev,K. Ueno,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,A. L. Urban,S. A. Usman,Karan Vahi,Henning Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,G. Valdes,Michele Vallisneri,N. Van Bakel,M. van Beuzekom,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van den Broeck,Daniel Vander-Hyde,L. van der Schaaf,J. V. Van Heijningen,A. A. van Veggel,M. Vardaro,V. Varma,S. Vass,Mátyás Vasúth,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,G. Venugopalan,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,Aaron Viets,Serena Vinciguerra,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,D. V. Voss,W. D. Vousden,S. P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,Madeline Wade,Robert M. Wald,R. C. Walet,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Huiyuan Wang,J. Z. Wang,Meng Wang,Y. Wang,Yanchu Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,Jennifer Watchi,B. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,E. K. Wessel,P. Weßels,Tobias Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Whittle,David A. Williams,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Woehler,J. K. Wofford,K. W. K. Wong,J. Worden,J. L. Wright,D. S. Wu,G. Wu,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,M. J. Yap,Hang Yu,Haocun Yu,M. Yvert,A. Zadrożny,M. Zanolin,T. Zelenova,J. P. Zendri,Michael Zevin,Lei Zhang,Mi Zhang,T. Zhang,Yanxi Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,Mingliang Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Aaron Zimmerman,Michael E Zucker,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +1065 more
TL;DR: The magnitude of modifications to the gravitational-wave dispersion relation is constrain, the graviton mass is bound to m_{g}≤7.7×10^{-23} eV/c^{2} and null tests of general relativity are performed, finding that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity.
Journal ArticleDOI
GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Sheelu Abraham,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,O. D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,Miguel-Ángel Aloy,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,A. Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,M. Arène,Nicolas Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,F. Aubin,P. Aufmuth,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,V. Avendano,A. Avila-Alvarez,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,P. T. Baker,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,S. Banagiri,J. C. Barayoga,S. E. Barclay,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,K. Barkett,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,D. Beniwal,Beverly K. Berger,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,J. J. Bero,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,J. Bidler,I. A. Bilenko,S. A. Bilgili,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,R. Birney,O. Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,J. Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,N. Bode,M. Boer,Y. Boetzel,G. Bogaert,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,P. Booker,B. A. Boom,C. D. Booth,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,K. Bossie,V. Bossilkov,J. Bosveld,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,A. Bramley,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,J. H. Briggs,F. Brighenti,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,A. Brooks,D. D. Brown,S. Brunett,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,M. J. Bustamante Rosell,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Miriam Cabero,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,J. B. Camp,W. A. Campbell,M. Canepa,Kipp Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,M. F. Carney,G. Carullo,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,P. Cerdá-Durán,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,O. Chaibi,Kabir Chakravarti,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,Eve Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Deep Chatterjee,M. Chaturvedi,K. Chatziioannou,B. D. Cheeseboro,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,Huajie Cheng,C. K. Cheong,H. Y. Chia,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,G. Cho,Hee-Suk Cho,M. Cho,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. Chua,K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,A. A. Ciobanu,R. Ciolfi,F. Cipriano,A. Cirone,F. Clara,J. Clark,P. Clearwater,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,David Cohen,R. Colgan,Marta Colleoni,Christophe Collette,C. Collins,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. J. Cooper,P. Corban,Thomas Corbitt,I. Cordero-Carrión,K. R. Corley,Neil J. Cornish,A. Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,R. Cotesta,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,P. B. Covas,E. E. Cowan,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,M. Croquette,S. G. Crowder,T. J. Cullen,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,Stefan L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Abhijit Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,L. E. H. Datrier,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,Derek Davis,E. J. Daw,D. DeBra,M. Deenadayalan,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,L. M. DeMarchi,Nicholas Demos,T. Dent,R. De Pietri,J. Derby,R. De Rosa,C. De Rossi,R. DeSalvo,O. de Varona,S. Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,Tim Dietrich,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,Binlei Ding,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,F. Di Renzo,A. Dmitriev,Zoheyr Doctor,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J.-G. Ducoin,P. Dupej,S. E. Dwyer,P. J. Easter,T. B. Edo,M. Edwards,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,M. Eisenmann,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,H. Estelles,D. Estevez,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xi-Long Fan,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,M. Favata,M. Fays,M. Fazio,C. Fee,J. Feicht,Martin M. Fejer,F. Feng,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,T. A. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Maya Fishbach,R. P. Fisher,J. M. Fishner,M. Fitz-Axen,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,Eric B. Flynn,H. Fong,José A. Font,P. W. F. Forsyth,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Zsolt Frei,Andreas Freise,Rosemary Frey,V. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,Paul Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,Jonathan Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,Miftar Ganija,S. G. Gaonkar,Alejandro Garcia,Cecilio García-Quirós,F. Garufi,B. Gateley,S. Gaudio,G. Gaur,V. Gayathri,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,D. George,John George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,Bruno Giacomazzo,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Kiranjyot Gill,Gerardo Giordano,L. Glover,P. Godwin,Evan Goetz,R. Goetz,B. Goncharov,G. González,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,Aniello Grado,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,P. Grassia,C. Gray,R. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,Rebecca H. Green,E. M. Gretarsson,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,G. M. Guidi,H. K. Gulati,Ying Guo,A. Gupta,M. K. Gupta,Eric K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Leïla Haegel,O. Halim,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,E. Z. Hamilton,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,Otto A. Hannuksela,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,K. Haris,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,F. J. Hayes,James Healy,Antoine Heidmann,Matthew Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,A. Heptonstall,Francisco Hernandez Vivanco,M. Heurs,S. Hild,Tanja Hinderer,D. Hoak,S. Hochheim,David Jonathan Hofman,A. M. Holgado,N. A. Holland,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,P. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,Ellen S. Howell,C. G. Hoy,A. Hreibi,Yu Huang,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,M. Hulko,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,B. Idzkowski,Alberto Iess,C. Ingram,R. Inta,G. Intini,B. Irwin,H. N. Isa,J. M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,B. R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,S. J. Jadhav,Karan Jani,N. N. Janthalur,Piotr Jaranowski,A. C. Jenkins,J. Jiang,Daniel Johnson,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,A. W. Jones,D. I. Jones,R. W. L. Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,Brittany Kamai,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. J. Kapadia,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,R. Kashyap,M. Kasprzack,S. Katsanevas,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,N. V. Keerthana,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,R. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,H. Khan,I. Khan,Saniya Khan,Zeyaur R. Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,M. Khursheed,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. Kim,W. S. Kim,Y. M. Kim,Charles Kimball,E. J. King,P. J. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,J. H. Klika,S. Klimenko,T. D. Knowles,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,G. Koekoek,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,A. Kontos,N. Koper,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,N. V. Krishnendu,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,A. Kumar,Prayush Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,Sanjay Kumar,Lynn Kuo,A. Kutynia,S. Kwang,B. D. Lackey,K. H. Lai,T. L. Lam,Michael Landry,B. B. Lane,Ryan N. Lang,J. Lange,B. Lantz,R. K. Lanza,A. Lartaux-Vollard,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,A. Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,Y. K. Lecoeuche,Chang-Hwan Lee,H. K. Lee,H. M. Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,J. Lee,Kin Sing Stephen Lee,Johannes Lehmann,A. Lenon,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,Jian Li,Kun Li,Tjonnie G. F. Li,X. Li,F. K. Lin,Fl Linde,S. D. Linker,Tyson Littenberg,J. Liu,Xuesong Liu,R. K. L. Lo,N. A. Lockerbie,Lionel London,A. Longo,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,Marcus E. Lower,H. Lück,D. Lumaca,Andrew Lundgren,Ryan S. Lynch,Y. Q. Ma,R. Macas,S. Macfoy,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,A. Macquet,F. Magana-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,Ryan Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,A. Malik,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,M. Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,Szabolcs Marka,Zsuzsa Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,Alex Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,Sylvain Marsat,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,Roland Martin,D. V. Martynov,K. Mason,E. Massera,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Andrew Matas,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,J. J. McCann,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,L. McCuller,S. C. McGuire,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,Duncan Meacher,G. D. Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,Andrew Mehta,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,L. Mereni,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,Cody Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,Adam A. Miller,Margaret Millhouse,J. C. Mills,M. C. Milovich-Goff,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,A. Mishkin,C. Mishra,T. Mistry,Subhabrata Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,G. Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,G. Mo,D. Moffa,K. Mogushi,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,M. Montani,C. J. Moore,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,Soichiro Morisaki,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Arunava Mukherjee,Debnandini Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. Muñiz,M. Muratore,P. G. Murray,Alessandro Nagar,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,Julia W. Neilson,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,K. Y. Ng,S. W. S. Ng,P. H. Nguyen,David A. Nichols,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,Alexander H. Nitz,F. Nocera,C. North,L. Nuttall,Martin Obergaulinger,J. Oberling,Brendan O'Brien,G. D. O'Dea,G. H. Ogin,J. J. Oh,Seog Oh,Frank Ohme,H. Ohta,M. A. Okada,M. Oliver,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,R. G. Ormiston,L. F. Ortega,Richard O'Shaughnessy,Serguei Ossokine,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,A. E. Pace,G. Pagano,M. A. Page,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,Oleg Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Huang-Wei Pan,B. Pang,P. T.H. Pang,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,M. A. Papa,A. Parida,William Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,Mandar Patil,B. Patricelli,B. L. Pearlstone,Christian Pedersen,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,A. Pele,S. Penn,Albino Perego,C. J. Perez,A. Perreca,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,Khun Sang Phukon,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,M. Pirello,Matthew Pitkin,Rosa Poggiani,D. Y. T. Pong,S. Ponrathnam,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,Jade Powell,A. K. Prajapati,J. Prasad,Kiran Prasai,R. Prasanna,Geraint Pratten,T. Prestegard,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,Michael Pürrer,H. Qi,V. Quetschke,P. J. Quinonez,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,N. Radulescu,P. Raffai,S. Raja,C. Rajan,B. Rajbhandari,Malik Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,A. Ramos-Buades,Javed Rana,K.S.J. Rao,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,Jocelyn Read,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,W. Ren,F. Ricci,C. J. Richardson,Jonathan Richardson,Paul M. Ricker,G. Riemenschneider,K. Riles,M. Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,Florent Robinet,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Marco Romanelli,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,J. H. Romie,K. Rose,D. Rosińska,S. G. Rosofsky,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,G. Rutins,Kevin M. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,M. Sakellariadou,Om Sharan Salafia,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,E. J. Sanchez,L. E. Sanchez,Nicolas Sanchis-Gual,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,K. A. Santiago,Nikhil Sarin,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,Richard L. Savage,P. Schale,Mark A. Scheel,Jacob Scheuer,Patricia Schmidt,R. Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,Axel Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,S. G. Schwalbe,John K. Scott,Susan M. Scott,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,N. Sennett,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,M. B. Shaner,Lijing Shao,Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha Sharma,P. Shawhan,H. Shen,R. Shink,David H. Shoemaker,Deirdre Shoemaker,S. ShyamSundar,K. Siellez,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,Leo Singer,Narendra Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,S. Sitmukhambetov,V. Skliris,B. J. J. Slagmolen,T. J. Slaven-Blair,John R. Smith,Rory Smith,Surendra Nadh Somala,E. J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,E. Sowell,A. P. Spencer,A. K. Srivastava,V. Srivastava,Kai Staats,C. Stachie,M. Standke,Daniele A. Steer,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,Simon Stevenson,D. Stocks,Robert Stone,D. J. Stops,Kenneth A. Strain,G. Stratta,S. E. Strigin,A. Strunk,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,Vivishek Sudhir,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,Jishnu Suresh,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,Marek Szczepanczyk,M. Tacca,S. C. Tait,Colm Talbot,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,M. Tápai,Andrea Taracchini,J. D. Tasson,Richard J. K. Taylor,F. Thies,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,S. R. Thondapu,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,Srishti Tiwari,Vaibhav Tiwari,K. Toland,M. Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,Alejandro Torres-Forné,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,M. C. Tringali,A. Trovato,L. Trozzo,R. J. Trudeau,K. W. Tsang,Maggie Tse,R. Tso,L. Tsukada,D. Tsuna,D. Tuyenbayev,K. Ueno,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,A. L. Urban,S. A. Usman,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,G. Valdes,N. van Bakel,M. van Beuzekom,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. Van Den Broeck,D. C. Vander-Hyde,J. V. Van Heijningen,L. van der Schaaf,A. A. van Veggel,M. Vardaro,V. Varma,S. Vass,M. Vasúth,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,G. Venugopalan,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,Aaron Viets,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,S. P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,Madeline Wade,R. C. Walet,Matthew Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Huiyuan Wang,J. Z. Wang,W. H. Wang,Y. Wang,R. L. Ward,Z. A. Warden,J. Warner,M. Was,Jennifer Watchi,B. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,F. Wellmann,Linqing Wen,E. K. Wessel,P. Weßels,J. W. Westhouse,K. Wette,James Whelan,L. V. White,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Whittle,D. M. Wilken,David A. Williams,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,Holger Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Woehler,J. K. Wofford,J. Worden,J. L. Wright,D. S. Wu,Daniel Wysocki,L. Xiao,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,L. Yang,M. J. Yap,M. Yazback,D. W. Yeeles,Hang Yu,Haocun Yu,S. H. R. Yuen,M. Yvert,A. Zadrożny,M. Zanolin,Francesco Zappa,T. Zelenova,J.-P. Zendri,Michael Zevin,J. Zhang,Lu Zhang,T. Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,Mingliang Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Aaron Zimmerman,Yosef Zlochower,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +1148 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 Ma during the first and second observing runs of the advanced GW detector network.
Journal ArticleDOI
LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
Alex Abramovici,W. E. Althouse,R. W. P. Drever,Yekta Gursel,Seiji Kawamura,F. J. Raab,David H. Shoemaker,L. Sievers,Robert Spero,Kip S. Thorne,R. E. Vogt,Rainer Weiss,S. E. Whitcomb,Michael E Zucker +13 more
TL;DR: The goal of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Project is to detect and study astrophysical gravitational waves and use data from them for research in physics and astronomy.
Journal ArticleDOI
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. 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,Karsten Danzmann,V. Dattilo,B. Daudert,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,T. Dayanga,G. Debreczeni,Jerome Degallaix,E. Deleeuw,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,H. Dereli,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,Ryan DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,A. Dietz,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Lieto,I. Di Palma,A. Di Virgilio,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. Endroczi,R. Essick,T. Etzel,K. Evans,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,Qi Fang,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,L. A. Forte,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,N. 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,S. Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Griffo,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,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,M. T. Hartman,K. Haughian,Kazuhiro Hayama,J. Heefner,Antoine Heidmann,Matthew Heintze,Matthew Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,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,Vicky 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,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,D. Nanda Kumar,Prayush Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,R. Kurdyumov,P. Kwee,M. Landry,B. Lantz,Shane L. Larson,Paul D. Lasky,C. Lawrie,Albert Lazzarini,P. Leaci,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,J. Lee,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,A. Le Roux,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,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,Lionel Martellini,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,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,Manuel 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,I. Nardecchia,T. Nash,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,V. Necula,Igor 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,E. Oelker,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,P. Oppermann,B. O'Reilly,W. Ortega Larcher,Richard O'Shaughnessy,C. Osthelder,Christian D. Ott,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,G. A. Prodi,L. G. 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,David H. Reitze,F. Ricci,R. Riesen,K. Riles,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,S. Roddy,Carl L. Rodriguez,M. Rodruck,C. Roever,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,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,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,Alicia 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,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,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,Xin 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,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,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,J. Zweizig +887 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the detectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of the detectors to a variety of astrophysical sources.
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
Nancy Aggarwal,Lisa Barsotti,Sebastien Biscans,Aaron Buikema,Nicholas Demos,F. Donovan,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,Matthew Evans,Alvaro-Miguel Fernandez Galiana,Peter Fritschel,Slawomir Gras,E. D. Hall,W. Katzman,Antonios Kontos,R. K. Lanza,Ryan Lynch,M. MacInnis,Denis Martynov,K. Mason,Fabrice Matichard,Nergis Mavalvala,Lee McCuller,John Miller,R. Mittleman,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,David H. Shoemaker,Maggie Tse,Salvatore Vitale,Rainer Weiss,Hang Yu,Haocun Yu +31 more