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Gianluca Gemme
Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Publications - 77
Citations - 15940
Gianluca Gemme is an academic researcher from Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 77 publications receiving 13356 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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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. 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TL;DR: Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016, and observed a transient gravitational-wave signal determined to be the coalescence of two black holes.