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Ilya Mandel
Researcher at Monash University
Publications - 425
Citations - 55243
Ilya Mandel is an academic researcher from Monash University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 90, co-authored 401 publications receiving 46592 citations. Previous affiliations of Ilya Mandel include Swinburne University of Technology & University of Birmingham.
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An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,Fausto Acernese,Rana X. Adhikari,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Benjamin William Allen,G. S. Allen,M. Alshourbagy,R. S. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,F. Antonucci,Sofiane Aoudia,M. A. Arain,M. C. Araya,Helena Armandula,P. Armor,K. G. Arun,Yoichi Aso,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,P. Baker,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,C. Barker,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Pablo Barriga,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,M. Bastarrika,Th. S. Bauer,B. Behnke,M. G. Beker,Matthew Benacquista,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,Stefano Bigotta,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,S. Birindelli,Rahul Biswas,M. A. Bizouard,E. Black,J. K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,Claude Boccara,T. P. Bodiya,L. Bogue,François Bondu,L. Bonelli,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,S. Braccini,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. F. J. van den Brand,J. E. Brau,D. O. Bridges,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,C. Van Den Broeck,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,A. Brummit,G. Brunet,A. Bullington,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,O. Burmeister,D. Buskulic,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,E. Campagna,John K. Cannizzo,Kipp Cannon,B. Canuel,Junwei Cao,F. Carbognani,L. Cardenas,S. Caride,Giuseppe Castaldi,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,E. Cesarini,T. Chalermsongsak,E. Chalkley,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,Shourov Chatterji,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,Yi Chen,Nelson Christensen,C. T. Y. Chung,Damon A. Clark,John A. Clark,J. H. Clayton,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Thomas Cokelaer,C. N. Colacino,J. Colas,A. Colla,M. Colombini,Roberto Conte,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Christian Corda,Neil J. Cornish,Alessandra Corsi,J.-P. Coulon,David Coward,D. C. Coyne,J. D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,A. M. Cruise,R. M. Culter,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,Anna Dari,V. Dattilo,B. Daudert,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,R. De Rosa,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,M. Del Prete,V. Dergachev,Shantanu Desai,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Lieto,M. Di Paolo Emilio,A. Di Virgilio,Marco Aurelio Diaz,A. Dietz,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,E. E. Doomes,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. Dueck,I. Duke,J. C. Dumas,John G. Dwyer,C. Echols,Matthew P. Edgar,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,Gregory Ely,E. Espinoza,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,Y. Faltas,Yaohui Fan,D. Fazi,H. Fehrmann,I. Ferrante,F. Fidecaro,Lee Samuel Finn,I. Fiori,R. Flaminio,K. Flasch,S. Foley,Chad Forrest,N. Fotopoulos,J.-D. Fournier,J. Franc,A. Franzen,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Maik Frede,M. Frei,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,Tom Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,Vincenzo Galdi,Luca Gammaitoni,J. Garofoli,F. Garufi,E. Genin,A. Gennai,I. Gholami,J. A. Giaime,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Keisuke Goda,Evan Goetz,Lisa M. Goggin,Gabriela Gonzalez,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. Goßler,R. Gouaty,M. Granata,V. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,M. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,C. Greverie,F. Grimaldi,R. Grosso,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,M. Guenther,G. M. Guidi,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Boris Hage,J. M. Hallam,D. Hammer,G. D. Hammond,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,K. Haughian,Kazuhiro Hayama,J. Heefner,H. Heitmann,P. Hello,Ik Siong Heng,A. W. Heptonstall,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,E. Hirose,D. Hoak,K. A. Hodge,K. Holt,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,D. Hoyland,D. Huet,B. Hughey,S. H. Huttner,D. R. Ingram,T. Isogai,M. Ito,Anton B. Ivanov,B. Johnson,W. W. Johnson,D. I. Jones,Gareth Jones,Roger Jones,L. Sancho De La Jordana,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,Jonah Kanner,D. Kasprzyk,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,Fumiko Kawazoe,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Rubab Khan,E. Khazanov,P. J. King,J. S. Kissel,S. Klimenko,K. Kokeyama,V. Kondrashov,Ravi Kumar Kopparapu,Scott Koranda,D. B. Kozak,Badri Krishnan,Rajesh Kumar,P. Kwee,P. La Penna,Ping Koy Lam,M. Landry,B. Lantz,M. Laval,Albert Lazzarini,Hansheng Lei,M. Lei,Nick Leindecker,I. Leonor,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Chao Li,H. Lin,P. E. Lindquist,Tyson Littenberg,N. A. Lockerbie,D. Lodhia,Maurizio Longo,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,P. Lu,M. J. Lubinski,Antonio Lucianetti,Harald Lück,Harald Lück,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,J. M. MacKowski,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Ettore Majorana,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,John S. Markowitz,E. Maros,J. Marque,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,F. Matichard,L. Matone,Richard A. Matzner,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,M. McHugh,G. McIntyre,D. J. A. McKechan,K. McKenzie,Moritz Mehmet,Andrew Melatos,A. C. Melissinos,G. Mendell,D. F. Menéndez,F. Menzinger,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,M. S. Meyer,C. Michel,Leopoldo Milano,Jon M. Miller,J. Minelli,Y. Minenkov,Yasushi Mino,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Osamu Miyakawa,B. Moe,M. Mohan,Soumya D. Mohanty,S. R. P. Mohapatra,Julien Moreau,G. Moreno,N. Morgado,A. Morgia,T. Morioka,K. Mors,Simona Mosca,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,D. Muhammad,H. Zur Mühlen,Soma Mukherjee,H. Mukhopadhyay,A. Mullavey,H. Müller-Ebhardt,J. Munch,P. G. Murray,E. Myers,J. Myers,T. Nash,John Nelson,Igor Neri,G. P. Newton,Atsushi J. Nishizawa,F. Nocera,Kenji Numata,Evan Ochsner,J. O'Dell,G. H. Ogin,B. O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,David J. Ottaway,R. S. Ottens,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,G. Pagliaroli,C. Palomba,Yi Pan,C. Pankow,F. Paoletti,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,V. Parameshwaraiah,Silvio Pardi,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,P. Patel,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,A. Perreca,Gianluca Persichetti,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,H. J. Pletsch,M. V. Plissi,Rosa Poggiani,Fabio Postiglione,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,Reinhard Prix,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,O. Punken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,S. Van Der Putten,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,O. Rabaste,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,Z. Raics,N. Rainer,Malik Rakhmanov,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,V. Re,C. M. Reed,T. Reed,T. Regimbau,H. Rehbein,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,F. Ricci,R. Riesen,K. Riles,B. Rivera,P. Roberts,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,Florent Robinet,C. Robinson,Emma L. Robinson,A. Rocchi,S. Roddy,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,Rocco Romano,J. H. Romie,Christian Röver,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Pamela J. Russell,Kevin M. Ryan,S. Sakata,F. Salemi,V. Sandberg,Virginio Sannibale,Lucía Santamaría,S. Saraf,P. Sarin,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,S. Sato,M. Satterthwaite,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,P. Savov,M. Scanlan,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,B. Schulz,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,John D. Scott,S. M. Scott,A. C. Searle,B. Sears,F. Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,A. Sergeev,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,Supriyo Sinha,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. Slutsky,M. V. Van Der Sluys,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,K. Somiya,B. Sorazu,A. J. Stein,Leo C. Stein,S. Steplewski,A. Stochino,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,S. E. Strigin,A. Stroeer,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,Ke-Xun Sun,M. Sung,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,G. P. Szokoly,D. Talukder,L. Tang,David B. Tanner,S. P. Tarabrin,J. R. Taylor,R. Taylor,R. Terenzi,J. Thacker,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,A. Thüring,K. V. Tokmakov,Alessandra Toncelli,Mauro Tonelli,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,E. Tournefier,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,M. Trias,J. Trummer,D. Ugolini,J. Ulmen,Karel E. Urbanek,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,Michele Vallisneri,S. Vass,Ruslan Vaulin,M. Vavoulidis,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,A. A. van Veggel,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,C. Veltkamp,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,A. E. Villar,J-Y. Vinet,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,S. P. Vyachanin,S. J. Waldman,L. Wallace,H. Ward,R. L. Ward,M. Was,A. Weidner,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,Linqing Wen,S. Wen,K. Wette,James Whelan,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,Bernard F. Whiting,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,H. R. Williams,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,I. Wilmut,Lutz Winkelmann,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,Alan G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,J. Worden,W. Wu,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Zewu Yan,S. Yoshida,M. Yvert,M. Zanolin,J. Zhang,L. Zhang,L. Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +667 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported limits on the amplitude of the stochastic gravitational-wave background using the data from a two-year science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).
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The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach
M. Punturo,M. R. Abernathy,Fausto Acernese,Benjamin William Allen,Nils Andersson,K. G. Arun,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,M. Barsuglia,M. G. Beker,N. Beveridge,S. Birindelli,Suvadeep Bose,L. Bosi,S. Braccini,C. Bradaschia,Tomasz Bulik,Enrico Calloni,G. Cella,E. Chassande Mottin,Simon Chelkowski,Andrea Chincarini,John A. Clark,E. Coccia,C. N. Colacino,J. Colas,A. Cumming,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,S. L. Danilishin,Karsten Danzmann,G. De Luca,R. De Salvo,T. Dent,R. T. DeRosa,L. Di Fiore,A. Di Virgilio,M. Doets,V. Fafone,Paolo Falferi,R. Flaminio,J. Franc,F. Frasconi,Andreas Freise,Paul Fulda,Jonathan R. Gair,G. Gemme,A. Gennai,A. Giazotto,Kostas Glampedakis,M. Granata,Hartmut Grote,G. M. Guidi,G. D. Hammond,Mark Hannam,Jan Harms,D. Heinert,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,Eric Hennes,Stefan Hild,J. H. Hough,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,Gareth Jones,F. Y. Khalili,Keiko Kokeyama,Kostas D. Kokkotas,Badri Krishnan,M. Lorenzini,Harald Lück,Ettore Majorana,Ilya Mandel,Vuk Mandic,I. W. Martin,C. Michel,Y. Minenkov,N. Morgado,Simona Mosca,B. Mours,Helge Müller-Ebhardt,P. G. Murray,Ronny Nawrodt,John Nelson,Richard O'Shaughnessy,Christian D. Ott,C. Palomba,A. Paoli,G. Parguez,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,L. Pinard,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,Mirko Prato,P. Puppo,D. S. Rabeling,P. Rapagnani,Jocelyn Read,Tania Regimbau,H. Rehbein,Stuart Reid,Luciano Rezzolla,F. Ricci,F. Richard,A. Rocchi,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Benoit Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Roman Schnabel,C. Schwarz,Paul Seidel,Alicia M. Sintes,Kentaro Somiya,Fiona C. Speirits,Kenneth A. Strain,S. E. Strigin,P. J. Sutton,S. P. Tarabrin,J. F. J. van den Brand,C. van Leewen,M. van Veggel,C. Van Den Broeck,Alberto Vecchio,John Veitch,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,Benno Willke,Graham Woan,P. Wolfango,Kazuhiro Yamamoto +133 more
TL;DR: The status of the project Einstein Telescope (ET), a design study of a third-generation gravitational wave observatory, is reported in this paper, where an overview of the possible science reaches and the technological progress needed to realize a third generation observatory are discussed.
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GW150914: implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes
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. 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,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,Dániel Barta,J. G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,B. Behnke,Michał Bejger,A. S. Bell,C. 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,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,A. Bohe,P. Bojtos,Charlotte Bond,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Yann 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,A. F. Brooks,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,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,G. 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,Sheon 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,Jonathan Cripe,S. G. Crowder,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,N. S. Darman,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. Day,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,M. C. Díaz,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,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,I. Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Rebecca Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,J.-D. Fournier,S. Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,Alberto Gatto,G. Gaur,Neil Gehrels,G. Gemme,Bruce Gendre,E. Genin,A. Gennai,Jimin George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,Archisman Ghosh,S. Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Karl Gill,A. Glaefke,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,A. C. Green,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,K. Haris,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,M. T. Hartman,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,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,Thibaut Jacqmin,H. J. Jang,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,E. 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,J. S. Key,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,Sebastian Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chi-Woong Kim,Joonghan 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,S. Klimenko,S. M. Koehlenbeck,K. Kokeyama,S. Koley,V. 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TL;DR: It is concluded that the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes, created from the incoherent superposition of all the merging binaries in the Universe, is potentially measurable by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors operating at their projected final sensitivity.
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Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914
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TL;DR: The transient noise backgrounds used to determine the significance of the event (designated GW150914) are described and the results of investigations into potential correlated or uncorrelated sources of transient noise in the detectors around the time of theevent are presented.
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Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914
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TL;DR: In this article, the sky localization of the first observed compact binary merger is presented, where the authors describe the low-latency analysis of the LIGO data and present a sky localization map.