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M. MacInnis

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  362
Citations -  85585

M. MacInnis is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 105, co-authored 351 publications receiving 69943 citations. Previous affiliations of M. MacInnis include University of Naples Federico II & Syracuse University.

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On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

B. P. Abbott, +1140 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors derived the first constraints on the progenitor of GW170817 at the time of the second supernova (SN) and found these constraints to be comparable to those for Galactic BNS progenitors.
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Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run

J. Abadie, +665 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a search for known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) was carried out using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test, finding no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational wave signals in their sample of GRBs.
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Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

B. P. Abbott, +954 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the PyCBC pipeline was used to search for gravitational wave signals from compact binary coalescences, and the output of PyCBC was used as a metric for improvement.
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Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914

B. P. Abbott, +1003 more
TL;DR: Details of the method and computations are given, including information about the search pipelines, a derivation of the likelihood function for the analysis, a description of the astrophysical search trigger distribution expected from merging BBHs, details on the computational methods, and an analytic method of estimating the detector sensitivity that is calibrated to the measurements.
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A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

B. P. Abbott, +1186 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detector network were used to obtain the first standard-siren measurement of the Hubble constant.