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P. Astone
Researcher at Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
Publications - 464
Citations - 80969
P. Astone 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 96, co-authored 444 publications receiving 65350 citations. Previous affiliations of P. Astone include Sapienza University of Rome & Max Planck Society.
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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,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,M. R. 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,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,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,M. Bejger,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,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,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,C. Bogan,A. Bohe,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,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,Jacob Broida,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,N. M. 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,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,Kipp Cannon,Junwei Cao,Collin Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,L. Cerboni Baiardi,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande-Mottin,B. D. Cheeseboro,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Y. R. Chen,Chia-Liang Cheng,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. Chua,S. Chung,G. Ciani,F. Clara,J. A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,A. Conte,L. Conti,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Neil J. Cornish,A. 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,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,N. S. Darman,A. Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,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,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,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,A. Di Virgilio,V. Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,R. Douglas,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Driggers,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,X. Fan,Qi Fang,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,M. Favata,M. Fays,H. Fehrmann,Martin M. Fejer,E. Fenyvesi,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,R. P. Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. G. Gabbard,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,S. G. Gaonkar,F. Garufi,G. Gaur,N. Gehrels,G. Gemme,P. Geng,E. Genin,A. Gennai,J. George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Karl Gill,A. Glaefke,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,László Gondán,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,A. Gopakumar,N. A. Gordon,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,Aniello Grado,C. Graef,Philip 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,Anchal 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,Mark Hannam,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,M. T. Hartman,C.-J. Haster,K. Haughian,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,J. P. Henry,A. W. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,D. Hoak,David Jonathan Hofman,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,P. Hopkins,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,N. Indik,D. R. Ingram,R. Inta,H. N. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,T. Isogai,B. R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,H. J. Jang,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,S. Jawahar,L. Jian,F. Jiménez-Forteza,W. W. Johnson,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. J. Kapadia,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,M. Kasprzack,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,Tejinder Kaur,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,M. S. Kehl,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,R. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,S. Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chi-Woong Kim,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,Namjun Kim,W. S. Kim,Y.-M. Kim,S. J. Kimbrell,E. J. King,P. J. King,J. S. Kissel,Bernd Klein,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,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,B. D. Lackey,M. Landry,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,A. Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,H. K. Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,K. Lee,A. Lenon,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,J. B. Lewis,Tenglin Li,Adam A. Libson,Tyson Littenberg,N. A. Lockerbie,A. L. Lombardi,Lionel London,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,H. L"uck,Andrew Lundgren,Ryan Lynch,Y. Q. Ma,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,R. M. Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,V. Malvezzi,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,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,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,C. Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,F. Mezzani,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,Arnold Miller,B. B. Miller,J. S. Miller,Margaret Millhouse,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,S. Mirshekari,C. Mishra,S. 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,G. Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,Subroto Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,David Murphy,P. G. Murray,A. Mytidis,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,K. Nedkova,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Neri,A. Neunzert,G. P. Newton,T. T. Nguyen,A. B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,A. Nitz,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,M. E. N. 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,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Huang-Wei Pan,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,Maria Alessandra Papa,H. R. Paris,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,B. Patricelli,Z. Patrick,B. L. Pearlstone,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,L. Pekowsky,A. Pele,Steven D. Penn,A. Perreca,L. M. Perri,M. Phelps,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,M. Poe,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,J. W. W. Pratt,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,Reinhard Prix,G. A. Prodi,L. G. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,M. P"urrer,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,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,M. Razzano,V. Re,Jocelyn Read,C. M. Reed,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,H. Rew,Steven Reyes,F. Ricci,K. Riles,M. Rizzo,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,A. R"udiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,B. Sandeen,J. R. Sanders,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Roland Schilling,J. Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Sch"onbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,Bernard F. Schutz,J. Scott,Susan M. Scott,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,D. H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Ashutosh Kumar Singh,R. N. Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,N. D. Smith,Rory Smith,E. J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,T. Souradeep,A. K. Srivastava,A. Staley,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,B. C. Stephens,Robert Stone,Kenneth A. Strain,N. Straniero,G. Stratta,N. A. Strauss,S. E. Strigin,R. Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. Szczepańczyk,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,M. Tápai,S. P. Tarabrin,Andrea Taracchini,R. Taylor,T. Theeg,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,E. Thomas,Mark Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,K. Toland,C. Tomlinson,M. Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,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,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,S. 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,M. Wade,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Hua Wang,Meng Wang,X. F. Wang,Y. Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,B. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Linqing Wen,Peter Wessels,T. Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,Bernard F. Whiting,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Woehler,John Worden,J. L. Wright,D. S. Wu,G. Wu,Joshua Yablon,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,H. Yu,M. Yvert,A. Zadro.zny,L. Zangrando,M. Zanolin,J.-P. Zendri,Michael Zevin,Lei Zhang,Mi Zhang,Yanxi Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,Mingliang Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Michael E Zucker,S. E. Zuraw,J. Zweizig +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,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,M. R. 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,Benjamin William Allen,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,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,James G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,C. Baune,Viswanath Bavigadda,Marco Bazzan,B. Behnke,M. 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,Jens Birch,R. Birney,Sebastien Biscans,A. Bisht,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,C. Bond,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,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,D. D. Brown,N. M. Brown,C. C. Buchanan,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,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,S. Chua,S. Chung,G. Ciani,F. Clara,J. A. Clark,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,A. Conte,L. Conti,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,Neil J. Cornish,A. 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,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,N. S. Darman,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,H. P. Daveloza,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,E. J. Daw,R. 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