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Peter Shawhan
Researcher at University of Maryland, College Park
Publications - 77
Citations - 3164
Peter Shawhan is an academic researcher from University of Maryland, College Park. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 77 publications receiving 3045 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Shawhan include California Institute of Technology & University of Chicago.
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Observation of Direct CP Violation in KS,L ! ππ Decays
A. Alavi-Harati,Ivone F. M. Albuquerque,T. Alexopoulos,Michael Wayne Arenton,K. Arisaka,S. Averitte,A. R. Barker,L. Bellantoni,A. Bellavance,J. Belz,R. Ben-David,Douglas Bergman,E. Blucher,G. J. Bock,C. Bown,S. Bright,Elliott Cheu,S. Childress,R. Coleman,M. D. Corcoran,G. Corti,Bradley Cox,M. B. Crisler,A. R. Erwin,R. Ford,Alexandre Glazov,A. Golossanov,G. Graham,J. Graham,K. Hagan,Eva Halkiadakis,Kazunori Hanagaki,S. Hidaka,Y. B. Hsiung,V. Jejer,J. Jennings,D. A. Jensen,Richard Kessler,H. G. E. Kobrak,J. LaDue,Amitabh Lath,Alexander Ledovskoy,Patricia McBride,A. P. McManus,P. Mikelsons,E. Monnier,T. Nakaya,U. Nauenberg,K. S. Nelson,H. Nguyen,Vivian O'Dell,M. Pang,Ruth Pordes,V. Prasad,C. Qiao,B. Quinn,E. J. Ramberg,R. E. Ray,A. Roodman,M. Sadamoto,Steve Schnetzer,K. Senyo,P. Shanahan,Peter Shawhan,W. E. Slater,N. Solomey,S. Somalwar,R. L. Stone,I. Suzuki,E. C. Swallow,E. C. Swallow,R. A. Swanson,S. A. Taegar,R. J. Tesarek,Gordon Thomson,P. A. Toale,A. K. Tripathi,R. Tschirhart,Y. W. Wah,J. Wang,H. B. White,J. Whitmore,B. Winstein,Roland Winston,J. Y. Wu,T. Yamanaka,E. D. Zimmerman +86 more
TL;DR: Alavi-Harati et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that the direct CP violation parameter Re (μ'/μ) is equal to [28.0±3.0(stat)±2.8(syst)]×10-4.
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Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,Rana X. Adhikari,A. Ageev,A. Ageev,Benjamin William Allen,R. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,M. C. Araya,Helena Armandula,F. Asiri,F. Asiri,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,R. Balasubramanian,S. W. Ballmer,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,C. Barker-Patton,M. Barnes,B. Barr,M. A. Barton,K. Bayer,Raymond G. Beausoleil,Raymond G. Beausoleil,Krzysztof Belczynski,R. Bennett,R. Bennett,S. J. Berukoff,S. J. Berukoff,J. Betzwieser,B. Bhawal,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,E. Black,Kent Blackburn,B. Bland-Weaver,B. Bochner,B. Bochner,L. Bogue,L. Bogue,R. Bork,Suvadeep Bose,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,Duncan A. Brown,S. Brozek,S. Brozek,A. Bullington,Alessandra Buonanno,Alessandra Buonanno,R. Burgess,D. Busby,William E. Butler,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Jordan Camp,C. A. Cantley,L. Cardenas,Kevin M. Carter,Morag M. Casey,J. Castiglione,A. Chandler,J. Chapsky,P. Charlton,S. Chatterji,Yi Chen,V. Chickarmane,D. Chin,Nelson Christensen,D. Churches,C. Colacino,C. Colacino,R. Coldwell,M. Coles,M. Coles,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,D. C. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,David Crooks,P. Csatorday,B. J. Cusack,Curt Cutler,Erika D'Ambrosio,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,R. Davies,E. J. Daw,E. J. Daw,D.B. DeBra,T. Delker,R. DeSalvo,S. Dhurandar,Marco Aurelio Diaz,H. Ding,R. W. P. Drever,R. J. Dupuis,C. Ebeling,Jeffrey A. Edlund,P. Ehrens,E. J. Elliffe,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,Carsten Fallnich,D. Farnham,Martin M. Fejer,M. Fine,Lee Samuel Finn,Éanna É. Flanagan,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,K. S. Ganezer,J. A. Giaime,A. Gillespie,A. Gillespie,Keisuke Goda,Gabriela Gonzalez,Stefan Goßler,Philippe Grandclément,A. Grant,C. Gray,A. M. Gretarsson,D. Grimmett,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,M. Guenther,Eric K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,W. O. Hamilton,M. Hammond,J. Hanson,C. Hardham,Gregory M. Harry,A. Hartunian,J. Heefner,Y. Hefetz,Gerhard Heinzel,Ik Siong Heng,M. Hennessy,N. Hepler,A. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,N. Hindman,P. Hoang,J. H. Hough,M. Hrynevych,M. Hrynevych,W. Hua,Richard Ingley,M. Ito,Yousuke Itoh,A. Ivanov,Oliver Jennrich,W. W. Johnson,W. R. Johnston,L. Jones,D. Jungwirth,D. Jungwirth,Vicky Kalogera,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,W. Kells,J. Kern,A. Khan,S. Killbourn,Christian J. Killow,Chunglee Kim,C. King,P. J. King,S. Klimenko,P. Kloevekorn,Scott Koranda,K. Kötter,Joseph M. Kovalik,D. B. Kozak,Badri Krishnan,M. Landry,J. Langdale,B. Lantz,R. Lawrence,Albert Lazzarini,M. Lei,V. Leonhardt,I. Leonor,Kenneth G. Libbrecht,P. E. Lindquist,S. Liu,J. Logan,M. Lormand,M. J. Lubinski,Harald Lück,Harald Lück,T. T. Lyons,T. T. Lyons,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Walid A. Majid,Walid A. Majid,M. Malec,F. Mann,A. Marin,A. Marin,S. Márka,E. Maros,J. Mason,J. Mason,K. Mason,O. Matherny,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,Martin P McHugh,P. McNamara,P. McNamara,G. Mendell,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Osamu Miyakawa,Shinji Miyoki,Shinji Miyoki,Soumya D. Mohanty,G. Moreno,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,B. Mours,G. Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,J. Myers,S. Nagano,T. Nash,H. Naundorf,R. K. Nayak,G. Newton,F. Nocera,Philip Nutzman,T. Olson,B. O'Reilly,David J. Ottaway,Adrian C. Ottewill,Adrian C. Ottewill,D. Ouimette,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Maria Alessandra Papa,C. Parameswariah,V. Parameswariah,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,Matthew Pitkin,M. V. Plissi,M. R. Pratt,V. Quetschke,F. Raab,H. Radkins,R. Rahkola,M. Rakhmanov,S. R. Rao,D. Redding,D. Redding,M. W. Regehr,M. W. Regehr,T. Regimbau,K. T. Reilly,K. Reithmaier,David H. Reitze,S. Richman,R. Riesen,K. Riles,A. Rizzi,D. I. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,Lindon J. Robison,S. Roddy,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,J. H. Romie,Haisheng Rong,D. Rose,E. Rotthoff,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Albrecht Rüdiger,Pamela J. Russell,Kevin M. Ryan,I. Salzman,G. H. Sanders,Virginio Sannibale,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,Richard L. Savage,A. Sazonov,Roland Schilling,Roland Schilling,Kevin C. Schlaufman,V. Schmidt,V. Schmidt,R. M. S. Schofield,M. Schrempel,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,Susan M. Scott,Antony C. Searle,B. Sears,S. Seel,A. S. Sengupta,C. A. Shapiro,C. A. Shapiro,Peter Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,Q. Z. Shu,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,L. Sievers,L. Sievers,D. Sigg,Alicia M. Sintes,Alicia M. Sintes,Kenneth D. Skeldon,J. R. Smith,M. W.E. Smith,M. R. Smith,Peter H. Sneddon,Robert Spero,Robert Spero,G. Stapfer,Kenneth A. Strain,D. M. Strom,A. L. Stuver,T. Summerscales,M. C. Sumner,P. J. Sutton,Julien Sylvestre,Akiteru Takamori,David B. Tanner,H. Tariq,Ian Taylor,R. Taylor,Kip S. Thorne,M. Tibbits,S. Tilav,S. Tilav,Massimo Tinto,Massimo Tinto,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,C. I. Torrie,S. Traeger,S. Traeger,G. Traylor,W. Tyler,D. Ugolini,Michele Vallisneri,Michele Vallisneri,M. H. P. M. van Putten,S. Vass,Alberto Vecchio,C. Vorvick,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,L. Wallace,Herbert Walther,H. Ward,Brent Ware,Brent Ware,K. Watts,D. Webber,A. Weidner,A. Weidner,U. Weiland,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Herbert Welling,Linqing Wen,S. Wen,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,Bernard F. Whiting,Phil Willems,P. R. Williams,P. R. Williams,Roy Williams,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,A. Wilson,B. J. Winjum,B. J. Winjum,Walter Winkler,Walter Winkler,S. Wise,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,J. Worden,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Sanichiro Yoshida,I. Zawischa,L. Zhang,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +423 more
TL;DR: For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis.
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Measurements of Direct CP Violation, CPT Symmetry, and Other Parameters in the Neutral Kaon System
E. Abouzaid,Michael Wayne Arenton,A. R. Barker,M. Barrio,L. Bellantoni,E. Blucher,G. J. Bock,C. Bown,Elliott Cheu,R. Coleman,M. D. Corcoran,Bradley Cox,A. R. Erwin,Carlos Escobar,Alexandre Glazov,A. Golossanov,R. A. Gomes,P. Gouffon,J. Graham,J. Hamm,Y. B. Hsiung,D. A. Jensen,Richard Kessler,K. Kotera,J. LaDue,Alexander Ledovskoy,Patricia McBride,E. Monnier,H. Nguyen,R. Niclasen,D. G. Phillips,V. Prasad,X. R. Qi,E. J. Ramberg,R. E. Ray,M. Ronquest,A. Roodman,E. M. Santos,P. Shanahan,Peter Shawhan,W. E. Slater,D. Smith,N. Solomey,E. C. Swallow,E. C. Swallow,S. A. Taegar,P. A. Toale,R. Tschirhart,Y. W. Wah,J. Wang,H. B. White,J. Whitmore,M. J. Wilking,B. Winstein,Roland Winston,E. T. Worcester,Taku Yamanaka,E. D. Zimmerman,R. F. Zukanovich +58 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present precision measurements of the direct CP violation parameter, Re({epsilon}{prime}/{epson}), the kaon parameters, {Delta}m and {tau}{sub S], and the CPT tests, {phi}{sub {+-}} and {Delta}{phi}, in neutral kaon decays.
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Setting upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 using the first science data from the GEO 600 and LIGO detectors
B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,Rana X. Adhikari,A. Ageev,A. Ageev,Benjamin William Allen,R. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,M. C. Araya,Helena Armandula,F. Asiri,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,R. Balasubramanian,S. W. Ballmer,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,C. Barker-Patton,M. Barnes,B. Barr,M. A. Barton,K. Bayer,Raymond G. Beausoleil,Krzysztof Belczynski,R. Bennett,S. Berukoff,J. Betzwieser,B. Bhawal,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,E. Black,Kent Blackburn,B. Bland-Weaver,B. Bochner,L. Bogue,R. Bork,Suvadeep Bose,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,Duncan A. Brown,S. Brozek,A. Bullington,Alessandra Buonanno,R. Burgess,D. Busby,William E. Butler,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Jordan Camp,C. A. Cantley,L. Cardenas,Kevin M. Carter,Morag M. Casey,J. Castiglione,A. Chandler,J. Chapsky,P. Charlton,S. Chatterji,Yi Chen,V. Chickarmane,D. Chin,Nelson Christensen,D. Churches,C. N. Colacino,R. Coldwell,M. Coles,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,D. C. Coyne,J. D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,David Crooks,P. Csatorday,B. J. Cusack,Curt Cutler,Erika D'Ambrosio,Karsten Danzmann,R. Davies,E. J. Daw,D.B. DeBra,T. Delker,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,Marco Aurelio Diaz,H. Ding,R. W. P. Drever,R. J. Dupuis,C. Ebeling,Jeffrey A. Edlund,P. Ehrens,E. J. Elliffe,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,Carsten Fallnich,D. Farnham,Martin M. Fejer,M. Fine,Lee Samuel Finn,Éanna É. Flanagan,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,K. S. Ganezer,J. A. Giaime,A. Gillespie,Keisuke Goda,Gabriela Gonzalez,S. Gossler,Philippe Grandclément,A. Grant,C. Gray,A. M. Gretarsson,D. Grimmett,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,M. Guenther,Eric K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,W. O. Hamilton,M. Hammond,J. Hanson,C. Hardham,Gregory M. Harry,A. Hartunian,J. Heefner,Y. Hefetz,Gerhard Heinzel,Ik Siong Heng,M. Hennessy,N. Hepler,A. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,N. Hindman,P. Hoang,J. H. Hough,M. Hrynevych,W. Hua,Richard Ingley,M. Ito,Yousuke Itoh,A. Ivanov,Oliver Jennrich,W. W. Johnson,W. R. Johnston,L. Jones,D. Jungwirth,V. Kalogera,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,W. Kells,J. Kern,A. Khan,S. Killbourn,Christian J. Killow,Chunglee Kim,C. King,P. J. King,S. Klimenko,P. Kloevekorn,Scott Koranda,K. Kötter,Joseph M. Kovalik,D. B. Kozak,Badri Krishnan,M. Landry,J. Langdale,B. Lantz,R. Lawrence,Albert Lazzarini,M. Lei,V. Leonhardt,I. Leonor,Kenneth G. Libbrecht,P. E. Lindquist,S. Liu,J. Logan,M. Lormand,M. J. Lubinski,Harald Lück,T. T. Lyons,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Walid A. Majid,M. Malec,F. Mann,A. Marin,S. Márka,E. Maros,J. Mason,K. Mason,O. Matherny,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,Martin P McHugh,P. McNamara,G. Mendell,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Osamu Miyakawa,Shinji Miyoki,Soumya D. Mohanty,G. Moreno,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,J. Myers,Shigeo Nagano,T. Nash,H. Naundorf,R. K. Nayak,G. P. Newton,F. Nocera,Philip Nutzman,T. Olson,B. O'Reilly,David J. Ottaway,Adrian C. Ottewill,D. Ouimette,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Maria Alessandra Papa,C. Parameswariah,V. Parameswariah,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,Matthew Pitkin,M. V. Plissi,M. R. Pratt,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,R. Rahkola,M. Rakhmanov,S. R. Rao,D. Redding,M. W. Regehr,T. Regimbau,K. T. Reilly,K. Reithmaier,David H. Reitze,S. Richman,R. Riesen,K. Riles,A. Rizzi,D. I. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,Lindon J. Robison,S. Roddy,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,J. H. Romie,Haisheng Rong,D. Rose,E. Rotthoff,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Pamela J. Russell,Kevin M. Ryan,I. Salzman,G. H. Sanders,Virginio Sannibale,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,Richard L. Savage,A. Sazonov,Roland Schilling,Kevin C. Schlaufman,V. Schmidt,R. M. S. Schofield,M. Schrempel,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,Susan M. Scott,Antony C. Searle,B. Sears,S. Seel,A. S. Sengupta,C. A. Shapiro,Peter Shawhan,D. H. Shoemaker,Q. Z. Shu,A. Sibley,Xavier Siemens,L. Sievers,D. Sigg,Alicia M. Sintes,Kenneth D. Skeldon,J. R. Smith,M. W.E. Smith,M. R. Smith,Peter H. Sneddon,Robert Spero,G. Stapfer,Kenneth A. Strain,D. M. Strom,A. L. Stuver,T. Summerscales,M. C. Sumner,P. J. Sutton,Julien Sylvestre,Akiteru Takamori,David B. Tanner,H. Tariq,Ian Taylor,R. Taylor,Kip S. Thorne,M. Tibbits,S. Tilav,Massimo Tinto,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,C. I. Torrie,S. Traeger,G. Traylor,W. Tyler,D. Ugolini,Michele Vallisneri,M. H. P. M. van Putten,S. Vass,Alberto Vecchio,C. Vorvick,S. P. Vyachanin,L. Wallace,Herbert Walther,H. Ward,Brent Ware,K. Watts,D. Webber,A. Weidner,U. Weiland,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Herbert Welling,Linqing Wen,S. Wen,James Whelan,S. E. Whitcomb,B. F. Whiting,Phil Willems,P. Williams,Roy Williams,Benno Willke,A. Wilson,B. J. Winjum,Walter Winkler,S. Wise,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,J. Worden,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Sanichiro Yoshida,I. Zawischa,L. Zhang,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +376 more
TL;DR: In this article, a model emission mechanism is used to interpret the limits as a constraint on the pulsar's equatorial ellipticity, and two independent analysis methods are used and are demonstrated in two independent methods: a frequency domain method and a time domain method.
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Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data.
B. P. Abbott,R. Abbott,Rana X. Adhikari,A. Ageev,A. Ageev,Benjamin William Allen,R. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,M. C. Araya,Helena Armandula,M. Ashley,F. Asiri,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,R. Balasubramanian,S. W. Ballmer,B. C. Barish,C. Barker,D. Barker,M. Barnes,B. Barr,M. A. Barton,K. Bayer,Raymond G. Beausoleil,Krzysztof Belczynski,Robert Bennett,S. Berukoff,J. Betzwieser,B. Bhawal,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,E. Black,Kent Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,B. Bland,B. Bochner,L. Bogue,R. Bork,Suvadeep Bose,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,Duncan A. Brown,A. Bullington,A. Bunkowski,Alessandra Buonanno,R. Burgess,D. Busby,William E. Butler,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Jordan Camp,C. A. Cantley,L. Cardenas,Kevin M. Carter,Morag M. Casey,J. Castiglione,A. Chandler,J. Chapsky,P. Charlton,S. Chatterji,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,V. Chickarmane,D. Chin,Nelson Christensen,D. Churches,Thomas Cokelaer,C. N. Colacino,R. Coldwell,M. Coles,Douglas R. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,D. C. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,David Crooks,P. Csatorday,B. J. Cusack,Corey Cutler,Erika D'Ambrosio,Karsten Danzmann,E. J. Daw,D.B. DeBra,T. Delker,V. Dergachev,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,A. Di Credico,Marco Aurelio Diaz,H. Ding,R. W. P. Drever,R. J. Dupuis,Jeffrey A. Edlund,P. Ehrens,E. J. Elliffe,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,Stephen Fairhurst,Carsten Fallnich,D. Farnham,Martin M. Fejer,T. Findley,M. Fine,Lee Samuel Finn,K. Y. Franzen,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,K. S. Ganezer,J. Garofoli,J. A. Giaime,A. Gillespie,Keisuke Goda,Gabriela Gonzalez,S. Gossler,Philippe Grandclément,A. Grant,C. Gray,A. M. Gretarsson,D. Grimmett,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,M. Guenther,Eric K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,W. O. Hamilton,M. Hammond,J. Hanson,C. Hardham,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,A. Hartunian,J. Heefner,Y. Hefetz,Gerhard Heinzel,Ik Siong Heng,M. Hennessy,N. Hepler,A. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,N. Hindman,P. Hoang,J. H. Hough,M. Hrynevych,W. Hua,M. Ito,Yousuke Itoh,A. Ivanov,Oliver Jennrich,B. Johnson,W. W. Johnson,W. R. Johnston,David Jones,L. Jones,D. Jungwirth,Vicky Kalogera,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,W. Kells,J. Kern,A. Khan,S. Killbourn,Christian J. Killow,Chunglee Kim,C. King,Phil D. C. King,S. Klimenko,Scott Koranda,K. Kötter,Joseph M. Kovalik,D. B. Kozak,Badri Krishnan,M. Landry,J. Langdale,B. Lantz,R. Lawrence,Albert Lazzarini,M. Lei,I. Leonor,Kenneth G. Libbrecht,A. Libson,P. E. Lindquist,S. Liu,J. Logan,M. Lormand,M. J. Lubinski,Harald Lück,T. T. Lyons,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,W. Majid,W. Majid,M. Malec,F. Mann,A. Marin,S. Márka,E. Maros,J. Mason,K. Mason,O. Matherny,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,Martin P McHugh,J. W C McNabb,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,E. Messaritaki,C. Messenger,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Osamu Miyakawa,Shinji Miyoki,Soumya D. Mohanty,G. Moreno,Kasem Mossavi,Guido Mueller,Soma Mukherjee,P. G. Murray,J. Myers,Shigeo Nagano,T. Nash,R. K. Nayak,G. Newton,F. Nocera,J. S. Noel,Philip Nutzman,T. Olson,B. O'Reilly,David J. Ottaway,Adrian C. Ottewill,D. Ouimette,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Yi Pan,Maria Alessandra Papa,V. Parameshwaraiah,C. Parameswariah,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,Matthew Pitkin,M. V. Plissi,Reinhard Prix,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,R. Rahkola,M. Rakhmanov,S. R. Rao,K. Rawlins,S. Ray-Majumder,V. Re,D. Redding,M. W. Regehr,T. Regimbau,Stuart Reid,K. T. Reilly,K. Reithmaier,David H. Reitze,S. Richman,R. Riesen,K. Riles,B. Rivera,A. Rizzi,D. I. Robertson,D. I. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,Lindon J. Robison,S. Roddy,J. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,J. Romie,Haisheng Rong,D. Rose,E. Rotthoff,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,P. Russell,Kris Ryan,I. Salzman,V. Sandberg,G. H. Sanders,V. Sannibale,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,R. L. Savage,A. Sazonov,Roland Schilling,Kevin C. Schlaufman,V. 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TL;DR: The unprecedented sensitivity of the detectors allows us to set strain upper limits as low as a few times 10(-24), which translate into limits on the equatorial ellipticities of the pulsars, which are smaller than 10(-5) for the four closest pulsars.