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R. Balasubramanian
Researcher at Cardiff University
Publications - 42
Citations - 2540
R. Balasubramanian is an academic researcher from Cardiff University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 42 publications receiving 2433 citations. Previous affiliations of R. Balasubramanian include Max Planck Society & Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector
Benno Willke,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,R. Balasubramanian,B. Barr,S. Berukoff,Suvadeep Bose,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Morag M. Casey,D. Churches,D.A Clubley,C. N. Colacino,David Crooks,Curt Cutler,Karsten Danzmann,R. Davies,R. J. Dupuis,E. J. Elliffe,Carsten Fallnich,Andreas Freise,Stefan Goßler,A. Grant,Hartmut Grote,Gerhard Heinzel,A. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,J. H. Hough,Oliver Jennrich,K. Kawabe,Karsten Kötter,V. Leonhardt,Harald Lück,M. Malec,P. McNamara,S. McIntosh,Kasem Mossavi,Soumya D. Mohanty,Soma Mukherjee,S. Nagano,G. Newton,Benjamin J. Owen,D. A. Palmer,Maria Alessandra Papa,M. V. Plissi,V. Quetschke,D. I. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Roland Schilling,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,R. Senior,Alicia M. Sintes,Kenneth D. Skeldon,Peter H. Sneddon,F. Stief,Kenneth A. Strain,Ian Taylor,C. I. Torrie,Alberto Vecchio,Alberto Vecchio,H. Ward,U. Weiland,H. Welling,P. Williams,Walter Winkler,Graham Woan,I. Zawischa +71 more
TL;DR: The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors as mentioned in this paper, and it has a monolithic last stage and signal recycling.
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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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Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars
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,P. 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,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,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. N. Colacino,R. Coldwell,M. Coles,D. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,D. Coyne,J. D. E. Creighton,Teviet Creighton,David Crooks,P. Csatorday,B. J. Cusack,Curt Cutler,Karsten Danzmann,R. Davies,E. J. Daw,D. Debra,T. Delker,R. Desalvo,S. Dhurandhar,H. Ding,R. W.P. Drever,R. J. Dupuis,C. Ebeling,Jeffrey A. Edlund,P. Ehrens,E. J. Elliffe,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,T. Evans,Carsten Fallnich,D. Farnham,Martin M. Fejer,Lee Samuel Finn,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,K. S. Ganezer,J. A. Giaime,A. Gillespie,Keisuke Goda,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,M. 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,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,S. Klimenko,P. Kloevekorn,Scott Koranda,J. Kovalik,D. Kozak,Badri Krishnan,Michael Landry,J. Langdale,B. Lantz,R. Lawrence,A. Lazzarini,M. Lei,V. Leonhardt,I. Leonor,Kenneth G. Libbrecht,P. E. Lindquist,S. Liu,J. Logan,M. Lormand,M. Lubinski,T. T. Lyons,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,Walid A. Majid,M. Malec,F. Mann,A. Marin,E. Maros,J. Mason,K. Mason,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,R. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,Martin P McHugh,P. McNamara,G. Mendell,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Shinji Miyoki,Soumya D. Mohanty,G. Moreno,Kasem Mossavi,B. Mours,Guido Mueller,S. Mukherjee,J. Myers,Shigeo Nagano,T. Nash,H. Naundorf,R. K. Nayak,G. Newton,F. Nocera,Philip Nutzman,T. Olson,David J. Ottaway,Adrian C. Ottewill,D. Ouimette,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Maria Alessandra Papa +223 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds using data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers.
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The GEO-HF project
Benno Willke,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,S. Babak,R. Balasubramanian,B. Barr,S. Berukoff,A. Bunkowski,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. A. Cantley,Morag M. Casey,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,D. Churches,Thomas Cokelaer,C. N. Colacino,David Crooks,Curt Cutler,Karsten Danzmann,R. J. Dupuis,E. J. Elliffe,Carsten Fallnich,Alexander Franzen,Andreas Freise,I. Gholami,Stefan Goßler,A. Grant,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,Jan Harms,Boris Hage,Gerhard Heinzel,Ik Siong Heng,A. Hepstonstall,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,J. H. Hough,Yousuke Itoh,Gareth Jones,Roger Jones,S. H. Huttner,Karsten Kötter,Badri Krishnan,P. Kwee,Harald Lück,Manuel Luna,B. Machenschalk,M. Malec,R. A. Mercer,T. Meier,C. Messenger,Soumya D. Mohanty,Kasem Mossavi,Soma Mukherjee,P. G. Murray,G. Newton,Maria Alessandra Papa,Michael Perreur-Lloyd,Matthew Pitkin,M. V. Plissi,Reinhard Prix,V. Quetschke,V. Re,T. Regimbau,H. Rehbein,Stuart Reid,L. Ribichini,D. I. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,C. Robinson,Joseph D. Romano,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,Frank Seifert,A. M. Sintes,J. R. Smith,Peter H. Sneddon,Kenneth A. Strain,Ian Taylor,Richard J. K. Taylor,Andre Thüring,Carlo Ungarelli,Henning Vahlbruch,Alberto Vecchio,John Veitch,H. Ward,U. Weiland,Herbert Welling,Linqing Wen,P. Williams,Walter Winkler,Graham Woan,R. Zhu +101 more
TL;DR: The GEO-HF project as mentioned in this paper is a project to improve the sensitivity of the GEO detector by small sequential upgrades some of which will be tested in prototypes first, and the development, test and installation of these upgrades are named as the "Geo-HF Project."
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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. Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. Schofield,R. Schofield,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,Susan M. Scott,S. E. Seader,Antony C. Searle,B. Sears,S. Seel,Frank Seifert,A. S. Sengupta,C. A. Shapiro,Peter Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,Q. Z. Shu,A. Sibley,X. Siemens,L. Sievers,D. Sigg,Alicia M. Sintes,J. R. Smith,Michael D. Smith,M. R. Smith,Peter H. Sneddon,Robert Spero,G. Stapfer,D. Steussy,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,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,M. Tibbits,S. Tilav,Massimo Tinto,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Torres,C. I. Torrie,G. Traylor,W. Tyler,D. Ugolini,Carlo Ungarelli,Michele Vallisneri,M. H. P. M. van Putten,S. Vass,Alberto Vecchio,John Veitch,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,Sandra E. Wiley,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,P. Williams,Roy Williams,Benno Willke,A. Wilson,B. J. Winjum,Walter Winkler,S. Wise,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,R. Wooley,John Worden,W. Wu,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Shuhei Yoshida,K. D. Zaleski,Michele Zanolin,I. Zawischa,L. Zhang,R. Zhu,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig,Michael Kramer,Andrew Lyne +407 more
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.