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R. Goetz
Researcher at University of Florida
Publications - 158
Citations - 58442
R. Goetz is an academic researcher from University of Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 71, co-authored 147 publications receiving 47611 citations. Previous affiliations of R. Goetz include Florida Atlantic University & Max Planck Society.
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Tests of General Relativity with GW170817
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,C. Affeldt,B. Agarwal,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,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,M. A. Aloy,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,Alena Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,M. Arène,N. Arnaud,K. G. Arun,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,M. Ast,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,D. V. Atallah,F. Aubin,Peter Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,A. Avila-Alvarez,Stanislav Babak,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,P. T. Baker,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,S. Banagiri,J. C. Barayoga,S. E. Barclay,Barry C. Barish,D. Barker,Kevin Barkett,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,C. Beer,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,D. Beniwal,M. Bensch,M. Bensch,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,J. J. Bero,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,I. A. Bilenko,S. A. Bilgili,G. Billingsley,C. R. Billman,J. Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,Sebastien Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,Marie-Anne Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Jonathan Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Steven Bloemen,O. Bock,N. Bode,N. Bode,M. Boer,Y. Boetzel,G. Bogaert,A. Bohe,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,P. Booker,P. Booker,B. A. Boom,C. D. Booth,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,Suvadeep Bose,K. Bossie,V. Bossilkov,J. Bosveld,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,A. Bramley,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Tristan Briant,F. Brighenti,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,A. F. Brooks,D. D. Brown,S. Brunett,C. C. Buchanan,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert L. Byer,Miriam Cabero,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,Maurizio Canepa,Priscilla Canizares,Kipp Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,Collin D. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,M. F. Carney,Gregorio Carullo,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Carlos Cepeda,Pablo Cerdá-Durán,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,O. Chaibi,S. J. Chamberlin,M. Chan,Sung-Po Chao,P. Charlton,E. A. Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Debarati Chatterjee,K. Chatziioannou,B. D. Cheeseboro,Hsiao-Wen Chen,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,H. Y. Chia,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,T. Chmiel,Hee-Suk Cho,M. Cho,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,A. J. K. Chua,S. Chua,K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,G. Ciani,A. A. Ciobanu,Riccardo Ciolfi,F. Cipriano,C. E. Cirelli,A. Cirone,F. Clara,John A. Clark,P. Clearwater,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,David Cohen,A. Colla,Christophe Collette,Chris A. Collins,L. R. Cominsky,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. J. Cooper,P. Corban,Thomas Corbitt,Isabel Cordero-Carrión,K. R. Corley,Neil J. Cornish,A. Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,R. Cotesta,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,P. B. Covas,E. E. Cowan,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,S. G. Crowder,Torrey Cullen,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,S. L. Danilishin,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,Abhijit Dasgupta,C. F. Da Silva Costa,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,Douglas Davis,E. J. Daw,B. Day,D.B. DeBra,M. Deenadayalan,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,W. Del Pozzo,Nicholas Demos,T. Denker,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,R. De Pietri,R. De Pietri,J. Derby,Vladimir Dergachev,R. De Rosa,C. De Rossi,R. DeSalvo,O. de Varona,O. de Varona,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,Tim Dietrich,L. Di Fiore,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,Binlei Ding,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,F. Di Renzo,A. Dmitriev,Zoheyr Doctor,V. Dolique,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,M. Dovale Álvarez,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,C. Dreissigacker,C. Dreissigacker,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,P. Dupej,S. E. Dwyer,P. J. Easter,T. B. Edo,M. C. Edwards,A. Effler,Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein,Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,M. Eisenmann,R. A. Eisenstein,Reed Essick,Héctor Estellés,D. Estevez,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,T. M. Evans,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xiaohui Fan,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,Will M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,Marc Favata,M. Fays,C. Fee,H. Fehrmann,J. Feicht,Martin M. Fejer,Fangchen Feng,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,Federico Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,Maya Fishbach,Rebecca Fisher,J. M. Fishner,M. Fitz-Axen,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,José A. Font,P. W. F. Forsyth,S. S. Forsyth,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,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,Jonathan R. Gair,Luca Gammaitoni,Miftar Ganija,S. G. Gaonkar,Alyssa Garcia,Cecilio García-Quirós,F. Garufi,B. Gateley,S. Gaudio,G. Gaur,V. Gayathri,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,Daniel R. George,Jimin George,László Á. Gergely,V. Germain,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,Bruno Giacomazzo,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,K. Gill,G. Giordano,L. Glover,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,B. Goncharov,Gabriela Gonzalez,J. M. Gonzalez Castro,Achamveedu Gopakumar,Michael L. Gorodetsky,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,Aniello Grado,C. Graef,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,R. Green,E. M. Gretarsson,Paul J. Groot,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,G. M. Guidi,H. K. Gulati,X. Guo,A. Gupta,Milan Gupta,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,O. Halim,B. R. Hall,E. D. Hall,E. Z. Hamilton,H. F. Hamilton,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,Otto A. Hannuksela,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,M. J. Hart,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,James Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,H. Heitmann,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,J. Hennig,A. W. Heptonstall,F. J. Hernandez,M. Heurs,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,Tanja Hinderer,D. Hoak,S. Hochheim,S. Hochheim,David Jonathan Hofman,N. A. Holland,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,Philip F. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,E. A. Houston,Eric Howell,A. Hreibi,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,M. Hulko,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,T. Huynh-Dinh,A. Iess,N. Indik,C. Ingram,R. Inta,Giuseppe Intini,H. N. Isa,J. M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,Bala R. Iyer,K. Izumi,Thibaut Jacqmin,Karan Jani,Piotr Jaranowski,Devon S. Johnson,W. W. Johnson,David Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,J. Junker,C. V. Kalaghatgi,V. Kalogera,Brittany Kamai,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. J. Kapadia,S. Karki,K. S. Karvinen,K. S. Karvinen,M. Kasprzack,M. Katolik,S. Katsanevas,E. Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,N. V. Keerthana,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,Athol J. Kemball,R. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,F. Y. Khalili,B. Khamesra,H. Khan,I. Khan,Saniya Khan,Zeyaur R. Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. S. Kim,W. S. Kim,Y. M. Kim,E. J. King,P. J. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,T. D. Knowles,Patrick M. Koch,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. B. Kozak,C. Krämer,V. Kringel,V. Kringel,Badri Krishnan,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,G. Kuehn,P. Kumar,Rahul Kumar,Sanjeev Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,S. Kwang,B. D. Lackey,K. H. Lai,M. Landry,Ryan N. Lang,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,R. K. Lanza,A. Lartaux-Vollard,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,S. Leavey,C-H. Lee,Hyun Lee,H. M. Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,Kejia Lee,J. Lehmann,J. Lehmann,A. K. Lenon,M. Leonardi,M. Leonardi,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,J. Li,Tenglin Li,X. Li,S. D. Linker,Tyson Littenberg,J. Liu,X. Liu,R. K.L. Lo,N. A. Lockerbie,Lionel London,Alessandro Longo,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,Harald Lück,Harald Lück,D. Lumaca,Andrew Lundgren,Ryan Lynch,Y. Ma,R. Macas,S. Macfoy,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,I. Magaña Hernandez,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Magaña Zertuche,Ryan Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,S. Marsat,F. Martelli,Lionel Martellini,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,Denis Martynov,K. Mason,E. Massera,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Andrew Matas,Fabrice Matichard,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,J. J. McCann,R. L. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,Lee McCuller,S. C. McGuire,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,Duncan Meacher,G. D. Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,Moritz Mehmet,J. Meidam,E. Mejuto-Villa,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,D. Mendoza-Gandara,D. Mendoza-Gandara,R. A. Mercer,L. Mereni,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,Cody Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,A. Miller,B. B. Miller,Jon M. Miller,Margaret Millhouse,J. C. Mills,M. C. Milovich-Goff,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,J. Ming,Chandra Kant Mishra,S. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,D. Moffa,K. Mogushi,M. Mohan,Satya Mohapatra,M. Montani,Christopher J. Moore,D. Moraru,G. Moreno,Soichiro Morisaki,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Guido Mueller,A. W. Muir,Arunava Mukherjee,Arunava Mukherjee,Debnandini Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. Muñiz,M. Muratore,P. G. Murray,Alessandro Nagar,K. Napier,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,J. Neilson,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Nery,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,L. Nevin,J. M. Newport,Ken K. Y. Ng,S. W. S. Ng,P. H. Nguyen,T. T. Nguyen,David A. Nichols,Alex B. Nielsen,Samaya Nissanke,A. Nitz,F. Nocera,D. Nolting,C. North,L. K. Nuttall,Martin Obergaulinger,J. Oberling,B. D. O'Brien,G. D. O'Dea,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,Frank Ohme,H. Ohta,M. A. Okada,M. Oliver,P. Oppermann,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,R. G. Ormiston,L. F. Ortega,Richard O'Shaughnessy,S. Ossokine,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,A. E. Pace,G. Pagano,J. Page,M. A. Page,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,A. Pal-Singh,Howard Pan,Huang-Wei Pan,B. Pang,P. T.H. Pang,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,Maria Alessandra Papa,A. Parida,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,Mandar Patil,B. Patricelli,B. L. Pearlstone,Christian Pedersen,M. Pedraza,R. Pedurand,R. Pedurand,Larne Pekowsky,A. Pele,S. Penn,C. J. Perez,A. Perreca,L. M. Perri,Harald P. Pfeiffer,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,K. S. Phukon,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,M. Pirello,Matthew Pitkin,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,L. Possenti,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,J. W. W. Pratt,Geraint Pratten,V. Predoi,T. Prestegard,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. G. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,C. Rajan,B. Rajbhandari,M. Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,Antoni Ramos-Buades,Javed Rana,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,J. F. Read,Tania Regimbau,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,David H. Reitze,W. Ren,F. Ricci,Paul M. Ricker,Gunnar Riemenschneider,K. Riles,M. Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,Travis Robson,A. Rocchi,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,D. Rosińska,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,G. Rutins,Kris Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Mairi Sakellariadou,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,Laura Sampson,E. J. Sanchez,L. E. Sanchez,Nicolas Sanchis-Gual,V. Sandberg,J. R. Sanders,Nikhil Sarin,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Mark A. Scheel,Jacob Scheuer,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,D. Schuette,B. W. Schulte,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,Bernard F. Schutz,S. G. Schwalbe,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,N. Sennett,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. J. Shaffer,A. A. Shah,M. S. Shahriar,M. B. Shaner,Lijing Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,Hongyu Shen,David H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,Leo Singer,Ashutosh Kumar Singh,Ashutosh Kumar Singh,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,T. J. Slaven-Blair,Britton D. Smith,J. R. Smith,Rory Smith,Surendra Nadh Somala,E. J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun Souradeep,A. P. Spencer,A. K. Srivastava,Kai Staats,Daniele A. Steer,M. Steinke,M. Steinke,Jessica Steinlechner,Jessica Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,D. Steinmeyer,B. Steltner,B. Steltner,S. P. Stevenson,D. Stocks,Robert Stone,D. J. Stops,Kenneth A. Strain,G. Stratta,S. E. Strigin,A. Strunk,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,S. Sunil,J. Suresh,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,Marek Szczepanczyk,M. Tacca,S. C. Tait,Colm Talbot,D. Talukder,Nicola Tamanini,D. B. Tanner,Márton Tápai,Andrea Taracchini,Jay D. Tasson,J. A. Taylor,R. Taylor,Sumanta Tewari,T. Theeg,T. Theeg,F. Thies,F. Thies,E. G. Thomas,M. Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,K. Toland,M. Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,Alejandro Torres-Forné,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,J. Trinastic,M. C. Tringali,L. Trozzo,K. W. Tsang,M. Tse,R. Tso,Leo Tsukada,Daichi Tsuna,D. Tuyenbayev,K. Ueno,D. Ugolini,A. L. Urban,S. A. Usman,H. Vahlbruch,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,Vijay Varma,S. Vass,M. Vasúth,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,G. Venugopalan,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,Aaron Viets,Serena Vinciguerra,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,Madeline Wade,R. C. Walet,Michelle E. Walker,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,S. Walsh,G. Wang,Hua Wang,Jing Wang,W. H. Wang,Yufeng Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,Jennifer Watchi,B. A. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Felix Wellmann,Felix Wellmann,Linqing Wen,E. K. Wessel,P. Weßels,P. Weßels,J. Westerweck,K. Wette,James Whelan,B. F. Whiting,C. Whittle,D. M. Wilken,D. M. Wilken,David A. Williams,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,A. R. Williamson,J. L. Willis,J. L. Willis,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,H. Wittel,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Woehler,J. Woehler,J. K. Wofford,W. K. Wong,John Worden,J. L. Wright,D. S. Wu,D. S. Wu,Daniel Wysocki,S. Xiao,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,Lili Yang,M. J. Yap,Maher Yazback,Hang Yu,Haocun Yu,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,Michele Zanolin,T. Zelenova,J.-P. Zendri,M. Zevin,J. Zhang,L. Zhang,Mi Zhang,T. Zhang,Yu Zhang,Yu Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,Minchuan Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Sylvia J. Zhu,Sylvia J. Zhu,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Aaron Zimmerman,Aaron Zimmerman,Michael E Zucker,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +1240 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors place constraints on the dipole radiation and possible deviations from GR in the post-Newtonian coefficients that govern the inspiral regime of a binary neutron star inspiral.
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Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy
Denis Martynov,E. D. Hall,B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,Ruth A. Anderson,S. B. Anderson,Koji Arai,M. A. Arain,S. M. Aston,L. Austin,S. W. Ballmer,M. Barbet,D. Barker,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,J. G. Bartlett,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,J. C. Batch,A. S. Bell,Ilya Belopolski,J. Bergman,J. Betzwieser,G. Billingsley,J. Birch,Sebastien Biscans,Christopher M. Biwer,E. Black,Carl Blair,C. Bogan,R. Bork,D. O. Bridges,A. F. Brooks,C. Celerier,Giacomo Ciani,F. Clara,Douglas R. Cook,S. T. Countryman,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,A. Cumming,Liam Cunningham,M. Damjanic,R. Dannenberg,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,C. F. Da Silva Costa,E. J. Daw,D.B. DeBra,R. T. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,J. C. Driggers,S. E. Dwyer,A. Effler,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,Timothy Evans,M. Factourovich,H. Fair,D. Feldbaum,D. Feldbaum,Rebecca Fisher,S. Foley,Maik Frede,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,Vincenzo Galdi,Joseph A. Giaime,Joseph A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,Joseph Gleason,R. Goetz,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,R. J. S. Greenhalgh,Hartmut Grote,C. J. Guido,K. E. Gushwa,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,G. D. Hammond,J. Hanks,J. Hanson,T. Hardwick,G. M. Harry,J. Heefner,M. C. Heintze,A. W. Heptonstall,D. Hoak,J. H. Hough,Anton B. Ivanov,K. Izumi,M. Jacobson,Elizabeth A. James,Roger Jones,S. Kandhasamy,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,W. Kells,N. Kijbunchoo,E. J. King,P. J. King,D. L. Kinzel,J. S. Kissel,K. Kokeyama,W. Z. Korth,G. Kuehn,P. Kwee,M. Landry,B. Lantz,A. Le Roux,B. M. Levine,J. B. Lewis,V. Lhuillier,N. A. Lockerbie,M. Lormand,M. J. Lubinski,Andrew Lundgren,Timothy MacDonald,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,S. Márka,Z. Márka,A. S. Markosyan,E. Maros,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,T. J. Massinger,Fabrice Matichard,Nergis Mavalvala,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,E. L. Merilh,Manuel Meyer,P. M. Meyers,Jon M. Miller,R. Mittleman,G. Moreno,C. L. Mueller,Guido Mueller,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,J. O'Dell,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,C. Osthelder,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,J. R. Palamos,H. R. Paris,William Parker,Z. Patrick,A. Pele,S. Penn,M. Phelps,M. Pickenpack,Vincenzo Pierro,Innocenzo M. Pinto,J. Poeld,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,F. J. Raab,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,C. R. Ramet,C. M. Reed,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,David H. Reitze,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,J. H. Romie,Sheila Rowan,Kevin M. Ryan,T. Sadecki,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,Virginio Sannibale,R. L. Savage,R. M. S. Schofield,B. Schultz,P. Schwinberg,D. Sellers,A. Sevigny,Daniel A. Shaddock,Z. Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,David H. Shoemaker,D. Sigg,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,N. D. Smith-Lefebvre,B. Sorazu,A. Staley,A. J. Stein,A. Stochino,Kenneth A. Strain,R. Taylor,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,C. I. Torrie,G. Traylor,G. Vajente,G. Valdes,A. A. van Veggel,M. Vargas,Alberto Vecchio,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,T. Vo,C. Vorvick,S. J. Waldman,Michelle E. Walker,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,B. A. Weaver,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,P. Weßels,C. Wilkinson,Phil Willems,L. Williams,Benno Willke,Benno Willke,Lutz Winkelmann,C. C. Wipf,J. Worden,G. Wu,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,Haocun Yu,L. Zhang,Michael E Zucker,Michael E Zucker,J. Zweizig +262 more
TL;DR: The first observation run of the Advanced LIGO detectors started in September 2015 and ended in January 2016 as discussed by the authors, which achieved a strain sensitivity of better than 10^(−23)/√Hz around 100 Hz.
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GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO
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,K. Bohémier,P. Bojtos,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,A. F. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,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,Miriam Cabero,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,H. S. Chen,Yi Chen,C. 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,J. H. Clayton,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,Pierre-François Cohadon,Thomas Cokelaer,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,Teviet 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,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,H. P. Daveloza,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,H. Dereli,Vladimir Dergachev,R. T. DeRosa,R. De Rosa,R. DeSalvo,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,A. Dietz,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,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,N. Fotopoulos,J.-D. Fournier,S. Franco,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,M. A. Frei,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,Sourav Ghosh,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,A. Giazotto,Karl Gill,A. Glaefke,Evan Goetz,R. Goetz,Lisa M. Goggin,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,Jan Harms,G. 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,G. T. Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,K. Haris,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,Erik Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,Tejinder Kaur,K. Kawabe,F. Kawazoe,Fabien Kéfélian,M. S. Kehl,David Keitel,D. B. Kelley,W. Kells,Drew Keppel,R. Kennedy,J. S. Key,Alexander Khalaidovski,F. Y. Khalili,Imran Khan,Sebastian Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,N. Kijbunchoo,Chi-Woong Kim,Jinsook 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. 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,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,B. D. Lackey,M. Landry,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,Paul D. Lasky,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,E. O. Lebigot,Chang-Hwan Lee,Hyun Lee,Ho-Gyu Lee,Kejia Lee,A. Lenon,M. Leonardi,J. R. Leong,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,B. M. Levine,Tjonnie G. F. Li,Adam A. Libson,Tyson Littenberg,N. A. Lockerbie,J. Logue,A. L. Lombardi,J. E. Lord,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Harald Lück,Andrew Lundgren,J. Luo,Ryan Lynch,Y. Ma,Timothy MacDonald,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,F. Magaña-Sandoval,R. M. Magee,M. Mageswaran,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,V. Malvezzi,N. Man,Ilya Mandel,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,R. M. Martin,Denis Martynov,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,Fabrice Matichard,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,G. Mazzolo,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,S. C. McGuire,G. McIntyre,J. McIver,D. J. A. McKechan,D. J. McManus,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,J. Meidam,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,D. Mendoza-Gandara,R. A. Mercer,E. L. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,E. Messaritaki,C. Messenger,Cody Messick,P. M. Meyers,F. Mezzani,Haixing Miao,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Leopoldo Milano,John Miller,Margaret Millhouse,Y. Minenkov,J. Ming,S. Mirshekari,Chandra Kant 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. 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Penn,A. Perreca,M. Phelps,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,Innocenzo M. Pinto,Matthew Pitkin,Rosa Poggiani,P. Popolizio,A. Post,Jade Powell,J. Prasad,V. Predoi,S. S. Premachandra,T. Prestegard,Larry R. Price,M. Prijatelj,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,S. Privitera,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,O. Puncken,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,Jiayi Qin,V. Quetschke,E. A. Quintero,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,P. Raffai,S. Raja,Malik Rakhmanov,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,V. Re,J. F. Read,C. M. Reed,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,H. Rew,Steven Reyes,F. Ricci,K. Riles,N. A. Robertson,R. Robie,F. Robinet,C. Robinson,A. Rocchi,A. Rodriguez,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Rocco Romano,Gleb Romanov,J. H. Romie,D. Rosińska,Sheila Rowan,A. Rüdiger,P. Ruggi,Kevin M. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,Laleh Sadeghian,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,Francesco Salemi,A. Samajdar,L. Sammut,E. J. Sanchez,V. Sandberg,B. Sandeen,J. R. Sanders,Lucía Santamaría,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Peter R. Saulson,O. E. S. Sauter,R. L. Savage,A. Sawadsky,P. Schale,Roland Schilling,J. Schmidt,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,D. Schuette,Bernard F. Schutz,John D. Scott,Susan M. Scott,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,G. Serna,Y. Setyawati,A. Sevigny,Daniel A. Shaddock,Sweta Shah,M. S. Shahriar,M. Shaltev,Z. Shao,B. Shapiro,P. Shawhan,A. Sheperd,D. H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Siellez,Xavier Siemens,D. Sigg,A. D. Silva,D. Simakov,A. Singer,Leo Singer,Aviral Singh,Robinjeet Singh,A. Singhal,A. M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. R. Smith,Nicholas Smith,Rory Smith,Edwin J. Son,B. Sorazu,Fiodor Sorrentino,Tarun 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,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,T. Z. Summerscales,L. Sun,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,Marek Szczepanczyk,M. Tacca,D. Talukder,David B. Tanner,Márton Tápai,S. P. Tarabrin,Andrea Taracchini,R. Taylor,T. Theeg,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,E. G. Thomas,Michael Thomas,P. Thomas,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Tomlinson,M. Tonelli,C. V. Torres,C. I. Torrie,D. Töyrä,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,Daniele Trifirò,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,Serena Vinciguerra,D. J. Vine,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,D. V. Voss,W. D. Vousden,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,Madeline 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. A. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,Timothy A Welborn,Linqing Wen,P. Weßels,Matthew West,Tobias Westphal,K. Wette,James Whelan,D. J. White,B. F. Whiting,Karoline Wiesner,Roy Williams,A. R. Williamson,Joshua L. Willis,Benno Willke,M. H. Wimmer,Walter Winkler,C. C. Wipf,A. G. Wiseman,H. Wittel,Graham Woan,J. Worden,J. L. Wright,G. Wu,Joshua Yablon,William Yam,H. Yamamoto,C. C. Yancey,M. J. Yap,Haocun Yu,M. Yvert,A. K. Zadrożny,L. Zangrando,Michele Zanolin,J. P. Zendri,M. Zevin,Fan Zhang,Lei Zhang,Mi Zhang,Yanxi Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,Minchuan Zhou,Zifan Zhou,Xing-Jiang Zhu,Michael E Zucker,S. E. Zuraw,J. Zweizig +980 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a matched-filter search using relativistic models of compact-object binaries that recovered GW150914 as the most significant event during the coincident observations between the two LIGO detectors were reported.
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from Two Neutron Star–Black Hole Coalescences
Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Sheelu Abraham,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,A. Adams,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,C. Affeldt,D. Agarwal,M. Agathos,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,L. Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Tomotada Akutsu,K. M. Aleman,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,A. Amato,Shreya Anand,Alena Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,Masaki Ando,S. V. Angelova,Stefano Ansoldi,Javier M. Antelis,Sarah Antier,S. Appert,Koya Arai,Koji Arai,Yoshio Arai,Sakae Araki,Akito Araya,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,M. Arène,Naoki Aritomi,N. Arnaud,S. M. Aronson,K. G. Arun,Hideki Asada,Y. Asali,G. Ashton,Y. Aso,Y. Aso,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,F. Aubin,Peter Aufmuth,Peter Aufmuth,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,Stanislav Babak,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,Y. Bae,A. M. Baer,Stefano Bagnasco,Y. Bai,Luca Baiotti,J. Baird,R. Bajpai,M. Ball,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,M. Bals,A. Balsamo,G. Baltus,S. Banagiri,D. Bankar,R. S. Bankar,J. C. Barayoga,Cesare Barbieri,Cesare Barbieri,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,P. Barneo,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,Dániel Barta,J. G. Bartlett,M. A. Barton,M. A. Barton,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,A. C. Baylor,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,V. M. Bedakihale,Michał Bejger,I. Belahcene,V. Benedetto,D. Beniwal,M. G. Benjamin,R. Benkel,T. F. Bennett,J. D. Bentley,M. BenYaala,F. Bergamin,F. Bergamin,B. K. Berger,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,Christopher P. L. Berry,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,A. V. Bhandari,D. Bhattacharjee,Swagata Bhaumik,J. Bidler,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,Sebastien Biscans,M. Bischi,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,A. Bisht,B. Biswas,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Jonathan Blackman,Carl Blair,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Fabrizio Bobba,N. Bode,N. Bode,M. Boer,G. Bogaert,M. Boldrini,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,P. Booker,P. 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TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the observation of gravitational waves from two compact binary coalescences in LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run with properties consistent with neutron star-black hole (NSBH) binaries.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on the constraints these observations place on the rate of binary black hole coalescences, and estimate a 90% credible range of merger rates between $2$--$53 \, \mathrm{Gpc}^{-3} \mathm{yr}^{ −1}$ (comoving frame).