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Sebastian Steinlechner
Researcher at Maastricht University
Publications - 303
Citations - 77646
Sebastian Steinlechner is an academic researcher from Maastricht University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 299 publications receiving 62949 citations. Previous affiliations of Sebastian Steinlechner include Glasgow Caledonian University & Max Planck Society.
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Properties and Astrophysical Implications of the 150 M Binary Black Hole Merger GW190521
Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Sheelu Abraham,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,M. Agathos,K. Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,O. D. Aguiar,A. Aich,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Sarp Akcay,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,S. Anand,A. Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,S. Ansoldi,S. Antier,S. Appert,Koji Arai,M. C. Araya,J. S. Areeda,M. Arène,N. Arnaud,S. M. Aronson,K. G. Arun,Y. Asali,S. Ascenzi,Gregory Ashton,S. M. Aston,P. Astone,F. Aubin,P. Aufmuth,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,V. Avendano,Stanislav Babak,P. Bacon,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,A. M. Baer,J. Baird,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,A. Bals,A. Balsamo,G. Baltus,S. Banagiri,D. Bankar,R. S. Bankar,J. C. Barayoga,Cesare Barbieri,Cesare Barbieri,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,K. Barkett,P. Barneo,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. Bartlett,I. Bartos,R. Bassiri,A. Basti,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. Bécsy,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,A. S. Bell,D. Beniwal,M. G. Benjamin,J. D. Bentley,F. Bergamin,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,A. V. Bhandari,J. Bidler,E. Biggs,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,R. Birney,O. Birnholtz,O. Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,Sebastien Biscans,M. Bischi,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,G. Bissenbayeva,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,J. Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Fabrizio Bobba,N. Bode,N. Bode,M. Boer,Y. Boetzel,G. Bogaert,François Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,P. Booker,P. Booker,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,V. Bossilkov,J. Bosveld,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,A. Bramley,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,M. Breschi,Tristan Briant,J. H. Briggs,F. Brighenti,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,M. Brinkmann,P. Brockill,A. F. Brooks,J. Brooks,D. D. Brown,S. Brunett,Giacomo Bruno,Robert Bruntz,Aaron Buikema,Tomasz Bulik,H. J. Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,Alessandra Buonanno,Riccardo Buscicchio,D. Buskulic,R. L. Byer,Miriam Cabero,Miriam Cabero,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,J. D. Callaghan,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,J. B. Camp,M. Canepa,K. C. Cannon,H. Cao,J. Cao,Giovanni Carapella,F. Carbognani,S. Caride,M. F. Carney,G. Carullo,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,J. Castañeda,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,P. Cerdá-Durán,E. Cesarini,O. Chaibi,K. Chakravarti,C. Chan,M. Chan,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. A. Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Debarati Chatterjee,M. Chaturvedi,K. Chatziioannou,K. Chatziioannou,H. S. Chen,Xin Chen,Yi Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,C. K. Cheong,H. Y. Chia,Francesco Chiadini,R. Chierici,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,G. Cho,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. Chua,K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,P. Ciecielag,M. Cielar,A. A. Ciobanu,R. Ciolfi,F. Cipriano,A. Cirone,F. Clara,J. A. Clark,P. Clearwater,Sebastien Clesse,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,D. E. Cohen,M. Colleoni,Christophe Collette,C. Collins,M. Colpi,M. Colpi,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. J. Cooper,P. Corban,T. R. Corbitt,I. Cordero-Carrión,Silvia Corezzi,K. R. Corley,Neil J. Cornish,D. Corre,A. Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,R. Cotesta,M. W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,P. Couvares,P. B. Covas,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,Jonathan Cripe,M. Croquette,S. G. Crowder,Jean-René Cudell,T. J. Cullen,A. Cumming,R. Cummings,L. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,M. Curylo,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,Aykutlu Dana,L. M. DaneshgaranBajastani,B. D'Angelo,S. L. Danilishin,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,Karsten Danzmann,C. Darsow-Fromm,A. Dasgupta,L. E. H. Datrier,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,G. S. Davies,D. Davis,E. J. Daw,D. DeBra,M. Deenadayalan,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,M. Delfavero,N. De Lillo,W. Del Pozzo,L. M. DeMarchi,V. D'Emilio,N. Demos,Thomas Dent,R. De Pietri,R. De Pietri,R. De Rosa,C. De Rossi,R. DeSalvo,O. de Varona,O. de Varona,S. Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,M. Diaz-Ortiz,T. Dietrich,L. Di Fiore,C. Di Fronzo,C. Di Giorgio,F. Di Giovanni,M. Di Giovanni,T. Di Girolamo,A. Di Lieto,Binlei Ding,S. Di Pace,I. Di Palma,F. Di Renzo,A. K. Divakarla,A. Dmitriev,Z. Doctor,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,T. P. Downes,M. Drago,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J.-G. Ducoin,P. Dupej,O. Durante,D. D'Urso,S. E. Dwyer,P. J. Easter,G. Eddolls,B. Edelman,T. B. Edo,O. Edy,A. Effler,P. Ehrens,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,M. Eisenmann,R. A. Eisenstein,Aldo Ejlli,L. Errico,R. C. Essick,H. Estelles,D. Estevez,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,T. M. Evans,B. E. Ewing,V. Fafone,Stephen Fairhurst,X. Fan,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,W. M. Farr,W. M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,M. Favata,M. Fays,M. Fazio,J. Feicht,M. M. Fejer,F. Feng,E. Fenyvesi,D. L. Ferguson,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,E. C. Ferreira,T. A. Ferreira,F. Fidecaro,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,M. Fishbach,R. P. Fisher,R. Fittipaldi,M. Fitz-Axen,V. Fiumara,R. Flaminio,E. Floden,Eric B. Flynn,H. Fong,José A. Font,P. W. F. Forsyth,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,Z. Frei,Andreas Freise,R. Frey,V. Frey,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,G. G. Fronzé,P. Fulda,M. Fyffe,H. A. Gabbard,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,J. R. Gair,S. Galaudage,D. Ganapathy,S. G. Gaonkar,Cecilio García-Quirós,F. Garufi,B. Gateley,S. Gaudio,V. Gayathri,G. Gemme,E. Genin,A. Gennai,D. George,John George,László Á. Gergely,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,Bruno Giacomazzo,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,Desmond Gibson,C. Gier,K. Gill,J. Glanzer,J. Gniesmer,P. Godwin,E. Goetz,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,N. Gohlke,N. Gohlke,B. Goncharov,G. González,A. Gopakumar,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,B. Grace,Aniello Grado,M. Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,P. Grassia,C. Gray,R. Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,R. Green,E. M. Gretarsson,H. L. Griggs,Gianluca Grignani,A. Grimaldi,Stefan Grimm,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,G. M. Guidi,A. R. Guimaraes,G. Guixé,H. K. Gulati,Ying Guo,A. Gupta,Anchal Gupta,P. Gupta,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,L. Haegel,O. Halim,E. D. Hall,E. Z. Hamilton,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,O. A. Hannuksela,T. J. Hansen,J. Hanson,T. Harder,T. Hardwick,K. Haris,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,R. K. Hasskew,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,F. J. Hayes,J. Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,Jürgen Heinze,Jürgen Heinze,H. Heitmann,Frances Hellman,Patrice Hello,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,E. Hennes,J. Hennig,J. Hennig,M. Heurs,M. Heurs,S. Hild,S. Hild,T. Hinderer,S. Y. Hoback,S. Y. Hoback,S. Hochheim,S. Hochheim,E. Hofgard,David Jonathan Hofman,A. M. Holgado,N. A. Holland,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,P. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,Ellen S. Howell,C. G. Hoy,Y.-J. Huang,M. T. Hübner,E. A. Huerta,D. Huet,B. Hughey,V. Hui,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,R. Huxford,T. Huynh-Dinh,B. Idzkowski,A. Iess,H. Inchauspe,C. Ingram,G. Intini,J. M. Isac,Maximiliano Isi,B. R. Iyer,Thibaut Jacqmin,S. J. Jadhav,S. P. Jadhav,A. L. James,Karan Jani,N. N. Janthalur,Piotr Jaranowski,D. Jariwala,R. Jaume,A. C. Jenkins,J. Jiang,G. R. Johns,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,A. W. Jones,D. I. Jones,J. D. Jones,P. Jones,Roger Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,J. Junker,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,Brittany Kamai,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. J. Kapadia,S. Karki,R. Kashyap,M. Kasprzack,W. Kastaun,W. Kastaun,S. Katsanevas,E. Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,Azadeh Keivani,R. Kennedy,Joey Shapiro Key,S. Khadka,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,S. Khan,S. Khan,Zahoor Ali Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,Nandita Khetan,M. Khursheed,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,G. J. Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. S. Kim,W. S. Kim,Y. M. Kim,C. Kimball,P. J. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,T. D. Knowles,E. Knyazev,Patrick M. Koch,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,S. M. Koehlenbeck,G. Koekoek,S. Koley,V. Kondrashov,A. Kontos,N. Koper,N. Koper,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,M. Kovalam,D. B. Kozak,V. Kringel,V. Kringel,N. V. Krishnendu,A. Królak,N. Krupinski,G. Kuehn,G. Kuehn,A. Kumar,P. Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,Rakesh Kumar,Sanjeev Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,B. D. Lackey,D. Laghi,E. Lalande,T. L. Lam,Astrid Lamberts,M. Landry,B. B. Lane,Ryan N. Lang,J. S. Lange,B. Lantz,R. K. Lanza,I. La Rosa,A. Lartaux-Vollard,Paul D. Lasky,M. Laxen,A. Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,S. Leavey,Y. K. Lecoeuche,Chang-Hwan Lee,H. M. Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,J. Lee,Ka Yee C. Lee,J. Lehmann,J. Lehmann,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Y. Levin,A. K. Y. Li,J. Li,K. li,T. G. F. Li,X. Li,F. Linde,S. D. Linker,J. N. Linley,T. B. Littenberg,J. Liu,J. Liu,X. Liu,M. Llorens-Monteagudo,R. K. L. Lo,A. Lockwood,Lionel London,A. 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,Y. Ma,R. Macas,S. Macfoy,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,I. A. O. MacMillan,A. Macquet,I. Magaña Hernandez,F. Magaña-Sandoval,R. M. Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,A. Malik,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,M. Manske,M. Mantovani,Michela Mapelli,Fabio Marchesoni,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,S. Marsat,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,V. Martinez,D. V. Martynov,H. Masalehdan,K. Mason,E. Massera,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,A. Matas,Fabrice Matichard,Fabrice Matichard,Nergis Mavalvala,E. Maynard,J. J. McCann,R. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,L. McCuller,S. C. McGuire,C. McIsaac,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,M. Mehmet,M. Mehmet,Andrew Mehta,E. Mejuto Villa,Andrew Melatos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,L. Mereni,K. Merfeld,E. L. Merilh,J. D. Merritt,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,C. Messick,R. Metzdorff,P. M. Meyers,F. Meylahn,F. Meylahn,A. Mhaske,A. Miani,Haixing Miao,I. Michaloliakos,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,A. L. Miller,Margaret Millhouse,J. C. Mills,Edoardo Milotti,M. C. Milovich-Goff,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,A. Mishkin,C. Mishra,T. Mistry,Sushanta K. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,G. Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,G. Mo,K. Mogushi,Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra,S. R. Mohite,Manel Molina-Ruiz,M. Mondin,M. Montani,C. J. Moore,D. Moraru,F. Morawski,G. Moreno,S. Morisaki,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Simone Mozzon,F. Muciaccia,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,Subroto Mukherjee,N. Mukund,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. Muñiz,P. G. Murray,A. Nagar,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,B. F. Neil,J. Neilson,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Nery,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,K. Y. Ng,S. W. S. Ng,C. Nguyen,P. H. Nguyen,David A. Nichols,S. A. Nichols,Samaya Nissanke,F. Nocera,Minkyun Noh,C. North,D. Nothard,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,B. D. O'Brien,G. Oganesyan,G. H. Ogin,J. J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,F. Ohme,H. Ohta,M. A. Okada,M. Oliver,C. Olivetto,P. Oppermann,P. Oppermann,Richard J. Oram,B. O'Reilly,R. G. Ormiston,L. F. Ortega,Richard O'Shaughnessy,S. Ossokine,C. Osthelder,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,A. E. Pace,G. Pagano,M. A. Page,G. Pagliaroli,Archana Pai,S. A. Pai,J. R. Palamos,O. Palashov,C. Palomba,H. Pan,Prafulla K. Panda,P. T. H. Pang,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,A. Parida,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,B. Patricelli,E. Payne,B. L. Pearlstone,T. C. Pechsiri,A. J. Pedersen,M. Pedraza,A. Pele,Steven D. Penn,A. Perego,C. J. Perez,C. Périgois,A. Perreca,Stephane Perries,J. Petermann,Harald P. Pfeiffer,M. Phelps,M. Phelps,K. S. Phukon,K. S. Phukon,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,M. Piendibene,F. Piergiovanni,V. Pierro,G. Pillant,L. Pinard,I. M. Pinto,K. Piotrzkowski,M. Pirello,Matthew Pitkin,Wolfango Plastino,Rosa Poggiani,D. Y. T. Pong,S. Ponrathnam,P. Popolizio,E. K. Porter,Jade Powell,A. K. Prajapati,K. Prasai,R. Prasanna,G. Pratten,T. Prestegard,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,M. Punturo,P. Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,V. Quetschke,P. J. Quinonez,F. J. Raab,G. Raaijmakers,H. Radkins,N. Radulesco,P. Raffai,H. Rafferty,S. Raja,C. Rajan,B. Rajbhandari,M. Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,A. Ramos-Buades,Javed Rana,K.S.J. Rao,P. Rapagnani,Vivien Raymond,M. Razzano,Jocelyn Read,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,D. H. Reitze,P. Rettegno,F. Ricci,C. J. Richardson,J. W. Richardson,Paul M. Ricker,G. Riemenschneider,K. Riles,M. Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,R. D. Rodriguez-Soto,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,M. Romanelli,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,I. M. Romero-Shaw,J. H. Romie,C. A. Rose,D. Rose,K. Rose,D. Rosińska,S. G. Rosofsky,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,S. J. Rowlinson,Parthanil Roy,Santosh Roy,Soumen Roy,P. Ruggi,G. Rutins,K. Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,M. Sakellariadou,O. S. Salafia,O. S. Salafia,O. S. Salafia,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,A. Samajdar,E. J. Sanchez,L. E. Sanchez,Nicolas Sanchis-Gual,J. R. Sanders,K. A. Santiago,E. M. Santos,Nikhil Sarin,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,V. Savant,D. Sawant,S. Sayah,D. Schaetzl,P. Schale,Mark A. Scheel,Jacob Scheuer,Patricia Schmidt,R. Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,E. Schreiber,B. W. Schulte,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,O. Schwarm,Eyal Schwartz,J. Scott,Susan M. Scott,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,N. Sennett,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,Y. Setyawati,Daniel A. Shaddock,T. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,Safura Sharifi,A. Sharma,Podila Satya Venkata Narasimha Sharma,P. Shawhan,H. Shen,M. Shikauchi,R. Shink,David H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Shukla,S. ShyamSundar,K. 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TL;DR: The GW190521 signal is consistent with a binary black hole (BBH) merger source at redshift 0.13-0.30 Gpc-3 yr-1.8 as discussed by the authors.
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TL;DR: In this article, the population of the 47 compact binary mergers detected with a false-alarm rate 1/yr in the second LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-2.
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TL;DR: It is concluded that the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes, created from the incoherent superposition of all the merging binaries in the Universe, is potentially measurable by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors operating at their projected final sensitivity.
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Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914
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TL;DR: The transient noise backgrounds used to determine the significance of the event (designated GW150914) are described and the results of investigations into potential correlated or uncorrelated sources of transient noise in the detectors around the time of theevent are presented.