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Shane L. Larson

Researcher at Northwestern University

Publications -  137
Citations -  14357

Shane L. Larson is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 42, co-authored 130 publications receiving 11900 citations. Previous affiliations of Shane L. Larson include Adler Planetarium & Montana State University.

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GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

B. P. Abbott, +1134 more
TL;DR: The association of GRB 170817A, detected by Fermi-GBM 1.7 s after the coalescence, corroborates the hypothesis of a neutron star merger and provides the first direct evidence of a link between these mergers and short γ-ray bursts.
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Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

J. Aasi, +887 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the detectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of the detectors to a variety of astrophysical sources.
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Testing General Relativity with Low-Frequency, Space-Based Gravitational-Wave Detectors

TL;DR: These are the tests of general relativity that will become possible with space-based gravitational-wave detectors operating in the ∼ 10−5 − 1 Hz low-frequency band and the remarkable richness of astrophysics, astronomy, and cosmology in the low- frequencies make the case even stronger.
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Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817

B. P. Abbott, +1144 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the mass of the dynamical ejecta can be estimated without a direct electromagnetic observation of the kilonova, using GW measurements and a phenomenological model calibrated to numerical simulations of mergers with dynamical ejecteda.