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V. Mangano
Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome
Publications - 223
Citations - 65547
V. Mangano is an academic researcher from Sapienza University of Rome. The author has contributed to research in topics: LIGO & Gravitational wave. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 189 publications receiving 51556 citations. Previous affiliations of V. Mangano include INAF & University of Glasgow.
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GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run
Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Sheelu Abraham,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,A. Adams,C. Adams,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,Sarp Akcay,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. A. Altin,Anthony A. Amato,Shreya Anand,Alena Ananyeva,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,S. V. Angelova,Stefano Ansoldi,Javier M. Antelis,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,Peter Aufmuth,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,V. Avendano,Stanislav Babak,F. Badaracco,M. K. M. Bader,S. Bae,A. M. Baer,S. Bagnasco,J. Baird,M. Ball,G. Ballardin,S. W. Ballmer,A. Bals,A. Balsamo,G. Baltus,S. Banagiri,D. Bankar,R. S. Bankar,J. C. Barayoga,Cesare Barbieri,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,P. Barneo,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. G. Bartlett,Imre Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,M. Bawaj,J. C. Bayley,Marco Bazzan,B. R. Becher,B. Bécsy,V. M. Bedakihale,M. Bejger,I. Belahcene,D. Beniwal,M. G. Benjamin,T. F. Bennett,J. D. Bentley,F. Bergamin,B. K. Berger,G. Bergmann,Sebastiano Bernuzzi,Christopher P. L. Berry,D. Bersanetti,Alessandro Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,R. Bhandare,A. V. Bhandari,D. Bhattacharjee,J. Bidler,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,M. Bischi,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,M. A. Bizouard,J. K. Blackburn,Jonathan Blackman,Carl Blair,David Blair,R. M. Blair,Oscar Blanch,Fabrizio Bobba,N. Bode,M. Boer,Y. Boetzel,G. Bogaert,M. Boldrini,François Bondu,R. Bonnand,E. Bonilla,P. Booker,B. A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,Suvadeep Bose,V. Bossilkov,V. Boudart,Y. Bouffanais,A. Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,Patrick Brady,A. Bramley,M. Branchesi,J. E. Brau,Matteo Breschi,Tristan Briant,J. H. Briggs,F. Brighenti,A. Brillet,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,Riccardo Buscicchio,D. Buskulic,Robert L. Byer,M. Cabero,Laura Cadonati,M. Caesar,Gianpietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Calderón Bustillo,J. D. Callaghan,T. A. Callister,Enrico Calloni,Jordan Camp,Maurizio Canepa,Kipp Cannon,H. Cao,Junwei Cao,Giovanni Carapella,F. Carbognani,M. F. Carney,M. Carpinelli,Gregorio Carullo,T. L. Carver,J. Casanueva Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,Marco Cavaglia,F. Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,G. Cella,Pablo Cerdá-Durán,E. Cesarini,Walid Chaibi,K. Chakravarti,C. Chan,C. L. Chan,K. Chandra,P. Chanial,Shiuh Chao,P. Charlton,E. A. Chase,E. Chassande-Mottin,Debarati Chatterjee,Debatri Chattopadhyay,M. Chaturvedi,Katerina Chatziioannou,A. Chen,H. S. Chen,Xie Chen,Y. R. Chen,Hai-Ping Cheng,C. K. Cheong,H. Y. Chia,Francesco Chiadini,Roberto Chierici,Andrea Chincarini,A. Chiummo,G. Cho,H. S. Cho,M. Cho,S. Choate,Nelson Christensen,Q. Chu,S. Chua,K. W. Chung,S. Chung,G. Ciani,P. Ciecielag,M. Cieślar,M. Cifaldi,A. A. Ciobanu,Riccardo Ciolfi,F. Cipriano,A. Cirone,F. Clara,E. N. Clark,John A. Clark,Lucy E Clarke,P. Clearwater,Sebastien Clesse,F. Cleva,E. Coccia,P. F. Cohadon,D. E. Cohen,Marta Colleoni,Christophe Collette,Chris A. Collins,M. Colpi,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. J. Cooper,P. Corban,Thomas Corbitt,Isabel Cordero-Carrión,Silvia Corezzi,K. R. Corley,Neil J. Cornish,D. Corre,A. Corsi,Samuele Cortese,C. A. Costa,R. Cotesta,Michael W. Coughlin,S. B. Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. T. Countryman,B. Cousins,P. Couvares,P. B. Covas,David Coward,M. J. Cowart,D. C. Coyne,R. Coyne,J. D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,M. Croquette,S. G. Crowder,Jean-René Cudell,Torrey Cullen,A. Cumming,R. Cummings,Liam Cunningham,E. Cuoco,M. Curyło,T. Dal Canton,G. Dálya,Aykutlu Dana,L. M. DaneshgaranBajastani,B. D'Angelo,B. Danila,S. L. Danilishin,S. D'Antonio,Karsten Danzmann,C. Darsow-Fromm,Anirban Dasgupta,L. E. H. Datrier,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,M. Davier,Gavin Davies,Douglas Davis,E. J. Daw,R. Dean,D.B. DeBra,M. Deenadayalan,Jerome Degallaix,M. De Laurentis,Samuel Deléglise,V. Del Favero,F. De Lillo,N. De Lillo,W. Del Pozzo,Lindsay DeMarchi,F. De Matteis,V. D'Emilio,N. Demos,T. Denker,Thomas Dent,A. Depasse,R. De Pietri,R. De Rosa,C. De Rossi,R. DeSalvo,O. de Varona,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,M. C. Díaz,M. Diaz-Ortiz,N. A. Didio,Tim Dietrich,L. Di Fiore,C. Difronzo,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,Luigi D'Onofrio,F. Donovan,K. L. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,Turlough P. Downes,M. Drago,J. C. Driggers,Zhihui Du,J.-G. Ducoin,P. Dupej,O. Durante,D. D'Urso,P. A. Duverne,S. E. Dwyer,P. J. Easter,G. Eddolls,B. Edelman,T. B. Edo,O. Edy,A. Effler,J. Eichholz,S. S. Eikenberry,M. Eisenmann,R. A. Eisenstein,Aldo Ejlli,L. Errico,Reed Essick,Héctor Estellés,D. Estevez,Zachariah B. Etienne,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,T. M. Evans,B. E. Ewing,V. Fafone,H. Fair,Stephen Fairhurst,Xiaohui Fan,A. M. Farah,S. Farinon,Ben Farr,W. M. Farr,E. J. Fauchon-Jones,Marc Favata,M. Fays,Mariana Fazio,J. Feicht,Martin M. Fejer,Fangchen Feng,E. Fenyvesi,D. L. Ferguson,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,T. A. Ferreira,F. Fidecaro,P. Figura,Irene Fiori,D. Fiorucci,M. Fishbach,Rebecca Fisher,J. M. Fishner,R. Fittipaldi,M. Fitz-Axen,Vincenzo 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. G. Gabbard,B. U. Gadre,S. M. Gaebel,J. R. Gair,J. Gais,S. Galaudage,R. Gamba,D. Ganapathy,A. Ganguly,S. G. Gaonkar,B. Garaventa,Cecilio García-Quirós,F. Garufi,B. Gateley,Sergio Gaudio,V. Gayathri,G. Gemme,A. Gennai,D. George,Jimin George,R. N. George,László Á. Gergely,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Sourav Ghosh,Bruno Giacomazzo,L. Giacoppo,J. A. Giaime,K. D. Giardina,Des Gibson,C. Gier,K. Gill,Pulak Ranjan Giri,J. Glanzer,A. E. Gleckl,Patrick Godwin,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,N. Gohlke,B. Goncharov,Gabriela Gonzalez,Achamveedu Gopakumar,S. E. Gossan,M. Gosselin,R. Gouaty,B. Grace,Aniello Grado,M. Granata,Veronica Granata,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,P. Grassia,C. Gray,Richard Gray,G. Greco,A. C. Green,R. Green,E. M. Gretarsson,H. L. Griggs,Gianluca Grignani,A. Grimaldi,Eric Grimes,Stefan Grimm,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,P. Gruning,J. G. Guerrero,G. M. Guidi,A. R. Guimaraes,G. Guixé,H. K. Gulati,Ying Guo,Anchal Gupta,Anuradha Gupta,Patrick Das Gupta,E. K. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Felipe Guzman,L. Haegel,O. Halim,E. D. Hall,E. Z. Hamilton,G. D. Hammond,M. Haney,M. M. Hanke,J. Hanks,Chad Hanna,Mark Hannam,O. A. Hannuksela,Otto A. Hannuksela,H. Hansen,T. J. Hansen,J. Hanson,T. Harder,T. Hardwick,K. Haris,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,I. W. Harry,D. Hartwig,R. K. Hasskew,Carl-Johan Haster,K. Haughian,F. J. Hayes,J. Healy,Antoine Heidmann,M. C. Heintze,Jürgen Heinze,J. Heinzel,H. Heitmann,Frances Hellman,Patrice Hello,A. F. Helmling-Cornell,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,Ik Siong Heng,Eric Hennes,Jörg Hennig,Matthias H. Hennig,F. Hernandez Vivanco,M. Heurs,Stefan Hild,Paul Hill,A. S. Hines,S. Hochheim,E. Hofgard,David Jonathan Hofman,J. N. Hohmann,A. M. Holgado,N. A. Holland,I. J. Hollows,Z. J. Holmes,K. Holt,Daniel E. Holz,Philip F. Hopkins,C. Horst,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,Charlie Hoy,D. Hoyland,Y. Huang,M. T. Hübner,A. D. Huddart,E. A. Huerta,B. Hughey,V. Hui,Sascha Husa,S. H. Huttner,B. M. Hutzler,R. Huxford,T. Huynh-Dinh,B. Idzkowski,A. Iess,S. Imperato,Henri Inchauspe,C. Ingram,Giuseppe Intini,Maximiliano Isi,Bala R. Iyer,V. JaberianHamedan,Thibaut Jacqmin,S. J. Jadhav,S. P. Jadhav,A. L. James,Karan Jani,Kim Janssens,N. N. Janthalur,Piotr Jaranowski,D. Jariwala,R. Jaume,Alexander C. Jenkins,M. Jeunon,J. Jiang,G. R. Johns,Nathan K. Johnson-McDaniel,A. W. Jones,David Jones,J. Jones,Peter Graham Jones,R. W. L. Jones,R. J. G. Jonker,Li Ju,J. Junker,C. V. Kalaghatgi,Vicky Kalogera,Brittany Kamai,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. B. Kanner,S. J. Kapadia,D. P. Kapasi,Christos Karathanasis,S. Karki,Rahul Kashyap,M. Kasprzack,W. Kastaun,S. Katsanevas,E. Katsavounidis,W. Katzman,K. Kawabe,Fabien Kéfélian,David Keitel,Joey Shapiro Key,S. Khadka,F. Y. Khalili,I. Khan,Sebastian Khan,Efim A. Khazanov,Nandita Khetan,M. Khursheed,N. Kijbunchoo,Chonghoon Kim,G. J. Kim,Jinsook Kim,Kyungmin Kim,W. S. Kim,Yongjung Kim,C. Kimball,P. J. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,J. S. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,T. D. Knowles,E. Knyazev,Patrick M. Koch,S. M. Koehlenbeck,G. Koekoek,S. Koley,M. Kolstein,Kentaro Komori,V. Kondrashov,Antonios Kontos,N. Koper,M. Korobko,W. Z. Korth,M. Kovalam,D. B. Kozak,C. Krämer,V. Kringel,N. V. Krishnendu,A. Królak,G. Kuehn,Ajay Kumar,P. Kumar,Rajesh Kumar,Rakesh Kumar,K. Kuns,S. Kwang,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,Albert Lazzarini,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,S. Leavey,Y. K. Lecoeuche,Ho-Gyu Lee,Hyang Woon Lee,J. S. H. Lee,Kin Sing Stephen Lee,J. Lehmann,E. Leon,N. Leroy,N. Letendre,Yuri Levin,A. K. Y. Li,J. Li,Kwan-Lok Li,Tenglin Li,Xiuling Li,F.L. Linde,S. D. Linker,J. N. Linley,Tyson Littenberg,Jun Liu,X. Liu,M. Llorens-Monteagudo,Rico K. L. Lo,A. Lockwood,Lionel London,Alessandro Longo,M. Lorenzini,V. Loriette,M. Lormand,G. Losurdo,J. D. Lough,Carlos O. Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,Harald Lück,D. Lumaca,Andrew Lundgren,Y. Ma,R. Macas,M. MacInnis,D. M. Macleod,I. A. O. MacMillan,A. Macquet,I. Magaña Hernandez,F. Magaña-Sandoval,C. Magazzù,R. M. Magee,Ettore Majorana,I. Maksimovic,S. Maliakal,Al Imran Malik,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mangano,G. L. Mansell,Magnus Manske,M. Mantovani,Michela Mapelli,Fabio Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,Z. Márka,Charalampos Markakis,A. S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,E. Maros,Antonio Marquina,Sylvain Marsat,F. Martelli,I. W. Martin,R. M. Martin,Miriam Lucio Martinez,Valérie Martinez,Denis Martynov,H. Masalehdan,K. Mason,E. Massera,A. Masserot,T. J. Massinger,M. Masso-Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,Andrew Matas,M. Mateu-Lucena,Fabrice Matichard,M. Matiushechkina,Nergis Mavalvala,E. Maynard,J. J. McCann,Robert J. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. McCormick,Lee McCuller,S. C. McGuire,C. McIsaac,J. McIver,D. J. McManus,Terry G. McRae,Sean T. McWilliams,D. Meacher,G. D. Meadors,Moritz Mehmet,Andrew Mehta,Andrew Melatos,D. A. Melchor,G. Mendell,A. Menendez-Vazquez,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,A. Mhaske,A. Miani,Haixing Miao,I. Michaloliakos,C. Michel,H. Middleton,Leopoldo Milano,A. L. Miller,Margaret Millhouse,J. C. Mills,Edoardo Milotti,M. C. Milovich-Goff,Olivier Minazzoli,Y. Minenkov,Ll. M. Mir,Alec Mishkin,Chandra Kant Mishra,T. Mistry,S. Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,Geoffrey Mo,K. Mogushi,S. R. P. Mohapatra,S. R. Mohite,I. Molina,Manel Molina-Ruiz,M. Mondin,M. Montani,Christopher J. Moore,D. Moraru,Filip Morawski,G. Moreno,Soichiro Morisaki,B. Mours,C. M. Mow-Lowry,Simone Mozzon,F. Muciaccia,Arunava Mukherjee,D. Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,Subroto Mukherjee,N. Mukund,A. Mullavey,Jesper Munch,E. A. M. Muniz,P. G. Murray,S. L. Nadji,Alessandro Nagar,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,R. K. Nayak,B. F. Neil,J. Neilson,Gijs Nelemans,T. J. N. Nelson,M. Nery,A. Neunzert,A. Nitz,Ken K. Y. Ng,S. W. S. Ng,C. Nguyen,P. H. Nguyen,Thanh D. Nguyen,S. A. Nichols,Samaya Nissanke,F. Nocera,Minkyun Noh,C. North,D. Nothard,L. K. Nuttall,J. Oberling,B. D. O'Brien,J. O'Dell,Gor Oganesyan,G. H. Ogin,John J. Oh,Seog Oh,F. Ohme,Hiroyuki Ohta,M. A. Okada,C. Olivetto,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. V. Palashov,C. Palomba,H. Pan,Prafulla K. Panda,T. H. Pang,C. Pankow,Francesco Pannarale,B. C. Pant,F. Paoletti,Angela Delli Paoli,Annalisa Paolone,W. Parker,D. Pascucci,A. Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,D. Passuello,M. Patel,B. Patricelli,Ethan Payne,T. C. Pechsiri,M. Pedraza,Matteo Pegoraro,A. Pele,Steven D. Penn,Albino Perego,C. J. Perez,C. Périgois,A. Perreca,Stephane Perries,J. Petermann,D. Petterson,Harald P. Pfeiffer,K. A. Pham,K. S. Phukon,O. J. Piccinni,M. Pichot,M. Piendibene,F. Piergiovanni,L. Pierini,Vincenzo Pierro,G. Pillant,Fabrizio Giulio Luca Pilo,L. Pinard,I. M. Pinto,Krzysztof Piotrzkowski,M. Pirello,Matthew Pitkin,Ernesto Placidi,Wolfango Plastino,C. Pluchar,Rosa Poggiani,E. Polini,D. Y. T. Pong,S. Ponrathnam,P. Popolizio,Edward K. Porter,A. Poverman,Jade Powell,M. Pracchia,A. K. Prajapati,Kiran Prasai,R. Prasanna,Geraint Pratten,T. Prestegard,Maria Ilaria Del Principe,G. A. Prodi,L. Prokhorov,P. Prosposito,L. Prudenzi,A. Puecher,M. Punturo,Francesco Puosi,P. Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,V. Quetschke,P. J. Quinonez,R. Quitzow-James,F. J. Raab,Geert Raaijmakers,H. Radkins,N. Radulesco,P. Raffai,H. Rafferty,S. X. Rail,S. Raja,C. Rajan,B. Rajbhandari,M. Rakhmanov,K. E. Ramirez,T. D. Ramirez,Antoni Ramos-Buades,Javed Rana,K. Rao,P. Rapagnani,Umakant D. Rapol,B. Ratto,V. Raymond,M. Razzano,J. F. Read,Tania Regimbau,L. Rei,Stuart Reid,D. H. Reitze,Piero Rettegno,F. Ricci,C. J. Richardson,Jonathan Richardson,Logan Richardson,Paul M. Ricker,Gunnar Riemenschneider,K. Riles,Manuela Rizzo,N. A. Robertson,F. Robinet,A. Rocchi,J. A. Rocha,S. Rodriguez,R. D. Rodriguez-Soto,L. Rolland,J. G. Rollins,V. J. Roma,Marco Romanelli,Rocco Romano,C. L. Romel,A. Romero,I. M. Romero-Shaw,J. H. Romie,S. Ronchini,C. A. Rose,D. Rose,Keith Rose,M. J. B. Rosell,D. Rosińska,Shawn Rosofsky,M. P. Ross,Sheila Rowan,S. J. Rowlinson,Santosh Roy,Soumen Roy,P. Ruggi,Kris Ryan,Surabhi Sachdev,T. Sadecki,J. Sadiq,Mairi Sakellariadou,Om Sharan Salafia,L. Salconi,M. Saleem,A. Samajdar,E. J. Sanchez,Javier Sánchez,L. E. Sanchez,Nicolas Sanchis-Gual,J. R. Sanders,L. Sandles,K. A. Santiago,E. M. Santos,T. R. Saravanan,Nikhil Sarin,B. Sassolas,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,O. Sauter,R. L. Savage,V. Savant,D. Sawant,S. Sayah,D. Schaetzl,P. Schale,Mark A. Scheel,Jacob Scheuer,A. Schindler-Tyka,Patricia Schmidt,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,A. Schönbeck,E. Schreiber,B. W. Schulte,Bernard F. Schutz,O. Schwarm,Eyal Schwartz,John D. Scott,S. M. Scott,M. Seglar-Arroyo,Edward Seidel,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,N. Sennett,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. M. Sergeev,Y. Setyawati,T. J. Shaffer,M. S. Shahriar,Safura Sharifi,Anupam Sharma,Pradeep Kumar Sharma,P. Shawhan,Hongyu Shen,M. Shikauchi,R. Shink,David H. Shoemaker,D. M. Shoemaker,K. Shukla,S. ShyamSundar,M. Sieniawska,D. Sigg,Leo Singer,Dharamveer Singh,N. Singh,A. Singha,A. Singhal,Alicia M. Sintes,Valeria Sipala,V. Skliris,B. J. J. Slagmolen,T. J. Slaven-Blair,J. Smetana,J. R. Smith,Rory Smith,Surendra Nadh Somala,Edwin J. Son,K. Soni,S. Soni,B. Sorazu,Viola Sordini,Fiodor Sorrentino,N. Sorrentino,Rémi Soulard,Tarun Souradeep,E. Sowell,A. P. Spencer,Mario Spera,A. K. Srivastava,V. Srivastava,Kai Staats,C. Stachie,Daniele A. Steer,Jan Steinhoff,Michael Steinke,J. Steinlechner,Sebastian Steinlechner,D. Steinmeyer,S. Stevenson,G. Stolle-McAllister,D. J. Stops,Marc Stöver,Kenneth A. Strain,G. Stratta,A. Strunk,Riccardo Sturani,A. L. Stuver,J. Südbeck,S. Sudhagar,Vivishek Sudhir,HyunGyu Suh,T. Z. Summerscales,H. Sun,L. Sun,S. Sunil,A. Sur,Jishnu Suresh,P. J. Sutton,B. L. Swinkels,M. J. Szczepańczyk,M. Tacca,S. C. Tait,C. Talbot,A. J. Tanasijczuk,D. B. Tanner,D. Tao,A. Tapia,E. N. Tapia San Martin,Jay D. Tasson,R. Taylor,R. Tenorio,L. Terkowski,M. P. Thirugnanasambandam,Laurent Thomas,M. Thomas,P. Thomas,Jonathan E. Thompson,S. R. Thondapu,K. A. Thorne,Eric Thrane,Shubhanshu Tiwari,Srishti Tiwari,V. Tiwari,K. Toland,A. E. Tolley,M. Tonelli,Z. Tornasi,Alejandro Torres-Forné,C. I. Torrie,I. Tosta e Melo,D. Töyrä,A. T. Tran,Angela Trapananti,F. Travasso,G. Traylor,M. C. Tringali,A. Tripathee,A. Trovato,R. J. Trudeau,D. S. Tsai,K. W. Tsang,M. Tse,R. Tso,Leo Tsukada,Daichi Tsuna,Takuya Tsutsui,M. Turconi,A. S. Ubhi,R. P. Udall,Koh Ueno,D. Ugolini,C. S. Unnikrishnan,Alexander Urban,S. A. Usman,A. C. Utina,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,A. Vajpeyi,G. Valdes,Marica Valentini,V. Valsan,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,M. Vardaro,A. F. Vargas,Vijay Varma,S. Vass,M. Vasúth,Alberto Vecchio,G. Vedovato,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,K. Venkateswara,J. Venneberg,G. Venugopalan,D. Verkindt,Yogesh Verma,Doğa Veske,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,A. D. Viets,A. Vijaykumar,V. Villa-Ortega,J-Y. Vinet,Salvatore Vitale,T. Vo,H. Vocca,C. Vorvick,Sergey P. Vyatchanin,A. R. Wade,L. E. Wade,M. Wade,R. C. Walet,M. Walker,G. S. Wallace,L. Wallace,S. Walsh,J. Z. Wang,Shao-Jiang Wang,Wenxiao Wang,Yu Wang,R. L. Ward,J. Warner,M. Was,N. Y. Washington,Jennifer Watchi,B. A. Weaver,L.-W. Wei,M. Weinert,A. J.R. 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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present 39 candidate gravitational wave events from compact binary coalescences detected by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between 1 April 2019 15:00 UTC and 1 October 2019 15.00.
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Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger gw150914
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TL;DR: The discovery of the GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems that inspiral and merge within the age of the Universe as mentioned in this paper.
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Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
B. P. Abbott,Richard J. Abbott,T. D. Abbott,Fausto Acernese,Kendall Ackley,C. Adams,Todd Adams,Paolo Addesso,Rana X. Adhikari,Rana X. Adhikari,V. B. Adya,C. Affeldt,B. Agarwal,M. Agathos,Kazuhiro Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,Odylio D. Aguiar,Lloyd Paul Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,P. Ajith,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,M. A. Aloy,P. A. Altin,A. Amato,A. 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,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,K. AultONeal,C. Austin,A. Avila-Alvarez,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,B. C. Barish,D. Barker,K. Barkett,S. Barnum,Fabrizio Barone,B. Barr,Lisa Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. Bartlett,I. Bartos,Riccardo Bassiri,A. Basti,J. C. Batch,M. Bawaj,J. C. 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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors improved initial estimates of the binary's properties, including component masses, spins, and tidal parameters, using the known source location, improved modeling, and recalibrated Virgo data.
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TL;DR: Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016, and observed a transient gravitational-wave signal determined to be the coalescence of two black holes.