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The LIGO Collaboration
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(The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, http://www.ligo.org)
1
LIGO - California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
2
Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut f
¨
ur Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
3
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA
4
Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
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University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
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University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
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Leibniz Universit
¨
at Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
9
Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut f
¨
ur Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany
10
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA
11
LIGO - Hanford Observatory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
12
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
13
University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
14
LIGO - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
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Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
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San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA
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Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia
19
LIGO - Livingston Observatory, Livingston, LA 70754, USA
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Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
21
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
22
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA
23
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, HSIC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
24
University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA
25
University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA 01003 USA
26
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
27
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
28
University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
29
The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA
30
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
31
Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
32
Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA
33
The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
34
Cardiff University, Cardiff, CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
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E
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otv
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os University, ELTE 1053 Budapest, Hungary
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University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy
37
The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
38
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
39
Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune - 411007, India
40
Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA
41
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA
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The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
44
Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia
45
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ 86301, USA
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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
47
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia
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University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
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Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
50
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
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Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
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University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
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Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA
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Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA
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Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA
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Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104, USA
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Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA
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Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA
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Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA
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Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA
4