GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
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All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run
Abstract: (IOP) We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between and ,…
Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
Abstract: (IOP) The first observation of a binary neutron star (NS) coalescence by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave (GW) detectors offers an unprecedented opportunity to study matter under…
Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run
Abstract: (APS) Cosmic strings are topological defects which can be formed in grand unified theory scale phase transitions in the early universe. They are also predicted to form in the…
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
Press release Scientific paper: GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence
Abstract: (APS) On August 14, 2017 at 10∶30:43 UTC, the Advanced Virgo detector and the two Advanced LIGO detectors coherently observed a transient gravitational-wave signal produced by the coalescence of…
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
Abstract: On September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory simultaneously observed a transient gravitational-wave signal. The signal sweeps upwards in frequency from…
Improved constraint on the primordial gravitational-wave density using recent cosmological data and its impact on cosmic string models
Abstract: (IOP) The production of a primordial stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background by processes occuring in the early Universe is expected in a broad range of models. Observing this background would…
Performance of a thermally deformable mirror for correction of low-order aberrations in laser beams
Abstract The thermally deformable mirror is a device aiming at correcting beam-wavefront distortions for applications where classical mechanical methods are precluded by noise considerations, as in advanced gravitational wave interferometric…
Limitations of the time slide method of background estimation.
Abstract: (IOP) Time shifting the output of gravitational wave detectors operating in coincidence is a convenient way of estimating the background in a search for short-duration signals. In this paper,…