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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.HE2016★ 76 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts During the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, IPN Collaboration +1002

We present the results of the search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with -ray bursts detected during the first observing run of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravi…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 196 cited

Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron-star--black-hole mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +958

We report here the non-detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron star systems and neutron-star--black-hole systems during the first observing run of Advanc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 21 cited

Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short duration radio transients during 2007-2013

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, others +999

We present an archival search for transient gravitational-wave bursts in coincidence with 27 single pulse triggers from Green Bank Telescope pulsar surveys, using the LIGO, Virgo a…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 47 cited

The Evolution of Active Galactic Nuclei in Clusters of Galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey

E. Bufanda, D. Hollowood, T. E. Jeltema +53

The correlation between active galactic nuclei (AGN) and environment provides important clues to AGN fueling and the relationship of black hole growth to galaxy evolution. In this…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

A DECam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW151226

P. S. Cowperthwaite, E. Berger, M. Soares-Santos +97

We report the results of a Dark Energy Camera (DECam) optical follow-up of the gravitational wave (GW) event GW151226, discovered by the Advanced LIGO detectors. Our observations c…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 79 cited

Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +964

Supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of binary black hole (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the tran…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 55 cited

Supplement: Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538

This Supplement provides supporting material for arXiv:1602.08492 . We briefly summarize past electromagnetic (EM) follow-up efforts as well as the organization and policy of the c…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 820 cited

Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-Hole Merger GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

The discovery of the gravitational-wave source GW150914 with the Advanced LIGO detectors provides the first observational evidence for the existence of binary black-hole systems th…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 327 cited

Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538

A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The e…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 147 cited

High-energy Neutrino follow-up search of Gravitational Wave Event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, M. André +1387

We present the high-energy-neutrino follow-up observations of the first gravitational wave transient GW150914 observed by the Advanced LIGO detectors on Sept. 14th, 2015. We search…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 386 cited

The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +964

A transient gravitational-wave signal, GW150914, was identified in the twin Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC. To assess the implications of this discov…