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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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gr-qc2010★ 1.1k cited

Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

S. Hild, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese +136

Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a…

gr-qc2010★ 164 cited

Static Spherically Symmetric Solutions in F(R) Gravity

Lorenzo Sebastiani, Sergio Zerbini

A Lagrangian derivation of the Equation of Motion (EOM) for static spherically symmetric metrics in F(R) modified gravity is presented. For a large class of metrics, our approach p…

gr-qc2010★ 99 cited

Calibration and sensitivity of the Virgo detector during its second science run

The Virgo Collaboration, T. Accadia, F. Acernese +175

The Virgo detector is a kilometer-length interferometer for gravitational wave detection located near Pisa (Italy). During its second science run (VSR2) in 2009, six months of data…

gr-qc2010★ 15 cited

Black Hole entropy for two higher derivative theories of gravity

Emilio Bellini, Roberto Di Criscienzo, Lorenzo Sebastiani +1

The dark energy issue is focusing the attention of an incresing number of physicists all over the world. Among the possible alternatives in order to explain what as been named the…

gr-qc2010★ 131 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1

the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

We report the results of the first search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence using data from the LIGO and Virgo detectors. Five months of data were collected d…

gr-qc2010★ 130 cited

All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

We present results from an all-sky search for unmodeled gravitational-wave bursts in the data collected by the LIGO, GEO 600 and Virgo detectors between November 2006 and October 2…

gr-qc2010★ 9 cited

Virgo calibration and reconstruction of the gravitational wave strain during VSR1

The Virgo collaboration, T. Accadia, F. Acernese +171

Virgo is a kilometer-length interferometer for gravitational waves detection located near Pisa. Its first science run, VSR1, occured from May to October 2007. The aims of the calib…

gr-qc2010★ 1 cited

Effects of Interplanetary Dust on the LISA drag-free Constellation

Massimo Cerdonio, Fabrizio De Marchi, Roberto De Pietri +5

The analysis of non-radiative sources of static or time-dependent gravitational fields in the Solar System is crucial to accurately estimate the free-fall orbits of the LISA space…

gr-qc2010★ 26 cited

IGEC2: A 17-month search for gravitational wave bursts in 2005-2007

P. Astone, L. Baggio, M. Bassan +50

We present here the results of a 515 days long run of the IGEC2 observatory, consisting of the four resonant mass detectors ALLEGRO, AURIGA, EXPLORER and NAUTILUS. The reported res…