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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

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gr-qc2014★ 55 cited

A directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +891

We present results of a search for continuously-emitted gravitational radiation, directed at the brightest low-mass X-ray binary, Scorpius X-1. Our semi-coherent analysis covers 10…

gr-qc2014★ 1.3k cited

Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +867

In 2009-2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observa- tory (LIGO) operated together with international partners Virgo and GEO600 as a network to search for gravitation…

gr-qc2014★ 58 cited

Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two co-located LIGO Hanford detectors

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +873

Searches for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB) using terrestrial detectors typically involve cross-correlating data from pairs of detectors. The sensitivity of such…

gr-qc2014★ 13 cited

Strains and axial outflows in the field of a rotating black hole

Donato Bini, Fernando de Felice, Andrea Geralico

We study the behaviour of an initially spherical bunch of accelerated particles emitted along trajectories parallel to the symmetry axis of a rotating black hole. We find that, und…

gr-qc2014★ 13 cited

Strains in General Relativity

Donato Bini, Fernando de Felice, Andrea Geralico

The definition of relative accelerations and strains among a set of comoving particles is studied in connection with the geometric properties of the frame adapted to a "fiducial ob…

gr-qc2014★ 4 cited

Spinning test particles in Weyl spacetimes

Donato Bini, Fernando de Felice, Andrea Geralico +1

The motion of spinning test particles along circular orbits in static vacuum spacetimes belonging to the Weyl class is discussed. Spin alignment and coupling with background parame…

gr-qc2014★ 15 cited

Charged spinning particles on circular orbits in the Reissner-Nordström spacetime

Donato Bini, Fernando de Felice, Andrea Geralico

The behaviour of charged spinning test particles moving along circular orbits in the equatorial plane of the Reissner-Nordström spacetime is studied in the framework of the Dixon-S…

gr-qc2014★ 4.2k cited

Advanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma +231

Advanced Virgo is the project to upgrade the Virgo interferometric detector of gravitational waves, with the aim of increasing the number of observable galaxies (and thus the detec…

gr-qc2014★ 123 cited

Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009-2010 LIGO and Virgo Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +846

Gravitational waves from a variety of sources are predicted to superpose to create a stochastic background. This background is expected to contain unique information from throughou…

gr-qc2014★ 3 cited

A Casimir cannot cavity fly

Massimo Cerdonio, Carlo Rovelli

The field inside a Casimir cavity has an effective negative mass, which acts as a buoyancy force in a gravitational field. Can this render the total mass of the cavity negative, ma…

gr-qc2014★ 13 cited

Sensitivity Comparison of Searches for Binary Black Hole Coalescences with Ground-based Gravitational-Wave Detectors

Satya Mohapatra, Laura Cadonati, Sarah Caudill +7

Searches for gravitational-wave transients from binary black hole coalescences typically rely on one of two approaches: matched filtering with templates and morphology-independent…

gr-qc2014★ 7 cited

Prospects for intermediate mass black hole binary searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors

G. Mazzolo, F. Salemi, M. Drago +8

We estimated the sensitivity of the upcoming advanced, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories (the upgraded LIGO and Virgo and the KAGRA interferometers) to coalescing inter…

gr-qc2014★ 69 cited

First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +849

We present the first results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown spinning neutron stars in binary systems using LIGO and Virgo data. Using a specia…

gr-qc2014★ 33 cited

Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +849

We report results from a search for gravitational waves produced by perturbed intermediate mass black holes (IMBH) in data collected by LIGO and Virgo between 2005 and 2010. The se…

gr-qc2014★ 46 cited

Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data

J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott +848

We present an implementation of the -statistic to carry out the first search in data from the Virgo laser interferometric gravitational wave detector for periodic grav…

gr-qc2014★ 61 cited

The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, 2 Collaboration +888

The Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project is a collaborative effort between members of the numerical relativity and gravitational-wave astrophysics communities. The purpose…

gr-qc2014★ 11 cited

Reconstruction of the gravitational wave signal during the Virgo science runs and independent validation with a photon calibrator

Virgo collaboration, T. Accadia, F. Acernese +193

The Virgo detector is a kilometer-scale interferometer for gravitational wave detection located near Pisa (Italy). About 13 months of data were accumulated during four science runs…