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most citedIdentification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO

143 citations · 674 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.IM2025

Photon Calibration Performance of KAGRA during the 4th Joint Observing Run (O4)

Dan Chen, Shingo Hido, Darkhan Tuyenbayev +9

KAGRA is a kilometer-scale cryogenic gravitational-wave (GW) detector in Japan. It joined the 4th joint observing run (O4) in May 2023 in collaboration with the Laser Interferomete…

gr-qc2022

Input optics systems of the KAGRA detector during O3GK

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +246

KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic gravitational-wave detector, was operated for its solo observation from February 25th to March 10th, 2020, and its first joint observation with…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 30 cited

Performance of the KAGRA detector during the first joint observation with GEO 600 (O3GK)

KAGRA Collaboration, H. Abe, R. X. Adhikari +212

KAGRA, the kilometer-scale underground gravitational-wave detector, is located at Kamioka, Japan. In April 2020, an astrophysics observation was performed at the KAGRA detector in…

gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

Overview of KAGRA : KAGRA science

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +240

KAGRA is a newly build gravitational-wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper in the series of KAGRA-featured a…

physics.ins-det2019★ 16 cited

An arm length stabilization system for KAGRA and future gravitational-wave detectors

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +198

Modern ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors require a complex interferometer configuration with multiple coupled optical cavities. Since achieving the resonances of the a…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 13 cited

Application of the independent component analysis to the iKAGRA data

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +244

We apply the independent component analysis (ICA) to the real data from a gravitational wave detector for the first time. Specifically we use the iKAGRA data taken in April 2016, a…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 109 cited

Improving astrophysical parameter estimation via offline noise subtraction for Advanced LIGO

J. C. Driggers, S. Vitale, A. P. Lundgren +228

The Advanced LIGO detectors have recently completed their second observation run successfully. The run lasted for approximately 10 months and lead to multiple new discoveries. The…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 143 cited

Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO

P. B. Covas, A. Effler, E. Goetz +260

Searches are under way in Advanced LIGO and Virgo data for persistent gravitational waves from continuous sources, e.g. rapidly rotating galactic neutron stars, and stochastic sour…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 93 cited

Reconstructing the calibrated strain signal in the Advanced LIGO detectors

A. D. Viets, M. Wade, A. L. Urban +14

Advanced LIGO's raw detector output needs to be calibrated to compute dimensionless strain h(t). Calibrated strain data is produced in the time domain using both a low-latency, onl…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 135 cited

Calibration Uncertainty for Advanced LIGO's First and Second Observing Runs

Craig Cahillane, Joe Betzwieser, Duncan A. Brown +13

Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors is the quantification of the detectors' response to gravitational waves. Gravitational waves incident on the detectors cause phase shifts…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 7 cited

Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves

M. Walker, T. D. Abbott, S. M. Aston +200

This paper presents an analysis of the transient behavior of the Advanced LIGO suspensions used to seismically isolate the optics. We have characterized the transients in the longi…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 90 cited

The Advanced LIGO Photon Calibrators

S. Karki, D. Tuyenbayev, S. Kandhasamy +24

The two interferometers of the Laser Interferometry Gravitaional-wave Observatory (LIGO) recently detected gravitational waves from the mergers of binary black hole systems. Accura…

astro-ph.IM2016★ 29 cited

Improving LIGO calibration accuracy by tracking and compensating for slow temporal variations

D. Tuyenbayev, S. Karki, J. Betzwieser +9

Calibration of the second-generation LIGO interferometric gravitational-wave detectors employs a method that uses injected periodic modulations to track and compensate for slow tem…