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most citedCharacterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

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gr-qc2007★ 112 cited

A gravitational-wave probe of effective quantum gravity

Stephon Alexander, Lee Samuel Finn, Nicolas Yunes

The Green-Schwarz anomaly-cancelling mechanism in string theories requires a Chern-Simons term in the Einstein-Hilbert action, which leads to an amplitude birefringence of spacetim…

gr-qc2007★ 1.2k cited

LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and study gravitational waves of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of gravitational wa…

astro-ph2007★ 46 cited

Maximum Entropy for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis: Inferring the Physical Parameters of Core-Collapse Supernovae

T. Z. Summerscales, Adam Burrows, Christian D. Ott +1

The gravitational wave signal arising from the collapsing iron core of a Type II supernova progenitor star carries with it the imprint of the progenitor's mass, rotation rate, degr…

gr-qc2007★ 195 cited

Upper limits on gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott, M. Kramer +1

We present upper limits on the gravitational wave emission from 78 radio pulsars based on data from the third and fourth science runs of the LIGO and GEO600 gravitational wave dete…

gr-qc2007★ 75 cited

An overview of the second round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges

K A Arnaud, S Babak, J G Baker +10

The Mock Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data-analysis tools and capabilities and of demonstrating the technical readiness alread…

gr-qc2007★ 48 cited

Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges

K. A. Arnaud, G. Auger, S. Babak +42

The Mock LISA Data Challenges (MLDCs) have the dual purpose of fostering the development of LISA data analysis tools and capabilities, and demonstrating the technical readiness alr…