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most citedA short gamma-ray burst apparently asssociated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z=0.225

602 citations · 2k across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.IM2016★ 69 cited

Supplement: Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up

L. P. Singer, H. -Y. Chen, D. E. Holz +17

This is a supplement to the Letter of Singer et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07333), in which we demonstrated a rapid algorithm for obtaining joint 3D estimates of sky location…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 41 cited

The Definitive X-ray Light Curve of Swift J164449.3+573451

V. Mangano, D. N. Burrows, B. Sbarufatti +1

On March 28, 2011, the Swift Burst Alert Telescope triggered on an object that had no analog in over six years of Swift operations. Follow-up observations by the Swift X-ray Telesc…

gr-qc2010★ 143 cited

Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott +538

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space-time metric from astrophysical sourc…

astro-ph.IM2009★ 2 cited

Gamma-Ray Telescopes (in "400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes")

N. Gehrels, J. K. Cannizzo

The last half-century has seen dramatic developments in gamma-ray telescopes, from their initial conception and development through to their blossoming into full maturity as a pote…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 60 cited

First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

We report on a matched-filter search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic string cusps using LIGO data from the fourth science run (S4) which took place in February and March…

gr-qc2009★ 48 cited

Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, B. Abbott

According to general relativity a perturbed black hole will settle to a stationary configuration by the emission of gravitational radiation. Such a perturbation will occur, for exa…