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most citedAn Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

376 citations · 1.1k across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

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…

astro-ph.CO2009★ 376 cited

An Upper Limit on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background of Cosmological Origin

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmologica…

gr-qc2008★ 24 cited

Gravitational wave burst search in the Virgo C7 data

The Virgo Collaboration, F. Acernese

A search for gravitational wave burst events has been performed with the Virgo C7 commissioning run data that have been acquired in September 2005 over five days. It focused on un-…

gr-qc2008★ 32 cited

Search for gravitational waves associated with GRB 050915a using the Virgo detector

The Virgo collaboration

In the framework of the expected association between gamma-ray bursts and gravitational waves, we present results of an analysis aimed to search for a burst of gravitational waves…

gr-qc2008★ 58 cited

Measurements of a low temperature mechanical dissipation peak in a single layer of Ta2O5 doped with TiO2

I Martin, H Armandula, C Comtet +19

Thermal noise arising from mechanical dissipation in oxide coatings is a major limitation to many precision measurement systems, including optical frequency standards, high resolut…

gr-qc2008

A Cross-correlation method to search for gravitational wave bursts with AURIGA and Virgo

AURIGA Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration

We present a method to search for transient GWs using a network of detectors with different spectral and directional sensitivities: the interferometer Virgo and the bar detector AU…