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most citedGW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

754 citations · 2k across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

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Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run

Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546

From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…

gr-qc2026

High-Stability Deformable Mirrors for Correcting Non-Axisymmetric Residual Aberrations in Thermal Compensation of Future Gravitational Wave Interferometers

Luciano Antonio Corubolo, Matteo Lorenzini, Lorenzo Aiello +9

In gravitational wave detectors, optical aberrations arise mainly from laser absorption in coatings and production process defects in the optics along the laser path. If left uncor…

gr-qc2022★ 18 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…

gr-qc2022★ 60 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 1 cited

A Systematic Error in the Internal Friction Measurement of Coatings for Gravitational Waves Detectors

Alex Amato, Diana Lumaca, Elisabetta Cesarini +9

Low internal friction coatings are key components of advanced technologies such as optical atomic clocks and high-finesse optical cavity and often lie at the forefront of the most…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…