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most citedLIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

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23 papers

physics.ins-det2025

Low thermal noise mirror coatings utilising titanium dioxide and germanium dioxide mixtures

M. Fazio, I. W. Martin, P. Hill +16

Upgrades to ground-based gravitational-wave observatories will require mirror coatings with reduced thermal noise, enabling improved detector sensitivity and extended astrophysical…

physics.ins-det2021★ 28 cited

Exploration of co-sputtered TaO-ZrO thin films for gravitational-wave detectors

M. Abernathy, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva +45

We report on the development and extensive characterization of co-sputtered tantala-zirconia thin films, with the goal to decrease coating Brownian noise in present and future grav…

gr-qc2019★ 98 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gra…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 149 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1130

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs), which can be produced by fast-spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis,…

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…