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most citedCharacterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

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astro-ph.HE2020★ 61 cited

Einstein@Home Discovery of the Gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsar PSR J2039-5617 Confirms Its Predicted Redback Nature

C. J. Clark, L. Nieder, G. Voisin +19

The Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.65618 contains a periodic optical and X-ray source that was predicted to be a "redback" millisecond pulsar (MSP) binar…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 79 cited

Supplement: The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +964

Supplemental information for a Letter reporting the rate of binary black hole (BBH) coalescences inferred from 16 days of coincident Advanced LIGO observations surrounding the tran…

gr-qc2016★ 383 cited

GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational wave background from binary black holes

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration

The LIGO detection of the gravitational wave transient GW150914, from the inspiral and merger of two black holes with masses , suggests a population of…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 327 cited

Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1538

A gravitational-wave (GW) transient was identified in data recorded by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors on 2015 September 14. The e…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 386 cited

The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +964

A transient gravitational-wave signal, GW150914, was identified in the twin Advanced LIGO detectors on September 14, 2015 at 09:50:45 UTC. To assess the implications of this discov…

gr-qc2015★ 33 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +934

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in two sets of data collected by the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston detectors between November…