Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run

scientific article published in June 2014

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author: Kip S. Thorne, Timo Denker, Prayush Kumar, Christophe Collette, David J. Murphy, Eric A. Quintero, Luca Naticchioni, Salvatore Vitale, Carsten Aulbert, Diego Bersanetti, Dipongkar Talukder, Claudia Lazzaro, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Peter Kalmus, Igor Neri, Alexander Khalaidovski, Fabrice Matichard, Chandra Kant Mishra, Paolo Addesso, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Borja Sorazu, Karl Wette, Gabriele Vedovato, Riccardo Bassiri, Valerio Boschi, Vincenzo Pierro, Massimo Granata, Sascha Husa, Koji Arai, Antoine Heidmann, Marco Drago, David B. Tanner, John Veitch, Philip Charlton, Jong H. Chow, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Duncan A. Brown, Fulvio P. Ricci, Andrea Chincarini, Haixing Miao, Flavio Vetrano, Benjamin F. Farr, Chunnong Zhao, Graham Woan, Matthew D. Pitkin, Francesco Piergiovanni, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, Stephen Fairhurst, Daniel Sigg, Helios Vocca, John Zweizig, Michel Boër, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, Sanjit Mitra, Francesco Fidecaro, Badri Krishnan, Roberto Passaquieti, Alessio Rocchi, Piotr Jaranowski, Giovanni Losurdo, Piero Rapagnani, Rosa Poggiani, Elena Cuoco, Matteo Leonardi, Giles D. Hammond, Viswanath Bavigadda, Francesco Salemi, Yi-Ming Hu, Sebastian Steinlechner, Linqing Wen, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Chris J. Messenger, Ilya Mandel, Vivien Raymond, Alessandro Bertolini, Douglas Cook, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Soma Mukherjee, François Bondu, Enrico Calloni, Eugenio Coccia, Leopoldo Milano, Ettore Majorana, Benjamin P. Abbott, Giacomo Ciani, Karsten Danzmann, Evan Goetz, David E. McClelland, Laura Kate Nuttall, Robert L. Ward, Rainer Weiss, Michel Davier, Susan Scott, Mauro Tonelli, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Ronald Drever, Lee Samuel Finn, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Todd Adams, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Gijs Nelemans, Zsuzsanna Marka, Eric K. Gustafson, Joseph Charles Betzwieser, Fausto Acernese, Peter Aufmuth, James E. Brau, Sukanta Bose, Ryan Quitzow-James, Chloe Gray, Russell Jones, Peter Shawhan, Robert L. Stone, Richard J. McCarthy, David H. Shoemaker, Sang Hoon Oh, Alessandra Corsi, Sergey Klimenko, Andrew G. Ivanov, Matthew R. Abernathy, Walter Del Pozzo, Luciano Di Fiore, Dale R. Ingram, Clancy James, Izabela Kowalska, Iain Martin, Jonathan Miller, Federico Paoletti, Michael Pedraza, Innocenzo M. 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