Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network

scientific article published in September 2013

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author: Kip S. Thorne, Prayush Kumar, Sebastian Steinlechner, David J. Murphy, Lucía Santamaría, Luca Naticchioni, Salvatore Vitale, Carsten Aulbert, Dipongkar Talukder, Peter Kalmus, Igor Neri, Alexander Khalaidovski, Fabrice Matichard, Christian Röver, Fabio Postiglione, Paolo Addesso, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Borja Sorazu, Atsushi Nishizawa, Karl Wette, Luca Gammaitoni, Gabriele Vedovato, Riccardo Bassiri, Valerio Boschi, Vincenzo Pierro, Massimo Granata, Sascha Husa, Koji Arai, Antoine Heidmann, Maria Principe, Mirko Prato, Marco Drago, David B. Tanner, Leopoldo Milano, John Veitch, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Duncan A. Brown, Fulvio P. Ricci, Andrea Chincarini, Haixing Miao, Flavio Vetrano, Chunnong Zhao, Graham Woan, Matthew D. Pitkin, Francesco Piergiovanni, Kipp Cannon, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, Stephen Fairhurst, Daniel Sigg, Helios Vocca, John Zweizig, Philip Charlton, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, Francesco Fidecaro, Badri Krishnan, Roberto Passaquieti, Alessio Rocchi, Jong H. Chow, Piotr Jaranowski, Giovanni Losurdo, Piero Rapagnani, Rosa Poggiani, Elena Cuoco, Giles D. Hammond, Eugenio Coccia, Zoltán Keresztes, Francesco Salemi, Linqing Wen, Eric Thrane, Vivien Raymond, Tomasz Bulik, Chris J. Messenger, Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Alessandro Bertolini, Bryan Barr, Douglas Cook, Rana Adhikari, Stefan W. Ballmer, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Soma Mukherjee, François Bondu, Enrico Calloni, Ettore Majorana, Gianluca Persichetti, 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, Stanley E. Whitcomb, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Jesus Manuel Vizán Garcia, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Kirill V. Tokmakov, Alan J. Weinstein, John T. Whelan, David Blair, Aidan Brooks, Cesar Costa, Andrew Lundgren, Iain Martin, Rahul Biswas, Stefan Danilishin, Gianluca Guidi, Eric Howell, Conor M Mow-Lowry, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Cristiano Palomba, Daniel A. Shaddock, Bram Slagmolen, Amber L. Stuver, Bas L. Swinkels, Collin Capano, Michael Coughlin, Isidoro Ferrante, László Árpád Gergely, Eric Oelker, Michael Stefszky, Benno Willke, David Keitel, Carl-Johan Haster, Ryan Quitzow-James, E. Amador Ceron, Jordi Burguet-Castell, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, S. Gil-Casanova, Esther M Ter Braack, Eric K. Gustafson, Jessica Steinlechner, Fausto Acernese, Christopf Affeldt, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Peter Beyersdorf, Irene Di Palma, Reinier J. G. Jonker, Zsuzsanna Marka, Peter Aufmuth, Joseph Charles Betzwieser, Pia Astone, Richard Gustafson, Dennis Coyne, Juan C. B. Barayoga, James E. Brau, Hiroaki Yamamoto, 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, Jonathan Miller, Federico Paoletti, Michael Pedraza, Innocenzo M. Pinto, Rocco Romano, Bernard F Whiting, Shigeru Yoshida, Stefano Braccini, Vladimir A. Litvine, Laura Cadonati, Bernd Machenschalk, Antonio Pasqualetti, Jerome Degallaix, Federico Ferrini, Parameswaran Ajith, Junaid Aasi, Joshua Abadie, Richard Abbott, Timothée Accadia, Carl Adams, Michalis Agathos, Annalisa Allocca, Daniel V. Amariutei, Stuart B. Anderson, Warren G. Anderson, Melody C. Araya, Stefan Ast, Stuart M. Aston, Benjamin E. Aylott, Stanislav V. Babak, Paul T. Baker, Giulio Ballardin, David Barker, Fabrizio Barone, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Mark Andrew Barton, Imre Bartos, Andrea Basti, James C. Batch, Joeran Bauchrowitz, Thomas S. Bauer, Michael V. Bebronne, Berit Behnke, Michał Bejger, Mark G. Beker, Angus S. Bell, Christopher James Bell, Ilya Belopolski, Matt Benacquista, Jonathan M. Berliner, Irina A. Bilenko, GariLynn Billingsley, Jeremy Birch, Massimiliano Bitossi, Marie-Anne Bizouard, Eric Black, J. Kent Blackburn, Lindy Blackburn, Matheus Blom, Oliver Bock, Timothy P. 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