Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors

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author: Odylio D. Aguiar, Odylio D. Aguiar, Bruce Allen, Koji Arai, Carsten Aulbert, Bryan Barr, Diego Bersanetti, David Blair, François Bondu, Valerio Boschi, Patrick R Brady, Aidan Brooks, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Enrico Calloni, Kipp Cannon, Collin Capano, Elisabetta Cesarini, Philip Charlton, Andrea Chincarini, Jong H. Chow, Eugenio Coccia, Cesar Costa, Elena Cuoco, Stefan Danilishin, Gareth S Davies, Walter Del Pozzo, Timo Denker, Alberto Di Lieto, Angela DiVirgilio, Marco Drago, Stephen Fairhurst, Isidoro Ferrante, Andreas Freise, Raymond E. Frey, Luca Gammaitoni, Fabio Garufi, László Árpád Gergely, Massimo Granata, Paul J. Groot, Gianluca Guidi, Giles D. Hammond, Jan Harms, Antoine Heidmann, Michèle Heurs, Eric Howell, Yi-Ming Hu, Eliu A. Huerta, Sascha Husa, Bala R. Iyer, Piotr Jaranowski, Li Ju, Peter Kalmus, Alexander Khalaidovski, Paul Lasky, Matteo Leonardi, Matteo Lorenzini, Giovanni Losurdo, Ettore Majorana, Valentina Mangano, Thomas J. Massinger, Fabrice Matichard, David E. McClelland, Chris J. Messenger, Haixing Miao, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Sanjit Mitra, Conor M Mow-Lowry, David J. Murphy, Luca Naticchioni, Gijs Nelemans, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Benjamin J. Owen, M. Alessandra Papa, Roberto Passaquieti, Francesco Piergiovanni, Vincenzo Pierro, Innocenzo M. Pinto, Matthew D. Pitkin, Rosa Poggiani, Maria Principe, Giovanni Andrea Prodi, Eric A. Quintero, Piero Rapagnani, Fulvio P. Ricci, Alessio Rocchi, Rocco Romano, Francesco Salemi, Daniel Sigg, Bram Slagmolen, Borja Sorazu, Kenneth Strain, Amber L. Stuver, Bas L. Swinkels, David B. Tanner, Eric Thrane, Kirill V. Tokmakov, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Joris van Heijningen, Alberto Vecchio, Gabriele Vedovato, Flavio Vetrano, Andrea Viceré, Salvatore Vitale, Helios Vocca, Robert L. Ward, Linqing Wen, John T. Whelan, Benno Willke, Graham Woan, Chunnong Zhao, John Zweizig, Michel Davier, Mauro Tonelli, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Ronald Drever, Lee Samuel Finn, Bernard F. Schutz, Stanley E. Whitcomb, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Michel Boër, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Benjamin P. Abbott, Ilya Mandel, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Karsten Danzmann, Zsuzsanna Marka, Eric K. Gustafson, Joseph Charles Betzwieser, Fausto Acernese, Peter Aufmuth, James E. Brau, Ryan Quitzow-James, Chloe Gray, Russell Jones, Peter Shawhan, Robert L. Stone, Richard J. McCarthy, David H. Shoemaker, Sang Hoon Oh, Sergey Klimenko, Matthew R. Abernathy, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Luciano Di Fiore, Gregory M. Harry, Dale R. Ingram, Clancy James, Izabela Kowalska, Iain Martin, Jonathan Miller, Federico Paoletti, Michael Pedraza, Keith Alan Thorne, John Veitch, Bernard F Whiting, Shigeru Yoshida, Rana Adhikari, Christopf Affeldt, Nancy Aggarwal, Pia Astone, Juan C. B. Barayoga, Duncan A. Brown, Michael Coughlin, Evan Goetz, Richard Gustafson, Reinier J. G. Jonker, Cristiano Palomba, Daniel A. Shaddock, David Keitel, Andrew Lundgren, Denis V. Martynov, Eric Oelker, Nicolas Straniero, Rachel Vincent-Finley, Alan J. Weinstein, E. Amador Ceron, S. Gil-Casanova, Riccardo Bassiri, Alessandro Bertolini, Tomasz Bulik, Giacomo Ciani, Alessandra Corsi, Johannes Eichholz, Francesco Fidecaro, Andrew G. Ivanov, Laura Kate Nuttall, Vivien Raymond, Jamie Scott, Dipongkar Talukder, Rainer Weiss, Karl Wette, Atsushi Nishizawa, Francisco Jiménez-Forteza, Fabian Magaña-Sandoval, Esther M Ter Braack, W. Ortega Larcher, Vladimir A. Litvine, Laura Cadonati, Dennis Coyne, H. Kaufer, Rory J. E. Smith, J. Abadie, Timothée Accadia, Parameswaran Ajith, Annalisa Allocca, Daniel V. Amariutei, C. Arceneaux, Joseph S. Areeda, Benjamin E. Aylott, Bernd Machenschalk, Antonio Pasqualetti, Jerome Degallaix, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Federico Ferrini, Junaid Aasi, Richard Abbott, Thomas D. Abbott, Carl Adams, Michalis Agathos, Robert A. Anderson, Stuart B. Anderson, Warren G. Anderson, Melody C. Araya, Stefan Ast, Stuart M. Aston, Lisa Austin, Stanislav V. Babak, Paul T. Baker, Giulio Ballardin, Stefan W. Ballmer, David Barker, Fabrizio Barone, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Mark Andrew Barton, Imre Bartos, Andrea Basti, James C. Batch, Joeran Bauchrowitz, Thomas S. Bauer, Berit Behnke, Michał Bejger, Mark G. Beker, Angus S. Bell, Christopher James Bell, Gerald Bergmann, Peter T. Beyersdorf, 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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