Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

scientific article published in November 2014

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author: Kip S. Thorne, Timo Denker, Prayush Kumar, Vincent Dolique, Christophe Collette, Lars Mohrmann, Anne Schukraft, Lars Rickard Ström, Luca Naticchioni, João Pedro Athayde Marcondes de André, Anna Obertacke, Salvatore Vitale, Jonathan Miller, Carsten Aulbert, Diego Bersanetti, Dipongkar Talukder, Claudia Lazzaro, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Peter Kalmus, Igor Neri, Alexander Khalaidovski, Fabrice Matichard, Chandra Kant Mishra, Henric Taavola, Paolo Addesso, Borja Sorazu, Karl Wette, Timo Karg, Gabriele Vedovato, Riccardo Bassiri, Valerio Boschi, Vincenzo Pierro, Massimo Granata, Sascha Husa, Koji Arai, Antoine Heidmann, Reina Maruyama, Bruce Gendre, Samvel Ter-Antonyan, Marco Drago, David B. Tanner, John Veitch, Klaus Helbing, Marcos Santander, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Duncan A. Brown, Fulvio P. Ricci, Andrea Chincarini, Markus Ahlers, 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, Carsten Rott, Elisa Resconi, Piotr Jaranowski, Matteo Leonardi, Stefan Hild, Sanjit Mitra, Kevin Meagher, Segev BenZvi, Paolo Desiati, Giles D. Hammond, John Zweizig, Michel Boër, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Viswanath Bavigadda, Francesco Salemi, Patricia Schmidt, Sebastian Steinlechner, Andrew Wade, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Chris J. Messenger, Eliu A. Huerta, Vivien Raymond, Douglas Cook, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Soma Mukherjee, Samuel Flis, 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, Joanna Kiryluk, Mauro Tonelli, Robert Taylor, Subir Sarkar, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Marek Kowalski, Ronald Drever, Lee Samuel Finn, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Volker Quetschke, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, Andrew Melatos, Piero Rapagnani, David R. Nygren, Dirk Ryckbosch, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Hermann Kolanoski, Sinead Walsh, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Sebastian Böser, Todd Adams, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Massimiliano Razzano, Odylio D. Aguiar, David Blair, Aidan Brooks, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Kipp Cannon, Collin Capano, Alessandra Corsi, Cesar Costa, Stefan Danilishin, Gareth S Davies, Luciano Di Fiore, Mariano Dominguez, Isidoro Ferrante, Paul J. Groot, Gianluca Guidi, Eric Howell, Dale R. Ingram, David Keitel, Izabela Kowalska, Paul Lasky, Andrew Lundgren, Valentina Mangano, Denis V. Martynov, Eugeniy E. 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