First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems

scientific article published in September 2014

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author: Kip S. Thorne, Evan Goetz, 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, 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, Jong H. Chow, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Duncan A. Brown, Fulvio P. Ricci, Andrea Chincarini, 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, Philip Charlton, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, Sanjit Mitra, Francesco Fidecaro, Badri Krishnan, Roberto Passaquieti, Alessio Rocchi, Piotr Jaranowski, Piero Rapagnani, Giovanni Losurdo, Rosa Poggiani, Elena Cuoco, Eugenio Coccia, Matteo Leonardi, Francesco Salemi, Linqing Wen, Yi-Ming Hu, Sebastian Steinlechner, Eric Thrane, Vivien Raymond, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Chris J. Messenger, Alessandro Bertolini, Bryan Barr, Eliu A. Huerta, Douglas Cook, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Soma Mukherjee, Haixing Miao, François Bondu, Enrico Calloni, Leopoldo Milano, Ettore Majorana, Benjamin P. Abbott, Giacomo Ciani, Karsten Danzmann, 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, Volker Quetschke, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, 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, Michael Coughlin, Nancy Aggarwal, Michael Pedraza, Jennifer C. Driggers, Matthew R. Abernathy, Rana Adhikari, Lynn R. Cominsky, Jessica Steinlechner, David H. Shoemaker, Sang Hoon Oh, Alessandra Corsi, Sergey Klimenko, Andrew G. Ivanov, Vladimir A. Litvine, Laura Cadonati, H. Kaufer, Thomas D. 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