First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events

scientific article published on 11 February 2014

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author: Kip S. Thorne, Timo Denker, Prayush Kumar, Sebastian Steinlechner, David J. Murphy, Luca Naticchioni, Eric A. Quintero, Carsten Aulbert, Salvatore Vitale, Fabrice Matichard, Peter Kalmus, Dipongkar Talukder, Igor Neri, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Alexander Khalaidovski, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Borja Sorazu, Sascha Husa, Antoine Heidmann, Gabriele Vedovato, Vincenzo Pierro, Luca Gammaitoni, Riccardo Bassiri, Maria Principe, Massimo Granata, Karl Wette, Koji Arai, Marco Drago, David B. Tanner, John Veitch, Jong H. Chow, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Duncan A. Brown, Dovi Poznanski, Flavio Vetrano, Sanjit Mitra, Flavio Travasso, Michel Boër, Gabriele Vajente, Francesco Piergiovanni, Helios Vocca, Daniel Sigg, Matteo Lorenzini, László Árpád Gergely, Brian Schmidt, Benjamin F. Farr, Stephen Fairhurst, Andrea Chincarini, Piotr Jaranowski, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, Chunnong Zhao, Graham Woan, Alessio Rocchi, Roberto Passaquieti, Badri Krishnan, Philip Charlton, Haixing Miao, Fulvio P. Ricci, Stefan Hild, Francesco Fidecaro, Giovanni Losurdo, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Eugenio Coccia, Piero Rapagnani, Elena Cuoco, Rosa Poggiani, Mark Sullivan, Shiuh Chao, Lech Mankiewicz, Matteo Leonardi, Giles D. Hammond, Francesco Salemi, Linqing Wen, Yi-Ming Hu, Eric Thrane, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Chris J. Messenger, Vivien Raymond, Alessandro Bertolini, Bryan Barr, Douglas Cook, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Soma Mukherjee, Stephen B. Cenko, François Bondu, Enrico Calloni, 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, Aleksander Filip Żarnecki, Isidoro Ferrante, Katarzyna Małek, Susan Scott, Valentina Mangano, Jessica Steinlechner, Vik Dhillon, Leonid G. Prokhorov, Mauro Tonelli, Andrea Viceré, Iain Martin, Bas L. Swinkels, Chang-Hwan Lee, Kipp Cannon, 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, Carl W. Akerlof, Jesus Manuel Vizán Garcia, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Matthew D. Pitkin, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Samaya Nissanke, 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, 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. 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