Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3

scientific article (publication date: 19 April 2012)

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author: Kip S. Thorne, Norman Gray, Carlos Peralta, Giacomo Ciani, Sebastian Steinlechner, David J. Murphy, Lucía Santamaría, Luca Naticchioni, Salvatore Vitale, Carsten Aulbert, Dipongkar Talukder, Peter Kalmus, Alexander Khalaidovski, Fabrice Matichard, Christian Röver, Fabio Postiglione, Matthew D. Pitkin, Borja Sorazu, Atsushi Nishizawa, Karl Wette, Luca Gammaitoni, Gabriele Vedovato, Riccardo Bassiri, Valerio Boschi, Massimo Granata, Sascha Husa, Koji Arai, Antoine Heidmann, Maria Principe, Mirko Prato, Marco Drago, David B. Tanner, Leopoldo Milano, John Veitch, Philip Charlton, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Duncan A. Brown, Fulvio P. Ricci, Andrea Chincarini, Haixing Miao, Flavio Vetrano, Chunnong Zhao, Graham Woan, Francesco Piergiovanni, Kipp Cannon, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, Stephen Fairhurst, Daniel Sigg, Helios Vocca, John Zweizig, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, Francesco Fidecaro, Badri Krishnan, Roberto Passaquieti, Alessio Rocchi, Piotr Jaranowski, Giovanni Losurdo, Piero Rapagnani, Rosa Poggiani, Elena Cuoco, Eugenio Coccia, Isidoro Ferrante, Fabio Garufi, Zoltán Keresztes, Giles D. Hammond, 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, Karsten Danzmann, Evan Goetz, David E. McClelland, Laura Kate Nuttall, Robert L. Ward, Rainer Weiss, Michel Davier, Susan Scott, Soumya D. Mohanty, 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, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Gareth S Davies, 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, László Árpád Gergely, Eric Oelker, Michael Stefszky, Benno Willke, E. Amador Ceron, Jordi Burguet-Castell, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, Llucia Sancho de la Jordana, Zsuzsanna Marka, Eric K. 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