GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

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author: Paolo Addesso, Vaishali Adya, Odylio D. Aguiar, Odylio D. Aguiar, Lorenzo Aiello, Bruce Allen, Koji Arai, Stefano Ascenzi, Gregory Ashton, Bryan Barr, Viswanath Bavigadda, Christopher P. L. Berry, Diego Bersanetti, Ross Birney, Michel Boër, François Bondu, Valerio Boschi, Patrick R Brady, Aidan Brooks, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Thomas Callister, Kipp Cannon, Collin Capano, Giovanni Cerretani, Elisabetta Cesarini, Philip Charlton, Andrea Chincarini, Jong H. Chow, Eugenio Coccia, Livia Conti, Cesar Costa, Elena Cuoco, Tito Dal Canton, Gareth S Davies, Martina De Laurentis, Walter Del Pozzo, Alberto Di Lieto, Angela DiVirgilio, Vincent Dolique, Marco Drago, Stephen Fairhurst, Edit Fenyvesi, Isidoro Ferrante, Andreas Freise, Fabio Garufi, László Árpád Gergely, Aniello Grado, Massimo Granata, Anna Green, Paul J. Groot, Gianluca Guidi, Giles D. Hammond, Maria Haney, Jan Harms, Eric Howell, Yi-Ming Hu, Eliu A. Huerta, Sascha Husa, Piotr Jaranowski, Li Ju, David Keitel, Mikhail Korobko, Badri Krishnan, Paul Lasky, Claudia Lazzaro, Matteo Leonardi, Matteo Lorenzini, Giovanni Losurdo, Andrew Lundgren, Ettore Majorana, Valentina Mangano, Iain Martin, Thomas J. Massinger, Simone Mastrogiovanni, David E. McClelland, Chris J. Messenger, Haixing Miao, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Chandra Kant Mishra, Conor M Mow-Lowry, David J. Murphy, Luca Naticchioni, Gijs Nelemans, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Laura Kate Nuttall, Eric Oelker, Frank Ohme, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Benjamin J. Owen, Francesco Pannarale, Roberto Passaquieti, Barbara Patricelli, Harald Pfeiffer, Ornella Juliana Piccinni, Francesco Piergiovanni, Vincenzo Pierro, Innocenzo M. Pinto, Matthew D. Pitkin, Rosa Poggiani, Jade Powell, Maria Principe, Giovanni Andrea Prodi, Hong Qi, Eric A. Quintero, Piero Rapagnani, Massimiliano Razzano, Alessio Rocchi, Mairi Sakellariadou, Francesco Salemi, Daniel Sigg, Bram Slagmolen, Borja Sorazu, Fiodor Sorrentino, Simon Stevenson, Kenneth Strain, Giulia Stratta, Amber L. Stuver, Bas L. Swinkels, David B. Tanner, Márton Tápai, Eric Thrane, Karl Toland, Zeno Tornasi, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Joris van Heijningen, Alberto Vecchio, Andrea Viceré, Salvatore Vitale, Helios Vocca, Robert L. Ward, Linqing Wen, John T. Whelan, Benno Willke, Graham Woan, Chunnong Zhao, Xing-Jiang Zhu, John Zweizig, Michel Davier, Saul A. Teukolsky, Mauro Tonelli, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Ronald Drever, Beverly Berger, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Richard K. Mittleman, Dennis Ugolini, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Benjamin P. 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Arun, Bernd Machenschalk, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Antonio Pasqualetti, Jerome Degallaix, Peter J. Veitch, Saeed Mirshekari, Kalina V. Nedkova, Gabriel Pillant, Niels van Bakel, Brynley L. Pearlstone, Richard Pedurand, Federico Ferrini, Richard Abbott, Carl Adams, Michalis Agathos, Anirban Ain, Parameswaran Ajith, Annalisa Allocca, Paul A. Altin, Stuart B. Anderson, Warren G. Anderson, Melody C. Araya, Cody C. Arceneaux, Joseph S. Areeda, Nicolas Arnaud, Melanie Ast, Stuart M. Aston, Carsten Aulbert, Stanislav V. Babak, Philippe Bacon, Maria Karolina Margit Bader, Paul T. Baker, Francesca Baldaccini, Giulio Ballardin, Stefan W. Ballmer, Sheena E. Barclay, Barry C. Barish, David Barker, Fabrizio Barone, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Dániel Barta, Jeffrey Bartlett, Imre Bartos, Riccardo Bassiri, Andrea Basti, James C. Batch, Christoph Baune, Marco Bazzan, Michał Bejger, Angus S. 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