GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

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author: Paul A. Altin, David E. McClelland, Matthew D. Pitkin, Mauro Tonelli, David B. Tanner, Claudia Lazzaro, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Orion Eli Sauter, Ronald Drever, Beverly Berger, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Michel Boër, Richard K. Mittleman, Dennis Ugolini, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Benjamin P. Abbott, Piero Rapagnani, Archisman Ghosh, Paolo Addesso, Bruce Gendre, Graham Woan, Ilya Mandel, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Sinead Walsh, Alberto Gatto, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Karsten Danzmann, Massimiliano Razzano, Odylio D. Aguiar, Carl D. Blair, Aidan Brooks, Duncan A. Brown, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Kipp Cannon, Collin Capano, Alessandra Corsi, Cesar Costa, Stefan Danilishin, Gareth S Davies, Walter Del Pozzo, Luciano Di Fiore, Isidoro Ferrante, Evan Goetz, Paul J. Groot, Gianluca Guidi, Gregory M. Harry, Eric Howell, Eliu A. Huerta, Dale R. Ingram, David Keitel, Izabela Kowalska, Prayush Kumar, Paul Lasky, Andrew Lundgren, Valentina Mangano, Denis V. Martynov, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Jonathan Miller, Conor M Mow-Lowry, Gijs Nelemans, Eric Oelker, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Federico Paoletti, Rosa Poggiani, Ryan Quitzow-James, Rocco Romano, Bram Slagmolen, Nicolas Straniero, Amber L. Stuver, Bas L. Swinkels, Keith Alan Thorne, Eric Thrane, Kirill V. Tokmakov, Joris van Heijningen, John Veitch, Alan J. Weinstein, John T. Whelan, Bernard F Whiting, Benno Willke, Riccardo Bassiri, Alessandro Bertolini, Tomasz Bulik, Giacomo Ciani, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Francesco Fidecaro, Laura Kate Nuttall, Vivien Raymond, Jamie Scott, Dipongkar Talukder, Rainer Weiss, Karl Wette, László Árpád Gergely, Sophie Hollitt, Ryan Lynch, Gabriele Vajente, Philip Charlton, Roberto Passaquieti, Eric A. Quintero, Alessio Rocchi, Giovanni Cerretani, Johannes Eichholz, Fabrice Matichard, Fulvio P. Ricci, Gabriele Vedovato, Flavio Vetrano, Bruce Allen, Timo Denker, Chris J. Messenger, Michael Zevin, Gregory Ashton, Valerio Boschi, Lorenzo Cerboni Baiardi, Marco Drago, Badri Krishnan, Francesco Pannarale, Maria Haney, Antoine Heidmann, Lorenzo Aiello, Stefano Ascenzi, Viswanath Bavigadda, Ross Birney, François Bondu, Elisabetta Cesarini, Andrea Chincarini, Eugenio Coccia, Christophe Collette, Livia Conti, Vincent Dolique, Stephen Fairhurst, Massimo Granata, Anna Green, Giles D. Hammond, Jan Harms, Piotr Jaranowski, Alexander Khalaidovski, Matteo Leonardi, Matteo Lorenzini, Ettore Majorana, Chandra Kant Mishra, David J. Murphy, Luca Naticchioni, Barbara Patricelli, Ornella Juliana Piccinni, Francesco Piergiovanni, Vincenzo Pierro, Maria Principe, Francesco Salemi, Borja Sorazu, Fiodor Sorrentino, Giulia Stratta, Márton Tápai, Flavio Travasso, Helios Vocca, John Zweizig, Thomas Callister, Francisco Jiménez-Forteza, Fabian Magaña-Sandoval, Nam-Gyu Kim, Mariela Masso-Reid, David Mendoza-Gandara, Arunava Mukherjee, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Innocenzo M. Pinto, Samaya Nissanke, Richard Gustafson, Eric K. Gustafson, Irene Di Palma, Reinier J. G. Jonker, Fausto Acernese, Kendall Ackley, Christopf Affeldt, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Sebastian Steinlechner, Christopher J Moore, Karl Aaron Gill, James E. Brau, Chloe Gray, Russell Jones, Peter Shawhan, Robert L. Stone, Richard J. McCarthy, David H. Shoemaker, Sang Hoon Oh, Sergey Klimenko, Muhammed Saleem, Gang Wang, Jiayi Qin, Eirini Messaritaki, Minchuan Zhou, Michael Pürrer, Lucía Santamaría, Kyung-Ha Lee, Michal Was, Margot Hensler Hennig, Diego Bersanetti, Hannah Middleton, Eleonora Capocasa, Soumi De, Mikhail Korobko, Koji Arai, Miriam Cabero, Antonino Chiummo, Hong Qi, Laura Cadonati, Rajesh Kumble Nayak, K. G. Arun, Bernd Machenschalk, Jerome Degallaix, Antonio Pasqualetti, Federico Ferrini, Namjun Kim, Richard Abbott, Matthew R. Abernathy, Carl Adams, Rana Adhikari, Vaishali Adya, Michalis Agathos, Nancy Aggarwal, Anirban Ain, Parameswaran Ajith, Annalisa Allocca, Stuart B. Anderson, Warren G. Anderson, Melody C. Araya, Cody C. Arceneaux, Joseph S. Areeda, Nicolas Arnaud, Melanie Ast, Stuart M. Aston, Pia Astone, Peter Aufmuth, Carsten Aulbert, Stanislav V. Babak, Philippe Bacon, Maria Karolina Margit Bader, Paul T. Baker, Francesca Baldaccini, Giulio Ballardin, Stefan W. Ballmer, Juan C. B. Barayoga, Sheena E. Barclay, Barry C. Barish, David Barker, Fabrizio Barone, Bryan Barr, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Dániel Barta, Jeffrey Bartlett, Imre Bartos, Andrea Basti, James C. Batch, Christoph Baune, Marco Bazzan, Berit Behnke, Michał Bejger, Angus S. Bell, Christopher James Bell, Justin Bergman, Gerald Bergmann, Christopher P. L. Berry, Joseph Charles Betzwieser, Swetha Bhagwat, Rohan Bhandare, Irina A. Bilenko, GariLynn Billingsley, Jeremy Birch, Sebastien Biscans, Aparna Bisht, Massimiliano Bitossi, Christopher Biwer, Marie-Anne Bizouard, J. Kent Blackburn, Ryan M. Blair, Steven Bloemen, Oliver Bock, Timothy P. Bodiya, Gilles Bogaert, Christina Bogan, Alejandro Bohé, Péter Bojtos, Charlotte Bond, Romain Bonnand, Boris A. Boom, Rolf Bork, Yann Bouffanais, Antonella Bozzi, Carlo Bradaschia, Patrick R Brady, Vladimir Braginsky, Marica Branchesi, Tristan Briant, Alain Brillet, Marc Brinkmann, Violette Brisson, Patrick Brockill, Daniel David Brown, Nicolas M. Brown, Christopher C. Buchanan, Aaron Buikema, Henk Jan Bulten, Alessandra Buonanno, Damir Buskulic, Christelle Buy, Robert L. Byer, Gianpietro Cagnoli, Craig Cahillane, Enrico Calloni, Jordan B. Camp, Junwei Cao, Franco Carbognani, Santiago Caride, Julia Casanueva Diaz, Claudio Casentini, Sarah Elizabeth Caudill, Marco Cavaglià, Fabien Cavalier, Roberto Cavalieri, Giancarlo Cella, Christian B. Cepeda, Rijuparna Chakraborty, Tara Chalermsongsak, Sydney J. Chamberlin, Manleong Chan, Shiuh Chao, Hsin-Yu Chen, Yan-Bei Chen, Chun Cheng, Hee-Suk Cho, Min-a Cho, Jong H. Chow, Nelson Lloyd Christensen, Qi Chu, Sheon S. Y. Chua, Shinkee Chung, Filiberto Clara, Frédéric Cleva, Pierre-François Cohadon, Alberto Colla, Lynn R. Cominsky, Marcio Constâncio Jr., Andrea Conte, Douglas Cook, Thomas Randall Corbitt, Neil J. Cornish, Stefano Cortese, Michael Coughlin, Scott Benjamin Coughlin, Jean-Pierre Coulon, Stefan Trklja Countryman, Peter Couvares, Erika E. Cowan, David Martin Coward, Matthew J. Cowart, Dennis Coyne, Robert Coyne, Kieran Craig, Teviet D. Creighton, Jonathan Cripe, Sarah Gwynne Crowder, Andrew Cumming, Liam Cunningham, Elena Cuoco, Tito Dal Canton, Sabrina D'Antonio, Nicole S. Darman, Vincenzo Dattilo, Ishant Dave, Hernan P. Daveloza, Michel Davier, Edward Daw, Richard Day, Daniel DeBra, Samuel Deléglise, Thomas Dent, Hüsne Dereli-Bégué, Vladimir Dergachev, Ryan Thomas DeRosa, Rosario De Rosa, Riccardo DeSalvo, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Mario Claudio Díaz, Matteo Di Giovanni, Alberto Di Lieto, Sibilla Di Pace, Angela DiVirgilio, Goran Dojcinoski, Fred Donovan, Katherine L. Dooley, Suresh Doravari, Rebecca Douglas, Thomas P. Downes, Jennifer C. Driggers, Zhihui Du, Marine Ducrot, Sheila Elizabeth Dwyer, Tega Boro Edo, Anamaria Effler, Heinz-Bernd Eggenstein, Phil Ehrens, Stephen S Eikenberry, William Engels, Reed Essick, Todd Etzel, Ryan Everett, Maxim Factourovich, Viviana Fafone, Hannah Fair, Xilong Fan, Qi Fang, Stefania Farinon, Benjamin F. Farr, Will M. Farr, Marc Favata, Maxime Fays, Henning Fehrmann, Martin M. Fejer, Elvis C. Ferreira, Irene Fiori, Donatella Fiorucci, Ryan Patrick Fisher, Raffaele Flaminio, Mark Fletcher, Jean-Daniel Fournier, Samuel Franco, Franco Frasconi, Zsolt Frei, Andreas Freise, Raymond E. Frey, Valentin Frey, Tobin T. Fricke, Valery Victor Frolov, Paul J. Fulda, Michael Fyffe, Hunter A. Gabbard, Jonathan R. Gair, Luca Gammaitoni, Sharad G. Gaonkar, Fabio Garufi, Gurudatt Gaur, Neil Gehrels, Gianluca Gemme, Eric Genin, Alberto Gennai, Jogy George, Vincent Germain, Shaon Ghosh, Joseph Anthony Giaime, K. Dwayne Giardina, Adalberto Giazotto, Andreas Glaefke, Ryan Goetz, László Gondán, Jose M. Gonzalez Castro, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Neil A. Gordon, Michael L. Gorodetsky, Sarah E. Gossan, Matthieu Gosselin, Romain Gouaty, Christian Graef, Philip B. Graff, Alastair Grant, Slawomir Gras, Giuseppe Greco, Hartmut Grote, Steffen Grunewald, Xiangyu Guo, Anuradha Gupta, Manojipr K. Gupta, Kaitlin E. Gushwa, Joshua J. Hacker, Bernard R. Hall, Evan Hall, Manuela M. Hanke, Jonathan Hanks, Chad Hanna, Mark Douglas Hannam, Joe Hanson, Terra Hardwick, Ian Harry, Martin J. Hart, Michael T. Hartman, Carl-Johan Haster, Karen Haughian, Matthew Carl Heintze, Henrich Heitmann, Patrice Hello, Gary Hemming, Martin A. Hendry, Ik Siong Heng, Jan-Simon Hennig, Alastair W. Heptonstall, Michèle Heurs, Stefan Hild, Daniel Hoak, Kari Alison Hodge, David J. Hofman, Kathy Holt, Daniel E. Holz, Paul Hopkins, David J. Hosken, James Hough, Ewan A. Houston, Yi-Ming Hu, Shu-Yu Huang, Dominique Huet, Brennan Hughey, Sascha Husa, Sabina H. Huttner, Tien Huynh-Dinh, Ashikuzzaman Idrisy, Nathaniel Indik, Ra Inta, Hafizah N. Isa, Jean-Michel Isac, Maximiliano Isi, Gabriel Islas, Tomoki Isogai, Bala R. Iyer, Kiwamu Izumi, Thibaut Jacqmin, Haengjin Jang, Karan Jani, Sharat Jawahar, Warren Wilmer Johnson, David Ian Jones, Li Ju, M. K. Haris, Chinmay Vasudev Kalaghatgi, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Gung-Won Kang, Jonah B. Kanner, Sudarshan Karki, Marie Kasprzack, Erik Katsavounidis, William Katzman, Steffen Kaufer, Tejinder Kaur, Keita Kawabe, Fumiko Kawazoe, Fabien Kéfélian, Marcel S. Kehl, David Bruce Kelley, William Kells, Ross J. Kennedy, Joey Shapiro Key, Farit Y. Khalili, Imran Khan, Zaki A. Khan, Efim A. Khazanov, Nutsinee Kijbunchoo, Chi-Woong Kim, Jeong-Cho Kim, Kyungmin Kim, Young-Min Kim, Eleanor Jean King, Peter J. King, David L. Kinzel, Jeffrey S. Kissel, Lisa Kleybolte, Sina Maria Koehlenbeck, Keiko Kokeyama, Soumen Koley, Veronica Kondrashov, Antonios Kontos, William Z. Korth, Dan B. Kozak, Volker Kringel, Andrzej Królak, Christoph Krueger, Gerrit Kuehn, Ling-Chi Kuo, Adam Kutynia, Benjamin D. Lackey, Michael R. Landry, Jacob Lange, Brian Thomas Lantz, Albert Lazzarini, Paola Leaci, Sean Leavey, Eric O. Lebigot, Chang-Hwan Lee, Hyun-Kyu Lee, Hyung Mok Lee, Amber K. Lenon, Jonathan R. Leong, Nicolas Leroy, Nicolas Letendre, Yuri Levin, Bruce Martin Levine, Tjonnie G. F. 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