Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

scientific article published on 13 May 2015

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author: Timo Denker, Prayush Kumar, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Eric A. Quintero, Luca Naticchioni, Carsten Aulbert, Peter Kalmus, Igor Neri, Alexander Khalaidovski, Fabrice Matichard, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Borja Sorazu, Karl Wette, Zhihui Du, Gabriele Vedovato, Riccardo Bassiri, Massimo Granata, Sascha Husa, Koji Arai, Antoine Heidmann, Maria Principe, Shiuh Chao, Marco Drago, John Veitch, Jong H. Chow, Jamie Scott, Bruce Allen, Fulvio P. Ricci, Andrea Chincarini, Haixing Miao, Flavio Vetrano, Benjamin F. Farr, Graham Woan, Matthew D. Pitkin, Francesco Piergiovanni, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, Stephen Fairhurst, Daniel Sigg, Helios Vocca, John Zweizig, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, Sanjit Mitra, Francesco Fidecaro, Badri Krishnan, Roberto Passaquieti, László Árpád Gergely, Alessio Rocchi, Piotr Jaranowski, Vincenzo Pierro, Philip Charlton, Rosa Poggiani, Elena Cuoco, Eugenio Coccia, Piero Rapagnani, Fabio Garufi, Andrea Viceré, Benno Willke, Matteo Leonardi, Giles D. Hammond, 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, Douglas Cook, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, François Bondu, Enrico Calloni, Leopoldo Milano, Ettore Majorana, Benjamin P. Abbott, Giacomo Ciani, Karsten Danzmann, Evan Goetz, David E. McClelland, John Miller, Laura Kate Nuttall, Robert L. Ward, Rainer Weiss, Michel Davier, Isidoro Ferrante, Mauro Tonelli, David B. Tanner, Kipp Cannon, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Ronald Drever, Lee Samuel Finn, Bernard F. Schutz, Stanley E. Whitcomb, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Michel Boër, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Ilya Mandel, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, James E. Brau, Ryan Quitzow-James, Chloe Gray, Russell Jones, Peter Shawhan, Robert L. Stone, Richard J. McCarthy, David H. Shoemaker, Sang Hoon Oh, Sergey Klimenko, David J. Murphy, Vladimir A. Litvine, Laura Cadonati, Bernd Machenschalk, Antonio Pasqualetti, Jerome Degallaix, Federico Ferrini, Junaid Aasi, Richard Abbott, Thomas D. Abbott, Matthew R. Abernathy, Fausto Acernese, Carl Adams, Rana Adhikari, Christopf Affeldt, Michalis Agathos, Nancy Aggarwal, Odylio D. Aguiar, Parameswaran Ajith, Annalisa Allocca, Daniel V. Amariutei, Stuart B. Anderson, Warren G. Anderson, Melody C. Araya, Cody C. Arceneaux, Joseph S. Areeda, Stuart M. Aston, Pia Astone, Peter Aufmuth, Stanislav V. Babak, Paul T. Baker, Giulio Ballardin, Stefan W. Ballmer, Juan C. B. Barayoga, David Barker, Fabrizio Barone, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Mark Andrew Barton, Imre Bartos, Andrea Basti, James C. Batch, Berit Behnke, Michał Bejger, Angus S. Bell, Christopher James Bell, Gerald Bergmann, Joseph Charles Betzwieser, Irina A. Bilenko, GariLynn Billingsley, Jeremy Birch, Massimiliano Bitossi, Marie-Anne Bizouard, J. Kent Blackburn, Lindy Blackburn, David Blair, Oliver Bock, Timothy P. Bodiya, Christina Bogan, Charlotte Bond, Romain Bonnand, Rolf Bork, Michael Born, Carlo Bradaschia, Patrick R Brady, Vladimir Braginsky, Marica Branchesi, Tristan Briant, Alain Brillet, Marc Brinkmann, Violette Brisson, Aidan Brooks, Duncan A. Brown, Daniel David Brown, Henk Jan Bulten, Alessandra Buonanno, Damir Buskulic, Christelle Buy, Robert L. 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Daveloza, Gareth S Davies, Edward Daw, Richard Day, Samuel Deléglise, Walter Del Pozzo, Thomas Dent, Hüsne Dereli-Bégué, Vladimir Dergachev, Rosario De Rosa, Ryan Thomas DeRosa, Riccardo DeSalvo, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Mario Claudio Díaz, Luciano Di Fiore, Alberto Di Lieto, Irene Di Palma, Angela DiVirgilio, Fred Donovan, Katherine L. Dooley, Suresh Doravari, Jennifer C. Driggers, Sheila Elizabeth Dwyer, Mark Edwards, Anamaria Effler, Phil Ehrens, Stephen S Eikenberry, Reed Essick, Todd Etzel, Matthew Evans, Thomas M. Evans, Maxim Factourovich, Viviana Fafone, Qi Fang, Will M. Farr, Marc Favata, Henning Fehrmann, David Feldbaum, Irene Fiori, Ryan Patrick Fisher, Raffaele Flaminio, Jean-Daniel Fournier, Samuel Franco, Sergio Frasca, Franco Frasconi, Maik Frede, Zsolt Frei, Andreas Freise, Raymond E. Frey, Tobin T. Fricke, Valery Victor Frolov, Paul J. Fulda, Michael Fyffe, Jonathan R. Gair, Luca Gammaitoni, Gianluca Gemme, Eric Genin, Alberto Gennai, Shaon Ghosh, Joseph Anthony Giaime, K. 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