Supplement: "The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from Advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 833, L1)

scientific article published on 30 November 2016

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author: Sebastian Khan, Prayush Kumar, Lorenzo Aiello, Minchuan Zhou, Francesco Pannarale, Márton Tápai, Alberto Gatto, Diego Bersanetti, Dipongkar Talukder, Claudia Lazzaro, Xing-Jiang Zhu, Fiodor Sorrentino, Alexander Khalaidovski, Barbara Patricelli, Chandra Kant Mishra, Livia Conti, Jamie Scott, Riccardo Bassiri, Koji Arai, Maria Principe, Paolo Addesso, John Veitch, Alexander Harvey Nitz, David B. Tanner, Marco Drago, Duncan A. Brown, Andrea Chincarini, Haixing Miao, Benjamin F. Farr, Chunnong Zhao, Graham Woan, Matthew D. Pitkin, Stephen Fairhurst, Piotr Jaranowski, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, John Zweizig, Michel Boër, Gabriele Vajente, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, Francesco Fidecaro, Badri Krishnan, Roberto Passaquieti, Vincenzo Pierro, László Árpád Gergely, Piero Rapagnani, Rosa Poggiani, Elena Cuoco, Eugenio Coccia, Benno Willke, Fabio Garufi, Andrea Viceré, François Bondu, Giovanni Losurdo, Massimiliano Razzano, Isidoro Ferrante, Gijs Nelemans, Paul J. Groot, Raymond E. Frey, Stefano Ascenzi, Matteo Leonardi, Giles D. Hammond, Thomas Callister, Vincent Dolique, Viswanath Bavigadda, Patricia Schmidt, Francesco Salemi, Andrew Wade, Linqing Wen, Helios Vocca, Eric Thrane, Vivien Raymond, Rocco Romano, Ettore Majorana, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Chris J. Messenger, Giulia Stratta, Alessandro Bertolini, Bryan Barr, Paul A. Altin, Giovanni Cerretani, Bruce Gendre, Flavio Travasso, Douglas Cook, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Enrico Calloni, Leopoldo Milano, Benjamin P. Abbott, Giacomo Ciani, Karsten Danzmann, Evan Goetz, Fabrice Matichard, David E. McClelland, Laura Kate Nuttall, Daniel Sigg, Borja Sorazu, Robert L. Ward, Rainer Weiss, Michel Davier, Carl D. Blair, Susan Scott, Mauro Tonelli, Jong H. Chow, Kipp Cannon, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Orion Eli Sauter, Ronald Drever, Beverly Berger, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Peter Fritschel, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Archisman Ghosh, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Sinead Walsh, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Odylio D. Aguiar, David Blair, Aidan Brooks, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Collin Capano, Alessandra Corsi, Cesar Costa, Stefan Danilishin, Gareth S Davies, Walter Del Pozzo, Luciano Di Fiore, Gianluca Guidi, Eric Howell, Eliu A. Huerta, Dale R. Ingram, David Keitel, Izabela Kowalska, Paul Lasky, Andrew Lundgren, Valentina Mangano, Denis V. Martynov, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Jonathan Miller, Conor M Mow-Lowry, Eric Oelker, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Federico Paoletti, Ryan Quitzow-James, Bram Slagmolen, Nicolas Straniero, Amber L. Stuver, Bas L. Swinkels, Keith Alan Thorne, Kirill V. Tokmakov, Joris van Heijningen, Alan J. Weinstein, John T. Whelan, Bernard F Whiting, Karl Wette, Sophie Hollitt, Ryan Lynch, Philip Charlton, Eric A. Quintero, Alessio Rocchi, Fulvio P. Ricci, Gabriele Vedovato, Flavio Vetrano, Bruce Allen, Timo Denker, Michael Zevin, Gregory Ashton, Valerio Boschi, Lorenzo Cerboni Baiardi, Maria Haney, Antoine Heidmann, Ross Birney, Christophe Collette, Massimo Granata, Anna Green, David J. Murphy, Luca Naticchioni, Ornella Juliana Piccinni, Francesco Piergiovanni, Francisco Jiménez-Forteza, Fabian Magaña-Sandoval, Nam-Gyu Kim, Mariela Masso-Reid, David Mendoza-Gandara, Arunava Mukherjee, Innocenzo M. Pinto, Samaya Nissanke, 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, David J. Hofman, Laura Cadonati, Rajesh Kumble Nayak, K. G. Arun, Bernd Machenschalk, Jerome Degallaix, Antonio Pasqualetti, Federico Ferrini, Richard Abbott, Matthew R. Abernathy, Fausto Acernese, Kendall Ackley, Carl Adams, Rana Adhikari, Vaishali Adya, Christopf Affeldt, Michalis Agathos, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, 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, Lisa Barsotti, Matteo Barsuglia, Dániel Barta, Jeffrey Bartlett, Imre Bartos, Andrea Basti, James C. Batch, Christoph Baune, Marco Bazzan, Michał Bejger, Angus S. Bell, 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, Gilles Bogaert, Christina Bogan, Alejandro Bohé, 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, Jordan B. Camp, Junwei Cao, Eleonora Capocasa, Franco Carbognani, Santiago Caride, Julia Casanueva Diaz, Claudio Casentini, Sarah Elizabeth Caudill, Marco Cavaglià, Fabien Cavalier, Roberto Cavalieri, Giancarlo Cella, Christian B. Cepeda, Sydney J. 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Darman, Vincenzo Dattilo, Ishant Dave, Edward Daw, Richard Day, Soumi De, Daniel DeBra, Samuel Deléglise, Thomas Dent, Vladimir Dergachev, Rosario De Rosa, Ryan Thomas DeRosa, Riccardo DeSalvo, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Mario Claudio Díaz, Matteo Di Giovanni, Alberto Di Lieto, Sibilla Di Pace, Irene Di Palma, Angela DiVirgilio, 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, Will M. Farr, Marc Favata, Maxime Fays, Henning Fehrmann, Martin M. Fejer, Elvis C. 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