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All-Sky LIGO Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Early Fifth-Science-Run Data

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run

scientific article published on 5 May 2010

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO

scientific article published on 12 February 2016

All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data

scientific article published on 5 January 2012

An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin

scientific article published on 20 August 2009

Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black-hole Merger GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Astrophysically triggered searches for gravitational waves: status and prospects

scientific article published on 15 May 2008

Beating the Spin-Down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Crab Pulsar

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2017

Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run

scientific article published in December 2010

Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914

journal article from 'Classical and Quantum Gravity' published in 2016

Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data

scientific article published on 15 August 2016

Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S4 data

scientific article

Einstein@Home search for periodic gravitational waves in early S5 LIGO data

scientific article (publication date: 11 August 2009)

Erratum: Beating the Spin-Down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Crab Pulsar (2008, ApJ, 683, L45)

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Erratum: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown [Phys. Rev. D83, 122005 (2011)]

scientific article published on 20 September 2012

Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors

scientific article published on 24 January 2017

First LIGO search for gravitational wave bursts from cosmic (super)strings

scientific article published on 23 September 2009

First joint search for gravitational-wave bursts in LIGO and GEO 600 data

scientific article published on 27 November 2008

First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals

scientific article published on 25 February 2016

First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors

scientific article published on 15 November 2016

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

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

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

scientific article published on 17 June 2016

High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model

journal article from 'Physical Review X' published in 2016

LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

scientific article published on 30 June 2009

Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

scientific article published on 11 February 2016

Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions

journal article from 'Physical Review D' published in 2016

Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.

scientific article published on 08 February 2016

Publisher’s Note: All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run [Phys. Rev. D81, 102001 (2010)]

scientific article published on 19 April 2012

Publisher’s Note: Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar [Phys. Rev. D83, 042001 (2011)]

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

Publisher’s Note: Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar [Phys. Rev. D83, 042001 (2011)]

scientific article published on 14 March 2011

Publisher’s Note: Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown [Phys. Rev. D83, 122005 (2011)]

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

Publisher’s Note: Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1 [Phys. Rev. D82, 102001 (2010)]

scientific article published on 18 April 2012

Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project

scientific article published on 18 November 2016

Search for Gravitational-Wave Bursts from Soft Gamma Repeaters

scientific article published in Physical Review Letters

Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544

scientific article published on 19 April 2017

Search for gravitational wave bursts from six magnetars

scientific article published in June 2011

Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data

scientific article published on 9 September 2009

Search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar

scientific article published in February 2011

Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown

scientific article published in June 2011

Search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence in LIGO and Virgo data from S5 and VSR1

scientific article published on 5 November 2010

Search for gravitational waves from low mass binary coalescences in the first year of LIGO’s S5 data

scientific article published on 5 June 2009

Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in 186 days of LIGO’s fifth science run

scientific article published on 25 August 2009

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)

Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO science run 5 and Virgo science run 1

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first year of the fifth LIGO science run

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short gamma-ray bursts during LIGO's fifth and virgo's first science run

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Search for high frequency gravitational-wave bursts in the first calendar year of LIGO’s fifth science run

scientific article published on 11 November 2009

Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration radio transients during 2007–2013

scientific article (publication date: 20 June 2016)

Search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a loosely coherent algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with science run 5 LIGO data

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Stacked search for gravitational waves from the 2006 Sgr 1900+14 storm

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Supplement: "Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914" (2016, ApJL, 826, L13)

scientific article published on 20 July 2016

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

Tests of General Relativity with GW150914

journal article from 'Physical Review Letters' published in 2016

The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914

journal article from 'The Astrophysical Journal Letters' published in 2016

The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914

journal article from 'Annalen der Physik' published in 2017

Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron star-black hole mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run

scientific article published on 23 November 2016