First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 69, Issue 10, 2004, Pages

  Abbott, B ^c   Abbott, R ^m   Adhikari, R ^k   Ageev, A ^r,y   Allen, B ^ak   Amin, R ^af   Anderson, S B ^c   Anderson, W G ^aa   Araya, M ^c   Armandula, H ^c   Asiri, F ^c   Aufmuth, P ^ac   Aulbert, C ^a   Babak, S ^e   Balasubramanian, R ^e   Ballmer, S ^k   Barish, B C ^c   Barker, D ^l   Barker Patton, C ^l   Barnes, M ^c   Barr, B ^ag   Barton, M A ^c   Bayer, K ^k   Beausoleil, R ^x   Belczynski, K ^u   Bennett, R ^ag   Berukoff, S J ^a   Betzwieser, J ^k   Bhawal, B ^c   Bilenko, I A ^r   Billingsley, G ^c   Black, E ^c   Blackburn, K ^c   Bland Weaver, B ^l   Bochner, B ^k   Bogue, L ^c   Bork, R ^c   Bose, S ^al   Brady, P R ^ak   Braginsky, V B ^r   Brau, J E ^ai   Brown, D A ^ak   Brozek, S ^ac   Bullington, A ^x   Buonanno, A ^c   Burgess, R ^k   Busby, D ^c   Butler, W E ^aj   Byer, R L ^x   Cadonati, L ^k   Cagnoli, G ^ag   Camp, J B ^s   Cantley, C A ^ag   Cardenas, L ^c   Carter, K ^m   Casey, M M ^ag   Castiglione, J ^af   Chandler, A ^c   Chapsky, J ^c   Charlton, P ^c   Chatterji, S ^k   Chen, Y ^c   Chickarmane, V ⁿ   Chin, D ^ah   Christensen, N ^f   Churches, D ^e   Colacino, C ^a,ac   Coldwell, R ^af   Coles, M ^m   Cook, D ^l   Corbitt, T ^k   Coyne, D ^c   Creighton, J D E ^ak   Creighton, T D ^c   Crooks, D R M ^ag   Csatorday, P ^k   Cusack, B J ^b   Cutler, C ^a   D'Ambrosio E ^c   Danzmann, K ^a,s,ac   Davies, R ^e   Daw, E ⁿ   DeBra, D ^x   Delker, T ^af   DeSalvo, R ^c   Dhurandhar, S ^j   Diaz M ^aa   Ding, H ^c   Drever, R W P ^c   Dupuis, R J ^ag   Ebeling, C ^f   Edlund, J ^c   Ehrens, P ^c   Elliffe, E J ^ag   Etzel, T ^c   Evans, M ^c   Evans, T ^m   Fallnich, C ^ac   Farnham, D ^c   Fejer, M M ^x   Fine, M ^c   Finn, L S ^z   Flanagan, E ^g   Freise, A ^a   Frey, R ^ai   Fritschel, P ^k   Frolov, V ^m   Fyffe, M ^m   Ganezer, K S ^d   Giaime, J A ⁿ   Gillespie, A ^c   Goda, K ^k   Gonzalez G ⁿ   Gossler S ^ac   Grandclement P ^u   Grant, A ^ag   Gray, C ^l   Gretarsson, A M ^m   Grimmett, D ^c   Grote, H ^a   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  Liu, S ^c   Logan, J ^c   Lormand, M ^m   Lubinski, M ^l   Luck H ^a,ac   Lyons, T T ^c   Machenschalk, B ^a   MacInnis, M ^k   Mageswaran, M ^c   Mailand, K ^c   Majid, W ^c   Malec, M ^ac   Mann, F ^c   Marin, A ^k   Marka S ^c   Maros, E ^c   Mason, J ^c   Mason, K ^k   Matherny, O ^l   Matone, L ^l   Mavalvala, N ^k   McCarthy, R ^l   McClelland, D E ^b   McHugh, M ^p   McNamara, P ^ag   Mendell, G ^l   Meshkov, S ^c   Messenger, C ^ae   Mitrofanov, V P ^r   Mitselmakher, G ^af   Mittleman, R ^k   Miyakawa, O ^c   Miyoki, S ^c   Mohanty, S ^a   Moreno, G ^l   Mossavi, K ^a   Mours, B ^c   Mueller, G ^af   Mukherjee, S ^a   Myers, J ^l   Nagano, S ^a   Nash, T ^h   Naundorf, H ^a   Nayak, R ^j   Newton, G ^ag   Nocera, F ^c   Nutzman, P ^u   Olson, T ^v   O'Reilly B ^m   Ottaway, D J ^k   Ottewill, A ^ak   Ouimette, D ^c   Overmier, H ^m   Owen, B J ^z   Papa, M A ^a   Parameswariah, C ^m   Parameswariah, V ^l   Pedraza, M ^c   Penn, S ⁱ   Pitkin, M ^ag   Plissi, M ^ag   Pratt, M ^k   Quetschke, V ^ac   Raab, F ^l   Radkins, H ^l   Rahkola, R ^ai   Rakhmanov, M ^af   Rao, S R ^c   Redding, D ^c   Regehr, M W ^c   Regimbau, T ^k   Reilly, K T ^c   Reithmaier, K ^c   Reitze, D H ^af   Richman, S ^k   Riesen, R ^m   Riles, K ^ah   Rizzi, A ^m   Robertson, D I ^ag   Robertson, N A ^x,ag   Robison, L ^c   Roddy, S ^m   Rollins, J ^k   Romano, J D ^aa   Romie, J ^c   Rong, H ^c   Rose, D ^c   Rotthoff, E ^z   Rowan, S ^ag   Rudiger A ^a,q   Russell, P ^c   Ryan, K ^l   Salzman, I ^c   Sanders, G H ^c   Sannibale, V ^c   Sathyaprakash, B ^e   Saulson, P R ^y   Savage, R ^l   Sazonov, A ^af   Schilling, R ^a,q   Schlaufman, K ^z   Schmidt, V ^c   Schofield, R ^ai   Schrempel, M ^ac   Schutz, B F ^a,e   Schwinberg, P ^l   Scott, S M ^b   Searle, A C ^b   Sears, B ^c   Seel, S ^c   Sengupta, A S ^j   Shapiro, C A ^z   Shawhan, P ^c   Shoemaker, D H ^k   Shu, Q Z ^af   Sibley, A ^m   Siemens, X ^ak   Sievers, L ^c   Sigg, D ^l   Sintes, A M ^a,ad   Skeldon, K ^ag   Smith, J R ^a   Smith, M ^k   Smith, M R ^c   Sneddon, P ^ag   Spero, R ^c   Stapfer, G ^m   Strain, K A ^ag   Strom, D ^ai   Stuver, A ^z   Summerscales, T ^z   Sumner, M C ^c   Sutton, P J ^z   Sylvestre, J ^c   Takamori, A ^c   Tanner, D B ^af   Tariq, H ^c   Taylor, I ^e   Taylor, R ^c   Thorne, K S ^c   Tibbits, M ^z   Tilav, S ^c   Tinto, M ^c   Tokmakov, K V ^r   Torres, C ^aa   Torrie, C ^c,ag   Traeger, S ^ac   Traylor, G ^m   Tyler, W ^c   Ugolini, D ^ab   Vallisneri, M ^c   van Putten, M ^k   Vass, S ^c   Vecchio, A ^ae   Vorvick, C ^l   Vyachanin, S P ^r   Wallace, L ^c   Walther, H ^q   Ward, H ^ag   Ware, B ^c   Watts, K ^m   Webber, D ^c   Weidner, A ^a,q   Weiland, U ^ac   Weinstein, A ^c   Weiss, R ^k   Welling, H ^ac   Wen, L ^c   Wen, S ⁿ   Whelan, J T ^p   Whitcomb, S E ^c   Whiting, B F ^af   Willems, P A ^c   Williams, P R ^a   Williams, R ^c   Willke, B ^a,ac   Wilson, A ^c   Winjum, B J ^z   Winkler, W ^a,q   Wise, S ^af   Wiseman, A G ^ak   Woan, G ^ag   Wooley, R ^m   Worden, J ^l   Yakushin, I ^m   Yamamoto, H ^c   Yoshida, S ^w   Zawischa, I ^ac   Zhang, L ^c   Zotov, N ^o   Zucker, M ^m   Zweizig, J ^c   more..

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^g Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^h FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^j INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^k MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^l LIGO HANFORD OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^m LIGO LIVINGSTON OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁿ LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^r MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^s NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^t NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^u NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v Salish Kootenai College   (United States)

^w SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^x STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^ab TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ac LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^ad UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^af UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^al WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 24644447693     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.102001     Document Type: Article

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