Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational waves with the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 659, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 918-930

  Abbott, B ^a   Abbott, R ^a   Adhikari, R ^a   Agresti, J ^a   Ajith, P ^b   Allen, B ^c   Amin, R ^d   Anderson, S B ^a   Anderson, W G ^c   Araya, M ^a   Armandula, H ^a   Ashley, M ^e   Aston, S ^f   Aulbert, C ^b   Babak, S ^b   Ballmer, S ^g   Barish, B C ^a   Barker, C ^h   Barker, D ^h   Barr, B ⁱ   Barriga, P ^j   Barton, M A ^a   Bayer, K ^g   Belczynski, K ^k   Betzwieser, J ^g   Beyersdorf, P ^l   Bhawal, B ^a   Bilenko, I A ^m   Billingsley, G ^a   Black, E ^a   Blackburn, K ^a   Blackburn, L ^g   Blair, D ^j   Bland, B ^h   Bogue, L ⁿ   Bork, R ^a   Bose S ^o   Brady, P R ^c   Braginsky, V B ^m   Brau, J E ^p   Brooks, A ^q   Brown, D A ^a   Bullington, A ^l   Bunkowski, A ^b   Buonanno, A ^r   Burman, R ^j   Busby, D ^a   Byer, R L ^l   Cadonati, L ^g   Cagnoli, G ⁱ   Camp, J B ^s   Cannizzo, J ^s   Cannon, K ^c   Cantley, C A ⁱ   Cao, J ^g   Cardenas, L ^a   Casey, M M ⁱ   Cepeda, C ^a   Charlton, P ^a   Chatterji, S ^a   Chelkowski, S ^b   Chen, Y ^b   Chin, D ^t   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Myers, E ^h   Myers, J ^h   Newton, G ⁱ   Numata, K ^s   O'Reilly, B ⁿ   O'Shaughnessy, R ^k   Ottaway, D J ^g   Overmier, H ⁿ   Owen, B J ^z   Pan, Y ^a   Papa, M A ^b,c   Parameshwaraiah, V ^h   Pedraza, M ^a   Penn, S ^aj   Pitkin, M ⁱ   Plissi, M V ⁱ   Prix, R ^b   Quetschke, V ^w   Raab, F ^h   Rabeling, D ^e   Radkins, H ^h   Rahkola, R ^p   Rakhmanov, M ^z   Rawlins, K ^g   Ray Majumder, S ^c   Re, V ^f   Rehbein, H ^b   Reid, S ⁱ   Reitze, D H ^w   Ribichini, L ^b   Riesen, R ⁿ   Riles, K ^t   Rivera, B ^h   Robertson, D I ⁱ   Robertson, N A ^i,l   Robinson, C ^v   Roddy, S ⁿ   Rodriguez, A ^d   Rogan, A M ^o   Rollins, J ^ag   Romano, J D ^v   Romie, J ⁿ   Route, R ^l   Rowan, S ⁱ   Rudiger A ^b   Ruet, L ^g   Russell, P ^a   Ryan, K ^h   Sakata, S ^ah   Samidi, M ^a   De La Jordana, L Sancho ^ak   Sandberg, V ^h   Sannibale, V ^a   Saraf, S ^l   Sarin, P ^g   Sathyaprakash, B S ^v   Sato, S ^ah   Saulson, P R ^x   Savage, R ^h   Schediwy, S ^j   Schilling, R ^b   Schnabel, R 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^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h LIGO HANFORD OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^k NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

ⁿ LIGO LIVINGSTON OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^o WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^r UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^s NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^u CARLETON COLLEGE   (United States)

^v CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^w UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^x SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^y LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^z PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^ab UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^ac SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^ae RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^af EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag University of Rochester ^*  (United States)

^ah NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^ai LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aj HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^al TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^am SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^an LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Gravitational waves

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248341844     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/511329     Document Type: Article

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