Swetha Bhagwat, Duncan A. Brown, Stefan W. Ballmer. “Spectroscopic analysis of stellar mass black-hole mergers in our local universe with ground-based gravitational wave detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 94, 084024 (2016) PDF
Abbot Benjamin P et al.. “Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron-star–black-hole mergers from Advanced LIGO’s first observing run”. Astrophys J 832 L21 (2016) PDF
Samantha A. Usman, Alexander H. Nitz, Ian W. Harry, Christopher M. Biwer, Duncan A. Brown, Miriam Cabero, Collin D. Capano, Tito Dal Canton, Thomas Dent, Stephen Fairhurst, Marcel S. Kehl, Drew Keppel, Badri Krishnan, Amber Lenon, Andrew Lundgren, Alex B. Nielsen, Larne P. Pekowsky, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Peter R. Saulson, Matthew West, Joshua L. Willis. “The PyCBC search for gravitational waves from compact binary coalescence”. Class Quant Grav 33 215004 (2016) PDF
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Abbott B P et al.. “GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103 (2016) PDF
Cowperthwaite P S et al.. “A DECam Search for an Optical Counterpart to the LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW151226”. Astrophys J 826 L29 (2016) PDF
Abbott B P et al.. “Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914”. Astrophys J 826 L13 (2016) PDF
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Soares Santos M et al.. “A Dark Energy Camera Search for an Optical Counterpart to the First Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Event GW150914”. Astrophys J 823 L3 PDF
Abbott B P et al.. “Tests of general relativity with GW150914”. Phys Rev Lett 116 221101 (2016) PDf
Abbott B P et al.. “Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914”. Class Quant Grav 33 134001 (2016) PDF
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Abbott B P et al.. “GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO”. Phys Rev D93 122003 (2016) PDF
Abbott B P et al.. “GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries”. Phys Rev Lett 116 131103 (2016) PDF
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Kumar Prayush, Barkett Kevin, Bhagwat Swetha, Afshari Nousha, Brown Duncan A, Lovelace Geoffrey, Scheel Mark A, and Szilagyi Bela. “Accuracy and precision of gravitational-wave models of inspiraling neutron star-black hole binaries with spin: Comparison with matter-free numerical relativity in the low-frequency regime”. Phys Rev D92 102001 (2015 PDF
David Kelley, James Lough, Fabian Mangaña-Sandoval, Antonio Perreca and Stefan W. Ballmer. “Observation of photothermal feedback in a stable dual-carrier optical spring”. Phys. Rev. D 92, 062003 (2015 PDF
S. Dwyer, D. Sigg, S. Ballmer, L. Barsotti, N. Mavalvala, and M. Evans. “A Gravitational wave detector with cosmological reach”. Title of Journal or Boo PDF
M. Evans, … S. Ballmer, … C. Zhao. “Observation of Parametric Instability in Advanced LIGO”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 161102 (2015 PDf
S. W. Ballmer. “Photo-thermal transfer function for dielectric mirrors”. Phys. Rev. D 91, 023010 (2015 PDF
J. Aasi, …S. W. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig (The LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaboration). “Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 91, 022003 (2015 PDf
Aasi J et al.. “Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run”. Class Quant Grav 32 115012 (2015 PDF
S. Dwyer, S. Ballmer. “Radiative thermal noise for transmissive optics in gravitational-wave detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 90, 043013 (2014 PDF
A. Perreca, J. Lough, D. Kelley, S. Ballmer. “Multi-dimensional optical trapping of a mirror”. Phys. Rev. D 89, 122002 (2014 PDF
A. Staley, … S. Ballmer, … and Christopher Wipf. “Achieving resonance in the advanced LIGO gravitational-wave interferometer”. Class. Quantum Grav. 31 245010 – 26 Sept 2014 (IOPselect PDF
J. Aasi, …S. W. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO and Virgo Scientific Collaboration). “Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009–2010 LIGO and Virgo Data”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 231101(2014 PDF
K, Agatsuma, D. Friedrich, S. Ballmer, G. DeSalvo, S. Sakata, E. Nishida, and S. Kawamura. “Precise measurement of laser power using an optomechanical system”. Optics Express, 22(2): 2013-2030 (2014 PDF
Tito Dal Canton, Alexander H. Nitz, Andrew P. Lundgren, Alex B. Nielsen, Duncan A. Brown, Thomas Dent, Ian W. Harry, Badri Krishnan, Andrew J. Miller, Karl Wette, Karsten Wiesner, Joshua L. Willis . “Implementing a search for aligned-spin neutron star — black hole systems with advanced ground based gravitational wave detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 90, 082004, 2014 doi PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the NINJA-2 Collaboration: J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, A. Ain, P. Ajith, A. Alemic, B. Allen, A. Allocca, D. Amariutei, M. Andersen, R. Anderson, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. Arceneaux, J. Areeda, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, L. Austin, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. T. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, M. Barbet, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M. G. Beker, et al. (830 additional authors not shown) . “The NINJA-2 project: Detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations” . Class. Quantum Grav. 31 115004, 2014 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, P. Ajith, A. Alemic, B. Allen, A. Allocca, D. Amariutei, M. Andersen, R. A. Anderson, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. Arceneaux, J. S. Areeda, S. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, H. Augustus, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. T. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, M. Barbet, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, C. Baune, V. Bavigadda, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M. G. Beker, C. Belczynski, et al. (842 additional authors not shown) . “Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the InterPlanetary Network” . Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 011102 (2014) PDF
S. Ballmer, D. Ottaway. “A New class of optical beams for large baseline interferometric gravitational wave detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 88, 062004 (2013 PDF
Prayush Kumar, Ilana MacDonald, Duncan A. Brown, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Kipp Cannon, Michael Boyle, Lawrence E. Kidder, Abdul H. Mroue, Mark A. Scheel, Bela Szilagyi, Anil Zenginoglu . “Template Banks for Binary black hole searches with Numerical Relativity waveforms” . Phys. Rev. D 89, 042002 (2014) PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Aasi, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Abbott, M. R. Abernathy, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. X. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, A. Ain, P. Ajith, A. Alemic, B. Allen, A. Allocca, D. Amariutei, M. Andersen, R. Anderson, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, C. Arceneaux, J. Areeda, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, L. Austin, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. T. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. W. Ballmer, J. C. Barayoga, M. Barbet, B. C. Barish, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, A. Basti, J. C. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, V. Bavigadda, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M .G. Beker, C. Belczynski, A. S. Bell, et al. (790 additional authors not shown) . “Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010”. Phys. Rev. D 89, 102006 (2014) PDF
I. W. Harry, A. H. Nitz, Duncan A. Brown, A. Lundgren, Evan Ochsner, D. Keppel . “Investigating the effect of precession on searches for neutron-star-black-hole binaries with Advanced LIGO”. Phys. Rev. D 89, 024010, 201 PDF
Alexander H. Nitz, Andrew Lundgren, Duncan A. Brown, Evan Ochsner, Drew Keppel, Ian W. Harry . “Accuracy of gravitational waveform models for observing neutron-star–black-hole binaries in Advanced LIGO”. Phys. Rev. D 88, 124039 (2013) PDF
Leo P. Singer, S. Bradley Cenko, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Daniel A. Perley, Eran O. Ofek, Duncan A. Brown, Peter E. Nugent, S. R. Kulkarni, Alessandra Corsi, Dale A. Frail, Eric Bellm, John Mulchaey, Iair Arcavi, Tom Barlow, Joshua S. Bloom, Yi Cao, Neil Gehrels, Assaf Horesh, Frank J. Masci, Julie McEnery, Arne Rau, Jason A. Surace, Ofer Yaron. “Discovery and redshift of an optical afterglow in 71 square degrees: iPTF13bxl and GRB 130702A “. 2013 ApJ 776 L3 PDF
Mark Hannam, Duncan A. Brown, Stephen Fairhurst, Chris L. Fryer, Ian W. Harry. “When can gravitational-wave observations distinguish between black holes and neutron stars?”. Astrophys PDF
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, S. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, Y. Bao, J. C. B. Barayoga, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, A. Basti, J. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, M. Bebronne, D. Beck, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M.G. Beker, A. S. Bell, C. Bell, I. Belopolski, M. Benacquista, J. M. Berliner, A. Bertolini, et al. (741 additional authors not shown) . “Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.06200 PDF
Duncan A. Brown, Prayush Kumar, Alexander H. Nitz. “Template banks to search for low-mass binary black holes in advanced gravitational-wave detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 87, 082004 (2013 PDF
E. A. Huerta, Duncan A. Brown. “Effect of eccentricity on binary neutron star searches in Advanced LIGO”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.12750 PDF
S. Babak, R. Biswas, P. R. Brady, D. A. Brown, K. Cannon, C. D. Capano, J. H. Clayton, T. Cokelaer, J. D. E. Creighton, T. Dent, A. Dietz, S. Fairhurst, N. Fotopoulos, G. Gonzalez, C. Hanna, I. W. Harry, G. Jones, D. Keppel, D. J. A. McKechan, L. Pekowsky, S. Privitera, C. Robinson, A. C. Rodriguez, B. S. Sathyaprakash, A. S. Sengupta, M. Vallisneri, R. Vaulin, A. J. Weinstein. “Searching for gravitational waves from binary coalescence”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.02403 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, S. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, Y. Bao, J. C. B. Barayoga, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, A. Basti, J. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, M. Bebronne, D. Beck, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M.G. Beker, A. S. Bell, C. Bell, I. Belopolski, M. Benacquista, J. M. Berliner, A. Bertolini, et al. (740 additional authors not shown) . ‘Search for Gravitational Waves from Binary Black Hole Inspiral, Merger and Ringdown in LIGO-Virgo Data from 2009-2010″. Phys. Rev. D 87, 022002 (2013 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration: J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, P. Ajith, B. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. A. Arain, M. C. Araya, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, J. C. B. Barayoga, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, A. Basti, J. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, M. Bebronne, D. Beck, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M.G. Beker, A. S. Bell, I. Belopolski, M. Benacquista, J. M. Berliner, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, et al. (750 additional authors not shown). “Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3. Astrophy PDF
Duncan A. Brown, Ian Harry, Andrew Lundgren, Alexander H. Nitz. “Detecting binary neutron star systems with spin in advanced gravitational-wave detectors”. Phys. Rev. D 86, 084017 (2012 PDF
Duncan A. Brown (1), Andrew Lundgren (1,2,3), Richard O’Shaughnessy (2,4) ((1) Syracuse University, (2) Penn State University, (3) Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover, (4) University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). “Nonspinning searches for spinning binaries in ground-based detector data: Amplitude and mismatch predictions in the constant precession cone approximation”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.86.06402 PDF
J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, T. Adams, P. Addesso, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, P. Ajith, B. Allen, A. Allocca, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. C. Araya, S. Ast, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, T. Ballinger, S. Ballmer, Y. Bao, J. C. B. Barayoga, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, A. Basti, J. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, M. Bebronne, D. Beck, B. Behnke, M. Bejger, M.G. Beker, A. S. Bell, C. Bell, I. Belopolski, M. Benacquista, J. M. Berliner, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, et al. (738 additional authors not shown). “The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches”. Class Quant Gra PDF
E. A. Huerta, Prayush Kumar, Duncan A. Brown. “Accurate modeling of intermediate-mass-ratio inspirals: Exploring the form of the self-force in the intermediate-mass-ratio regime”. Phys. Rev. D86:024024, 201 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration. “First Low-Latency LIGO+Virgo Search for Binary Inspirals and their Electromagnetic Counterparts”. Astronomy and Astrophysic PDF
E. A. Huerta, Jonathan R. Gair, Duncan A. Brown. “Importance of including small body spin effects in the modelling of intermediate mass-ratio inspirals. II Accurate parameter extraction of strong sources using higher-order spin effects”. Phys. Rev. D85:064023,201 PDF
the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. S. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. A. Arain, M. C. Araya, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, A. Basti, J. Batch, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, M. Bebronne, B. Behnke, M.G. Beker, A. S. Bell, A. Belletoile, I. Belopolski, M. Benacquista, J. M. Berliner, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, et al. (740 additional authors not shown). “Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO’s Sixth Science Run and Virgo’s Science Runs 2 and 3”. Phys. Rev. D 85, 082002 (2012 PDF
Bruce Allen, Warren G. Anderson, Patrick R. Brady, Duncan A. Brown, Jolien D. E. Creighton. “FINDCHIRP: an algorithm for detection of gravitational waves from inspiraling compact binaries”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.12200 PDF
P. Ajith, Michael Boyle, Duncan A. Brown, Bernd Brügmann, Luisa T. Buchman, Laura Cadonati, Manuela Campanelli, Tony Chu, Zachariah B. Etienne, Stephen Fairhurst, Mark Hannam, James Healy, Ian Hinder, Sascha Husa, Lawrence E. Kidder, Badri Krishnan, Pablo Laguna, Yuk Tung Liu, Lionel London, Carlos O. Lousto, Geoffrey Lovelace, Ilana MacDonald, Pedro Marronetti, Satya Mohapatra, Philipp Mösta, Doreen Müller, Bruno C. Mundim, Hiroyuki Nakano, Frank Ohme, Vasileios Paschalidis, Larne Pekowsky, Denis Pollney, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Marcelo Ponce, Michael Pürrer, George Reifenberger, Christian Reisswig, Lucía Santamaría, Mark A. Scheel, Stuart L. Shapiro, Deirdre Shoemaker, Carlos F. Sopuerta, Ulrich Sperhake, Béla Szilágyi, Nicholas W. Taylor, Wolfgang Tichy, et al. (2 additional authors not shown). “The NINJA-2 catalog of hybrid post-Newtonian/numerical-relativity waveforms for non-precessing black-hole binaries”. ClassQuantGra PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, R. Abbott, M. Abernathy, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, C. Affeldt, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. S. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, D. Amariutei, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, K. Arai, M. A. Arain, M. C. Araya, S. M. Aston, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, B. E. Aylott, S. Babak, P. Baker, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, S. Barnum, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, J. Bauchrowitz, B. Behnke, A. S. Bell, I. Belopolski, M. Benacquista, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, R. Biswas, E. Black, J. K. Blackburn, L. Blackburn, D. Blair, B. Bland, O. Bock, T. P. Bodiya, C. Bogan, R. Bondarescu, R. Bork, M. Born, S. Bose, et al. (509 additional authors not shown). “Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations”. Astrophys PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, M. Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. S. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, F. Antonucci, M. A. Arain, M. C. Araya, M. Aronsson, Y. Aso, S. M. Aston, P. Astone, D. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, T. Ballinger, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, S. Barnum, F. Barone, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, B. Behnke, M.G. Beker, A. Belletoile, M. Benacquista, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, S. Birindelli, R. Biswas, M. Bitossi, M. A. Bizouard, et al. (664 additional authors not shown). “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown”. Phys.Rev.D83:122005,201 PDF
J. Abadie, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz”. Phys. Rev. D 85, 122001 (2012 PDF
N. Smith-Lefebvre, S. Ballmer, M. Evans, S. Waldman, K. Kawabe, V. Frolov, N. Mavalvala. “Optimal alignment sensing of a readout mode cleaner cavity”. Opt. Lett. 36(22): 4365-4367 (2011 PDF
J. Abadie, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 271102 (2011 PDF
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J. Slutsky, L. Blackburn, D. A. Brown, L. Cadonati, J. Cain, M. Cavaglià, S. Chatterji, N. Christensen, M. Coughlin, S. Desai, G. González, T. Isogai, E. Katsavounidis, B. Rankins, T. Reed, K. Riles, P. Shawhan, J. R. Smith, N. Zotov, J. Zweizig. “Methods for Reducing False Alarms in Searches for Compact Binary Coalescences in LIGO Data. Class.Quant.Grav.27:165023,201 PDF
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration: J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, M Abernathy, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, F. Antonucci, S. Aoudia, M. A. Arain, M. Araya, M. Aronsson, K. G. Arun, Y. Aso, S. Aston, P. Astone, D. E. Atkinson, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, S. Barnum, F. Barone, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M. A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, J. Bauchrowitz, Th. S. Bauer, B. Behnke, M.G. Beker, M. Benacquista, A. Bertolini, J. Betzwieser, N. Beveridge, P. T. Beyersdorf, S. Bigotta, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, J. Birch, S. Birindelli, R. Biswas, M. Bitossi, M. A. Bizouard, E. Black, et al. (650 additional authors not shown). “Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors”. Class.Quant.Grav.27:173001,201 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration: J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. Accadia, F. Acernese, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, B. Allen, G. Allen, E. Amador Ceron, R. S. Amin, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, F. Antonucci, S. Aoudia, M. A. Arain, M. Araya, K. G. Arun, Y. Aso, S. Aston, P. Astone, P. Aufmuth, C. Aulbert, S. Babak, P. Baker, G. Ballardin, S. Ballmer, D. Barker, F. Barone, B. Barr, P. Barriga, L. Barsotti, M. Barsuglia, M.A. Barton, I. Bartos, R. Bassiri, M. Bastarrika, Th. S. Bauer, B. Behnke, M.G. Beker, A. Belletoile, M. Benacquista, J. Betzwieser, P. T. Beyersdorf, S. Bigotta, I. A. Bilenko, G. Billingsley, S. Birindelli, R. Biswas, M. A. Bizouard, E. Black, J. K. Blackburn, L. Blackburn, D. Blair, B. Bland, M. Blom, C. Boccara, O. Bock, T. P. Bodiya, R. Bondarescu, et al. (606 additional authors not shown). “Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO’s fifth and Virgo’s first science run”. Astrophys.J.715:1453-1461,201 PDF
Duncan A. Brown, Peter J. Zimmerman. “The Effect of Eccentricity on Searches for Gravitational-Waves from Coalescing Compact Binaries in Ground-based Detectors”. Phys.Rev.D81:024007,201 PDF
S. Ballmer, S. Marka, P. Shawhan. “Feasibility of measuring the Shapiro time delay over meter-scale distances”. Class. Quantum Grav. 27 185018 (2010 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration. “Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in 186 Days of LIGO’s fifth Science Run”. Phys.Rev.D80:047101,200 PDF
E. Thrane, S. Ballmer, J. D. Romano, S. Mitra, D. Talukder, S. Bose, V. Mandic. “Probing the anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational-wave background using a network of ground-based laser interferometers”. Phys. Rev. D 80, 122002 (2009 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “An upper limit on the stochastic gravitational-wave background of cosmological origin”. Nature 460 (2009) 990 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state”. New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 073032 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory”. Rep. Prog. Phys. 72 (2009) 07690 PDF
M. Anholm, S. Ballmer, J. D. E. Creighton, L. R. Price, X. Siemens. “Optimal strategies for gravitational wave stochastic background searches in pulsar timing data”. Phys. Rev. D 79, 084030 (2009 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al. ” Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed black holes in LIGO S4 data”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.06200 PDF
Benjamin Aylott, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Michael Boyle, Patrick R. Brady, Duncan A. Brown, Bernd Brügmann, Luisa T. Buchman, Alessandra Buonanno, Laura Cadonati, Jordan Camp, Manuela Campanelli, Joan Centrella, Shourov Chatterji, Nelson Christensen, Tony Chu, Peter Diener, Nils Dorband, Zachariah B. Etienne, Joshua Faber, Stephen Fairhurst, Benjamin Farr, Sebastian Fischetti, Gianluca Guidi, Lisa M. Goggin, Mark Hannam, Frank Herrmann, Ian Hinder, Sascha Husa, Vicky Kalogera, Drew Keppel, Lawrence E. Kidder, Bernard J. Kelly, Badri Krishnan, Pablo Laguna, Carlos O. Lousto, Ilya Mandel, Pedro Marronetti, Richard Matzner, Sean T. McWilliams, Keith D. Matthews, R. Adam Mercer, Satyanarayan R. P. Mohapatra, Abdul H. Mroué, Hiroyuki Nakano, Evan Ochsner, Yi Pan, Larne Pekowsky, et al. (29 additional authors not shown). “Testing gravitational-wave searches with numerical relativity waveforms: Results from the first Numerical INJection Analysis (NINJA) project”. Class.Quant.Grav.26:165008,200 PDF
Chris Van Den Broeck, Duncan A. Brown, Thomas Cokelaer, Ian Harry, Gareth Jones, B.S. Sathyaprakash, Hideyuki Tagoshi, Hirotaka Takahashi. “Template banks to search for compact binaries with spinning components in gravitational wave data”. Phys.Rev.D80:024009,200 PDF
Michael Boyle, Duncan A. Brown, Larne Pekowsky. “Comparison of high-accuracy numerical simulations of black-hole binaries with stationary phase post-Newtonian template waveforms for Initial and Advanced LIGO”. Class.Quant.Grav.26:114006,200 PDF
Benjamin Aylott, John G. Baker, William D. Boggs, Michael Boyle, Patrick R. Brady, Duncan A. Brown, Bernd Brügmann, Luisa T. Buchman, Alessandra Buonanno, Laura Cadonati, Jordan Camp, Manuela Campanelli, Joan Centrella, Shourov Chatterjis, Nelson Christensen, Tony Chu, Peter Diener, Nils Dorband, Zachariah B. Etienne, Joshua Faber, Stephen Fairhurst, Benjamin Farr, Sebastian Fischetti, Gianluca Guidi, Lisa M. Goggin, Mark Hannam, Frank Herrmann, Ian Hinder, Sascha Husa, Vicky Kalogera, Drew Keppel, Lawrence E. Kidder, Bernard J. Kelly, Badri Krishnan, Pablo Laguna, Carlos O. Lousto, Ilya Mandel, Pedro Marronetti, Richard Matzner, Sean T. McWilliams, Keith D. Matthews, R. Adam Mercer, Satyanarayan R. P. Mohapatra, Abdul H. Mroué, Hiroyuki Nakano, Evan Ochsner, Yi Pan, Larne Pekowsky, et al. (29 additional authors not shown). “Status of NINJA: the Numerical INJection Analysis project”. Class.Quant.Grav.26:114008,200 PDF
LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al. “Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGO’s S5 Data”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.12200 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al. “LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory”. Rept.Prog.Phys.72:076901,200 PDF
Lee Lindblom, Benjamin J. Owen, Duncan A. Brown. “Model Waveform Accuracy Standards for Gravitational Wave Data Analysis”. Phys.Rev.D78:124020,200 PDF
M. Evans, S. Ballmer, M. Fejer, P. Fritschel, G. Harry, G. Ogin. “Thermo-optic noise in coated mirrors for high-precision optical measurements”. Phys. Rev. D 78, 102003 (2008 PDF
S. Mitra, S. Dhurandhar, T. Souradeep, A. Lazzarini, V. Mandic, S. Bose, S. Ballmer. “Gravitational wave radiometry: Mapping a stochastic gravitational wave background”. Phys. Rev. D 77, 042002 (2008) PDF
Ilya Mandel, Duncan A. Brown, Jonathan R. Gair, M. Coleman Miller. ” Rates and Characteristics of Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals Detectable by Advanced LIGO”. Astrophys.J.681:1431-1447,200 PDF
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al. “Search of S3 LIGO data for gravitational wave signals from spinning black hole and neutron star binary inspirals”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.04200 PDF
Stanislav Babak, John G. Baker, Matthew J. Benacquista, Neil J. Cornish, Jeff Crowder, Curt Cutler, Shane L. Larson, Tyson B. Littenberg, Edward K. Porter, Michele Vallisneri, Alberto Vecchio (the Mock LISA Data Challenge task force), Gerard Auger, Leor Barack, Arkadiusz Blaut, Ed Bloomer, Duncan A. Brown, Nelson Christensen, James Clark, Stephen Fairhurst, Jonathan R. Gair, Hubert Halloin, Martin Hendry, Arturo Jimenez, Andrzej Krolak, Ilya Mandel, Chris Messenger, Renate Meyer, Soumya Mohanty, Rajesh Nayak, Antoine Petiteau, Matt Pitkin, Eric Plagnol, Reinhard Prix, Emma L. Robinson, Christian Roever, Pavlin Savov, Alexander Stroeer, Jennifer Toher, John Veitch, Jean-Yves Vinet, Linqing Wen, John T. Whelan, Graham Woan (the Challenge 2 participants). “Report on the second Mock LISA Data Challenge”. Class.Quant.Grav.25:114037,200 PDF
LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott, et al. “Search for gravitational waves from binary inspirals in S3 and S4 LIGO data”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.06200 PDF
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, K. Hurley. “Implications for the Origin of GRB 070201 from LIGO Observations”. Astrophys.J.681:1419-1428,200 PDF
F. Beauville, M.-A. Bizouard, L. Blackburn, L. Bosi, L. Brocco, D. Brown, D. Buskulic, F. Cavalier, S. Chatterji, N. Christensen, A.-C. Clapson, S. Fairhurst, D. Grosjean, G. Guidi, P. Hello, S. Heng, M. Hewitson, E. Katsavounidis, S. Klimenko, M. Knight, A. Lazzarini, N. Leroy, F. Marion, J. Markowitz, C. Melachrinos, B. Mours, F. Ricci, A. Viceré, I. Yakushin, M. Zanolin. “Detailed comparison of LIGO and Virgo Inspiral Pipelines in Preparation for a Joint Search”. Class.Quant.Grav.25:045001,200 PDF
Michael Boyle, Duncan A. Brown, Lawrence E. Kidder, Abdul H. Mroue, Harald P. Pfeiffer, Mark A. Scheel, Gregory B. Cook, Saul A. Teukolsky. “High-accuracy comparison of numerical relativity simulations with post-Newtonian expansions”. Phys.Rev.D76:124038,200 PDF
Duncan A. Brown, Jeff Crowder, Curt Cutler, Ilya Mandel, Michele Vallisneri. “A Three-Stage Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in LISA Data”. Class.Quant.Grav.24:S595-S606,200 PDF
K.A. Arnaud, G. Auger, S. Babak, J. Baker, M.J. Benacquista, E. Bloomer, D. Brown, J.B. Camp, J.K. Cannizzo, N. Christensen, J. Clark, N.J. Cornsih, J. Crowder, C. Cutler, L.S. Finn, H. Halloin, K. Hayama, M. Hendry, O. Jeannin, A. Krolak, S.L. Larson, I. Mandel, C. Messenger, R. Meyer, S. Mohanty, R. Nayak, K. Numata, A. Petiteau, M. Pitkin, E. Plagnol, E.K. Porter, R. Prix, C. Roever, B.S. Sathyaprakash, A. Stroeer, R. Thirumalainambi, D.E. Thompson, J. Toher, R. Umstaetter, M. Vallisneri, A. Vecchio, J Veitch, J-Y. Vinet, J.T. Whelan, G. Woan, (Mock LISA Data Challenge Team). “Report on the first round of the Mock LISA Data Challenges”. Class.Quant.Grav.24:S529-S540,200 PDF
Harald P. Pfeiffer, Duncan A. Brown, Lawrence E. Kidder, Lee Lindblom, Geoffrey Lovelace, Mark A. Scheel. “Reducing orbital eccentricity in binary black hole simulations”. Class.Quant.Grav.24:S59-S82,200 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Upper limit map of a background of gravitational waves”. Phys. Rev. D 76, 082003 (2007 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory”. Astrophys. J. 659 (2007) 918 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, ALLEGRO). “First cross-correlation analysis of interferometric and resonant-bar gravitational-wave data for stochastic backgrounds”. Phys. Rev. D 76, 022001 (2007 PDF
LIGO Scientific Collaboration: B. Abbott et. al. “Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data”. Phys.Rev.D73:062001,200 PDF
Stefan W. Ballmer. “A Radiometer for Stochastic Gravitational Waves”. Class. Quantum Grav. 23:S179-S185 (2006 PDF
D. Ottaway, J. Betzwieser, S. Ballmer. “In-situ measurement of absorption in high power interferometers using beam diameter measurements”. Opt. Lett. 31(4):450- 452 (2006) PDF
Duncan A Brown (for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Using the INSPIRAL program to search for gravitational waves from low-mass binary inspiral”. Class.Quant.Grav. 22 (2005) S1097-S110 PDF
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Upper Limits on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves”. Phys. Rev. Lett 95, 221101 (2005 PDF
E. Katsavounidis, S. Ballmer. “For how long will gravitational waves remain hidden?”. Phys. Lett. A, 347(1-3): 33-37 (2005 PDF
S. Ballmer (Syracuse U. / TAMA-NAOJ / LIGO-Caltech), S. Márka (Columbia University), P. Shawhan (University of Maryland). “Feasibility of measuring the Shapiro time delay over meter-scale distances”. Class.Quant.Grav.27:185018,201 PDF
Eric Thrane, Stefan Ballmer, Joseph D. Romano, Sanjit Mitra, Dipongkar Talukder, Sukanta Bose, Vuk Mandic. “Probing the anisotropies of a stochastic gravitational-wave background using a network of ground-based laser interferometers”. Phys. Rev. D 80, 122002 (2009 PDF
Melissa Anholm, Stefan Ballmer, Jolien D. E. Creighton, Larry R. Price, Xavier Siemens. “Optimal strategies for gravitational wave stochastic background searches in pulsar timing data”. 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.08403 PDF
M. Evans, S. Ballmer, M. Fejer, P. Fritschel, G. Harry, G. Ogin. “Thermo-optic noise in coated mirrors for high-precision optical measurements”. Phys.Rev.D78:102003,200 PDF
Sanjit Mitra, Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Tarun Souradeep, Albert Lazzarini, Vuk Mandic, Sukanta Bose, Stefan Ballmer. “Gravitational wave radiometry: Mapping a stochastic gravitational wave background”. Phys.Rev.D77:042002,200 PDF
S. Ballmer, K. Somiya. (2012) “Methods of Improving Thermal Noise”. Chapter 6 of Optical Coatings and Thermal Noise in Precision Measurement Harry, Bodiya, DeSalv
Stefan Ballmer, Bas Swinkels. Book chapter “Controlling non-fundamental noise sources in gravitational-wave interferometers”. in Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors Peter Saulson, David Reitze
B. Abbott, …S. Ballmer, … and J. Zweizig. (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration). “Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational wave”. Physical Review D 69, 122004, (2004 PDF