Publications | Michael W Coughlin

B. P. et al. Abbott. Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018.

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Coughlin et al.. Measurement and subtraction of Schumann resonances at gravitational-wave interferometers. Phys. Rev. D, 2018.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Phys. Rev. D, 2018.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Phys. Rev. D, 2018.

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Abbott et al.. Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 2018.

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P. B. et al. Covas. Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO. Phys. Rev. D, 2018.

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B P Abbott et al.. GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Compact Binary Coalescences. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018.

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Aleksandar Cikota, Giorgos Leloudas, Mattia Bulla, Cosimo Inserra, Ting-Wan Chen, Jason Spyromilio, Ferdinando Patat, Zach Cano, Stefan Cikota, Michael W Coughlin, Erkki Kankare, Thomas B Lowe, Justyn R Maund, Armin Rest, Stephen J Smartt, Ken W Smith, Richard J Wainscoat, David R Young. Testing the magnetar scenario for superluminous supernovae with circular polarimetry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2018.

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Michael W. Coughlin et al.. Testing of the LSST's photometric calibration strategy at the CTIO 0.9 meter telescope. Proc.SPIE, 2018.

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Coughlin et al.. Optimizing searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave triggers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2018.

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Ryan Lynch, Michael Coughlin, Salvatore Vitale, Christopher W. Stubbs, Erik Katsavounidis. Observational Implications of Lowering the LIGO-Virgo Alert Threshold. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2018.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2018.

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B P Abbott et al.. Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO’s first observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018.

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S Biscans, J Warner, R Mittleman, C Buchanan, M Coughlin, M Evans, H Gabbard, J Harms, B Lantz, N Mukund, A Pele, C Pezerat, P Picart, H Radkins, T Shaffer. Control strategy to limit duty cycle impact of earthquakes on the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018.

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B P Abbott et al.. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known pulsars in advanced detector data. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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A. et al. Albert. Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914. Phys. Rev. D, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data. The Astrophysical Journal, 2017.

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Michael Coughlin, Tim Dietrich, Kyohei Kawaguchi, Stephen Smartt, Christopher Stubbs, Maximiliano Ujevic. Toward Rapid Transient Identification and Characterization of Kilonovae. The Astrophysical Journal, 2017.

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LIGO Scientific, VIRGO Collaborations. The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Annalen der Physik, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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A. Albert et al.. Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B. The Astrophysical Journal, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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M. P. Ross, K. Venkateswara, C. A. Hagedorn, J. H. Gundlach, J. S. Kissel, J. Warner, H. Radkins, T. J. Shaffer, M. W. Coughlin, P. Bodin. Low‐Frequency Tilt Seismology with a Precision Ground‐Rotation Sensor. Seismological Research Letters, 2017.

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Michael Coughlin, Paul Earle, Jan Harms, Sebastien Biscans, Christopher Buchanan, Eric Coughlin, Fred Donovan, Jeremy Fee, Hunter Gabbard, Michelle Guy, Nikhil Mukund, Matthew Perry. Limiting the effects of earthquakes on gravitational-wave interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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Izabela Kowalska-Leszczynska, Marie-Anne Bizouard, Tomasz Bulik, Nelson Christensen, Michael Coughlin, Mark Gołkowski, Jerzy Kubisz, Andrzej Kulak, Janusz Mlynarczyk, Florent Robinet, Maximilian Rohde. Globally coherent short duration magnetic field transients and their effect on ground based gravitational-wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO. The Astrophysical Journal, 2017.

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B P Abbott et al.. Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2017.

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Ryan Quitzow-James, James Brau, James A Clark, Michael W Coughlin, Scott B Coughlin, Raymond Frey, Paul Schale, Dipongkar Talukder, Eric Thrane. Exploring a search for long-duration transient gravitational waves associated with magnetar bursts. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2017.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2017.

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B P Abbott et al.. Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2017.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model. Phys. Rev. X, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run. Phys. Rev. X, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for binary black hole coalescence. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al Abbott. Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration radio transients during 2007ḩar212013. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al Abbott. Properties of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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S. et al Adrián-Martínez. High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al Abbott. GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016.

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B. P. et al Abbott. GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Tests of General Relativity with GW150914. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Binary Black Holes. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016.

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J. et al. Aasi. Search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a loosely coherent algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2016.

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J. et al. Aasi. First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. et al. Abbott. All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO. Phys. Rev. D, 2016.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Upper Limits on the Rates of Binary Neutron Star and Neutron Star–Black Hole Mergers from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016.

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M Coughlin, N Mukund, J Harms, J Driggers, R Adhikari, S Mitra. Towards a first design of a Newtonian-noise cancellation system for Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2016.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016.

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Patrick Ingraham, Christopher W. Stubbs, Charles Claver, Robert Lupton, Constanza Araujo, Ming Liang, John Andrew, Jeff Barr, Kairn Brannon, Michael Coughlin, Merlin Fisher-Lavine, William Gressler, Jacques Sebag, Sandrine Thomas, Oliver Weicha, Peter Yoachim. The LSST calibration hardware system design and development. Proc. SPIE, 2016.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Supplement: “The Rate of Binary Black Hole Mergers Inferred from Advanced LIGO Observations Surrounding GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 833, L1). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2016.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Supplement: “Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914” (2016, ApJL, 826, L13). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2016.

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Leo P. Singer, Hsin-Yu Chen, Daniel E. Holz, Will M. Farr, Larry R. Price, Vivien Raymond, S. Bradley Cenko, Neil Gehrels, John Cannizzo, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Samaya Nissanke, Michael Coughlin, Ben Farr, Alex L. Urban, Salvatore Vitale, John Veitch, Philip Graff, Christopher P. L. Berry, Satya Mohapatra, Ilya Mandel. Supplement: “Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up” (2016, ApJL, 829, L15). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2016.

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Michael W Coughlin, Nelson L Christensen, Rosario De Rosa, Irene Fiori, Mark Gołkowski, Melissa Guidry, Jan Harms, Jerzy Kubisz, Andrzej Kulak, Janusz Mlynarczyk, Federico Paoletti, Eric Thrane. Subtraction of correlated noise in global networks of gravitational-wave interferometers. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2016.

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Benjamin P. Abbott, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration. Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Living Reviews in Relativity, 2016.

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S. J. et al. Smartt. Pan-STARRS and PESSTO search for an optical counterpart to the LIGO gravitational-wave source GW150914. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016.

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Michael Coughlin, Christopher Stubbs. Maximizing the probability of detecting an electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave events. Experimental Astronomy, 2016.

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B. P. Abbott et al.. Localization and Broadband Follow-up of the Gravitational-wave Transient GW150914. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016.

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Leo P. Singer, Hsin-Yu Chen, Daniel E. Holz, Will M. Farr, Larry R. Price, Vivien Raymond, S. Bradley Cenko, Neil Gehrels, John Cannizzo, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Samaya Nissanke, Michael Coughlin, Ben Farr, Alex L. Urban, Salvatore Vitale, John Veitch, Philip Graff, Christopher P. L. Berry, Satya Mohapatra, Ilya Mandel. Going the Distance: Mapping Host Galaxies of LIGO and Virgo Sources in Three Dimensions Using Local Cosmography and Targeted Follow-up. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016.

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B P Abbott, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration. Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2016.

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B. P. Abbott, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration. Astrophysical Implications of the Binary Black Hole Merger GW150914. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016.

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Peter Yoachim, Michael Coughlin, George Z. Angeli, Charles F. Claver, Andrew J. Connolly, Kem Cook, Scott Daniel, Željko Ivezić, R. Lynne Jones, Catherine Petry, Michael Reuter, Christopher Stubbs, Bo Xin. An optical to IR sky brightness model for the LSST. Proc. SPIE, 2016.

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Michael Coughlin, Christopher Stubbs, Chuck Claver. A daytime measurement of the lunar contribution to the night sky brightness in LSST's ugrizy bands--initial results. Experimental Astronomy, 2016.

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Michael Coughlin, T. M. C. Abbott, Kairn Brannon, Chuck Claver, Peter Doherty, Merlin Fisher-Levine, Patrick Ingraham, Robert Lupton, Nicholas Mondrik, Christopher Stubbs. A collimated beam projector for precise telescope calibration. Proc. SPIE, 2016.

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S. J. Smartt et al.. A Search for an Optical Counterpart to the Gravitational-wave Event GW151226. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016.

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Eric Thrane, Michael Coughlin. Detecting Gravitational-Wave Transients at $5ensuremathsigma$: A Hierarchical Approach. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2015.

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Duncan Meacher, Michael Coughlin, Sean Morris, Tania Regimbau, Nelson Christensen, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Vuk Mandic, Joseph D. Romano, Eric Thrane. Mock data and science challenge for detecting an astrophysical stochastic gravitational-wave background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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Michael Coughlin, Patrick Meyers, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Eric Thrane, N. Christensen. Prospects for searches for long-duration gravitational-waves without time slides. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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J. et al. Aasi. Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 with initial LIGO data. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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M. Coughlin, P. Meyers, E. Thrane, J. Luo, N. Christensen. Detectability of eccentric compact binary coalescences with advanced gravitational-wave detectors. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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J. Veitch, V. Raymond, B. Farr, W. Farr, P. Graff, S. Vitale, B. Aylott, K. Blackburn, N. Christensen, M. Coughlin, W. Del Pozzo, F. Feroz, J. Gair, C.-J. Haster, V. Kalogera, T. Littenberg, I. Mandel, R. O’Shaughnessy, M. Pitkin, C. Rodriguez, C. Röver, T. Sidery, R. Smith, M. Van Der Sluys, A. Vecchio, W. Vousden, L. Wade. Parameter estimation for compact binaries with ground-based gravitational-wave observations using the LALInference software library. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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J. et al Aasi. Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two colocated LIGO Hanford detectors. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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J. Aasi et al.. Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Nine Young Supernova Remnants. The Astrophysical Journal, 2015.

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Michael Coughlin, Christopher Stubbs, Sergio Barrientos, Chuck Claver, Jan Harms, R. Chris Smith, Michael Warner. Real-time earthquake warning for astronomical observatories. Experimental Astronomy, 2015.

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J. et al Aasi. Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data. Phys. Rev. D, 2015.

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Antonis Mytidis, Michael Coughlin, Bernard Whiting. Constraining the r-mode Saturation Amplitude from a Hypothetical Detection of r-mode Gravitational Waves from a Newborn Neutron Star: Sensitivity Study. The Astrophysical Journal, 2015.

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J Aasi et al.. Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015.

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Advanced LIGO. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015.

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J. et al Aasi. Improved Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from 2009ḩar212010 LIGO and Virgo Data. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2014.

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M. G. et al Aartsen. Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO-Virgo and IceCube. Phys. Rev. D, 2014.

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Michael Coughlin, Jan Harms. Constraining the gravitational-wave energy density of the Universe in the range 0.1 Hz to 1 Hz using the Apollo Seismic Array. Phys. Rev. D, 2014.

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M. Coughlin, E. Thrane, N. Christensen. Detecting compact binary coalescences with seedless clustering. Phys. Rev. D, 2014.

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Michael Coughlin, Jan Harms. Constraining the gravitational wave energy density of the Universe using Earth's ring. Phys. Rev. D, 2014.

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T. Regimbau, D. Meacher, M. Coughlin. Second Einstein Telescope mock science challenge: Detection of the gravitational-wave stochastic background from compact binary coalescences. Phys. Rev. D, 2014.

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J. Aasi et al.. Constraints on Cosmic Strings from the LIGO-Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2014.

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M. Coughlin, J. Harms. Upper Limit on a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from Seismic Measurements in the Range 0.05ḩar211~Hz. Phys. Rev. Lett., 2014.

E. Thrane, M. Coughlin. Seedless clustering in all-sky searches for gravitational-wave transients. Phys. Rev. D, 2014.

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M Coughlin, J Harms, N Christensen, V Dergachev, R DeSalvo, S Kandhasamy, V Mandic. Wiener filtering with a seismic underground array at the Sanford Underground Research Facility. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014.

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J. Aasi et al.. The NINJA-2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary black hole simulations. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014.

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J. Aasi et al.. Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass black holes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005-2010. Physical Review D, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run. Physical Review D, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with gamma-ray Bursts Detected by the Interplanetary Network. Physical Review Letters, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors. Physical Review D, 2014.

M. Coughlin et al.. Method for estimation of gravitational-wave transient model parameters in frequency-time maps. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. Implementation of an F-statistic all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars: Results from the Initial Detector Era. The Astrophysical Journal, 2014.

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J. Aasi et al.. First all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems. Physical Review D, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2014.

J. Aasi et al.. Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2014.

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J. Aasi et al.. Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts. Phys. Rev. D, 2013.

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J. Aasi et al.. Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center. Phys. Rev. D, 2013.

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E. Thrane, M. Coughlin. Searching for gravitational-wave transients with a qualitative signal model: seedless clustering strategies. Physical Review D, 2013.

J. Aasi et al.. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger, and ringdown in LIGO-Virgo data from 2009-2010. Phys. Rev. D, 2013.

J. Aasi et al.. Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network. Phys. Rev. D, 2013.

J. Aasi et al.. Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2013.

Michael W. Coughlin, Jan Harms. Global characterization of seismic noise with broadband seismometers. http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4826, 2013.

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M. Coughlin, B. Farr T. Littenberg, W. Farr. Fortifying the characterization of binary mergers in LIGO data. Physical Review D, 2013.

J. Aasi et al.. Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light. Nature Photonics, 2013.

J. Aasi et al.. Einstein@Home all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in LIGO S5 data. Phys. Rev. D, 2013.

J. Aasi et al.. A first search for coincident gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2013.

J. Abadie et al.. Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz. Phys. Rev. D, 2012.

J. Abadie et al.. The characterization of Virgo data and its impact on gravitational-wave searches. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2012.

P. A. Evans et al.. Swift Follow-up Observations of Candidate Gravitational-wave Transient Events. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2012.

Michael W. Coughlin, Jan Harms. Seismic topographic scattering and future GW detector site selection in the US. Class. Quantum Grav., 2012.

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J. Abadie et al.. Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in LIGOs sixth science run and Virgos science runs 2 and 3. Physical Review D, 2012.

J. Abadie et al.. Search for gravitational waves from intermediate mass binary black holes. Phys. Rev. D, 2012.

J. Abadie et al.. Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO Science Run 6 and Virgo Science Runs 2 and 3. The Astrophysical Journal, 2012.

J. Abadie et al.. Implications for the Origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO Observations. Astrophysical Journal, 2012.

Tanner Prestegard, Eric Thrane, Nelson L. Christensen, Michael W. Coughlin, Ben Hubbert, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Evan MacAyeal, Vuk Mandic. Identification of noise artifacts in searches for long-duration gravitational-wave transients. Class. Quantum Grav., 2012.

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J. Abadie et al.. First low-latency LIGO+Virgo search for binary inspirals and their electromagnetic counterparts. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012.

T. Accadia et al.. Characterization of the Virgo Seismic Environment. Class. Quantum Grav., 2012.

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J. Abadie et al.. All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the full S5 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 2012.

J. Abadie et al.. All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run. Physical Review D, 2012.

Eric Thrane, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Christian D. Ott, Warren G. Anderson, Nelson L. Christensen, Michael W. Coughlin, Steven Dorsher, Stefanos Giampanis, Vuk Mandic, Antonis Mytidis, Tanner Prestegard, Peter Raffai, Bernard Whiting. Long gravitational-wave transients and associated detection strategies for a network of terrestrial interferometers. Phys. Rev. D, 2011.

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Michael Coughlin for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration. Identification of long-duration noise transients in LIGO and Virgo. Class. Quantum Grav., 2011.

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J. Abadie et al.. Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data. Physical Review Letters, 2011.

J. Abadie et al.. Beating the Spin-down Limit on Gravitational Wave Emission from the Vela Pulsar. Astrophysical Journal, 2011.

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration. A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit. Nature Physics, 2011.

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Michael Coughlin for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration. Noise Line Identification in LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2010.

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J. Slutsky, L. Blackburn, D. A. Brown, L. Cadonati, J. Cain, M. Cavagli, S. Chatterji, N. Christensen, M. Coughlin, S. Desai, G. Gonzlez, 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. Quantum Grav., 2010.

J. Harms, F. Acernese, F. Barone, I. Bartos, M. Beker, J. F. J. van den Brand, N. Christensen, M. Coughlin, R. DeSalvo, S. Dorsher, J. Heise, S. Kandhasamy, V. Mandic, S. Mrka, G. Mller, L. Naticchioni, T. O’Keefe, D. Rabeling, A. Sajeva, T. Trancynger, V. Wand. Characterization of the seismic environment at the Sanford Underground Laboratory, South Dakota. Class. Quantum Grav., 2010.

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