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PUBLICATIONS - Updated: July 2019 PUBLICATIONS - updated: July 2019 PAPERS Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars 1 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 100, 024004, 2019 using Advanced LIGO O2 data Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 2 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Tests of General Relativity with GW170817 Phys. Rev. Lett. , 123, 011102, 2019 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 3 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 879, 10, 2019 2015-2017 LIGO Data Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the 4 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 99, 122002, 2019 second LIGO observing run Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO All-sky search for long-duration gravitational-wave transients in the second 5 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 99, 104033, 2019 Advanced LIGO observing run Collaboration) Soares-Santos M, …, Losurdo G, et al. First Measurement of the Hubble Constant from a Dark Standard Siren using 6 (DES Coll., LIGO Scientific Collaboration the Dark Energy Survey Galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo Binary-Black-hole Ap. J. Lett. , 876, L7, 2019 and VIRGO Collaboration) Merger GW170814 Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Low-latency Gravitational-wave Alerts for Multimessenger Astronomy 7 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 875, 161, 2019 during the Second Advanced LIGO and Virgo Observing Run Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Search for Gravitational Waves from a Long-lived Remnant of the Binary 8 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 875, 160, 2019 Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from 15 Supernova Remnants 9 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 875, 122, 2019 and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Search for Transient Gravitational-wave Signals Associated with Magnetar 10 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 874, 163, 2019 Bursts during Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 11 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Constraining the p-Mode-g-Mode Tidal Instability with GW170817 Phys. Rev. Lett. , 122, 061104, 2019 Collaboration) Burns E, …, Losurdo G, et al. (Fermi A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals GBM Coll., LIGO Scientific 12 Coincident with Gravitational-wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Ap. J. , 871, 90, 2019 Collaboration and VIRGO Observing Run Collaboration) Fishbach M, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO A Standard Siren Measurement of the Hubble Constant from GW170817 13 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. Lett. , 871, L13, 2019 without the Electromagnetic Counterpart Collaboration et al.) Albert A, …, Losurdo G, et al. Search for Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-energy (ANTARES Coll., IceCVube Coll., LIGO 14 Neutrinos with Advanced LIGO during Its First Observing Run, ANTARES, and Ap. J. , 870, 134, 2019 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO IceCube Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 15 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Properties of the Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Phys. Rev. X , 9, 011001, 2019 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Search for Subsolar-Mass Ultracompact Binaries in Advanced LIGO's First 16 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. Lett. , 121, 231103, 2018 Observing Run Collaboration) Acernese F, …, Losurdo G, et al. Calibration of advanced Virgo and reconstruction of the gravitational wave 17 Class. Quantum Grav . , 35, 205004, 2018 (VIRGO Collaboration) signal h(t) during the observing run O2 Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 18 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO GW170817: Measurements of Neutron Star Radii and Equation of State Phys. Rev. Lett. , 121, 161101, 2018 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Search for Tensor, Vector, and Scalar Polarizations in the Stochastic 19 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. Lett. , 120, 201102, 2018 Gravitational-Wave Background Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 20 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data Phys. Rev. D , 97, 102003, 2018 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO 21 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 97, 102002, 2018 observing run Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (Kagra Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with 22 Coll., LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Liv. Rev. Relativity , 21, 3, 2018 Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA VIRGO Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences 23 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Class. Quantum Grav . ,35, 065010 2018 in Advanced LIGO's first observing run Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first 24 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Class. Quantum Grav . ,35, 065009, 2018 Advanced LIGO observing run Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO GW170817: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background 25 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. Lett. , 120, 091101, 2018 from Compact Binary Coalescences Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 26 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO First Search for Nontensorial Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars Phys. Rev. Lett. , 120, 031104, 2018 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO First narrow-band search for continuous gravitational waves from known 27 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 96, 122006, 2017 pulsars in advanced detector data Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 28 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence Ap. J. Lett. , 851, L35, 2017 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced 29 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 851, 71, 2017 LIGO (vol 839, 12, 2017) Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Search for Post-merger Gravitational Waves from the Remnant of the 30 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. Lett. , 851, L16, 2017 Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO First low-frequency Einstein@Home all-sky search for continuous 31 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 96, 122004, 2017 gravitational waves in Advanced LIGO data Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 32 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 Ap. J. Lett. , 850, L40, 2017 Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated 33 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. Lett. , 850, L39, 2017 with GW170817 Collaboration) Albert A, …, Losurdo G, et al. (Antares Coll., Ice Cube Coll., Auger Coll, LIGO Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger 34 Ap. J. Lett. , 850, L35, 2017 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 35 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant Nature , 551, 85, 2017 Collaboration, et al.) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 36 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger Ap. J. Lett. , 848, L12, 2017 Collaboration, et al.) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: 37 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. Lett. , 848, L13, 2017 GW170817 and GRB 170817A Collaboration, Fermi GBM et al.) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star 38 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. Lett. , 119, 161101, 2017 Inspiral Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 39 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. Lett. , 119, 141101, 2017 Binary Black Hole Coalescence Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-based 40 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Ap. J. , 847, 47, 2017 Cross-correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO 41 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO All-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data Phys. Rev. D , 96, 062002, 2017 Collaboration) Albert A, …, Losurdo G, et al. (Antares Coll., Ice Cube Coll., LIGO Scientific Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 42 Phys. Rev. D , 96, 022005, 2017 Collaboration and VIRGO and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube Collaboration) Abbott BP, …, Losurdo G, et al. (LIGO Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of 43 Scientific Collaboration and VIRGO Phys. Rev. D , 96, 022001, 2017
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