Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run.

scientific article published on 24 March 2017

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author: David E. McClelland, David B. Tanner, Minchuan Zhou, Lorenzo Aiello, Karl Toland, Daniel Williams, Márton Tápai, Salvatore Vitale, Claudia Lazzaro, Fiodor Sorrentino, Barbara Patricelli, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Koji Arai, Paolo Addesso, Marco Drago, Maria Principe, Karl Wette, Francesco Fidecaro, John Zweizig, Flavio Travasso, Gabriele Vajente, Roberto Passaquieti, Philip Charlton, Stephen Fairhurst, Jan Harms, Benjamin F. Farr, Matthew D. Pitkin, Graham Woan, Eugenio Coccia, Piero Rapagnani, François Bondu, Elena Cuoco, Benno Willke, Fabio Garufi, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Isidoro Ferrante, Andrea Viceré, Raymond E. Frey, Zeno Tornasi, Maria Haney, Anna Green, Francesco Pannarale, Diego Bersanetti, Livia Conti, Jamie Scott, Riccardo Bassiri, Maurizio Canepa, Bruce Allen, Andrea Chincarini, Haixing Miao, Elisabetta Cesarini, Matteo Lorenzini, Stefan Hild, László Árpád Gergely, Piotr Jaranowski, Vincenzo Pierro, Giovanni Losurdo, Paul J. Groot, Abhirup Ghosh, Stefano Ascenzi, Matteo Leonardi, Giles D. Hammond, Teng Zhang, Vincent Dolique, Viswanath Bavigadda, Francesco Salemi, Linqing Wen, Patricia Schmidt, Sebastian Steinlechner, Helios Vocca, Eric Thrane, Vivien Raymond, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Giulia Stratta, Alessandro Bertolini, Paul A. Altin, Amber K. Lenon, Giovanni Cerretani, Bryan Barr, Derek Davis, Gregory M. Harry, Vaishali Adya, Ross Birney, Aidan Brooks, Juan Calderon Bustillo, Kipp Cannon, Collin Capano, Lorenzo Cerboni Baiardi, Gareth S Davies, Walter Del Pozzo, Miguel Dovale-Álvarez, Eliu A. Huerta, David Keitel, Izabela Kowalska, Paul Lasky, Andrew Lundgren, Iain Martin, Denis V. Martynov, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Chandra Kant Mishra, Conor M Mow-Lowry, Laura Kate Nuttall, Benjamin J. Owen, Harald Pfeiffer, Eric A. Quintero, Mairi Sakellariadou, Bram Slagmolen, Borja Sorazu, Bas L. Swinkels, Joris van Heijningen, John T. Whelan, Odylio D. Aguiar, Alberto Vecchio, Enrico Calloni, Leopoldo Milano, Ettore Majorana, Benjamin P. Abbott, Giacomo Ciani, Karsten Danzmann, Evan Goetz, Fabrice Matichard, John Miller, Daniel Sigg, Robert L. Ward, Rainer Weiss, Michel Davier, Mauro Tonelli, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Orion Eli Sauter, Ronald Drever, Beverly Berger, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Michel Boër, Volker Quetschke, Peter Fritschel, Dennis Ugolini, Richard K. Mittleman, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Archisman Ghosh, Guenakh Mitselmakher, Sinead Walsh, Todd Adams, Sukanta Bose, Gergely Debreczeni, Brian Klein, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Massimiliano Razzano, Gijs Nelemans, Samaya Nissanke, Timo Denker, Christopher J Moore, Blake C. Moore, Edward J. Fauchon-Jones, Arunava Mukherjee, Karl Aaron Gill, James E. Brau, Chunglee Kim, Ryan Quitzow-James, Chloe Gray, Russell Jones, Peter Shawhan, Robert L. Stone, Richard J. McCarthy, David H. 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