All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

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author: Lorenzo Aiello, Abhirup Ghosh, Karl Toland, Diego Bersanetti, Claudia Lazzaro, Karl Wette, Jamie Scott, Riccardo Bassiri, Badri Krishnan, Haixing Miao, Benjamin F. Farr, Graham Woan, Matthew D. Pitkin, Stephen Fairhurst, Piotr Jaranowski, Elisabetta Cesarini, Jan Harms, Maurizio Canepa, Flavio Travasso, Matteo Lorenzini, Roberto Passaquieti, Alessio Rocchi, Vincenzo Pierro, László Árpád Gergely, Philip Charlton, Rosa Poggiani, François Bondu, Giovanni Losurdo, Isidoro Ferrante, Paul J. Groot, Stefano Ascenzi, Matteo Leonardi, Paolo Addesso, Giles D. Hammond, Marco Drago, Márton Tápai, Vincent Dolique, Viswanath Bavigadda, Francesco Salemi, Rocco Romano, Linqing Wen, Daniel Williams, Patricia Schmidt, Alexander Harvey Nitz, Helios Vocca, Eric Thrane, Vivien Raymond, Ettore Majorana, Li Ju, Neil Gehrels, Tomasz Bulik, Johannes Eichholz, Chris J. Messenger, Giulia Stratta, Alessandro Bertolini, Bryan Barr, Andreas Freise, Gregory Ashton, Paul A. Altin, Amber K. Lenon, Giovanni Cerretani, Derek Davis, Gregory M. Harry, Alberto Vecchio, Enrico Calloni, Eugenio Coccia, Leopoldo Milano, Benjamin P. Abbott, Giacomo Ciani, Karsten Danzmann, Evan Goetz, Fabrice Matichard, David E. McClelland, John Miller, Laura Kate Nuttall, Daniel Sigg, Borja Sorazu, Robert L. Ward, Rainer Weiss, Michel Davier, Teng Zhang, Zeno Tornasi, Ross Birney, Eleonora Capocasa, Mikhail Korobko, Livia Conti, Valentina Mangano, Jade Powell, Salvatore Vitale, Kendall Ackley, Zachariah B. Etienne, Jessica Steinlechner, Hong Qi, Luca Naticchioni, Valerio Boschi, Mauro Tonelli, David B. Tanner, Robert Taylor, Vasiliki Kalogera, Gabriela González, Orion Eli Sauter, Ronald Drever, Beverly Berger, Bernard F. Schutz, Roman Schnabel, Nergis Mavalvala, Michel Boër, Richard K. Mittleman, Dennis Ugolini, Peter Fritschel, Volker Quetschke, Andrew Melatos, Thomas D. Abbott, Piero Rapagnani, 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, Blake C. Moore, Christopher J 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. Shoemaker, Sang Hoon Oh, Sergey Klimenko, Muhammed Saleem, Laura Cadonati, K. G. Arun, Bernd Machenschalk, Antonio Pasqualetti, Jerome Degallaix, Richard Abbott, Fausto Acernese, Carl Adams, Rana Adhikari, Vaishali Adya, Christopf Affeldt, Michalis Agathos, Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Nancy Aggarwal, Odylio D. Aguiar, Anirban Ain, Parameswaran Ajith, Bruce Allen, Annalisa Allocca, Alena Ananyeva, Stuart B. Anderson, Warren G. Anderson, Stephen Appert, Koji Arai, Melody C. Araya, Joseph S. Areeda, Nicolas Arnaud, Melanie Ast, Stuart M. 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