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Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors by Cole, G. D., Ballmer, S. W., Billingsley, G., Cataño-Lopez, S. B., Fejer, M., Fritschel, P., Gretarsson, A. M., Harry, G. M., Kedar, D., Legero, T., Makarem, C., Penn, S. D., Reitze, D. H., Steinlechner, J., Sterr, U., Tanioka, S., Truong, G.-W., Ye, J., Yu, J.

“…In this Perspective, we summarize the status of technological development for large-area and low-noise substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs (AlGaAs) crystalline…”
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Quantum-Enhanced Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy by Tse, M, Yu, Haocun, Kijbunchoo, N, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Dupej, P, Barsotti, L, Blair, C D, Brown, D D, Dwyer, S E, Effler, A, Evans, M, Fritschel, P, Frolov, V V, Green, A C, Mansell, G L, Matichard, F, Mavalvala, N, McClelland, D E, McCuller, L, McRae, T, Miller, J, Mullavey, A, Oelker, E, Phinney, I Y, Sigg, D, Slagmolen, B J J, Vo, T, Ward, R L, Whittle, C, Abbott, R, Adams, C, Adhikari, R X, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Arai, K, Areeda, J S, Asali, Y, Aston, S M, Austin, C, Baer, A M, Ball, M, Ballmer, S W, Banagiri, S, Barker, D, Bartlett, J, Berger, B K, Betzwieser, J, Bhattacharjee, D, Billingsley, G, Biscans, S, Blair, R M, Bode, N, Booker, P, Bork, R, Bramley, A, Brooks, A F, Buikema, A, Cahillane, C, Cannon, K C, Chen, X, Ciobanu, A A, Clara, F, Cooper, S J, Corley, K R, Countryman, S T, Covas, P B, Coyne, D C, Datrier, L E H, Davis, D, Di Fronzo, C, Driggers, J C, Etzel, T, Evans, T M, Feicht, J, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Giaime, J A, Giardina, K D, Godwin, P, Goetz, E, Gras, S, Gray, C, Gray, R, Gupta, Anchal, Gustafson, E K, Gustafson, R, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Hardwick, T, Hasskew, R K, Heintze, M C, Helmling-Cornell, A F, Holland, N A, Jones, J D, Kandhasamy, S, Karki, S, Kasprzack, M, Kawabe, K, King, P J, Kissel, J S

“…The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) has been directly detecting gravitational waves from compact binary mergers since 2015. We…”
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Approaching the motional ground state of a 10-kg object by Whittle, Chris, Hall, Evan D., Dwyer, Sheila, Mavalvala, Nergis, Sudhir, Vivishek, Abbott, R., Ananyeva, A., Austin, C., Barsotti, L., Betzwieser, J., Blair, C. D., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. D., Buikema, A., Cahillane, C., Driggers, J. C., Effler, A., Fernandez-Galiana, A., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Hardwick, T., Kasprzack, M., Kawabe, K., Kijbunchoo, N., Kissel, J. S., Mansell, G. L., Matichard, F., McCuller, L., McRae, T., Mullavey, A., Pele, A., Schofield, R. M. S., Sigg, D., Tse, M., Vajente, G., Vander-Hyde, D. C., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Adams, C., Adhikari, R. X., Appert, S., Arai, K., Areeda, J. S., Asali, Y., Aston, S. M., Baer, A. M., Ball, M., Ballmer, S. W., Banagiri, S., Barker, D., Bartlett, J., Berger, B. K., Bhattacharjee, D., Billingsley, G., Biscans, S., Blair, R. M., Bode, N., Booker, P., Bork, R., Bramley, A., Cannon, K. C., Chen, X., Ciobanu, A. A., Clara, F., Compton, C. M., Cooper, S. J., Corley, K. R., Countryman, S. T., Covas, P. B., Coyne, D. C., Datrier, L. E. H., Davis, D., Di Fronzo, C., Dooley, K. L., Dupej, P., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Feicht, J., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Godwin, P., Goetz, E., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, R., Green, A. C., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hanks, J., Hanson, J., Hasskew, R. K., Heintze, M. C., Helmling-Cornell, A. F., Holland, N. A., Jones, J. D., Kandhasamy, S., Karki, S.

“…Really cool mirrors Cooling objects to low temperature can increase the sensitivity of sensors and the operational performance of most devices. Removing most…”
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Performance of the KAGRA detector during the first joint observation with GEO 600 (O3GK) by Araya, A, Aso, Y, Bae, Y, Ballmer, S. W, Cannon, K, Cao, Z, Capocasa, E, Chen, C, Chen, D, Chen, Y, Chu, Y-K, Dwyer, S. E, Eisenmann, M, Fujikawa, Y, Fukushima, M, Gao, D, Haino, S, Han, W. -B, Hirata, N, Ho, T-C, Huang, H-Y, Huang, Y-C, Hui, D. C. Y, Itoh, Y, Jeon, C, Jung, K, Kaihotsu, K, Kamiizumi, M, Kanda, N, Kato, T, Kawaguchi, K, Kim, C, Kim, J, Kim, J. C, Kobayashi, Y, Kohri, K, Kokeyama, K, Kong, A. K. H, Koyama, N, Kozakai, C, Kuromiya, Y, Kuroyanagi, S, Kwak, K, Lee, H. W, Lee, R, Li, P, Lin, L. C. -C, Lin, F-L, Liu, G. C, Ma'arif, M, Michimura, Y, Miyakawa, O, Miyo, K, Mori, Y, Morisaki, S, Nagano, K, Nakamura, K, Nakayama, Y, Quynh, L. Nguyen, Nozaki, S, Obayashi, Y, Ohashi, T, Ohta, H, Oohara, K, Pan, K. -C, Parisi, A, Saha, S, Saito, S, Saito, Y, Sakai, K, Sawada, T, Shao, L, Shimizu, H, Shimode, K, Shishido, T, Song, I, Takahashi, H, Takano, S, Takeda, M, Tanaka, K, Tanaka, T, Tanioka, S, Taruya, A, Tomaru, T, Tomura, T, Trozzo, L, Tsang, T, Tuyenbayev, D, Ueda, A, Uehara, T, Ueno, K, Wang, J, Washimi, T, Yamamoto, K, Yamashita, K, Yang, Y, Yuzurihara, H, Zhan, M, Zhang, H, Zhu, Z. -H

“…KAGRA, the kilometer-scale underground gravitational-wave detector, is located at Kamioka, Japan. In April 2020, an astrophysics observation was performed at…”
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Point Absorber Limits to Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors by Jia, W, Effler, A, Fritschel, P, Appert, S, Asali, Y, Aston, S. M, Austin, C, Baer, A. M, Ballmer, S. W, Barsotti, L, Betzwieser, J, Bhattacharjee, D, Biscans, S, Bork, R, Buikema, A, Chen, X, Clara, F, Compton, C. M, Countryman, S. T, Covas, P. B, Datrier, L. E. H, Di Fronzo, C, Dooley, K. L, Driggers, J. C, Dupej, P, Dwyer, S. E, Feicht, J, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Giardina, K. D, Goetz, E, Green, A. C, Gustafson, E. K, Gustafson, R, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Hasskew, R. K, Heintze, M. C, Helmling-Cornell, A. F, Holland, N. A, Jones, J. D, Kandhasamy, S, Kasprzack, M, King, P. J, Kumar, Rahul, Landry, M, Laxen, M, Leviton, J, Lormand, M, Macas, R, Macleod, D. M, Márka, S, Mavalvala, N, McClelland, D. E, McIver, J, McRae, T, Moreno, G, Mow-Lowry, C. M, Mullavey, A, Nelson, T. J. N, Nguyen, P, Oberling, J, Ottaway, D. J, Palamos, J. R, Parker, W, Payne, E, Penhorwood, R, Perez, C. J, Pirello, M, Robertson, N. A, Rollins, J. G, Romie, J. H, Ross, M. P, Sanchez, E. J, Sigg, D, Slagmolen, B. J. J, Spencer, A. P, Sun, L, Thomas, P, Thorne, K. A, Toland, K, Traylor, G, Tse, M, Urban, A. L, Vajente, G, Vander-Hyde, D. C, Venkateswara, K, Venugopalan, G, Viets, A. D, Vo, T, Vorvick, C, Wade, M, Ward, R. L, Warner, J, Willke, B, Wipf, C. C, Xiao, L, Yu, Haocun, Zucker, M. E, Zweizig, J

“…High-quality optical resonant cavities require low optical loss, typically on the scale of parts per million. However, unintended micron-scale contaminants on…”
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Environmental Noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors by Effler, A, Austin, C, Adya, V, Ball, M, Banagiri, S, Banowetz, K, Billman, C, Blair, C. D, Clara, F, Covas, P. B, DeRosa, R, Dwyer, S. E, Goetz, E, Hardwick, T, Helmling-Cornell, A. F, Kijbunchoo, N, Kruck, J, Laxen, M, Mansell, G. L, Radkins, H, Roma, V, Schale, P, Tse, M, Vidreo, M, Abbott, R, Adams, C, Appert, S, Asali, Y, Ballmer, S. W, Barker, D, Barsotti, L, Biscans, S, Bork, R, Cannon, K. C, Ciobanu, A. A, Cooper, S. J, Corley, K. R, Datrier, L. E. H, Di Fronzo, C, Dupej, P, Feicht, J, Fritschel, P, Fulda, P, Giaime, J. A, Gras, S, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Heintze, M. C, Kandhasamy, S, Karki, S, Kasprzack, M, Kawabe, K, Kissel, J. S, Lantz, B, Lecoeuche, Y. K, Liu, J, Lormand, M, MacInnis, M, Márka, S, Martynov, D. V, Mavalvala, N, McClelland, D. E, McCuller, L, McIver, J, Mendell, G, Meylahn, F, Mullavey, A, Nuttall, L. K, Ottaway, D. J, Overmier, H, Pirello, M, Ramirez, K. E, Riles, K, Robertson, N. A, Romel, C. L, Romie, J. H, Ryan, K, Sadecki, T, Sanchez, E. J, Schnabel, R, Schwartz, E, Sellers, D, Shaffer, T, Sorazu, B, Sun, L, Thomas, M, Toland, K, Torrie, C. I, Urban, A. L, Vander-Hyde, D. C, Venkateswara, K, Viets, A. D, Vo, T, Willke, B, Wipf, C. C, Yamamoto, H, Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Zucker, M. E, Zweizig, J

“…The sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors to gravitational waves can be affected by environmental disturbances external to the detectors themselves. Since…”
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Approaching the motional ground state of a 10 kg object by Hall, Evan D, Dwyer, Sheila, Sudhir, Vivishek, Abbott, R, Austin, C, Barsotti, L, Betzwieser, J, Blair, C. D, Brooks, A. F, Buikema, A, Cahillane, C, Effler, A, Fritschel, P, Frolov, V. V, Kasprzack, M, McCuller, L, Schofield, R. M. S, Adams, C, Areeda, J. S, Aston, S. M, Baer, A. M, Barker, D, Bartlett, J, Berger, B. K, Bhattacharjee, D, Billingsley, G, Blair, R. M, Bode, N, Booker, P, Bramley, A, Cannon, K. C, Chen, X, Ciobanu, A. A, Clara, F, Compton, C. M, Countryman, S. T, Covas, P. B, Coyne, D. C, Dooley, K. L, Etzel, T, Evans, T. M, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Giardina, K. D, Goetz, E, Gras, S, Gray, C, Gray, R, Gustafson, E. K, Hanson, J, Hasskew, R. K, Heintze, M. C, Helmling-Cornell, A. F, Holland, N. A, Jones, J. D, Kandhasamy, S, King, P. J, Kumar, Rahul, Laxen, M, Lecoeuche, Y. K, Liu, J, Lormand, M, Macas, R, MacInnis, M, Martynov, D. V, McCarthy, R, McClelland, D. E, McCormick, S, Mendell, G, Merilh, E. L, Mistry, T, Mittleman, R, Moreno, G, Mow-Lowry, C. M, Mozzon, S, Nelson, T. J. N, Nguyen, P, Palamos, J. R, Perez, C. J, Pirello, M, Robertson, N. A, Rollins, J. G, Romie, J. H, Ross, M. P, Sanchez, L. E, Sorazu, B, Strain, K. A, Szczepańczyk, M. J, Thomas, M, Valdes, G, Venkateswara, K, Venugopalan, G, Viets, A. D, Vo, T, Vorvick, C, Ward, R. L, Willke, B, Wipf, C. C, Xiao, L, Yamamoto, H

“…Science 372, 1333 (2021) The motion of a mechanical object -- even a human-sized object -- should be governed by the rules of quantum mechanics. Coaxing them…”
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LIGOs Quantum Response to Squeezed States by Dwyer, S. E, Barsotti, L, Blair, C. D, Brown, D. D, Evans, M, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Frolov, V. V, Mavalvala, N, Tse, M, Ward, R. L, Adhikari, R. X, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Asali, Y, Ball, M, Bartlett, J, Betzwieser, J, Billingsley, G, Biscans, S, Blair, R. M, Bode, N, Cahillane, C, Cannon, K. C, Chen, X, Ciobanu, 0 A. A, Compton, C. M, Corley, K. R, Covas, 0 P. B, Davis, D, Di Fronzo, C, Dooley, K. L, Etzel, T, Feicht, J, Fulda, P, Giaime, J. A, Godwin, P, Goetz, E, Gras, S, Gray, C, Gustafson, E. K, Gustafson, R, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Hardwick, T, Hasskew, R. K, Heintze, M. C, Holland, N. A, Jones, J. D, Kandhasamy, S, Karki, S, Kasprzack, M, Kumar, Rahul, Landry, M, Lane, B. B, Lecoeuche, Y. K, Leviton, J, Lundgren, A. P, Macas, 0 R, MacInnis, M, Macleod, D. M, Marka, 0 Z, Martynov, 0 D. V, Massinger, T. J, McIver, J, Mendell, G, Merilh, E. L, Meylahn, F, Mittleman, R, Mow-Lowry, C. M, Nuttall, L. K, Oram, Richard J, Overmier, H, Palamos, J. R, Pele, A, Riles, K, Robertson, N. A, Rollins, J. G, Ryan, K, Sadecki, T, Sanchez, E. J, Savage, R. L, Schaetzl, D, Shaffer, T, Sorazu, B, Spencer, A. P, Strain, K. A, Szczepanczyk, M. J, Thomas, P, Thorne, K. A, Torrie, C. I, Urban, A. L, Vajente, G, Valdes, G, Viets, A. D, Warner, J, Willke, B, Xiao, L, Yu, Hang, Zucker, M. E, Zweizig, J

“…Phys. Rev. D 104, 062006 (2021) Gravitational Wave interferometers achieve their profound sensitivity by combining a Michelson interferometer with optical…”
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Reducing Scattered Light in LIGO's Third Observing Run by Soni, S, Effler, A, Frolov, V V, Pele, A, Valdes, G, Abbott, R, Adams, C, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Arai, K, Areeda, J. S, Asali, Y, Ball, M, Banagiri, S, Barker, D, Bartlett, J, Billingsley, G, Blair, R. M, Bode, N, Booker, P, Bramley, A, Brooks, A. F, Brown, D. D, Cahillane, C, Cannon, K. C, Chen, X, Ciobanu, A. A, Cooper, S. J, Corley, K. R, Coyne, D. C, Datrier, L. E. H, Davis, D, Di Fronzo, C, Dupej, P, Evans, M, Feicht, J, Fritschel, P, Fulda, P, Giaime, J. A, Giardina, K. D, Godwin, P, Goetz, E, Gras, S, Gray, R, Green, A. C, Gustafson, E. K, Hanson, J, Hasskew, R. K, Helmling-Cornell, A. F, Holland, N. A, Jones, J. D, Kandhasamy, S, Kasprzack, M, King, P. J, Landry, M, Laxen, M, Leviton, J, Liu, J, Lormand, M, Lundgren, A. P, Macas, R, MacInnis, M, Martynov, D. V, Mavalvala, N, McClelland, D. E, McIver, J, McRae, T, Mistry, T, Mittleman, R, Moreno, G, Mow-Lowry, C. M, Mullavey, A, Nelson, T. J. N, Nguyen, P, Ottaway, D. J, Palamos, J. R, Penhorwood, R, Perez, C. J, Pirello, M, Robertson, N. A, Rollins, J. G, Romie, J. H, Ross, M. P, Sanchez, E. J, Slagmolen, B. J. J, Sorazu, B, Strain, K. A, Szczepańczyk, M. J, Thomas, M, Viets, A. D, Vo, T, Vorvick, C, Whittle, C, Wipf, C. C, Xiao, L, Yamamoto, H, Yu, Hang, Zhang, L, Zucker, M. E, Zweizig, J

“…Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2020, Volume 38, Number 2 Noise due to scattered light has been a frequent disturbance in the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave…”
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Sensitivity and Performance of the Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Third Observing Run by List, LIGO Instrument Science, Cahillane, C, Mansell, G. L, Blair, C. D, Appert, S, Asali, Y, Aston, S. M, Austin, C, Baer, A. M, Ballmer, S. W, Banagiri, S, Barsotti, L, Berger, B. K, Betzwieser, J, Bhattacharjee, D, Biscans, S, Bork, R, Cannon, K. C, Chen, X, Corley, K. R, Coyne, D. C, Datrier, L. E. H, Davis, D, Di Fronzo, C, Dupej, P, Effler, A, Etzel, T, Evans, M, Evans, T. M, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Giaime, J. A, Gustafson, R, Hanks, J, Hardwick, T, Heintze, M. C, Karki, S, Kawabe, K, Kijbunchoo, N, Kissel, J. S, Kumar, Rahul, Lane, B. B, Lantz, B, Lecoeuche, Y. K, Liu, J, MacInnis, M, Macleod, D. M, Márka, Z, Martynov, D. V, Mason, K, Mavalvala, N, McCarthy, R, McClelland, D. E, McCormick, S, McCuller, L, Mendell, G, Merilh, E. L, Meylahn, F, Mistry, T, Mittleman, R, Mow-Lowry, C. M, Mozzon, S, Nuttall, L. K, Oram, Richard J, O'Reilly, B, Osthelder, C, Overmier, H, Parker, W, Payne, E, Penhorwood, R, Radkins, H, Ramirez, K. E, Richardson, J. W, Riles, K, Robertson, N. A, Romel, C. L, Ryan, K, Sadecki, T, Sanchez, E. J, Saravanan, T. R, Schaetzl, D, Schnabel, R, Schofield, R. M. S, Sellers, D, Smith, J. R, Sorazu, B, Strain, K. A, Szczepańczyk, M. J, Thomas, M, Thomas, P, Vajente, G, Veitch, P. J, Wade, M, Ward, R. L, Warner, J, Weaver, B, Weiss, R, Whittle, C, Willke, B, Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun

“…Phys. Rev. D 102, 062003 (2020) On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo…”
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Squeezing the quantum noise of a gravitational-wave detector below the standard quantum limit by Jia, Wenxuan, Xu, Victoria, Kuns, Kevin, Nakano, Masayuki, Barsotti, Lisa, Evans, Matthew, Mavalvala, Nergis, Abbott, R, Abouelfettouh, I, Adhikari, R X, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Arai, K, Aritomi, N, Aston, S M, Ball, M, Ballmer, S W, Barker, D, Berger, B K, Betzwieser, J, Bhattacharjee, D, Billingsley, G, Bode, N, Bonilla, E, Bossilkov, V, Branch, A, Brooks, A F, Brown, D D, Bryant, J, Cahillane, C, Cao, H, Capote, E, Chen, Y, Clara, F, Collins, J, Compton, C M, Cottingham, R, Coyne, D C, Crouch, R, Csizmazia, J, Cullen, T J, Dartez, L P, Demos, N, Dohmen, E, Driggers, J C, Dwyer, S E, Effler, A, Ejlli, A, Etzel, T, Feicht, J, Frey, R, Frischhertz, W, Fritschel, P, Frolov, V V, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Ganapathy, D, Gateley, B, Giaime, J A, Giardina, K D, Glanzer, J, Goetz, E, Goodwin-Jones, A W, Gras, S, Gray, C, Griffith, D, Grote, H, Guidry, T, Hall, E D, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Heintze, M C, Helmling-Cornell, A F, Huang, H Y, Inoue, Y, James, A L, Jennings, A, Karat, S, Kasprzack, M, Kawabe, K, Kijbunchoo, N, Kissel, J S, Kontos, A, Kumar, R, Landry, M, Lantz, B, Laxen, M, Lee, K, Lesovsky, M, Llamas, F, Lormand, M, Loughlin, H A, Macas, R, MacInnis, M, Makarem, C N, Mannix, B, Mansell, G L, Martin, R M, Maxwell, N, McCarrol, G

“…The Heisenberg uncertainty principle dictates that the position and momentum of an object cannot be simultaneously measured with arbitrary precision, giving…”
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Quantum correlations between the light and kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO by McCuller, L, Barsotti, L, Blair, C. D, Dwyer, S. E, Effler, A, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Fritschel, P, Frolov, V. V, Kijbunchoo, N, McClelland, D. E, Sigg, D, Slagmolen, B. J. J, Whittle, C, Corbitt, T. R, Schnabel, R, Abbott, R, Adams, C, Baer, A. M, Ball, M, Ballmer, S. W, Banagiri, S, Barker, D, Billingsley, G, Biscans, S, Bork, R, Cahillane, C, Cannon, K. C, Chen, X, Ciobanu, A. A, Clara, F, Cooper, S. J, Corley, K. R, Davis, D, Etzel, T, Feicht, J, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Godwin, P, Gras, S, Gustafson, E. K, Gustafson, R, Hanks, J, Hasskew, R. K, Heintze, M. C, Helmling-Cornell, A. F, Holland, N. A, Jones, J. D, Kawabe, K, Kissel, J. S, Kumar, Rahul, Landry, M, Lantz, B, Leviton, J, Macleod, D. M, Mansell, G. L, Márka, S, Márka, Z, Massinger, T. J, McCarthy, R, Merfeld, K, Meylahn, F, Nuttall, L. K, Oberling, J, Oram, Richard J, Osthelder, C, Overmier, H, Parker, W, Payne, E, Perez, C. J, Radkins, H, Riles, K, Romel, C. L, Ryan, K, Sadecki, T, Sanchez, E. J, Sanchez, L. E, Saravanan, T. R, Schaetzl, D, Schofield, R. M. S, Schwartz, E, Sellers, D, Shaffer, T, Sun, L, Thomas, P, Thorne, K. A, Toland, K, Traylor, G, Vajente, G, Vander-Hyde, D. C, Veitch, P. J, Venugopalan, G, Viets, A. D, Vorvick, C, Wade, M, Ward, R. L, Warner, J, Weaver, B, Weiss, R, Willke, B, Yu, Hang

“…Measurement of minuscule forces and displacements with ever greater precision encounters a limit imposed by a pillar of quantum mechanics: the Heisenberg…”
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Searching for the causes of anomalous Advanced LIGO noise by Berger, B. K., Goetz, E., Lantz, B., McIver, J., Nguyen, P., Pele, A., Pham, H., Rink, K., Schofield, R. M. S., Soni, S., Warner, J., Ananyeva, A., Arai, K., Asali, Y., Aston, S. M., Baer, A. M., Barsotti, L., Betzwieser, J., Bhattacharjee, D., Billingsley, G., Biscans, S., Bode, N., Booker, P., Bork, R., Brown, D. D., Cahillane, C., Clara, F., Cooper, S. J., Corley, K. R., Countryman, S. T., Covas, P. B., Coyne, D. C., Datrier, L. E. H., Davis, D., Evans, M., Evans, T. M., Frolov, V. V., Fyffe, M., Giaime, J. A., Godwin, P., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, R., Gupta, A., Gustafson, E. K., Hasskew, R. K., Heintze, M. C., Holland, N. A., Kijbunchoo, N., King, P. J., Kissel, J. S., Landry, M., Lecoeuche, Y. K., Leviton, J., MacInnis, M., Mansell, G. L., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Martynov, D. V., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McCuller, L., McRae, T., Merfeld, K., Meylahn, F., Nelson, T. J. N., Oberling, J., Overmier, H., Parker, W., Pirello, M., Richardson, J. W., Riles, K., Ryan, K., Sadecki, T., Sanchez, E. J., Saravanan, T. R., Schwartz, E., Shaffer, T., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Spencer, A. P., Sun, L., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Torrie, C. I., Vajente, G., Vander-Hyde, D. C., Venugopalan, G., Viets, A. D., Wade, M., Ward, R. L., Weiss, R., Willke, B., Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Zhang, L., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J.

“…Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have detected gravitational waves from astronomical sources to open a new window on the Universe. To explore this new realm…”
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First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO by Blair, Carl, Gras, Slawek, Abbott, Richard, Aston, Stuart, Betzwieser, Joseph, Blair, David, DeRosa, Ryan, Evans, Matthew, Frolov, Valera, Fritschel, Peter, Grote, Hartmut, Hardwick, Terra, Liu, Jian, Lormand, Marc, Miller, John, Mullavey, Adam, O'Reilly, Brian, Zhao, Chunnong, Abbott, B P, Abbott, T D, Adams, C, Adhikari, R X, Anderson, S B, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Arai, K, Ballmer, S W, Barker, D, Barr, B, Barsotti, L, Bartlett, J, Bartos, I, Batch, J C, Bell, A S, Billingsley, G, Birch, J, Biscans, S, Biwer, C, Bork, R, Brooks, A F, Ciani, G, Clara, F, Countryman, S T, Cowart, M J, Coyne, D C, Cumming, A, Cunningham, L, Danzmann, K, Da Silva Costa, C F, Daw, E J, DeBra, D, DeSalvo, R, Dooley, K L, Doravari, S, Driggers, J C, Dwyer, S E, Effler, A, Etzel, T, Evans, T M, Factourovich, M, Fair, H, Fernández Galiana, A, Fisher, R P, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Giaime, J A, Giardina, K D, Goetz, E, Goetz, R, Gray, C, Gushwa, K E, Gustafson, E K, Gustafson, R, Hall, E D, Hammond, G, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Harry, G M, Heintze, M C, Heptonstall, A W, Hough, J, Izumi, K, Jones, R, Kandhasamy, S, Karki, S, Kasprzack, M, Kaufer, S, Kawabe, K, Kijbunchoo, N, King, E J, King, P J, Kissel, J S, Korth, W Z, Kuehn, G, Landry, M, Lantz, B, Lockerbie, N A, Lundgren, A P, MacInnis, M, Macleod, D M

“…Interferometric gravitational wave detectors operate with high optical power in their arms in order to achieve high shot-noise limited strain sensitivity. A…”
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Point Absorber Limits to Future Gravitational-Wave Detectors by Jia, Wenxuan, Yamamoto, Hiroaki, Kuns, Kevin, Effler, Anamaria, Evans, Matthew, Fritschel, Peter, Abbott, R, Adams, C, Adhikari, R X, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Arai, K, Areeda, J S, Asali, Y, Aston, S M, Austin, C, Baer, A M, Ball, M, Ballmer, S W, Banagiri, S, Barker, D, Barsotti, L, Bartlett, J, Berger, B K, Betzwieser, J, Bhattacharjee, D, Billingsley, G, Biscans, S, Blair, C D, Blair, R M, Bode, N, Booker, P, Bork, R, Bramley, A, Brooks, A F, Brown, D D, Buikema, A, Cahillane, C, Cannon, K C, Chen, X, Ciobanu, A A, Clara, F, Compton, C M, Cooper, S J, Corley, K R, Countryman, S T, Covas, P B, Coyne, D C, Datrier, L E H, Davis, D, Di Fronzo, C, Dooley, K L, Driggers, J C, Dupej, P, Dwyer, S E, Etzel, T, Evans, T M, Feicht, J, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Frolov, V V, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Giaime, J A, Giardina, K D, Godwin, P, Goetz, E, Gras, S, Gray, C, Gray, R, Green, A C, Gustafson, E K, Gustafson, R, Hall, E D, Hanks, J, Hanson, J, Hardwick, T, Hasskew, R K, Heintze, M C, Helmling-Cornell, A F, Holland, N A, Jones, J D, Kandhasamy, S, Karki, S, Kasprzack, M, Kawabe, K, Kijbunchoo, N, King, P J, Kissel, J S, Kumar, Rahul, Landry, M, Lane, B B, Lantz, B, Laxen, M, Lecoeuche, Y K, Leviton, J, Liu, J, Lormand, M, Lundgren, A P, Macas, R, MacInnis, M

“…High-quality optical resonant cavities require low optical loss, typically on the scale of parts per million. However, unintended micron-scale contaminants on…”
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Erratum: Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model [Phys. Rev. D 100, 122002 (2019)] by The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration, Baltus, Grégory, Boudart, Vincent, Collette, Christophe, Cudell, Jean-René, Fays, Maxime

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Improving astrophysical parameter estimation via offline noise subtraction for Advanced LIGO by Lundgren, A. P, Kawabe, K, Effler, A, Sigg, D, Nitz, A, Abbott, B. P, Abbott, R, Abbott, T. D, Ananyeva, A, Appert, S, Arai, K, Aston, S. M, Ballmer, S. W, Barr, B, Barsotti, L, Bartos, I, Batch, J. C, Billingsley, G, Birch, J, Biscans, S, Blair, C. D, Bork, R, Corban, P, Countryman, S. T, Coyne, D. C, Daw, E. J, Doravari, S, Edo, T. B, Etzel, T, Evans, T. M, Fair, H, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Ferreira, E. C, Frolov, V. V, Gateley, B, Giaime, J. A, Goetz, E, Gray, C, Hardwick, T, Heintze, M. C, Jones, R, Karki, S, Kasprzack, M, Kaufer, S, King, E. J, King, P. J, Kissel, J. S, Kuehn, G, Laxen, M, Lockerbie, N. A, Lormand, M, Macleod, D. M, Marka, Z, Marsh, P, McCarthy, R, McCormick, S, McCuller, L, McRae, T, Merilh, E. L, Meyers, P. M, Mittleman, R, Moraru, D, Mueller, G, Mullavey, A, Munch, J, Nelson, T. J. N, Nuttall, L. K, Oberling, J, Oliver, M, O'Reilly, B, Palamos, J. R, Penn, S, Phelps, M, Pierro, V, Pinto, I. M, Prokhorov, L. G, Quetschke, V, Quintero, E. A, Radkins, H, Raffai, P, Ramirez, K. E, Romel, C. L, Ryan, K, Sandberg, V, Savage, R. L, Shaddock, D. A, Sorazu, B, Spencer, A. P, Strain, K. A, Taylor, R, Thomas, M, Toland, K, Traylor, G, Vajente, G, Vecchio, A, Vo, T, Ward, R. L, Yamamoto, H, Zhang, L, Zucker, M. E

“…Phys. Rev. D 99, 042001 (2019) The Advanced LIGO detectors have recently completed their second observation run successfully. The run lasted for approximately…”
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The Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO Detectors at the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy by Adams, C, Arai, K, Aston, S. M, Austin, L, Ballmer, S. W, Belopolski, I, Bergman, J, Betzwieser, J, Biscans, S, Bogan, C, Brooks, A. F, Brown, D. D, Clara, F, Countryman, S. T, Cowart, M. J, Cumming, A, Cunningham, L, Dannenberg, R, DeBra, D, DeRosa, R. T, Doravari, S, Driggers, J. C, Dwyer, S. E, Evans, M, Fair, H, Feldbaum, D, Fisher, R. P, Fritschel, P, Frolov, V. V, Fulda, P, Fyffe, M, Giaime, J. A, Gray, C, Guido, C. J, Gustafson, R, Hardwick, T, Haughian, K, Heefner, J, Hough, J, Jacobson, M, Kaufer, S, Kawabe, K, Kijbunchoo, N, Kinzel, D. L, Kokeyama, K, Korth, W. Z, Levine, B. M, Lewis, J. B, Lhuillier, V, Lockerbie, N. A, Lormand, M, MacDonald, T, MacInnis, M, Mailand, K, Martin, I. W, McCarthy, R, McCormick, S, McIntyre, G, Meyers, P. M, Munch, J, Oberling, J, Oram, Richard J, Ottaway, D. J, Pickenpack, M, Piero, V, Principe, M, Quetschke, V, Quintero, E. A, Raab, F. J, Raffai, P, Sadecki, T, Sannibale, V, Schultz, B, Schwinberg, P, Sellers, D, Sevigny, A, Sigg, D, Smith, J. R, Staley, A, Taylor, R, Thorne, K. A, Thrane, E, Tokmakov, K. V, Traylor, G, Vajente, G, Valdes, G, van Veggel, A. A, Vargas, M, Vecchio, A, Venkateswara, K, Vo, T, Vorvick, C, Weiss, R, Welborn, T, Willke, B, Winkelmann, L, Wipf, C. C, Wu, G, Yamamoto, H, Zucker, M. E

“…Phys. Rev. D 93, 112004 (2016) The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely separated 4 km laser interferometers…”
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Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO by Effler, A, Meyers, P. M, Roma, V. J, Schofield, R. M. S, Adya, V. B, Astone, P, Coughlin, E, Coughlin, M. W, Crowder, S. G, Dwyer, S. E, Kandhasamy, S, Lundgren, A. P, Ormiston, R, Rao, K, Schlassa, S, Sigg, D, Tao, D, Thorne, K. A, Thrane, E, Abbott, T. D, Aston, S. M, Austin, C, Ballmer, S. W, Bartlett, J, Billingsley, G, Biscans, S, Biwer, C, Blair, C. D, Cao, H, Ciani, G, Corban, P, Daw, E. J, DeBra, D, DeRosa, R. T, Dooley, K. L, Doravari, S, Edo, T. B, Factourovich, M, Fong, H, Frey, R, Fritschel, P, Fyffe, M, Giardina, K. D, Hardwick, T, Heptonstall, A. W, Hough, J, Jones, R, Karki, S, King, P. J, Kissel, J. S, Kuehn, G, Lantz, B, Laxen, M, Liu, J, Lormand, M, Macleod, D. M, Márka, S, Márka, Z, Maros, E, Marsh, P, Martynov, D. V, Matichard, F, Mavalvala, N, McCormick, S, McIntyre, G, Moraru, D, Mukund, N, Oppermann, P, Oram, Richard J, Ottaway, D. J, Palamos, J. R, Phelps, M, Puncken, O, Radkins, H, Ramirez, K. E, Robertson, N. A, Rollins, J. G, Romel, C. L, Sanchez, E. J, Sanchez, L. E, Sellers, D, Shoemaker, D. H, Slagmolen, B. J. J, Smith, J. R, Sorazu, B, Sun, L, Tanner, D. B, Tasson, J. D, Taylor, R, Tuyenbayev, D, van Veggel, A. A, Ward, R. L, Warner, J, Weaver, B, Wipf, C. C, Wofford, J, Worden, J, Yancey, C. C, Yu, Hang, Zweizig, J

“…Phys. Rev. D 97, 082002 (2018) Searches are under way in Advanced LIGO and Virgo data for persistent gravitational waves from continuous sources, e.g. rapidly…”
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Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves by Walker, M, Abbott, T. D, Aston, S. M, Macleod, D. M, McIver, J, Abbott, B. P, Adhikari, R. X, Anderson, S. B, Arai, K, Batch, J. C, Billingsley, G, Birch, J, Biwer, C, Blair, C. D, Cowart, M. J, Cumming, A, Danzmann, K, DeBra, D, DeSalvo, R, Driggers, J. C, Dwyer, S. E, Factourovich, M, Fritschel, P, Frolov, V. V, Giaime, J. A, Giardina, K. D, Goetz, E, Gray, C, Hanks, J, Hardwick, T, Harry, G. M, Heintze, M. C, Izumi, K, Karki, S, Kaufer, S, King, E. J, King, P. J, Korth, W. Z, Kuehn, G, Landry, M, MacInnis, M, Márka, S, Markosyan, A. S, Maros, E, Martin, I. W, Mason, K, Massinger, T. J, Mavalvala, N, McCarthy, R, McCormick, S, Meyers, P. M, Miller, J, Mittleman, R, Moreno, G, Mullavey, A, Munch, J, Nuttall, L. K, Oberling, J, Oliver, M, O'Reilly, B, Ottaway, D. J, Palamos, J. R, Pele, A, Penn, S, Pinto, I, Principe, M, Quetschke, V, Quintero, E. A, Raab, F. J, Raffai, P, Reid, S, Reitze, D. H, Ryan, K, Savage, R. L, Schofield, R. M. S, Sellers, D, Share, T. J, Shawhan, P, Shoemaker, D. H, Smith, B, Smith, J. R, Sorazu, B, Tanner, D. B, Thomas, M, Thomas, P, Torrie, C. I, Valdes, G, Vo, T, Vorvick, C, Ward, R. L, Warner, J, Weaver, B, Weiss, R, Weßels, P, Willke, B, Wu, G, Yamamoto, H, Zhang, L, Zucker, M. E, Zweizig, J

“…This paper presents an analysis of the transient behavior of the Advanced LIGO suspensions used to seismically isolate the optics. We have characterized the…”
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