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Recent Articles

1. The LIGO Scientific, Virgo, and Swift Collaborations.
Swift Follow-Up Observations Of Candidate Gravitational-Wave Transient Events.
arXiv: 1205.1124.

2. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes.
arXiv: 1201.5999.

3. The LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations.
arXiv: 1201.4413.

2011

1. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
First Low-Latency LIGO+Virgo Search for Binary Inspirals and their Electromagnetic Counterparts.
arXiv: 1112.6005.

2. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz.
arXiv: 1112.5004.

3. T. Regimbau, S. Giampanis, X. Siemens, and V. Mandic.
The stochastic background from cosmic (super)strings: popcorn and (Gaussian) continuous regimes..
Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 066001. arXiv: 1111.6638.

4. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO's Sixth Science Run and Virgo's Science Runs 2 and 3.
Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 082002. arXiv: 1111.7314.

5. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
All-sky Search for Periodic Gravitational Waves in the Full S5 LIGO Data.
Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 022001. arXiv: 1110.0208.

6. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts.
Astron. Astrophys. 539 (2012) A124. arXiv: 1109.3498.

7. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 107 (2011) 271102. arXiv: 1109.1809.

8. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
A Gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit: Squeezed light in application.
Nature Phys. 7 (2011) 962-965. arXiv: 1109.2295.

9. Benjamin D. Lackey, Koutarou Kyutoku, Masaru Shibata, Patrick R. BRady, John L. Friedman.
Extracting equation of state parameters from black hole-neutron star mergers. I: Nonspinning black holes.
Phys.Rev. D85 (2012) 044061 . arXiv: 1109.3402.

10. Branson C. Stephens, William E. East, Frans Pretorius.
Eccentric Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers.
Astrophys.J. 737 (2011) L5. arXiv: 1105.3175.

11. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the Vela pulsar.
Astrophys.J. 737 (2011) 93. arXiv: 1104.2712 .

12. B. Knispel, P. Lazarus, B. Allen et al.
Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing.
Astrophys.J. 732 (2011) L1. arXiv: 1102.5340.

13. The LIGO Scientific and the Virgo Collaborations.
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown.
Phys.Rev. D83 (2011) 122005. arXiv: 1102.3781.

14. Bruny Baret et al.
Bounding the Time Delay between High-energy Neutrinos and Gravitational-wave Transients from Gamma-ray Bursts.
Astropart.Phys. 35 (2011) 1-7. arXiv: 1101.4669.

15. Scott E. Field, Chad R. Galley, Frank Herrmann, Jan S. Hesthaven, Evan Ochsner, Manuel Tiglio.
Reduced basis catalogs for gravitational wave templates..
Phys.Rev.Lett. 106 (2011) 221102. arXiv: 1101.3765.

2010

1. Eric Thrane et al.
Long gravitational-wave transients and associated detection strategies for a network of terrestrial interferometers.
Phys.Rev. D83 (2011) 083004. arXiv: 1012.2150.

2. LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars.
Astrophys.J. 734 (2011) L35. arXiv: 1011.4079.

3. LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar.
Phys.Rev. D83 (2011) 042001. arXiv: 1011.1357.

4. Charalampos Markakis, Jocelyn S. Read, Masaru Shibata, Koji Uryu, Jolien D. E. Creighton, John L. Friedman.
Inferring the neutron star equation of state from binary inspiral waveforms.
arXiv: 1008.1822.

5. B. Knispel, B. Allen et al..
Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing.
Science 329 (2010) 1305. arXiv: 1008.2172.

6. Richard O'Shaughnessy, Birjoo Vaishnav, James Healy, Deirdre Shoemaker.
Intrinsic selection biases of ground-based gravitational wave searches for high-mass BH-BH mergers.
Phys.Rev. D82 (2010) 104006. arXiv: 1007.4213.

7. Chiara Caprini, Ruth Durrer, Xavier Siemens.
Detection of gravitational waves from the QCD phase transition with pulsar timing arrays.
Phys.Rev. D82 (2010) 063511. arXiv: 1007.1218.

8. LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run.
Nucl.Instrum.Meth. A624 (2010) 223-240. arXiv: 1007.3973.

9. Tanja Hinderer, Benjamin D. Lackey, Ryan N. Lang, Jocelyn S. Read.
Tidal deformability of neutron stars with realistic equations of state and their gravitational wave signatures in binary inspiral..
Phys.Rev.D81:123016,2010. arXiv: 0911.3535.

10. LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star.
Astrophys.J. 722 (2010) 1504-1513 . arXiv: 1006.2535.

11. LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
Search for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescence in LIGO and Virgo Data from S5 and VSR1.
Phys.Rev. D82 (2010) 102001. arXiv: 1005.4655.

12. S. Olmez, V. Mandic, X. Siemens.
Gravitational-Wave Stochastic Background from Kinks and Cusps on Cosmic Strings.
Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 104028. arXiv: 1004.0890.

13. LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration.
Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run.
arXiv: 1003.2481.

14. LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration.
Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors.
Class.Quant.Grav. 27 (2010) 173001. arXiv: 1003.2480.

15. LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration.
All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the first joint LIGO-GEO-Virgo run.
Phys.Rev. D81 (2010) 102001. arXiv: 1002.1036.

16. Kenta Kiuchi, Yuichiro Sekiguchi, Masaru Shibata, Keisuke Taniguchi.
Exploring binary-neutron-star-merger scenario of short-gamma-ray bursts by gravitational-wave observation.
Phys.Rev.Lett. 104 (2010) 141101. arXiv: 1002.2689.

17. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration.
Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGOs fifth and Virgos first science run.
Astrophys.J. 715 (2010) 1453-1461. arXiv: 1001.0165.

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