Update on quadruple suspension design for Advanced LIGO von Aston, S M, Barton, M A, Bell, A S, Beveridge, N, Bland, B, Brummitt, A J, Cagnoli, G, Cantley, C A, Carbone, L, Cumming, A V, Cunningham, L, Cutler, R M, Greenhalgh, R J S, Hammond, G D, Haughian, K, Hayler, T M, Heptonstall, A, Heefner, J, Hoyland, D, Hough, J, Jones, R, Kissel, J S, Kumar, R, Lockerbie, N A, Lodhia, D, Martin, I W, Murray, P G, O'Dell, J, Plissi, M V, Reid, S, Romie, J, Robertson, N A, Rowan, S, Shapiro, B, Speake, C C, Strain, K A, Tokmakov, K V, Torrie, C, van Veggel, A A, Vecchio, A, Wilmut, I

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Enhanced characteristics of fused silica fibers using laser polishing von Heptonstall, A, Barton, M A, Bell, A S, Bohn, A, Cagnoli, G, Cumming, A, Grant, A, Gustafson, E, Hammond, G D, Hough, J, Jones, R, Kumar, R, Lee, K, Martin, I W, Robertson, N A, Rowan, S, Strain, K A, Tokmakov, K V

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First results from the ‘Violin-Mode’ tests on an advanced LIGO suspension at MIT von Lockerbie, N A, Carbone, L, Shapiro, B, Tokmakov, K V, Bell, A, Strain, K A

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A study of the fracture mechanisms in pristine silica fibres utilising high speed imaging techniques von Tokmakov, K.V., Cumming, A., Hough, J., Jones, R., Kumar, R., Reid, S., Rowan, S., Lockerbie, N.A., Wanner, A., Hammond, G.

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A low-noise transimpedance amplifier for the detection of "Violin-Mode" resonances in Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory suspensions von Lockerbie, N A, Tokmakov, K V

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A 'Violin-Mode' shadow sensor for interferometric gravitational wave detectors von Lockerbie, N A, Tokmakov, K V

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Load-cell based characterization system for a “Violin-Mode” shadow-sensor in advanced LIGO suspensions von Lockerbie, N. A., Tokmakov, K. V.

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An AC modulated near infrared gain calibration system for a “Violin-Mode” transimpedance amplifier, intended for advanced LIGO suspensions von Lockerbie, N. A., Tokmakov, K. V.

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A step-wise steerable source of illumination for low-noise “Violin-Mode” shadow sensors, intended for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors von Lockerbie, N. A., Tokmakov, K. V.

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Quasi-static displacement calibration system for a "Violin-Mode" shadow-sensor intended for Gravitational Wave detector suspensions von Lockerbie, N A, Tokmakov, K V

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A source of illumination for low-noise 'Violin-Mode' shadow sensors, intended for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors von Lockerbie, N A, Tokmakov, K V, Strain, K A

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Controllable damping of high-Q violin modes in fused silica suspension fibers von Dmitriev, A V, Mescheriakov, S D, Tokmakov, K V, Mitrofanov, V P

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Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914 von Abbott, T D, Altin, P A, Areeda, J S, Ast, M, Aufmuth, P, Bejger, M, Bergmann, G, Biscans, S, Bloemen, S, Bodiya, T P, Bork, R, Bose, S, Bouffanais, Y, Capocasa, E, Carbognani, F, Chincarini, A, Cornish, N, Countryman, S T, D'Antonio, S, Day, R, Debreczeni, G, Giovanni, M Di, Driggers, J C, Dwyer, S E, Fays, M, Fournier, J-D, Frasconi, F, Fricke, T T, Fritschel, P, Germain, V, Gill, K, Goetz, E, Castro, J M Gonzalez, Gushwa, K E, Hacker, J J, Hammond, G, Hanson, J, Hartman, M T, Hu, Y M, Huet, D, Husa, S, Jawahar, S, Jiménez-Forteza, F, Khan, S, Kim, K, Kim, Y-M, Kleybolte, L, Korobko, M, Korth, W Z, Krishnan, B, Lundgren, A P, Malvezzi, V, Mandic, V, Mantovani, M, Merzougui, M, Messenger, C, Meyers, P M, Miao, H, Mitrofanov, V P, Moore, B C, Mullavey, A, Nayak, R K, Nitz, A, Ochsner, E, Palamos, J R, Pedurand, R, Pitkin, M, Popolizio, P, Prasad, J, Prokhorov, L, Sadeghian, L, Salconi, L, Scott, S M, Shah, S, Siemens, X, Silva, A D, Singh, R, Steinlechner, J, Strigin, S, Swinkels, B L, Tarabrin, S P, Thorne, K A, Travasso, F, Tringali, M C, Ugolini, D, Vahlbruch, H, Schaaf, L van der, Veitch, J, Venkateswara, K, Was, M, Weiss, R, Welborn, T, Wen, L, Wu, G, Yablon, J, Yu, H, Zevin, M, Zhang, F, Zhao, C, Zhou, M

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Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO's first observing run von Abbott, R, Ackley, K, Arceneaux, C C, Ast, M, Aulbert, C, Bacon, P, Barr, B, Biwer, C, Bondu, F, Bork, R, Bose, S, Bradaschia, C, Callister, T, Cesarini, E, Chincarini, A, Cho, H S, Collette, C G, Danzmann, K, DeBra, D, Di Girolamo, T, Dolique, V, Drago, M, Driggers, J C, Eichholz, J, Factourovich, M, Freise, A, Fulda, P, George, J, Ghosh, Archisman, Gossan, S E, Grant, A, Gras, S, Gray, C, Hacker, J J, Hanson, J, Harry, I W, Hart, M J, Hendry, M, Henry, J, Hu, Y M, Indik, N, Isac, J-M, Izumi, K, Jones, R, Kalaghatgi, C V, Karvinen, K S, Katsavounidis, E, Kim, W, Kontos, A, Lackey, B D, Lange, J, Lazzarini, A, Leroy, N, Levin, Y, Magaña-Sandoval, F, Maksimovic, I, McCormick, S, Meidam, J, Mercer, R A, Minenkov, Y, Mitrofanov, V P, Mitselmakher, G, Montani, M, Murray, P G, Nolting, D, Oelker, E, Oh, J J, O'Shaughnessy, R, Piccinni, O J, Pitkin, M, Powell, J, Prestegard, T, Principe, M, Qi, H, Quitzow-James, R, Radkins, H, Rakhmanov, M, Regimbau, T, Rei, L, Reid, S, Romano, R, Romie, J H, Sassolas, B, Schutz, B F, Sheperd, A, Singer, A, Steinmeyer, D, Thomas, M, Unnikrishnan, C S, Vine, D J, Vorvick, C, Wade, L E, Walker, M, Wallace, L, Wang, G, Wang, Y, Weiss, R, Westphal, T, Zangrando, L, Zendri, J-P

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Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW150914 von Abbott, R, Ackley, K, Addesso, P, Appert, S, Arnaud, N, Ast, M, Bader, M K M, Baker, P T, Barish, B C, Barta, D, Bartlett, J, Bassiri, R, Bavigadda, V, Bazzan, M, Bejger, M, Bizouard, M A, Cagnoli, G, Cahillane, C, Cao, H, Capano, C D, Cerretani, G, Cesarini, E, Chincarini, A, Couvares, P, Devenson, J, Everett, R, Fernández Galiana, A, Fletcher, M, Frasconi, F, Frei, Z, Gehrels, N, Gemme, G, Gonzalez Castro, J M, Gosselin, M, Grote, H, Gustafson, E K, Hemming, G, Holt, K, Houston, E A, Huttner, S H, Jones, D I, Jonker, R J G, Junker, J, Khan, S, Kim, Y-M, Korth, W Z, Kowalska, I, Kumar, R, Lang, R N, Letendre, N, Levin, Y, Machenschalk, B, Maksimovic, I, Martin, I W, Martynov, D V, McClelland, D E, Miller, B B, Miller, J, Mueller, G, Mukherjee, Arunava, Murray, P G, Nelemans, G, Neri, M, Noack, A, Nocera, F, Oelker, E, Oliver, M, Palamos, J R, Pedraza, M, Perri, L M, Pfeiffer, H P, Pichot, M, Pinard, L, Prodi, G A, Rajan, C, Sadeghian, L, Samajdar, A, Scheuer, J, Schutz, B F, Shapiro, B, Sheperd, A, Siellez, K, Steinke, M, Stone, R, Stratta, G, Stuver, A L, Summerscales, T Z, Sutton, P J, Talukder, D, Tápai, M, Theeg, T, Tonelli, M, van Beuzekom, M, van der Schaaf, L, Wallace, L, Wei, L-W, Weßels, P, Zangrando, L, Zendri, J-P, Zweizig, J

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Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors von Abbott, B P, Abernathy, M, Ceron, E Amador, Aronsson, M, Atkinson, D E, Baker, P, Barnum, S, Barone, F, Barr, B, Beyersdorf, P T, Bigotta, S, Blom, M, Boccara, C, Bosi, L, Boyle, M, Braccini, S, Brinkmann, M, Cagnoli, G, Carbognani, F, Cavalieri, R, Chalkley, E, Clark, D, Culter, R M, DeBra, D, DeRosa, R, Douglas, E S D, Engel, R, Etzel, T, Fairhurst, S, Fan, Y, Foley, S, Frasca, S, Freise, A, Frey, R, Fricke, T T, Granata, M, Greenhalgh, R J S, Gretarsson, A M, Hallam, J M, Harms, J, Heitmann, H, Hild, S, Hoak, D, Holt, K, Husa, S, Isogai, T, Jaranowski, P, Johnson, W W, Kawazoe, F, Kim, H, Krause, T, Lantz, B, Leong, J, Luan, J, Lubinski, M, Lucianetti, A, Martelli, F, Matone, L, McKechan, D J A, Meshkov, S, Michel, C, Mitra, S, Mohapatra, S R P, Morgado, N, Moscatelli, V, MowLowry, C, Nash, T, Nelson, J, O'Dell, J, Ogin, G H, Osthelder, C, Pekowsky, L, Poggiani, R, Puppo, P, Raab, F J, Röver, C, Rolland, L, Sakosky, M, Sassolas, B, Scott, S M, Slutsky, J, Sorazu, B, Stein, A J, Steinlechner, S, Thorne, K A, Trias, M, Tseng, K, Ugolini, D, Urbanek, K, Vajente, G, Vecchio, A, Veltkamp, C, Vetrano, F, Vocca, H, Wen, S, Wette, K, Willems, P A, Woan, G, Yamamoto, K, Zhang, Z

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LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory von Abbott, R, Amin, R S, Araya, M, Aston, S, Barr, B, Barsotti, L, Benacquista, M, Billingsley, G, Biswas, R, Black, E, Blackburn, J K, Bodiya, T P, Bork, R, Brady, P R, Brau, J E, Brinkmann, M, Brooks, A F, Bullington, A, Cadonati, L, Cao, J, Danilishin, S L, Danzmann, K, DeBra, D, Dhurandhar, S, Dwyer, J G, Ehrens, P, Fairhurst, S, Fan, Y, Fehrmenn, H, Freise, A, Frey, R, Grosso, R, Grote, H, Hanson, J, Harms, J, Harry, G M, Hewitson, M, Hild, S, Hirose, E, Hoak, D, Hoyland, D, Ingram, D R, Kalogera, V, Kasprzyk, D, Kawamura, S, Khalaidovski, A, Klimenko, S, Kokeyama, K, Lam, P K, Lantz, B, Lazzarini, A, Leonor, I, Lin, H, Lu, P, Matichard, F, McGuire, S C, McHugh, M, Mino, Y, Mors, K, Mueller, G, Müller-Ebhardt, H, Mukhopadhyay, H, Mullavey, A, Myers, J, Nash, T, Nelson, J, Newton, G, Ochsner, E, Ottaway, D J, Raffai, P, Raymond, V, Reed, C M, Rehbein, H, Reitze, D H, Sannibale, V, Saraf, S, Sato, S, Schofield, R, Sears, B, Sibley, A, Siemens, X, Sintes, A M, Smith, J R, Smith, M R, Szokoly, G P, Thorne, K A, Torrie, C, Trias, M, Vahlbruch, H, Broeck, C Van Den, van Veggel, A A, Vecchio, A, Veitch, J, Vyachanin, S P, Wallace, L, Wen, S, Williams, L, Wilmut, I, Wipf, C C, Woan, G

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Test mass damping associated with electrostatic actuator von Mitrofanov, V P, Styazhkina, N A, Tokmakov, K V

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Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state von Abbott, R, Araya, M, Aston, S, Bantilan, H, Barr, B, Bilenko, I A, Boschi, V, Burmeister, O, Cagnoli, G, Camp, J B, Castaldi, G, Charlton, P, Chatterji, S, Clark, D, Cook, D, Corbitt, T, Cutler, R M, Danzmann, K, Degallaix, J, Degree, M, Donovan, F, Dumas, J-C, Dwyer, J G, Fazi, D, Finn, L S, Goggin, L, Grant, A, Gray, M, Grosso, R, Hanna, C, Harms, J, Harry, G, Hewitson, M, Hild, S, Hirose, E, Hosken, D, Ito, M, Johnson, W W, Jones, D I, Kawabe, K, Kells, W, Kopparapu, R K, Lei, M, Leindecker, N, Lormand, M, Lubinski, M, MacInnis, M, Mailand, K, Markowitz, J, Maros, E, Martin, I, Matone, L, Mavalvala, N, McIntyre, G, McKenzie, K, Mendell, G, Mercer, R A, Mitrofanov, V P, Mueller, G, Ogin, G, Owen, B J, Pankow, C, Parameshwaraiah, V, Patel, P, Pedraza, M, Penn, S, Pinto, I M, Pitkin, M, Pletsch, H J, Plissi, M V, Raab, F, Rakhmanov, M, Reid, S, Reitze, D H, Riesen, R, Robertson, N A, Rollins, J, Ruet, L, Ryan, K, Saulson, P R, Schwinberg, P, Sibley, A, Siemens, X, Sintes, A M, Slutsky, J, Smith, J R, Sorazu, B, Stone, R, Sung, M, Sutton, P J, Thüring, A, van der Sluys, M, Vyatchanin, S P, Waldman, S J, Wallace, L, Weinert, M, Weinstein, A, Wette, K, Wilmut, I, Yamamoto, H

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Effect of heating on dissipation of mechanical energy in fused silica fibers von Mitrofanov, V.P., Tokmakov, K.V.

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