GW150914 : the Advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 9 - Physics
- Output identifier
- 31928277
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.131103
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Article number
- 131103
- First page
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- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 13
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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960
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 263
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
- This paper illustrates the remarkable sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the time of the Gravitational Wave discovery. Martynov played a key role in commissioning LIGO, led the campaign to develop an automated procedure for bringing the LIGO detectors into the linear regime, calibrating the detectors, and eliminating a wide variety of noise sources. He provided data for the sensitivity figure (Fig 1), helped develop the noise budget shown in Fig. 3, and contributed to the development of the structure of the paper, as well as the description of technical details such as feedback control and noise sources.
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- English abstract
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