Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO

Searches are under way in Advanced LIGO and Virgo data for persistent gravitational waves from continuous sources, e.g. rapidly rotating galactic neutron stars, and stochastic sources, e.g. relic gravitational waves from the Big Bang or superposition of distant astrophysical events such as mergers o...

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Main Authors: Covas, P. B., Effler, A., Goetz, E., Meyers, P. M., Neunzert, A., Oliver, M., Pearlstone, B. L., Roma, V. J., Schofield, R. M. S., Adya, V. B., Astone, P., Biscoveanu, S., Callister, T. A., Christensen, N., Colla, A., Coughlin, E., Coughlin, M. W., Crowder, S. G., Dwyer, S. E., Eggenstein, H.-B., Hourihane, S., Kandhasamy, S., Liu, W., Lundgren, A. P., Matas, A., McCarthy, R., McIver, J., Mendell, G., Ormiston, R., Palomba, C., Papa, M. A., Piccinni, O. J., Rao, K., Riles, K., Sammut, L., Schlassa, S., Sigg, D., Strauss, N., Tao, D., Thorne, K. A., Thrane, E., Trembath-Reichert, S., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D., Adams, C., Adhikari, R. X., Ananyeva, A., Appert, S., Arai, K., Aston, S. M., Austin, C., Ballmer, S. W., Barker, D., Barr, B., Bartlett, J., Bartos, I., Batch, J. C., Bejger, M., Bell, A. S., Betzwieser, J., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biwer, C., Blair, C. D., Blair, R. M., Bork, R., Brooks, A. F., Cao, H., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clearwater, P., Cooper, S. J., Corban, P., Countryman, S. T., Cowart, M. J., Coyne, D. C., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Danzmann, K., Costa, C. F. Da Silva, Daw, E. J., DeBra, D., DeRosa, R. T., DeSalvo, R., Dooley, K. L., Doravari, S., Driggers, J. C., Edo, T. B., Etzel, T., Factourovich, M., Fair, H., Ferreira, E. C., Fisher, R. P., Fong, H., Frey, R., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gateley, B., Giaime, J. A., Giardina, K. D., Goetz, R., Goncharov, B., Gray, C., Grote, H., Gushwa, K. E., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanson, J., Hardwick, T., Harry, G. M., Heintze, M. C., Heptonstall, A. W., Hough, J., Inta, R., Izumi, K., Jones, R., Karki, S., Kasprzack, M., Kaufer, S., Kawabe, K., Kennedy, R., Kijbunchoo, N., Kim, W., King, E. J., King, P. J., Kissel, J. S., Korth, W. Z., Kuehn, G., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Laxen, M., Liu, J., Lockerbie, N. A., Lormand, M., Macleod, D. M., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A. S., Maros, E., Marsh, P., Martin, I. W., Massinger, T. J., McClelland, D. E., McCormick, S., McIntyre, G., McRae, T., Merilh, E. L., Mo, G., Mogushi, K., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Mueller, G., Mukund, N., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Nelson, T. J. N., Nguyen, P., Nuttall, L. K., Oberling, J., Oktavia, O., Oppermann, P., Oram, Richard J., O’Reilly, B., Ottaway, D. J., Overmier, H., Palamos, J. R., Parker, W., Pele, A., Penn, S., Perez, C. J., Phelps, M., Pierro, V., Pinto, I., Principe, M., Prokhorov, L. G., Puncken, O., Quetschke, V., Quintero, E. A., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Ramirez, K. E., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Robertson, N. A., Rollins, J. G., Romel, C. L., Romie, J. H., Ross, M. P., Rowan, S., Ryan, K., Sadecki, T., Sanchez, E. J., Sanchez, L. E., Sandberg, V., Savage, R. L., Sellers, D., Shaddock, D. A., Shaffer, T. J., Shapiro, B., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith, B., Smith, J. R., Sorazu, B., Spencer, A. P., Staley, A., Strain, K. A., Sun, L., Tanner, D. B., Tasson, J. D., Taylor, R., Thomas, M., Thomas, P., Toland, K., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Tuyenbayev, D., Vajente, G., Valdes, G., van Veggel, A. A., Vecchio, A., Veitch, P. J., Venkateswara, K., Vo, T., Vorvick, C., Wade, M., Walker, M., Ward, R. L., Warner, J., Weaver, B., Weßels, P., Willke, B., Wipf, C. C., Wofford, J., Worden, J., Yamamoto, H., Yancey, C. C., Zhang, L., Zhu, S., Zweizig, J., Barsotti, Lisa, Biscans, Sebastien, Evans, Matthew J, Fernandez Galiana, Alvaro-Miguel, Fritschel, Peter K, Gras, Slawomir, Hall, Evan D., MacInnis, Myron E, Martynov, Denis, Mason, Kenneth R, Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis, McCuller, Lee P, Miller, John, Mittleman, Richard K, Shoemaker, David H, Tse, Maggie, Weiss, Rainer, Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Zucker, Michael E
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115146
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