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4. A multi-MeV alpha particle source via proton-boron fusion driven by a 10-GW tabletop laser

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Istokskaia, Valeriia, Tosca, Marco, Giuffrida, Lorenzo, Psikal, Jan, Grepl, Filip, Kantarelou, Vasiliki, Stancek, Stanislav, Di Siena, Sabrina, Hadjikyriacou, Arsenios, McIlvenny, Aodhan, Levy, Yoann, Huynh, Jaroslav, Cimrman, Martin, Pleskunov, Pavel, Nikitin, Daniil, Choukourov, Andrei, Belloni, Fabio, Picciotto, Antonino, Kar, Satyabrata, Borghesi, Marco, Lucianetti, Antonio, Mocek, Tomas, and Margarone, Daniele

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2023
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5. Improving outcomes of in situ split liver transplantation in Italy over the last 25 years

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Lauterio, Andrea, Cillo, Umberto, Spada, Marco, Trapani, Silvia, De Carlis, Riccardo, Bottino, Giuliano, Bernasconi, Davide, Scalamogna, Chiara, Pinelli, Domenico, Cintorino, Davide, D’Amico, Francesco Enrico, Spagnoletti, Gionata, Miggino, Marco, Romagnoli, Renato, Centonze, Leonardo, Caccamo, Lucio, Baccarani, Umberto, Carraro, Amedeo, Cescon, Matteo, Vivarelli, Marco, Mazaferro, Vincenzo, Ettorre, Giuseppe Maria, Rossi, Massimo, Vennarecci, Giovanni, De Simone, Paolo, Angelico, Roberta, Agnes, Salvatore, Di Benedetto, Fabrizio, Lupo, Luigi Giovanni, Zamboni, Fausto, Zefelippo, Arianna, Patrono, Damiano, Diviacco, Pietro, Laureiro, Zoe Larghi, Gringeri, Enrico, Di Francesco, Fabrizio, Lucianetti, Alessandro, Valsecchi, Maria Grazia, Gruttadauria, Salvatore, De Feo, Tullia, Cardillo, Massimo, De Carlis, Luciano, Colledan, Michele, and Andorno, Enzo

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2023
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7. Hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) as adjuvant and therapeutic options for patients with advanced gastric cancer at high risk of recurrence or established peritoneal metastases: a single-centre experience

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Allievi, Niccolò, Bianco, Federica, Pisano, Michele, Montori, Giulia, Fugazzola, Paola, Coccolini, Federico, Lotti, Marco, Mosconi, Stefania, Merelli, Barbara, Campanati, Luca, Lucianetti, Alessandro, Ansaloni, Luca, and Magnone, Stefano

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2023
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10. Living Donor Lung Transplantation After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation From the Same Donor: A Risk Worth Taking

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Camagni, S, D'Antiga, L, Di Marco, F, Grazioli, L, Bonanomi, E, Pinelli, D, Beretta, M, Tintori, V, Lucianetti, A, Colledan, M, Camagni S., D'Antiga L., Di Marco F., Grazioli L., Bonanomi E., Pinelli D., Beretta M., Tintori V., Lucianetti A., Colledan M., Camagni, S, D'Antiga, L, Di Marco, F, Grazioli, L, Bonanomi, E, Pinelli, D, Beretta, M, Tintori, V, Lucianetti, A, Colledan, M, Camagni S., D'Antiga L., Di Marco F., Grazioli L., Bonanomi E., Pinelli D., Beretta M., Tintori V., Lucianetti A., and Colledan M.

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Living donor (LD) lung transplantation (LT) represents an exceptional procedure in Western countries. However, in selected situations, it could be a source of unique advantages, besides addressing organ shortage. We report a successful case of father-to-child single-lobe LT, because of the complications of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation from the same donor, with initial low-dose immunosuppressive therapy and subsequent early discontinuation. Full donor chimerism was hypothesized to be a mechanism of transplant tolerance, and this postulated immunological benefit was deemed to outweigh the risks of living donation and the possible drawbacks of single compared with bilateral LT. Favorable size matching and donor's anatomy, accurate surgical planning, and specific expertise in pediatric transplantation also contributed to the optimal recipient and donor outcomes. Ten months after LD LT, the patient's steadily good lung function after withdrawal of immunosuppressive therapy seems to confirm the original hypothesis.

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2024

12. Risk of groundwater contamination widely underestimated because of fast flow into aquifers

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Hartmann, Andreas, Jasechko, Scott, Gleeson, Tom, Wada, Yoshihide, Andreo, Bartolomé, Barberá, Juan Antonio, Brielmann, Heike, Bouchaou, Lhoussaine, Charlier, Jean-Baptiste, Darling, W. George, Filippini, Maria, Garvelmann, Jakob, Goldscheider, Nico, Kralik, Martin, Kunstmann, Harald, Ladouche, Bernard, Lange, Jens, Lucianetti, Giorgia, Martín, José Francisco, Mudarra, Matías, Sánchez, Damián, Stumpp, Christine, Zagana, Eleni, and Wagener, Thorsten

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2021

13. A Platform for Laser-Driven Ion Sources Generated with Nanosecond Laser Pulses in the Intensity Range of 1013–1015 W/cm2

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L. Giuffrida, V. Istokskaia, A. Picciotto, V. Kantarelou, M. Barozzi, R. Dell`Anna, M. Divoky, O. Denk, D. Giubertoni, F. Grepl, A. Hadjikyriacou, M. Hanus, J. Krasa, M. Kucharik, T. Levato, P. Navratil, J. Pilar, F. Schillaci, S. Stancek, M. Tosca, M. Tryus, A. Velyhan, A. Lucianetti, T. Mocek, and D. Margarone

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laser–plasma ion sources, high-power laser applications, ion diagnostics, Technology, Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering, TK1-9971
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An experimental platform for laser-driven ion (sub-MeV) acceleration and potential applications was commissioned at the HiLASE laser facility. The auxiliary beam of the Bivoj laser system operating at a GW level peak power (~10 J in 5–10 ns) and 1–10 Hz repetition rate enabled a stable production of high-current ion beams of multiple species (Al, Ti, Fe, Si, Cu, and Sn). The produced laser–plasma ion sources were fully characterized against the laser intensity on the target (1013–1015 W/cm2) by varying the laser energy, focal spot size, and pulse duration. The versatility and tuneability of such high-repetition-rate laser–plasma ion sources are of potential interest for user applications. Such a statistically accurate study was facilitated by the large amount of data acquired at the high repetition rate (1–10 Hz) provided by the Bivoj laser system.

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2024
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17. Late Again? A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Meeting Lateness Frustration by Punctual Attendees.

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Allen, Joseph A., Lehmann-Willenbrock, Nale, Landowski, Nicole, Rogelberg, Steven G., Lucianetti, Lorenzo, Madrid, Hector P., and Tong, Jiajin

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EMPLOYEE psychology, CROSS-sectional method, EMPLOYEE orientation, CORPORATE culture, JOB involvement, MEETINGS, WORK environment, FRUSTRATION, MEDICAL appointments, TIME management, COMPARATIVE studies, TIME, CULTURAL pluralism, INDUSTRIAL relations
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Workplace meetings are often used to help accomplish individual, group, team, and organizational goals. Despite the relatively common occurrence of meeting lateness in U.S.-American samples, less is known regarding other cultural contexts. Following Conservation of Resources theory, we expect that employees from different cultures should experience meeting lateness as a legitimate stressor. Cross-cultural theory suggests that organizational practices, understandings, and use of time may be construed differently as a function of power distance and individualism/collectivism orientations. Working adults (N = 1432) from Chile, China, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, and the USA described how frustrated, irritated, and upset they would be given various scenarios in which the role (meeting leader, colleague) and degree of lateness (5, 10, 15 minutes) of the late arrival were manipulated. Additionally, we found that applying COR theory to meeting lateness served as a valuable framework in examining how lateness is associated with negative effects across our six cultures of interest. The observed cross-cultural differences in the reactions toward others' lateness appears to be a function of individual interpretation of their cultural context as well as their own individually oriented interests. The data also show that individuals from cultures of larger power distance and collectivist orientations interpret norm violations more negatively, lending themselves to distinct reactions in communicating that lateness is an unacceptable behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2025
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22. Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study

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Nepogodiev, Dmitri, Bhangu, Aneel, Glasbey, James C, Li, Elizabeth, Omar, Omar M, Simoes, Joana FF, Abbott, Tom EF, Alser, Osaid, Arnaud, Alexis P, Bankhead-Kendall, Brittany K, Breen, Kerry A, Cunha, Miguel F, Davidson, Giana H, Di Saverio, Salomone, Gallo, Gaetano, Griffiths, Ewen A, Gujjuri, Rohan R, Hutchinson, Peter J, Kaafarani, Haytham MA, Lederhuber, Hans, Löffler, Markus W, Mashbari, Hassan N, Minaya-Bravo, Ana, Morton, Dion G, Moszkowicz, David, Pata, Francesco, Tsoulfas, George, Venn, Mary L, Cox, Daniel, Roslani, April C, Alakaloko, Felix, de Vries, Jean-Paul PM, Aaraj, Mahmoud A, Abbott, Sarah J, Abdalla, Mutwakil OM, Abdelaal, Ahmed S, Ademuyiwa, Adesoji O, Aherne, Thomas M, Ali, Osman M, Alkadeeki, Ghadah Z, Almeida, Ana C, Alrahawy, Mahmoud M, Ambler, Graeme K, Alameer, Ehab, Andreani, Stefano M, De Andrés-Asenjo, Beatriz, Antonanzas, Leyre Lopez, Aoun, Salah G, Ashoush, Fouad M, Augestad, Knut Magne, Avellana, Rocio B, Ayeni, Funbi A, Ayorinde, John OO, Babu, Bheemanakone H, Baig, Mirza MAS, Bajomo, Oreoluwa M, Baker, Olivia J, Baker, Markus P, Baldwin, Alexander J, Ban, Vin Shen, Baron, Ryan D, Barranquero, Alberto G, Barry, Conor P, DI Bartolomeo, Alessandro, Bass, Gary A, Bath, Michael F, Batjer, H Hunt, Beamish, Andrew J, Belgaumkar, Ajay P, Bence, Matthew N, Benson, Ruth A, Bernal-Sprekelsen, Juan Carlos, Bhama, Anuradha R, Bhavaraju, Avi V, Biffl, Walter L, Blundell, Chris M, Boddy, Alexander P, Borgstein, Alexander BJ, Bosanquet, David C, Bosch, Karen D, Bouhuwaish, Ahmad EM, Bozkurt, Mehmet A, Brathwaite, Collin EM, Brown, Benjamin C, Brown, Oliver D, Brown, Allison K, Buarque, Igor Lima, Bueno-Cañones, Alejandro D, Bulugma, Mustafa R, Burke, Joshua R, Byrne, Matthew HV, Cagigal-Ortega, Elima P, Callcut, Rachael A, DI Candido, Francesca, Canova, Michaela E, Carlos, William J, Caruana, Edward J, Cato, Liam D, Catton, Andrew B, Ceretti, Andrea Pisani, Chase, Thomas JG, Chiara, Francesco Di, Chowdhury, Abeed H, Chung, Eric A, Cicerchia, Pierfranco M, Clough, Ethan CS, Coleman, Natasha L, Collins, Chris G, Collins, Michelle L, Colonna, Emily T, Comini, Lara V, Coughlin, Patrick A, Cruzado, Laura Fernández-Gomez, Davidson, Brian R, Davies, Richard J, Davies, Emma J, Davis, Niall F, Dawson, Brett E, Dean, Benjamin JF, Delgado, Maria Garcia-Conde, Diaz, Jose J, Dickson, Kathryn E, Diez-Alonso, Manuel M, Dixon, Jan R, Doe, Matthew J, Drake, Thomas D, Drake, Frederick T, Duffy, John P, Dunne, Declan FJ, Dunne, Naomi JM, Durán-Muñoz-Cruzado, Virginia M, Durst, Alexander ZE, Eardley, Nicola J, Edwards, John G, Elfallal, Ahmed H, Elfiky, Mahmoud MA, Elliott, Jessie A, Emile, Sameh H, Emslie, Katy M, Endorf, Frederick W, Engel, Jamie L, Enjuto, Diego T, Etchill, Eric W, Evans, Jonathan P, Fahey, Brian A, Faria, Carlos S, Feo, Carlo V, Ferguson, Henry JM, Fernandez, Beatriz Dieguez, Fernandez, Andres Garcia, Fernández, Antonio J, Fernández-Pacheco, Borja Camacho, Fitzgerald, J Edward, Fonsi, Giovanni B, Font, Roser Farré, Fowler, Amy L, Fretwell, Kenneth R, Fructuoso, Lorena Sanchon, Fusai, Giuseppe K, Garcia, Miguel Hernandez, Garcia-Ureña, Miguel Angel, Gill, Charn K, Gisbertz, Suzanne S, Del Giudice, Roberto, Giuffrida, Maria Carmela, Di Giuseppe, Matteo, Gómez, María Fanjul, Guariglia, Claudio A, Hainsworth, Alison J, Hall, Bria J, Hall, James RW, Hammond, John S, Haqqani, Maha H, Harrison, Ewen M, Hazelton, Joshua P, van Heinsbergen, Maarten, Hill, Arnold DK, Hing, Caroline B, Hirji, Sameer A, Ho, Michael WS, Holbrook, Charlotte M, Holme, Thomas J, Hopkins, James C, Hopkinson, David N, Hossain, Fahad S, Hudson, Victoria E, Hughes, Jane L, Hwang, E. Shelley, Ibrahim, Mohamed AH, Isolani, Simone M, Jenkinson, Michael D, Jenny, Hillary E, Jeyaretna, Deva S, Jones, Robert P, Jones, Andrew P, Jonker, Pascal KC, Jönsson, Maria L, Joyce, Doireann P, Kalkwarf, Kyle J, Kamarajah, Sivesh K, El Kassas, Mohamed, Kavanagh, Dara O, Keatley, James M, Khalefa, Mohamed A, Khan, Jim S, Kirmani, Bilal H, Kisiel, Aaron P, Kouris, Spyros Marinos, Kowal, Mikolaj R, Labib, Peter L, Larkin, John O, Lauscher, Johannes C, Leclercq, Wouter KG, Ledesma, Frances SJ, Leite-Moreira, André M, Leung, Elaine YL, Lewis, Sophia E, Lima, Maria João, Lin, Daniel J, Liu, Helen H, Lowery, Aoife J, Lozano, Saida Martel, Luney, Catriona R, Maia, Mariana Magalhães, Mariani, Nicolò M, Marino, Marco V, Marra, Angelo A, Marsh, Christopher L, Martin, Robert CG, McCluney, Simon J, McIntyre, Robert C, Mckay, Siobhan C, McKevitt, Kevin L, Meagher, Ashley D, Mehdi, Mohammad Q, Mehigan, Brian J, Gonzalez-De Miguel, Melania, De Miguel-Ardevines, Maria-Carmen, Mills, Sarah J, Mohan, Helen M, Moir, John AG, Monson, John RT, Monteiro, Joana M, Montella, Maria T, Montesinos, Cristina Soto, Morgom, Marwa M, Moura, Francisco S, Muguerza, Jose M, Murphy, Suzanne H, De Nardi, Paola, Naumann, David N, Neary, Paul C, Neely, David TA, Ng-Kamstra, Joshua S, Ngu, Albert WT, Nguyen, Truong A, Nita, George E, Nunes, Quentin M, Nygaard, Rachel M, O'Meara, Lindsay B, O'Neill, John R, Okafor, Barbara U, Olson, Steven A, Oo, Aung Y, Ormazabal, Pablo Collera, Osorio, Alexander L, Pachl, Max J, Parry, James T, Patel, Panna K, Pérez-Sánchez, Luis E, Pevidal, Ana Nogues, Pezzuto, Anna P, Philp, Matthew M, Pinkney, Thomas D, Pollok, Joerg M, Povey, Meical G, Poza, Alfredo Alonso, Rajgor, Amarkumar D, Rao, Jagan N, Raptis, Dimitri A, Rice, Henry E, Ridgway, Paul F, Rivas, Ana Munoz, Rodriguez-Sanjuan, Juan C, Rogers, Luke J, Da Roit, Anna, Rollett, Rebecca A, Romera, Jose L, Rooney, Siobhan M, Roxo, Vanessa I, Le Roy, Bertrand, Rubio, Eduardo E, Ruiz, Carolina Castro, Ruiz, Manuel Losada, Ryan, Éanna J, Saad, Abdel Rahman, Saeed, Samerah A, Salama, Hiba A, Salamah, Abdulrauf A, Sampietro, Gianluca M, Sarma, Diwakar R, Schaffer, Kathryn B, Schnitzbauer, Andreas A, Scurrah, Rachel J, Serevina, Olivia L, Serralheiro, Pedro A, Sewards, Joseph M, Shackcloth, Michael J, Shaw, Abigail V, Sheel, Andrea RG, Sica, Giuseppe S, De Simone, Veronica, Singh, Aminder A, Singh, Rabindra P, Skelly, Brendan L, Smith, Henry G, Sohail, Amir H, Spalding, Duncan R, Springford, Laurie R, Ssentongo, Anna E, Steinkamp, Pieter J, Stevens, Kent A, Stewart, Grant D, Stylianides, Nicholas A, Sullivan, Tom BB, Taher, Ahmed SA, Tamimy, Muhammad S, Tang, Alethea M, Tebala, Giovanni D, Tejero-Pintor, Francisco J, Thaha, Mohamed A, Thomas, Amy J, De Toma, Giorgio, La Torre, Filippo, Torres, Antonio J, Townshend, David N, Trout, Isobel M, Tucker, Sarah C, Ubhi, Harmony K, Vega, Viviana A, Velmahos, George C, Velopulos, Catherine G, Viswanath, Yirupaiahgari KS, Vivas, Alfredo A, Wade, Ryckie G, Wadley, Martin S, Wall, Joshua JS, Walters, Andrew M, Warren, Oliver J, Weerasinghe, Chamindri K, Wilkin, Richard JW, Williams, Katherine J, Winter, Stuart C, Wormald, Justin CR, Wright, Franklin L, Xyda, Souzana E, Young, Alastair L, Youssef, Mina MG, Yousuf, Farhat B, El Youzouri, Hanan, Zappa, Marco A, Abate, Emmanuele, Abdalaziz, Hossam, Abdelkarim, Mostafa, Abdou, Hossam, Aboelkassem-Ibrahim, Ahmad, Abuown, Ala, Acebes-Garcia, Fernando, Acharya, Metesh, Adamina, Michel, Addae-Boateng, Emmanuel, Aftab, Raiyyan, Agarwal, Arnav, Aguilar, José, Ahmed, Yousra, Aitken, Emma, Al-Azzawi, Marwa, Al-Embideen, Somya, Al-Masri, Mahmoud, Al-Najjar, Hani, Al-Sukaini, Ahmad, Alam, Ruhina, Alderson, Derek, Aliyeva, Zumrud, Aljanadi, Firas, Almasri, Murad, Alonso-Ortuño, Paula, Altintoprak, Fatih, Amira, Gamal, Amjad, Rabbia, Anania, Gabriele, Andabaka, Tatjana, Angelou, Dimitrios, Annamalai, Seethalakshmi, Annessi, Valerio, Anthoney, James, Anwar, Sibtain, Anwer, Mariyah, Aragon-Chamizo, Juan, Ardito, Antonella, Arigoni, Michele, Armao, Teodora, Arminio, Armando, Armstrong, Lara, Arnaud, Alexis, Asaad, Peter, Ashcroft, James, Ashmore, Christopher, Asqalan, Ahmad, Asti, Emanuele, Aubry, Emmanuelle, Aytac, Erman, Ayuso-Herrera, Esther, Baeza, Melody, Bailon-Cuadrado, Martin, Bakmaz, Bernarda, Baldi, Caterina, Baldini, Edoardo, Baldo, Stefano, Ballabio, Michele, Baloyiannis, Ioannis, Baltazar, Gerard, Bàmbina, Fabrizio, Bandiera, Alessandro, Barlow, Emma, Barmasse, Roberto, Barmpagianni, Christina, Baronio, Gianluca, Barra, Fabio, Bartsch, Anne-Marie, Basgaran, Amedra, Basha, Amr, Bashkirova, Varvara, Bastazza, Marco, Baumber, Rachel, Belcher, Elizabeth, Belvedere, Angela, Benítez-Linero, Inmaculada, Bergeat, Damien, Bernasconi, Matteo, Bhalla, Ashish, Bhutiani, Neal, Bianco, Federica, Bisagni, Pietro, Blake, Iain, Blanco-Colino, Ruth, Blazquez-Martin, Alma, Boal, Matthew, Bonavina, Luigi, Bonavina, Giulia, Bond-Smith, Giles, Booth, Karen, Borges, Filipe, Borghi, Felice, Bouchagier, Konstantinos, Bourke, Grainne, Boyle, Emily, Brachini, Gioia, Brain, Jessie, Brar, Amanpreet, Breckles, Lisa, Bretagnol, Frédéric, Brixton, Genevieve, Bruzzaniti, Placido, Bueser, Teofila, Burnside, Nathan, Caballero, Albert, Calcerrada-Alises, Enrique, Callahan, Miriam, Camarero, Enrique, Campagnaro, Tommaso, Campanelli, Michela, Candiani, Massimo, Cantalejo-Diaz, Miguel, Cao, Han, Capelli, Patrizio, Capizzi, Vita, Carcano, Giulio, Carissimi, Francesca, Carlini, Massimo, Carlucci, Michele, Carmichael, Heather, Carrasco, Milagros, Carrillo, Mariana, Carvello, Michele, Casati, Massimiliano, Castoro, Carlo, Catalan, Vanesa, Cavaleiro, Salomé, Cellerino, Paola, Centinaio, Giovanna, Cernei, Cristina, Cerro, Cristina, Cervellera, Maurizio, Chakrabortee, Sohini, Chamberlain, Stephanie, Chan, Jeffrey, Chang, Grace, Chaudhry, Dauod, Chebaro, Alexandre, Chen, David, Chetty, Govind, Chia, Zoe, Chiappini, Ambra, Chiarugi, Massimo, Chidambaram, Swathikan, Chiozza, Matteo, Cholewa, Hanna, Chong, Clara, Choolani-Bhojwani, Ekta, Christoforidis, Dimitri, Chui, Karen, Chung, Choyin, Cirillo, Bruno, Citterio, Davide, Clermidi, Pauline, Coccolini, Federico, Colletti, Gaia, Compagnoni, Bruno, Concepción-Martín, Vanesa, Confalonieri, Marco, Connolly, Hannah, Conso, Christel, Conti, Luigi, Cooper, Zara, Cordera, Fernando, Corral, Javier, Costa, Marta, Costanzi, Andrea, Cotsoglou, Christian, Cozza, Valerio, Cuming, Tamzin, Curtis, Miles, Cuschieri, Joseph, D'Agruma, Michele, D'Andrea, Giancarlo, Daliya, Prita, Dare, Oliver, Darko, Ebenezer, Day, Andrew, Dehal, Ahmed, Dehart, Dustin, Delgado-Oliver, Eduardo, Denning, Max, Desai, Anant, Desender, Liesbeth, Dester, Sara, Díaz-García, Alberto, Diaz-Peña, Patricia, Dousset, Bertrand, Doussot, Alexandre, Duchateau, Nicolas, Duff, Sarah, Dunning, Joel, Duque-Mallen, Victoria, Dziakova, Jana, Egan, Bridget, Egan, Richard, El-Ali, Abess, Elfeki, Hossam, Elhadi, Muhammed, Eljareh, Mohammed, Elkady, Ramy, Elkhafeefi, Fatimah, Elmore, Ugo, Elmoslemany, Tarek, Emmerson, Oliver, Enemosah, Ibrahim, English, Camilla, English, William, Escartin, Jorge, Estaire-Gomez, Mercedes, Evans, Luke, Evans, Jessica, Exley, Rebecca, Fabbri, Nicoló, Falco, Giuseppe, Familiari, Pietro, Fancellu, Alessandro, Farik, Shebani, Farrell, Tony, Fehervari, Matyas, Fell, Adam, Fernandez-Camuñas, Angel, Fernández-Marín, Reyes, Fernández-Martínez, María, Ferrara, Francesco, Ferrari, Guglielmo, Ferrero, Simone, Findlay, Laura, Fiore, Marco, Fiori, Enrico, Flatman, Michael, Flindall, Ian, Flor, Blas, Fontana, Tommaso, Ford, Samuel, Ford, David, Forlani, Stefano, Francone, Elisa, Frattaruolo, Colomba, Frio, Federico, Gagliano, Annalisa, Gagliardi, Filippo, Gahunia, Sukhpreet, Gaino, Francesca, Gala, Tanzeela, Galfrascoli, Elisa, Galimberti, Luca, Gallagher, Phoebe, Galleano, Raffaele, Galván-Pérez, Armando, Gammeri, Emanuele, Ganau, Mario, Garcés-García, Raúl, Garulli, Gianluca, Gascon-Ferrer, Isabel, Gattolin, Andrea, Gaujoux, Sebastien, Gentilli, Sergio, Georgiades, Fanourios, Ghanbari, Amir, Ghosh, Dhruv, Giacometti, Marco, Giblin, Anna-Victoria, Gilbert, Catherine, Giménez, Clara, Giorgakis, Emmanouil, Gipponi, Manuel, Glen, Paul, Goatly, Giles, Gobatti, Davide, Godbole, Chintamani, Gohil, Kajal, Gómez, Marcos, Gomez-Rosado, Juan-Carlos, Gonullu, Emre, Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Enrique, Gordini, Luca, Gracia, Isabel, Gracia-Roche, Carlos, Granieri, Stefano, Green, Susanna, Grivon, Manuela, Grove, Thomas, Guaglio, Marcello, Guaitoli, Eleonora, Guglielmi, Alfredo, Guha, Soumya, Gustavino, Claudio, Habeeb, Amir, Hagger, Robert, Hakmi, Hazim, Halkias, Constantine, Hall, Claire, Hampton, Matthew, Handa, Siddhartha, Hansen, Laura, Haq, Iram, Harky, Amer, Harries, Rhiannon, Harrison, Joseph, Hasan, Raashad, Hawari, Mohammad, Hawkin, Paul, Hebblethwaite, Bethany, Henriques, Susana, Heritage, Emily, Hernandez-Juara, Pilar, Herrero-Lopez, Maria, Hervieux, Erik, Heyd, Bruno, Higgs, Simon, Hitchman, Louise, Ho, Beatrice, Hogan, Aisling, Hölzle, Frank, Hossain, Tanvir, Hurt, Libor, Hutchinson, Peter, Iacob, Giulio, Iannone, Immacolata, Ibrahim, Sherif, Iovino, Domenico, Isik, Arda, Jafarova, Sevda, Jamil, Tahir, Jayaraju, Ullas, Jenner, Edward, Jimenez-Higuera, Elisa, Jimeno, Jaime, Jones, Mark, Judkins, Nicholas, Kalavrezos, Nicholas, Kalidindi, Venugopala, Kalkat, Maninder, Kamal, Mona, Kamphues, Carsten, Kang, Chong, Kara, Yasin, Karam, Edward, Karim, Ahmed, Kashora, Florence, Kearney, David, Khajuria, Apoorva, Khan, Umul, Khan, Azam, Khatri, Chetan, Kinnaman, Gabriel, Kinross, James, Kler, Aaron, Klimopoulos, Serafeim, Kocataş, Ali, Kolias, Angelos, Königsrainer, Alfred, Konsten, Joop, Kontovounisios, Christos, Kourdouli, Amar, Krishnan, Emily, Kristinsson, Sverrir, Kruijff, Schelto, Kudsk-Iversen, Søren, Kufeji, Dorothy, Kugler, Nadav, Kulkarni, Rugved, Kurihara, Hayato, Laface, Letizia, Lakkis, Zaher, Lami, Mariam, Landaluce-Olavarria, Aitor, Lapolla, Pierfrancesco, Lawani, Ismail, Lawday, Samuel, Lázaro, André, Lecolle, Katia, Leventoglu, Sezai, Li, Zoe, Liew, Ignatius, Lisi, Giorgio, Lizzi, Vincenzo, Lo, Terence, Lomiento, Daniele, Longhi, Marco, Lostis, Emilie, Lostoridis, Eftychios, Loubani, Mahmoud, Lowy-Benoliel, Alejandro, Lucianetti, Alessandro, Luke, Louis, Lunevicius, Raimundas, Luraghi, Marco, Lye, George, Mabrouk, Islam, Macchi, Alberto, MacDonald, Luisa, Machairas, Nikolaos, Madonini, Marco, Magowan, Drew, Maisonneuve, Emeline, Majkowska, Agata, Majkowski, Lawrence, Mak, Jason, Malabarba, Stefano, Malerba, Michele, Mannan, Syed, Manson, Joanna, Mansuri, Ahmer, Mantoglu, Baris, Manu, Nichola, Maqsood, Afnan, Marano, Alessandra, Marchbank, Adrian, Marcos-Santos, Pablo, Marrano, Enrico, Martin, Janet, Martin, Emmeline, Martin, Guy, Martin-Albo, Lorena, Martín-Román, Lorena, Martinelli, Fabio, Martínez-dePaz, Fernando, Martinez-German, Antonio, Martinez-Pinedo, Carlos, Martins, Ricardo, Marwan, Hisham, Marzi, Federica, Mathieu, Pierre, Matute-Najarro, Maria-Soledad, Maw, Andrew, Mazingi, 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Ana, Seymour, Keith, Shabana, Amanda, Shah, Karishma, Shah, Jigar, Shah, Preena, Shah, Sujay, Shakir, Taner, Shalaby, Mostafa, Shankar, Sushma, Shaw, Richard, Shehata, Sameh, Shenfine, Amy, Sheridan, Kelda, Sherief, Ahmed, Sherief, Mohamed, Sherif, Mohamed, Shinkwin, Michael, Shu, Sebastian, Siaw-Acheampong, Kwabena, Sileri, Pierpaolo, Singh, Abhinav, Singh, Shailendra, Sinha, Sanjay, Sinha, Deepti, Siragusa, Leandro, Sivaprakasam, Rajesh, Sivayoganathan, Sriharan, Smillie, Robert, Smith, Claire, Smith, Andrew, Smith, Christopher, Sochorova, Dana, Soggiu, Fiammetta, Sohrabi, Catrin, Solari, Francesca, Solli, Piergiorgio, Soreide, Kjetil, Spinelli, Antonino, Spoletini, Domenico, Spriano, Giuseppe, Sravanam, Sanskrithi, Ssentongo, Paddy, Stanger, Sophie, Stavroulias, Dionisios, Steel, Ben, Stella, Marco, Stewart, Robbie, Stringer, Sally, Sulen, Nina, Sundar, Sudha, Sundhu, Matthew, Suri, Avni, Syed, Arooj, Szatmary, Peter, Tabiri, Stephen, Tadross, Daniel, Taglietti, Lucio, Tansey, 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Carlo, Venkatesan, Gowtham S, Mateo-Sierra, Olga, Martínez-Pérez, Carolina, Serrano González, Javier, Hernández Bartolomé, Miguel Ángel, Díaz Pérez, David, Gutiérrez Samaniego, María, Galindo Jara, Pablo, Sharma, Neil, Smart, Neil J, and Keller, Deborah S

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25. Laparoscopic Witzel jejunostomy

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Marco Lotti, Michela Giulii Capponi, Denise Ferrari, Giulia Carrara, Luca Campanati, and Alessandro Lucianetti

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enteral nutrition, oesophagogastric junction cancer, gastric cancer, jejunostomy, laparoscopic jejunostomy, Surgery, RD1-811, Diseases of the digestive system. Gastroenterology, RC799-869
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The placement of a feeding jejunostomy can be indicated in malnourished patients with gastric and oesophagogastric junction cancer to allow for enteral nutritional support. In these patients, the jejunostomy tube can be suitably placed at the time of staging laparoscopy. Several techniques of laparoscopic jejunostomy (LJ) have been described, yet the Witzel approach remains neglected, due to the perceived difficulty of suturing the bowel around the tube and securing them to the abdominal wall. Here, we describe a novel technique for LJ, using a single barbed suture for securing the bowel and tunnelling the jejunostomy catheter according to the Witzel approach.

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2021
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26. 2020 World Society of Emergency Surgery updated guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute calculus cholecystitis

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Michele Pisano, Niccolò Allievi, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Giuseppe Borzellino, Stefania Cimbanassi, Djamila Boerna, Federico Coccolini, Andrea Tufo, Marcello Di Martino, Jeffrey Leung, Massimo Sartelli, Marco Ceresoli, Ronald V. Maier, Elia Poiasina, Nicola De Angelis, Stefano Magnone, Paola Fugazzola, Ciro Paolillo, Raul Coimbra, Salomone Di Saverio, Belinda De Simone, Dieter G. Weber, Boris E. Sakakushev, Alessandro Lucianetti, Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, Gustavo P. Fraga, Imitaz Wani, Walter L. Biffl, Osvaldo Chiara, Fikri Abu-Zidan, Ernest E. Moore, Ari Leppäniemi, Yoram Kluger, Fausto Catena, and Luca Ansaloni

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Acute cholecystitis, Early and delayed cholecystectomy, Surgery, Antibiotics, Gallbladder Drainage, High-risk patients, RD1-811, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9
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Abstract Background Acute calculus cholecystitis (ACC) has a high incidence in the general population. The presence of several areas of uncertainty, along with the availability of new evidence, prompted the current update of the 2016 WSES (World Society of Emergency Surgery) Guidelines on ACC. Materials and methods The WSES president appointed four members as a scientific secretariat, four members as an organization committee and four members as a scientific committee, choosing them from the expert affiliates of WSES. Relevant key questions were constructed, and the task force produced drafts of each section based on the best scientific evidence from PubMed and EMBASE Library; recommendations were developed in order to answer these key questions. The quality of evidence and strength of recommendations were reviewed using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria (see https://www.gradeworkinggroup.org/ ). All the statements were presented, discussed and voted upon during the Consensus Conference at the 6th World Congress of the World Society of Emergency Surgery held in Nijmegen (NL) in May 2019. A revised version of the statements was voted upon via an online questionnaire until consensus was reached. Results The pivotal role of surgery is confirmed, including in high-risk patients. When compared with the WSES 2016 guidelines, the role of gallbladder drainage is reduced, despite the considerable technical improvements available. Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy (ELC) should be the standard of care whenever possible, even in subgroups of patients who are considered fragile, such as the elderly; those with cardiac disease, renal disease and cirrhosis; or those who are generally at high risk for surgery. Subtotal cholecystectomy is safe and represents a valuable option in cases of difficult gallbladder removal. Conclusions, knowledge gaps and research recommendations ELC has a central role in the management of patients with ACC. The value of surgical treatment for high-risk patients should lead to a distinction between high-risk patients and patients who are not suitable for surgery. Further evidence on the role of clinical judgement and the use of clinical scores as adjunctive tools to guide treatment of high-risk patients and patients who are not suitable for surgery is required. The development of local policies for safe laparoscopic cholecystectomy is recommended.

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2020
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27. Endoluminal vacuum-assisted closure (E-Vac) therapy for postoperative esophageal fistula: successful case series and literature review

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Carolina Rubicondo, Andrea Lovece, Domenico Pinelli, Amedeo Indriolo, Alessandro Lucianetti, and Michele Colledan

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E-Vac therapy, Oesophageal fistula, Oesophageal leaks, Anastomotic leaks, Bronchogenic cyst, Surgery, RD1-811, Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens, RC254-282
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Abstract Background Treatment of esophageal perforations and postoperative anastomotic leaks of the upper gastrointestinal tract remains a challenge. Endoluminal vacuum-assisted closure (E-Vac) therapy has positively contributed, in recent years, to the management of upper gastrointestinal tract perforations by using the same principle of vacuum-assisted closure therapy of external wounds. The aim is to provide continuous wound drainage and to promote tissue granulation, decreasing the needed time to heal with a high rate of leakage closure. Cases presentation A series of two different cases with clinical and radiological diagnosis of esophageal fistulas, recorded from 2018 to 2019 period at our institution, is presented. The first one is a case of anastomotic leak after esophagectomy for cancer complicated by pleuro-mediastinal abscess, while the second one is a leak of an esophageal suture, few days after resection of a bronchogenic cyst perforated into the esophageal lumen. Both cases were successfully treated with E-Vac therapy. Conclusion Our experience shows the usefulness of E-Vac therapy in the management of anastomotic and non-anastomotic esophageal fistulas. Further research is needed to better define its indications, to compare it to traditional treatments and to evaluate its long-term efficacy.

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2020
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35. Characterization of thermal effects in the Enhanced LIGO Input Optics

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Dooley, K. L., Arain, M. A., Feldbaum, D., Frolov, V. V., Heintze, M., Hoak, D., Khazanov, E. A., Lucianetti, A., Martin, R. M., Mueller, G., Palashov, O., Quetschke, V., Reitze, D. H., Savage, R. L., Tanner, D. B., Williams, L. F., and Wu, W.

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Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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We present the design and performance of the LIGO Input Optics subsystem as implemented for the sixth science run of the LIGO interferometers. The Initial LIGO Input Optics experienced thermal side effects when operating with 7 W input power. We designed, built, and implemented improved versions of the Input Optics for Enhanced LIGO, an incremental upgrade to the Initial LIGO interferometers, designed to run with 30 W input power. At four times the power of Initial LIGO, the Enhanced LIGO Input Optics demonstrated improved performance including better optical isolation, less thermal drift, minimal thermal lensing and higher optical efficiency. The success of the Input Optics design fosters confidence for its ability to perform well in Advanced LIGO.

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36. Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data

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Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G. S., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aronsson, M., Arun, K. G., Aso, Y., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barnum, S., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Belletoile, A., Benacquista, M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bigotta, S., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Boccara, C., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Boyle, M., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Budzyński, R., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Cain, J., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Colacino, C. 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D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh--Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J. B., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Krause, T., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Leong, J., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Liguori, N., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lu, P., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. D., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Mak, C., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreau, J., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mosca, S., Moscatelli, V., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow--Lowry, C. M., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Pardi, S., Pareja, M., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pathak, D., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Radke, T., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szokoly, G. P., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Trummer, J., Tseng, K., Turner, L., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vaishnav, B., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.

Subjects
Astrophysics - Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics
Abstract

The gravitational-wave (GW) sky may include nearby pointlike sources as well as astrophysical and cosmological stochastic backgrounds. Since the relative strength and angular distribution of the many possible sources of GWs are not well constrained, searches for GW signals must be performed in a model-independent way. To that end we perform two directional searches for persistent GWs using data from the LIGO S5 science run: one optimized for pointlike sources and one for arbitrary extended sources. The latter result is the first of its kind. Finding no evidence to support the detection of GWs, we present 90% confidence level (CL) upper-limit maps of GW strain power with typical values between 2-20x10^-50 strain^2 Hz^-1 and 5-35x10^-49 strain^2 Hz^-1 sr^-1 for pointlike and extended sources respectively. The limits on pointlike sources constitute a factor of 30 improvement over the previous best limits. We also set 90% CL limits on the narrow-band root-mean-square GW strain from interesting targets including Sco X-1, SN1987A and the Galactic Center as low as ~7x10^-25 in the most sensitive frequency range near 160 Hz. These limits are the most constraining to date and constitute a factor of 5 improvement over the previous best limits., Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures

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2011
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37. Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspiral, merger and ringdown

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G. S., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Arain, M. A., Araya, M. C., Aronsson, M., Aso, Y., Aston, S. M., Astone, P., Atkinson, D., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballinger, T., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barnum, S., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Belletoile, A., Benacquista, M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Boccara, C., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Bouhou, B., Boyle, M., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Budzyński, R., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet-Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Cain, J., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglia`, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chaibi, O., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coulon, J. -P., Coward, D. M., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Das, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Davier, M., Davies, G., Davis, A., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Debreczeni, G., Degallaix, J., del Prete, M., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Devanka, P., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Dorsher, S., Douglas, E. S. D., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Dueck, J., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Ely, G., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Forsi, E., Forte, L. A., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gáspár, M. E., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gholami, I., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hall, P., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayau, J. -F., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A. W., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E. J., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh-Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J. B., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Krause, T., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Leong, J., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Liguori, N., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lu, P., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A. D., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Mak, C., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreau, J., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mosca, S., Moscatelli, V., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., Mow-Lowry, C. M., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Pardi, S., Pareja, M., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pathak, D., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Rácz, I., Radke, T., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Röver, C., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R. M. S., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D. A., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Sperandio, L., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A. S., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szokoly, G. P., Tacca, M., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torre, O., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tseng, K., Turner, L., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vaishnav, B., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vasuth, M., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A. E., Vinet, J. -Y., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P., Yvert, M., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

We present the first modeled search for gravitational waves using the complete binary black hole gravitational waveform from inspiral through the merger and ringdown for binaries with negligible component spin. We searched approximately 2 years of LIGO data taken between November 2005 and September 2007 for systems with component masses of 1-99 solar masses and total masses of 25-100 solar masses. We did not detect any plausible gravitational-wave signals but we do place upper limits on the merger rate of binary black holes as a function of the component masses in this range. We constrain the rate of mergers for binary black hole systems with component masses between 19 and 28 solar masses and negligible spin to be no more than 2.0 per Mpc^3 per Myr at 90% confidence., Comment: 19 pages, 3 figures

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2011
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38. A search for gravitational waves associated with the August 2006 timing glitch of the Vela pulsar

Author

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Behnke, B., Benacquista, M., Bennett, M. F., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brinkmann, M., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Buchner, S., Bullington, A., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cain, J., Camp, J. B., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C., Cardenas, L., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cepeda, C., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R. C., Cornish, N., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Danzmann, K., Daudert, B., Davies, G., Daw, E. J., Dayanga, T., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J., Dueck, J., Duke, I., Dumas, J. -C., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Faltas, Y., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Finn, L. S., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Fotopoulos, N., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Garofoli, J. A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Goßler, S., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G. D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Ingram, D. R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khan, R., Khazanov, E., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lei, M., Leindecker, N., Leonor, I., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Littenberg, T. B., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lormand, M., Lu, P., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Mak, C., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Mehmet, M., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merrill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Miller, J., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moreno, G., Mors, K., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nishida, E., Nishizawa, A., O'Dell, J., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ochsner, E., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Papa, M. A., Patel, P., Pathak, D., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Pickenpack, M., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Postiglione, F., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raics, Z., Rakhmanov, M., Raymond, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romie, J. H., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sergeev, A., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Szokoly, G. P., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Turner, L., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vallisneri, M., Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, H. R., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract

The physical mechanisms responsible for pulsar timing glitches are thought to excite quasi-normal mode oscillations in their parent neutron star that couple to gravitational wave emission. In August 2006, a timing glitch was observed in the radio emission of PSR B0833-45, the Vela pulsar. At the time of the glitch, the two co-located Hanford gravitational wave detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave observatory (LIGO) were operational and taking data as part of the fifth LIGO science run (S5). We present the first direct search for the gravitational wave emission associated with oscillations of the fundamental quadrupole mode excited by a pulsar timing glitch. No gravitational wave detection candidate was found. We place Bayesian 90% confidence upper limits of 6.3e-21 to 1.4e-20 on the peak intrinsic strain amplitude of gravitational wave ring-down signals, depending on which spherical harmonic mode is excited. The corresponding range of energy upper limits is 5.0e44 to 1.3e45 erg., Comment: 13 pages, 5 figures

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2010
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39. Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Aronsson, M., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Atkinson, D. E., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barnum, S., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauchrowitz, J., Behnke, B., Benacquista, M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Boyle, M., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brinkmann, M., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cepeda, C., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cornish, N., Costa, C. A., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., Danzmann, K., Das, K., Daudert, B., Davies, G., Davis, A., Daw, E. J., Dayanga, T., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Devanka, P., Dhurandhar, S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, M., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Dorsher, S., Douglas, E. S. D., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Dueck, J., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Finn, L. S., Flanigan, M., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Garofoli, J. A., Gholami, I., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Graef, C., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hall, P., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh--Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kozak, D., Krause, T., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Leong, J., Leonor, I., Li, J., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lormand, M., Lu, P., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Mak, C., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Maros, E., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Miller, J., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nolting, D., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Papa, M. A., Pareja, M., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Pickenpack, M., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Postiglione, F., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Radke, T., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Raymond, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romie, J. H., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vaishnav, B., Vallisneri, M., Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P. P., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space-time metric from astrophysical sources. These detectors, two in Hanford, WA and one in Livingston, LA, are power-recycled Fabry-Perot Michelson interferometers. In their fifth science run (S5), between November 2005 and October 2007, these detectors accumulated one year of triple coincident data while operating at their designed sensitivity. In this paper, we describe the calibration of the instruments in the S5 data set, including measurement techniques and uncertainty estimation., Comment: 49 pages, 23 figures

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2010
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40. First search for gravitational waves from the youngest known neutron star

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Aronsson, M., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Atkinson, D. E., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barnum, S., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauchrowitz, J., Behnke, B., Benacquista, M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Biswas, R., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Boyle, M., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brinkmann, M., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Camp, J. B., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Cao, J., Capano, C., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cepeda, C., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Cornish, N., Costa, C. A., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., Danzmann, K., Das, K., Daudert, B., Davies, G., Davis, A., Daw, E. J., Dayanga, T., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Devanka, P., Dhurandhar, S., Di Palma, I., Díaz, M., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Dorsher, S., Douglas, E. S. D., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Dueck, J., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Finn, L. S., Flanigan, M., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Garofoli, J. A., Gholami, I., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Graef, C., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hall, P., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh--Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kozak, D., Krause, T., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Leong, J., Leonor, I., Li, J., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lormand, M., Lu, P., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Mak, C., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Maros, E., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Miller, J., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreno, G., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mossavi, K., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nolting, D., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Papa, M. A., Pareja, M., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Pickenpack, M., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Postiglione, F., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Radke, T., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Raymond, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romie, J. H., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vaishnav, B., Vallisneri, M., Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vecchio, A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Villar, A., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P. P., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.

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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

We present a search for periodic gravitational waves from the neutron star in the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A. The search coherently analyzes data in a 12-day interval taken from the fifth science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. It searches gravitational wave frequencies from 100 to 300 Hz, and covers a wide range of first and second frequency derivatives appropriate for the age of the remnant and for different spin-down mechanisms. No gravitational wave signal was detected. Within the range of search frequencies, we set 95% confidence upper limits of 0.7--1.2e-24 on the intrinsic gravitational wave strain, 0.4--4e-4 on the equatorial ellipticity of the neutron star, and 0.005--0.14 on the amplitude of r-mode oscillations of the neutron star. These direct upper limits beat indirect limits derived from energy conservation and enter the range of theoretical predictions involving crystalline exotic matter or runaway r-modes. This is the first gravitational wave search to present upper limits on r-modes., Comment: 26 pages, 5 figures

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2010
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41. Predictions for the Rates of Compact Binary Coalescences Observable by Ground-based Gravitational-wave Detectors

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M, Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Aronsson, M., Arun, K. G., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Astone, P., Atkinson, D. E., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barnum, S., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Benacquista, M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bigotta, S., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Blomberg, A., Boccara, C., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Boyle, M., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Budzyński, R., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Corda, C., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coulon, J. -P., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dari, A., Das, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Davier, M., Davies, G., Davis, A., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., del Prete, M., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Devanka, P., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Dorsher, S., Douglas, E. S. D., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Dueck, J., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gholami, I., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hall, P., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh--Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, C., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Krause, T., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Leong, J., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lu, P., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mackowski, J. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Mak, C., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreau, J., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mosca, S., Moscatelli, V., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Pardi, S., Pareja, M., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabaste, O., Rabeling, D. S., Radke, T., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rogstad, S., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Trummer, J., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vaishnav, B., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A., Vinet, J. -Y., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P. P., Yvert, M., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., and Belczynski, K.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

We present an up-to-date, comprehensive summary of the rates for all types of compact binary coalescence sources detectable by the Initial and Advanced versions of the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo. Astrophysical estimates for compact-binary coalescence rates depend on a number of assumptions and unknown model parameters, and are still uncertain. The most confident among these estimates are the rate predictions for coalescing binary neutron stars which are based on extrapolations from observed binary pulsars in our Galaxy. These yield a likely coalescence rate of 100 per Myr per Milky Way Equivalent Galaxy (MWEG), although the rate could plausibly range from 1 per Myr per MWEG to 1000 per Myr per MWEG. We convert coalescence rates into detection rates based on data from the LIGO S5 and Virgo VSR2 science runs and projected sensitivities for our Advanced detectors. Using the detector sensitivities derived from these data, we find a likely detection rate of 0.02 per year for Initial LIGO-Virgo interferometers, with a plausible range between 0.0002 and 0.2 per year. The likely binary neutron-star detection rate for the Advanced LIGO-Virgo network increases to 40 events per year, with a range between 0.4 and 400 per year.

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2010
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42. Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO's Fifth and Virgo's First Science Run

Author

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Abernathy, M, Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adams, C., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Aronsson, M., Arun, K. G., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Astone, P., Atkinson, D. E., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barnum, S., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauchrowitz, J., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Benacquista, M., Bertolini, A., Betzwieser, J., Beveridge, N., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bigotta, S., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bitossi, M., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Boccara, C., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Boyle, M., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Budzyński, R., Bulik, T., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet--Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Campsie, P., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C., Carbognani, F., Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R., Corda, C., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A., Coulon, J. -P., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., Dannenberg, R., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dari, A., Das, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Davier, M., Davies, G., Davis, A., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., del Prete, M., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Devanka, P., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Di Palma, I., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Dorsher, S., Douglas, E. S. D., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J. C., Dueck, J., Dumas, J. -C., Eberle, T., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Engel, R., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Fan, Y., Farr, B. F., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Feldbaum, D., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Flaminio, R., Flanigan, M., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Forsi, E., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gholami, I., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Gill, C., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Graef, C., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hall, P., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G., Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Huynh--Dinh, T., Ingram, D. R., Inta, R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khazanov, E. A., Kim, C., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kinzel, D. L., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Krause, T., Kringel, V., Krishnamurthy, S., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Leong, J., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, J., Li, T. G. F., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lu, P., Luan, J., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mackowski, J. M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Mak, C., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McIvor, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Meadors, G., Mehmet, M., Meier, T., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moraru, D., Moreau, J., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mosca, S., Moscatelli, V., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Nolting, D., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R. G., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Osthelder, C., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palladino, L., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Pardi, S., Pareja, M., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Price, L. R., Prijatelj, M., Principe, M., Privitera, S., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabaste, O., Rabeling, D. S., Radke, T., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Rakhmanov, M., Rankins, B., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Sakosky, M., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shaddock, D., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Singer, A., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Speirits, F. C., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steinlechner, S., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thomas, P., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thrane, E., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Trummer, J., Tseng, K., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vaishnav, B., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., van Veggel, A. A., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A., Vinet, J. -Y., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., White, D. J., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, L., Willke, B., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P. P., Yvert, M., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., and Belczynski, K.

Subjects
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

We summarize the sensitivity achieved by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors for compact binary coalescence (CBC) searches during LIGO's fifth science run and Virgo's first science run. We present noise spectral density curves for each of the four detectors that operated during these science runs which are representative of the typical performance achieved by the detectors for CBC searches. These spectra are intended for release to the public as a summary of detector performance for CBC searches during these science runs., Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures

Published
2010

43. Search for gravitational-wave inspiral signals associated with short Gamma-Ray Bursts during LIGO's fifth and Virgo's first science run

Author

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, Abadie, J., Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Accadia, T., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Ceron, E. Amador, Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Arun, K. G., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M. G., Belletoile, A., Benacquista, M., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bigotta, S., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Blom, M., Boccara, C., Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P., Bondarescu, R., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bonnand, R., Bork, R., Born, M., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Breyer, J., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Britzger, M., Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Budzyński, R., Bulik, T., Bullington, A., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burguet-Castell, J., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Buy, C., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Cain, J., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Capano, C. D., Carbognani, F., Cardenas, L., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chua, S. S. Y., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R. C., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Coulon, J. -P., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Dahl, K., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Davier, M., Davies, G., Daw, E. J., Day, R., Dayanga, T., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., del Prete, M., Dergachev, V., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Driggers, J., Dueck, J., Duke, I., Dumas, J. -C., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Faltas, Y., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Flaminio, R., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T., Friedrich, D., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Galimberti, M., Gammaitoni, L., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Ghosh, S., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Granata, M., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guidi, G. M., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G. D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Hayler, T., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Howell, E., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H., Ingram, D. R., Isogai, T., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khan, R., Khazanov, E., Kim, H., King, P. J., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Kringel, V., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kuehn, G., Kullman, J., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lang, M., Lantz, B., Lastzka, N., Lazzarini, A., Leaci, P., Lei, M., Leindecker, N., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, T. G. F., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Littenberg, T. B., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lu, P., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Lundgren, A., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Mak, C., Maksimovic, I., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McIntyre, G., McKechan, D. J. A., Mehmet, M., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Mercer, R. A., Merill, L., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Miao, H., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minenkov, Y., Mino, Y., Mitra, S., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moreau, J., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Mors, K., Mosca, S., Moscatelli, V., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Mukherjee, S., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Nash, T., Nawrodt, R., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nishida, E., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., Oldenburg, R., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Page, A., Pagliaroli, G., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Pardi, S., Parisi, M., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pathak, D., Pedraza, M., Pekowsky, L., Penn, S., Peralta, C., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Pichot, M., Pickenpack, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Predoi, V., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabeling, D. S., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raics, Z., Rakhmanov, M., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Röver, C., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosińska, D., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Salemi, F., Sammut, L., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Santostasi, G., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sintes, A. M., Skelton, G., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Stein, A. J., Stein, L. C., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sung, M., Susmithan, S., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szokoly, G. P., Talukder, D., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thüring, A., Titsler, C., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torres, C., Torrie, C. I., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Trummer, J., Turner, L., Ugolini, D., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, Broeck, C. Van Den, van der Putten, S., van der Sluys, M. V., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., van Veggel, A. A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P. J., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A., Vinet, J. -Y., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Wanner, A., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Wei, P., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wessels, P., West, M., Westphal, T., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, H. R., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yamamoto, K., Yeaton-Massey, D., Yoshida, S., Yu, P. P., Yvert, M., Zanolin, M., Zhang, L., Zhang, Z., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., and Zweizig, J.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract

Progenitor scenarios for short gamma-ray bursts (short GRBs) include coalescenses of two neutron stars or a neutron star and black hole, which would necessarily be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves. We present a search for these known gravitational-wave signatures in temporal and directional coincidence with 22 GRBs that had sufficient gravitational-wave data available in multiple instruments during LIGO's fifth science run, S5, and Virgo's first science run, VSR1. We find no statistically significant gravitational-wave candidates within a [-5, +1) s window around the trigger time of any GRB. Using the Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney U test, we find no evidence for an excess of weak gravitational-wave signals in our sample of GRBs. We exclude neutron star-black hole progenitors to a median 90% CL exclusion distance of 6.7 Mpc., Comment: 8 pages, 2 figures, Accepted by ApJ

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2010
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44. Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars with S5 LIGO data

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The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Alshourbagy, M., Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Armor, P., Arun, K. G., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M., Benacquista, M., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bigotta, S., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Boccara, C., Bodiya, T. P., Bogue, L., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Broeck, C. Van Den, Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brummit, A., Brunet, G., Budzynski, R., Bulik, T., Bullington, A., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Carbognani, F., Cardenas, L., Caride, S., Castaldi, G., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R. C., Corda, C., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Coulon, J. -P., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dari, A., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Davier, M., Davies, G., Daw, E. J., Day, R., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., del Prete, M., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Dueck, J., Duke, I., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, J. G., Echols, C., Edgar, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Faltas, Y., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Flaminio, R., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franzen, A., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Gammaitoni, L., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gholami, I., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Granata, M., Granata, V., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grimaldi, F., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Guidi, G., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G. D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Huttner, S. H., Ingram, D. R., Isogai, T., Ito, M., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, B., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khan, R., Khazanov, E., King, P., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., La Penna, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, H., Lei, M., Leindecker, N., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, C., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Littenberg, T. B., Lockerbie, N. A., Lodhia, D., Longo, M., Lorenzini, M., Loriette, V., Lormand, M., Losurdo, G., Lu, P., Lubinski, M., Lucianetti, A., Lück, H., Machenschalk, B., MacInnis, M., Mackowski, J. -M., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majorana, E., Man, N., Mandel, I., Mandic, V., Mantovani, M., Marchesoni, F., Marion, F., Márka, S., Márka, Z., Markosyan, A., Markowitz, J., Maros, E., Marque, J., Martelli, F., Martin, I. W., Martin, R. M., Marx, J. N., Mason, K., Masserot, A., Matichard, F., Matone, L., Matzner, R. A., Mavalvala, N., McCarthy, R., McClelland, D. E., McGuire, S. C., McHugh, M., McIntyre, G., McKechan, D. J. A., McKenzie, K., Mehmet, M., Melatos, A., Melissinos, A. C., Mendell, G., Menéndez, D. F., Menzinger, F., Mercer, R. A., Meshkov, S., Messenger, C., Meyer, M. S., Michel, C., Milano, L., Miller, J., Minelli, J., Minenkov, Y., Mino, Y., Mitrofanov, V. P., Mitselmakher, G., Mittleman, R., Miyakawa, O., Moe, B., Mohan, M., Mohanty, S. D., Mohapatra, S. R. P., Moreau, J., Moreno, G., Morgado, N., Morgia, A., Morioka, T., Mors, K., Mosca, S., Moscatelli, V., Mossavi, K., Mours, B., MowLowry, C., Mueller, G., Muhammad, D., Mühlen, H. zur, Mukherjee, S., Mukhopadhyay, H., Mullavey, A., Müller-Ebhardt, H., Munch, J., Murray, P. G., Myers, E., Myers, J., Nash, T., Nelson, J., Neri, I., Newton, G., Nishizawa, A., Nocera, F., Numata, K., Ochsner, E., O'Dell, J., Ogin, G. H., O'Reilly, B., O'Shaughnessy, R., Ottaway, D. J., Ottens, R. S., Overmier, H., Owen, B. J., Pagliaroli, G., Palomba, C., Pan, Y., Pankow, C., Paoletti, F., Papa, M. A., Parameshwaraiah, V., Pardi, S., Pasqualetti, A., Passaquieti, R., Passuello, D., Patel, P., Pedraza, M., Penn, S., Perreca, A., Persichetti, G., Pichot, M., Piergiovanni, F., Pierro, V., Pietka, M., Pinard, L., Pinto, I. M., Pitkin, M., Pletsch, H. J., Plissi, M. V., Poggiani, R., Postiglione, F., Prato, M., Principe, M., Prix, R., Prodi, G. A., Prokhorov, L., Puncken, O., Punturo, M., Puppo, P., Quetschke, V., Raab, F. J., Rabaste, O., Rabeling, D. S., Radkins, H., Raffai, P., Raics, Z., Rainer, N., Rakhmanov, M., Rapagnani, P., Raymond, V., Re, V., Reed, C. M., Reed, T., Regimbau, T., Rehbein, H., Reid, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Riesen, R., Riles, K., Rivera, B., Roberts, P., Robertson, N. A., Robinet, F., Robinson, C., Robinson, E. L., Rocchi, A., Roddy, S., Rolland, L., Rollins, J., Romano, J. D., Romano, R., Romie, J. H., Rosinska, D., Röver, C., Rowan, S., Rüdiger, A., Ruggi, P., Russell, P., Ryan, K., Sakata, S., Salemi, F., Sandberg, V., Sannibale, V., Santamaría, L., Saraf, S., Sarin, P., Sassolas, B., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Sato, S., Satterthwaite, M., Saulson, P. R., Savage, R., Savov, P., Scanlan, M., Schilling, R., Schnabel, R., Schofield, R., Schulz, B., Schutz, B. F., Schwinberg, P., Scott, J., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Sears, B., Seifert, F., Sellers, D., Sengupta, A. S., Sentenac, D., Sergeev, A., Shapiro, B., Shawhan, P., Shoemaker, D. H., Sibley, A., Siemens, X., Sigg, D., Sinha, S., Sintes, A. M., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Slutsky, J., van der Sluys, M. V., Smith, J. R., Smith, M. R., Smith, N. D., Somiya, K., Sorazu, B., Stein, A., Stein, L. C., Steplewski, S., Stochino, A., Stone, R., Strain, K. A., Strigin, S., Stroeer, A., Sturani, R., Stuver, A. L., Summerscales, T. Z., Sun, K. -X., Sung, M., Sutton, P. J., Swinkels, B., Szokoly, G. P., Talukder, D., Tang, L., Tanner, D. B., Tarabrin, S. P., Taylor, J. R., Taylor, R., Terenzi, R., Thacker, J., Thorne, K. A., Thorne, K. S., Thüring, A., Tokmakov, K. V., Toncelli, A., Tonelli, M., Torres, C., Torrie, C., Tournefier, E., Travasso, F., Traylor, G., Trias, M., Trummer, J., Ugolini, D., Ulmen, J., Urbanek, K., Vahlbruch, H., Vajente, G., Vallisneri, M., Brand, J. F. J. van den, van der Putten, S., Vass, S., Vaulin, R., Vavoulidis, M., Vecchio, A., Vedovato, G., van Veggel, A. A., Veitch, J., Veitch, P., Veltkamp, C., Verkindt, D., Vetrano, F., Viceré, A., Villar, A., Vinet, J. -Y., Vocca, H., Vorvick, C., Vyachanin, S. P., Waldman, S. J., Wallace, L., Ward, R. L., Was, M., Weidner, A., Weinert, M., Weinstein, A. J., Weiss, R., Wen, L., Wen, S., Wette, K., Whelan, J. T., Whitcomb, S. E., Whiting, B. F., Wilkinson, C., Willems, P. A., Williams, H. R., Williams, L., Willke, B., Wilmut, I., Winkelmann, L., Winkler, W., Wipf, C. C., Wiseman, A. G., Woan, G., Wooley, R., Worden, J., Wu, W., Yakushin, I., Yamamoto, H., Yan, Z., Yoshida, S., Yvert, M., Zanolin, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, L., Zhao, C., Zotov, N., Zucker, M. E., Zweizig, J., Bégin, S., Corongiu, A., D'Amico, N., Freire, P. C. C., Hessels, J. W. T., Hobbs, G. B., Kramer, M., Lyne, A. G., Manchester, R. N., Marshall, F. E., Middleditch, J., Possenti, A., Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H., and Stappers, B.

Subjects
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Galaxy Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract

We present a search for gravitational waves from 116 known millisecond and young pulsars using data from the fifth science run of the LIGO detectors. For this search ephemerides overlapping the run period were obtained for all pulsars using radio and X-ray observations. We demonstrate an updated search method that allows for small uncertainties in the pulsar phase parameters to be included in the search. We report no signal detection from any of the targets and therefore interpret our results as upper limits on the gravitational wave signal strength. The most interesting limits are those for young pulsars. We present updated limits on gravitational radiation from the Crab pulsar, where the measured limit is now a factor of seven below the spin-down limit. This limits the power radiated via gravitational waves to be less than ~2% of the available spin-down power. For the X-ray pulsar J0537-6910 we reach the spin-down limit under the assumption that any gravitational wave signal from it stays phase locked to the X-ray pulses over timing glitches, and for pulsars J1913+1011 and J1952+3252 we are only a factor of a few above the spin-down limit. Of the recycled millisecond pulsars several of the measured upper limits are only about an order of magnitude above their spin-down limits. For these our best (lowest) upper limit on gravitational wave amplitude is 2.3x10^-26 for J1603-7202 and our best (lowest) limit on the inferred pulsar ellipticity is 7.0x10^-8 for J2124-3358., Comment: 39 pages, 5 figures, Accepted in The Astrophysical Journal

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2009
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45. Search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with gamma-ray bursts using data from LIGO Science Run 5 and Virgo Science Run 1

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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Abbott, B. P., Abbott, R., Acernese, F., Adhikari, R., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Allen, G., Alshourbagy, M., Amin, R. S., Anderson, S. B., Anderson, W. G., Antonucci, F., Aoudia, S., Arain, M. A., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Armor, P., Arun, K. G., Aso, Y., Aston, S., Astone, P., Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P., Ballardin, G., Ballmer, S., Barker, C., Barker, D., Barone, F., Barr, B., Barriga, P., Barsotti, L., Barsuglia, M., Barton, M. A., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Bastarrika, M., Bauer, Th. S., Behnke, B., Beker, M., Benacquista, M., Betzwieser, J., Beyersdorf, P. T., Bigotta, S., Bilenko, I. A., Billingsley, G., Birindelli, S., Biswas, R., Bizouard, M. A., Black, E., Blackburn, J. K., Blackburn, L., Blair, D., Bland, B., Boccara, C., Bodiya, T. P., Bogue, L., Bondu, F., Bonelli, L., Bork, R., Boschi, V., Bose, S., Bosi, L., Braccini, S., Bradaschia, C., Brady, P. R., Braginsky, V. B., Brau, J. E., Bridges, D. O., Brillet, A., Brinkmann, M., Brisson, V., Broeck, C. Van Den, Brooks, A. F., Brown, D. A., Brummit, A., Brunet, G., Budzyński, R., Bulik, T., Bullington, A., Bulten, H. J., Buonanno, A., Burmeister, O., Buskulic, D., Byer, R. L., Cadonati, L., Cagnoli, G., Calloni, E., Camp, J. B., Campagna, E., Cannizzo, J., Cannon, K. C., Canuel, B., Cao, J., Carbognani, F., Cardenas, L., Caride, S., Castaldi, G., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cavalier, F., Cavalieri, R., Cella, G., Cepeda, C., Cesarini, E., Chalermsongsak, T., Chalkley, E., Charlton, P., Chassande-Mottin, E., Chatterji, S., Chelkowski, S., Chen, Y., Chincarini, A., Christensen, N., Chung, C. T. Y., Clark, D., Clark, J., Clayton, J. H., Cleva, F., Coccia, E., Cokelaer, T., Colacino, C. N., Colas, J., Colla, A., Colombini, M., Conte, R., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R. C., Corda, C., Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Coulon, J. -P., Coward, D., Coyne, D. C., Creighton, J. D. E., Creighton, T. D., Cruise, A. M., Culter, R. M., Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Cuoco, E., Danilishin, S. L., D'Antonio, S., Danzmann, K., Dari, A., Dattilo, V., Daudert, B., Davier, M., Davies, G., Daw, E. J., Day, R., De Rosa, R., DeBra, D., Degallaix, J., del Prete, M., Dergachev, V., Desai, S., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Di Fiore, L., Di Lieto, A., Emilio, M. Di Paolo, Di Virgilio, A., Díaz, M., Dietz, A., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L., Doomes, E. E., Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P., Dueck, J., Duke, I., Dumas, J. -C., Dwyer, J. G., Echols, C., Edgar, M., Edwards, M., Effler, A., Ehrens, P., Espinoza, E., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T., Fafone, V., Fairhurst, S., Faltas, Y., Fan, Y., Fazi, D., Fehrmann, H., Ferrante, I., Fidecaro, F., Finn, L. S., Fiori, I., Flaminio, R., Flasch, K., Foley, S., Forrest, C., Fotopoulos, N., Fournier, J. -D., Franc, J., Franzen, A., Frasca, S., Frasconi, F., Frede, M., Frei, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T., Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V., Fyffe, M., Galdi, V., Gammaitoni, L., Garofoli, J. A., Garufi, F., Gemme, G., Genin, E., Gennai, A., Gholami, I., Giaime, J. A., Giampanis, S., Giardina, K. D., Giazotto, A., Goda, K., Goetz, E., Goggin, L. M., González, G., Gorodetsky, M. L., Goeßzetler, S., Goßler, S., Gouaty, R., Granata, M., Granata, V., Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Gray, M., Greenhalgh, R. J. S., Gretarsson, A. M., Greverie, C., Grimaldi, F., Grosso, R., Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guenther, M., Guidi, G., Gustafson, E. K., Gustafson, R., Hage, B., Hallam, J. M., Hammer, D., Hammond, G. D., Hanna, C., Hanson, J., Harms, J., Harry, G. M., Harry, I. W., Harstad, E. D., Haughian, K., Hayama, K., Heefner, J., Heitmann, H., Hello, P., Heng, I. S., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hild, S., Hirose, E., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A., Holt, K., Hosken, D. J., Hough, J., Hoyland, D., Huet, D., Hughey, B., Huttner, S. H., Ingram, D. R., Isogai, T., Ito, M., Ivanov, A., Jaranowski, P., Johnson, B., Johnson, W. W., Jones, D. I., Jones, G., Jones, R., de la Jordana, L. Sancho, Ju, L., Kalmus, P., Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kanner, J., Kasprzyk, D., Katsavounidis, E., Kawabe, K., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kells, W., Keppel, D. G., Khalaidovski, A., Khalili, F. Y., Khan, R., Khazanov, E., King, P., Kissel, J. S., Klimenko, S., Kokeyama, K., Kondrashov, V., Kopparapu, R., Koranda, S., Kowalska, I., Kozak, D., Krishnan, B., Królak, A., Kumar, R., Kwee, P., La Penna, P., Lam, P. K., Landry, M., Lantz, B., Lazzarini, A., Lei, H., Lei, M., Leindecker, N., Leonor, I., Leroy, N., Letendre, N., Li, C., Lin, H., Lindquist, P. E., Littenberg, T. B., Lockerbie, N. 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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
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We present the results of a search for gravitational-wave bursts associated with 137 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments during the fifth LIGO science run and first Virgo science run. The data used in this analysis were collected from 2005 November 4 to 2007 October 1, and most of the GRB triggers were from the Swift satellite. The search uses a coherent network analysis method that takes into account the different locations and orientations of the interferometers at the three LIGO-Virgo sites. We find no evidence for gravitational-wave burst signals associated with this sample of GRBs. Using simulated short-duration (<1 s) waveforms, we set upper limits on the amplitude of gravitational waves associated with each GRB. We also place lower bounds on the distance to each GRB under the assumption of a fixed energy emission in gravitational waves, with typical limits of D ~ 15 Mpc (E_GW^iso / 0.01 M_o c^2)^1/2 for emission at frequencies around 150 Hz, where the LIGO-Virgo detector network has best sensitivity. We present astrophysical interpretations and implications of these results, and prospects for corresponding searches during future LIGO-Virgo runs., Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures. Updated references. To appear in ApJ.

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2009
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46. Improving outcomes of in situ split liver transplantation in Italy over the last 25 years

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Lauterio, A, Cillo, U, Spada, M, Trapani, S, De Carlis, R, Bottino, G, Bernasconi, D, Scalamogna, C, Pinelli, D, Cintorino, D, D'Amico, F, Spagnoletti, G, Miggino, M, Romagnoli, R, Centonze, L, Caccamo, L, Baccarani, U, Carraro, A, Cescon, M, Vivarelli, M, Mazaferro, V, Ettorre, G, Rossi, M, Vennarecci, G, De Simone, P, Angelico, R, Agnes, S, Di Benedetto, F, Lupo, L, Zamboni, F, Zefelippo, A, Patrono, D, Diviacco, P, Laureiro, Z, Gringeri, E, Di Francesco, F, Lucianetti, A, Valsecchi, M, Gruttadauria, S, De Feo, T, Cardillo, M, De Carlis, L, Colledan, M, Andorno, E, Lauterio A., Cillo U., Spada M., Trapani S., De Carlis R., Bottino G., Bernasconi D., Scalamogna C., Pinelli D., Cintorino D., D'Amico F. E., Spagnoletti G., Miggino M., Romagnoli R., Centonze L., Caccamo L., Baccarani U., Carraro A., Cescon M., Vivarelli M., Mazaferro V., Ettorre G. M., Rossi M., Vennarecci G., De Simone P., Angelico R., Agnes S., Di Benedetto F., Lupo L. G., Zamboni F., Zefelippo A., Patrono D., Diviacco P., Laureiro Z. L., Gringeri E., Di Francesco F., Lucianetti A., Valsecchi M. G., Gruttadauria S., De Feo T., Cardillo M., De Carlis L., Colledan M., Andorno E., Lauterio, A, Cillo, U, Spada, M, Trapani, S, De Carlis, R, Bottino, G, Bernasconi, D, Scalamogna, C, Pinelli, D, Cintorino, D, D'Amico, F, Spagnoletti, G, Miggino, M, Romagnoli, R, Centonze, L, Caccamo, L, Baccarani, U, Carraro, A, Cescon, M, Vivarelli, M, Mazaferro, V, Ettorre, G, Rossi, M, Vennarecci, G, De Simone, P, Angelico, R, Agnes, S, Di Benedetto, F, Lupo, L, Zamboni, F, Zefelippo, A, Patrono, D, Diviacco, P, Laureiro, Z, Gringeri, E, Di Francesco, F, Lucianetti, A, Valsecchi, M, Gruttadauria, S, De Feo, T, Cardillo, M, De Carlis, L, Colledan, M, Andorno, E, Lauterio A., Cillo U., Spada M., Trapani S., De Carlis R., Bottino G., Bernasconi D., Scalamogna C., Pinelli D., Cintorino D., D'Amico F. E., Spagnoletti G., Miggino M., Romagnoli R., Centonze L., Caccamo L., Baccarani U., Carraro A., Cescon M., Vivarelli M., Mazaferro V., Ettorre G. M., Rossi M., Vennarecci G., De Simone P., Angelico R., Agnes S., Di Benedetto F., Lupo L. G., Zamboni F., Zefelippo A., Patrono D., Diviacco P., Laureiro Z. L., Gringeri E., Di Francesco F., Lucianetti A., Valsecchi M. G., Gruttadauria S., De Feo T., Cardillo M., De Carlis L., Colledan M., and Andorno E.

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Background & Aims: Split liver transplant(ation) (SLT) is still considered a challenging procedure that is by no means widely accepted. We aimed to present data on 25-year trends in SLT in Italy, and to investigate if, and to what extent, outcomes have improved nationwide during this time. Methods: The study included all consecutive SLTs performed from May 1993 to December 2019, divided into three consecutive periods: 1993–2005, 2006–2014, and 2015–2019, which match changes in national allocation policies. Primary outcomes were patient and graft survival, and the relative impact of each study period. Results: SLT accounted for 8.9% of all liver transplants performed in Italy. A total of 1,715 in situ split liver grafts were included in the analysis: 868 left lateral segments (LLSs) and 847 extended right grafts (ERGs). A significant improvement in patient and graft survival (p <0.001) was observed with ERGs over the three periods. Predictors of graft survival were cold ischaemia time (CIT) <6 h (p = 0.009), UNOS status 2b (p <0.001), UNOS status 3 (p = 0.009), and transplant centre volumes: 25–50 cases vs. <25 cases (p = 0.003). Patient survival was significantly higher with LLS grafts in period 2 vs. period 1 (p = 0.008). No significant improvement in graft survival was seen over the three periods, where predictors of graft survival were CIT <6 h (p = 0.007), CIT <6 h vs. ≥10 h (p = 0.019), UNOS status 2b (p = 0.038), and UNOS status 3 (p = 0.009). Retransplantation was a risk factor in split liver graft recipients, with significantly worse graft and patient survival for both types of graft (p <0.001). Conclusions: Our analysis showed Italian SLT outcomes to have improved over the last 25 years. These results could help to dispel reservations regarding the use of this procedure. Impact and implications: Split liver transplant(ation) (SLT) is still considered a challenging procedure and is by no means widely accepted. This study included all

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2023

47. Outpatient Non-operative Management of Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis: A Non-inferiority Study

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Ceresoli, M, Fumagalli, C, Fugazzola, P, Zanini, N, Magnone, S, Ravasi, M, Bonalumi, J, Morezzi, D, Bova, R, Sargenti, B, Schiavone, L, Lucianetti, A, Catena, F, Ansaloni, L, Braga, M, Ceresoli M., Fumagalli C., Fugazzola P., Zanini N., Magnone S., Ravasi M., Bonalumi J., Morezzi D., Bova R., Sargenti B., Schiavone L., Lucianetti A., Catena F., Ansaloni L., Braga M., Ceresoli, M, Fumagalli, C, Fugazzola, P, Zanini, N, Magnone, S, Ravasi, M, Bonalumi, J, Morezzi, D, Bova, R, Sargenti, B, Schiavone, L, Lucianetti, A, Catena, F, Ansaloni, L, Braga, M, Ceresoli M., Fumagalli C., Fugazzola P., Zanini N., Magnone S., Ravasi M., Bonalumi J., Morezzi D., Bova R., Sargenti B., Schiavone L., Lucianetti A., Catena F., Ansaloni L., and Braga M.

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Introduction: Non-operative management (NOM) of uncomplicated acute appendicitis is a well-established alternative to upfront surgery. The administration of intravenous broad-spectrum antibiotics is usually performed in hospital, and only one study described outpatient NOM. The aim of this multicentre retrospective non-inferiority study was to evaluate both safety and non-inferiority of outpatient compared to inpatient NOM in uncomplicated acute appendicitis. Methods: The study included 668 consecutive patients with uncomplicated acute appendicitis. Patients were treated according to the surgeon's preference: 364 upfront appendectomy, 157 inpatient NOM (inNOM), and 147 outpatient NOM (outNOM). The primary endpoint was the 30-day appendectomy rate, with a non-inferiority limit of 5%. Secondary endpoints were negative appendectomy rate, 30-day unplanned emergency department (ED) visits, and length of stay. Results: 30-day appendectomies were 16 (10.9%) in the outNOM group and 23 (14.6%) in the inNOM group (p = 0.327). OutNOM was non-inferior to inNOM with a risk difference of-3.80% 97.5% CI (- 12.57; 4.97). No difference was found between inNOM and outNOM groups for the number of complicated appendicitis (3 vs. 5) and negative appendectomy (1 vs. 0). Twenty-six (17.7%) outNOM patients required an unplanned ED visit after a median of 1 (1-4) days. In the outNOM group, the mean cumulative in-hospital stay was 0.89 (1.94) days compared with 3.94 (2.17) days in the inNOM group (p < 0.001). Conclusions: Outpatient NOM was non-inferior to inpatient NOM with regard to the 30-day appendectomy rate, while a shorter hospital stay was found in the outNOM group. Further, studies are required to confirm these findings.

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2023

48. A Platform for Laser-Driven Ion Sources Generated with Nanosecond Laser Pulses in the Intensity Range of 1013–1015 W/cm2

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Giuffrida, L., primary, Istokskaia, V., additional, Picciotto, A., additional, Kantarelou, V., additional, Barozzi, M., additional, Dell`Anna, R., additional, Divoky, M., additional, Denk, O., additional, Giubertoni, D., additional, Grepl, F., additional, Hadjikyriacou, A., additional, Hanus, M., additional, Krasa, J., additional, Kucharik, M., additional, Levato, T., additional, Navratil, P., additional, Pilar, J., additional, Schillaci, F., additional, Stancek, S., additional, Tosca, M., additional, Tryus, M., additional, Velyhan, A., additional, Lucianetti, A., additional, Mocek, T., additional, and Margarone, D., additional

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2024
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