GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

E. Thrane,F. Acernese,K. Ackley,C. Adams,P. Addesso,R. Adhikari,C. Affeldt,James Green,M. Nisa,M. Agathos,K. Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,O. Aguiar,L. Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,B. Allen,A. Allocca,P. Altin,A. Amato,A. Ananyeva,Felix Riehn,W. Anderson,S. Angelova,S. Antier,S. Appert,K. Arai,M. Araya,J.S. Areeda,N. Arnaud,K. Arun,S. Ascenzi,G. Ashton,M. Ast,S.M. Aston,P. Astone,D. Atallah,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,C. Austin,A. Avila-Alvarez,F. Badaracco,P. Bacon,M.K.M. Bader,M. Bailes,P. Baker,F. Baldaccini,F. Barone,S.W. Ballmer,J. Barayoga,S. Barclay,B. Barish,D. Barker,B. Barr,L. Barsotti,M. Barsuglia,M. Bejger,S. Barthelmy,J. Bartlett,I. Bartos,R. Bassiri,S. Solimeno,J. Bayley,M. Bazzan,C. Berry,C. Beer,A.S. Bell,B. Berger,G. Bergmann,S. Bernuzzi,D. Bersanetti,A. Bertolini,J. Betzwieser,S. Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,I.A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,C. Billman,J. Birch,R. Birney,O. Birnholtz,S. Biscans,S. Biscoveanu,A. Bisht,M. Bitossi,C. Biwer,M. Bizouard,J.K. Blackburn,Jonathan Blackman,C. Blair,D. Blair,R. Blair,S. Bloemen,O. Bock,M. Boër,G. Bogaert,A. Bohé,F. Bondu,E. Bonilla,R. Bonnand,B.A. Boom,R. Bork,V. Boschi,S. Bose,K. Bossie,Y. Bouffanais,P. Brady,C. Bradaschia,M. Branchesi,J. Briggs,T. Briant,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,J. Broida,A. Brooks,D. Brown,S. Brunett,C. Buchanan,A. Buikema,T. Bulik,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert Byer,R. Byer,L. Cadonati,G. Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Bustillo,T. Callister,E. Calloni,J. Camp,M. Canepa,P. Cañizares,K. Cannon,H. Cao,C. Capano,E. Capocasa,S. Caride,M. Carney,J. Diaz,C. Casentini,M. Cavaglià,F. Cavalier,E. Cesarini,G. Cella,Giuseppe Castaldi,P. Cerdá–Durán,G. Cerretani,S. Chamberlin,M. Chan,P. Charlton,E. Chassande‐Mottin,Deep Chatterjee,B. Cheeseboro,H. Chen,X. Chen,Y. Chen,Hai‐Ping Cheng,H. Chia,A. Chincarini,A. Chiummo,T. Chmiel,H. Cho,M. Cho,Jong Chow,N. Christensen,Y-K. Chu,A. Chua,S. Chua,A. Chung,S. Chung,P. Ciecieląg,R. Ciolfi,F. Clara,G. Ciani,J. Clark,F. Cleva,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,M. Colleoni,D. Cohen,C. Colacino,C. Collette,L. Cominsky,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. Cooper,P. Corban,T. Corbitt,I. Cordero-Carrión,K. Corley,N. Cornish,A. Corsi,S. Cortese,C. Costa,S. Coughlin,J.‐P. Coulon,S. Countryman,P. Couvares,D. Coward,E. Cowan,M. Cowart,D. Coyne,R. Coyne,A. Cumming,J. Cripe,S. Crowder,T. Cullen,L. Cunningham,E Cuoco,E. Cuoco,G. Dálya,S. Danilishin,S. d'Antonio,K. Danzmann,A. Dasgupta,V. Dattilo,I. Dave,D. Davis,E. Daw,Soumi De,D. DeBra,J. Degallaix,M. Laurentis,S. Deléglise,W. Pozzo,R. Pietri,T. Dent,V. Dergachev,R. Rosa,R. DeRosa,R. DeSalvo,S. Dhurandhar,J. Devenson,M. Díaz,T. Dietrich,L. Fiore,T. Girolamo,A. Lieto,S. Pace,I. Palma,F. Renzo,A. Dmitriev,V. Dolique,A. Virgilio,K. Dooley,S. Doravari,I. Dorrington,R. Douglas,M. Álvarez,T. Downes,M. Drago,Z. Du,Reuben Eisenstein,Reetika Dudi,P. Dupej,S. Dwyer,G. Eddolls,M. Edwards,A. Effler,H.-B. Eggenstein,J. Eichholz,P. Ehrens,R. Eisenstein,R. Essick,D. Estevez,T. Etzel,Michael Evans,T. Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,S. Fairhurst,B. Farr,S. Farinon,M. Favata,E. Fauchon-Jones,H. Fehrmann,M. Fejer,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,F. Ferrini,J. Fournier,M. Evans,Daniel Finstad,F. Fidecaro,D. Fiorucci,M. Fishbach,R. Fisher,M. Fitz-Axen,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,H. Fong,José Font,J.-D. Fournier,S. Frasca,F. Frasconi,A. Freise,R. Frey,E. Fries,V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,H. Gabbard,B. Gadre,S. Gaebel,J. Gair,L. Gammaitoni,M. Ganija,F. Garufi,C. García-Quirós,S. Gaudio,N. Gehrels,Y. Terada,A. Gennai,L. Gergely,J. George,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,Shrobana Ghosh,J. Giaime,K. Giardina,A. Giazotto,K. Gill,E. Goetz,R. Goetz,S. Gomes,R. Gouaty,G. González,A. Gopakumar,M. Gorodetsky,S. Gossan,M. Gosselin,A. Grado,M. Granata,A. Grant,S. Gras,C. Gray,G. Greco,A. Green,E. Gretarsson,H. Grote,P. Grüning,S. Grünewald,Arvind Gupta,Manoj Gupta,Ranjan Gupta,R. Gustafson,O. Halim,B. Hall,E. Hall,J. Hanks,M. Haney,M. Hanke,Wen-Biao Han,M. Hannam,J. Hanson,J. Harms,G. Harry,I. Harry,M. Hart,K. Haughian,James Healy,A. Heidmann,H. Heitmann,G. Hemming,Martin Hendry,P. Hello,J. Hennig,M. Heurs,S. Hild,T. Hinderer,Wynn Ho,D. Hofman,K. Holt,Daniel Holz,J. Hough,E. Houston,E. Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,D. Huet,B. Hughey,S. Huttner,T. Huynh–Dinh,N. Indik,G. Intini,H. Isa,J.-M. Isac,M. Isi,B. Iyer,Y. Itoh,T. Jacqmin,K. Jani,P. Jaranowski,F. Jiménez‐Forteza,W. Johnson,Nathan Johnson-McDaniel,D. Jones,L. Ju,R. Jonker,J. Junker,C. Kalaghatgi,V. Kalogera,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,J. Kanner,S. Kapadia,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,W. Kastaun,M. Katolik,C. Lazzaro,W. Katzman,S. Kaufer,K. Kawabe,F. Kéfélian,D. Keitel,A. Kemball,C. Kent,J. Key,F. Khalili,I. Khan,S. Khan,Е. Хазанов,N. Kijbunchoo,Chunglee Kim,J. Kim,K. Kim,W. Kim,Woong-Han Kim,Y.-M. Kim,V. Kondrashov,E. King,P. King,M. Kinley-Hanlon,R. Kirchhoff,J. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,T. Knowles,G. Koekoek,G. Losurdo,A. Kontos,M. Korobko,W. Korth,I. Kowalska,D. Kozak,B. Krishnan,Izabela Kowalska,P. Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,Hazlita Isa,B. Lackey,M. Landry,R. Lang,J. Lange,B. Lantz,R. Lanza,S. Larson,A. Lartaux-Vollard,P. Lasky,M. Laxen,A. Lazzarini,P. Leaci,C. Lee,H. Lee,N. Letendre,A. Lenon,N. Leroy,Y. Levin,T. Li,S. Linker,G. Lovelace,J. Liu,N. Lockerbie,L. London,J. Lord,M. Lorenzini,M. Lormand,Carlos Lousto,Geoffrey Lovelace,H. Lück,D. Lumaca,A. Lundgren,B. Machenschalk,S. Macfoy,D. Macleod,I. Hernandez,F. Magaña‐Sandoval,L. Zertuche,R. Magee,E. Majorana,R. Maggiore,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mandic,G. Mansell,M. Manske,M. Mantovani,F. Marchesoni,F. Marion,S. Márka,S. Morisaki,A. Markosyan,A.S. Markosyan,A. Markowitz,Antonio Marquina,P. Marsh,F. Martelli,K. Mason,R. Martin,J. Marx,E. Massera,A. Masserot,L. Matone,M. Masso‐Reid,S. Mastrogiovanni,F. Matichard,N. Mavalvala,N. Mazumder,D. McClelland,S. McGuire,J. McIver,D. McManus,L. Mcneill,S. McWilliams,Sean McWilliams,D. Meacher,J. Meidam,M. Mehmet,A. Melatos,E. Mejuto-Villa,G. Mendell,E. Merilh,M. Merzougui,S. Meshkov,C. Messenger,P. Meyers,H. Miao,L. Milano,H. Middleton,A. Miller,J. Miller,M. Millhouse,M. 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