GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

E. Thrane,F. Acernese,K. Ackley,Carl Adams,Thomas Adams,P. Addesso,R. Adhikari,C. Adams,C. Affeldt,Mohammad Afrough,Bhanu Agarwal,M. Agathos,K. Agatsuma,Nancy Aggarwal,O. Aguiar,L. Aiello,A. Ain,P. Ajith,B. Allen,Gabrielle Allen,A. Allocca,P. Altin,A. Amato,A. Ananyeva,S. Anderson,W. Anderson,S. Antier,Stephen Appert,K. Arai,M. Araya,J. Areeda,Nicolas Arnaud,K. Arun,S. Ascenzi,G. Ashton,M. Ast,Stuart Aston,P. Astone,P. Aufmuth,C. Aulbert,C. Austin,A. Avila-Alvarez,S. Babak,P. Bacon,Maria Bader,Sang-Wook Bae,P. Baker,Francesca Baldaccini,Giulio Ballardin,Stefan Ballmer,J. Barayoga,Juan Barayoga,S.E. Barclay,B. Barish,David Barker,F. Barone,B. Barr,L. Barsotti,Matteo Barsuglia,Daniel Barta,Jeffrey Bartlett,I. Bartos,R. Bassiri,Andrea Basti,James Batch,Christoph Baune,D. Barker,M. Bazzan,B. Bécsy,C. Beer,M. Bejger,Imene Belahcene,Angus Bell,B. Berger,G. Bergmann,C. Berry,D. Bersanetti,A. Bertolini,Joseph Betzwieser,S. Bhagwat,R. Bhandare,Igor Bilenko,G. Billingsley,C. Billman,Jeremy Birch,R. Birney,Ofek Birnholtz,Sebastien Biscans,Aparna Bisht,M. Bitossi,Christopher Biwer,M. Bizouard,J.K. Blackburn,Jonathan Blackman,C. Blair,D. Blair,Ryan Blair,S. Bloemen,O. Bock,N. Bode,M. Boër,G. Bogaert,A. Bohé,F. Bondu,Romain Bonnand,B. Boom,Rolf Bork,V. Boschi,S. Bose,Y. Bouffanais,Antonella Bozzi,C. Bradaschia,P. Brady,V. Braginsky,M. Branchesi,J. Brau,H. Overmier,A. Brillet,M. Brinkmann,V. Brisson,P. Brockill,J. Broida,A. Brooks,D. Brown,N. Brown,S. Brunett,C. Buchanan,A. Buikema,T. Bulik,Henk Bulten,Alessandra Buonanno,D. Buskulic,C. Buy,Robert Byer,R. Byer,L. Cadonati,Giampietro Cagnoli,C. Cahillane,J. Bustillo,T. Callister,E. Calloni,Jordan Camp,M. Canepa,P. Cañizares,K. Cannon,H. Cao,J. Cao,C. Capano,E. Capocasa,F. Carbognani,Santiago Caride,M. Carney,J. Diaz,C. Casentini,Sarah Caudill,M. Cavaglià,Fabien Cavalier,R. Cavalieri,Giancarlo Cella,Christian Cepeda,L. Baiardi,G. Cerretani,E. Cesarini,S. Chamberlin,Manleong Chan,S. Chao,P. Charlton,E. Chassande‐Mottin,Deep Chatterjee,Katerina Chatziioannou,B. Cheeseboro,A. Chen,Yanbei Chen,H.-P. Cheng,A. Chincarini,A. Chiummo,Theresa Chmiel,Heesuk Cho,M. Cho,Jong Chow,N. Christensen,Qi Chu,Alvin Chua,Sheon Chua,S. Chung,G. Ciani,R. Ciolfi,F. Clara,J. Clark,C. Cocchieri,E. Coccia,P.-F. Cohadon,Alberto Colla,Christophe Collette,L. Cominsky,M. Constancio,L. Conti,S. Cooper,T. Corbitt,K. Corley,N. Cornish,A. Corsi,S. Cortese,C. Costa,Michael Coughlin,J.-P. Coulon,S. Countryman,P. Couvares,D. Coward,Robert Coyne,A. Cumming,J. Cripe,S. Crowder,T. Cullen,Alan Cumming,W. Cunningham,E. Cuoco,S. D’Antonio,K. Danzmann,Arnab Dasgupta,V. Dattilo,Michel Davier,D. Davis,E. Daw,S. De,Ewa Deelman,J. Degallaix,M. Laurentis,S. Deléglise,W. Pozzo,T. Dent,R. Rosa,R. Desalvo,J. Devenson,Sanjeev Dhurandhar,Mario Diaz,L. Fiore,T. Girolamo,A. Lieto,S. Pace,I. Palma,F. Renzo,V. Dolique,K. Dooley,Suresh Doravari,I. Dorrington,Rebecca Douglas,M. Álvarez,M. Drago,Jenne Driggers,Zhihui Du,Jessie Duncan,S. Dwyer,Tega Edo,Matthew Edwards,Anamaria Effler,H.-B. Eggenstein,Phil Ehrens,P. Ehrens,Robert Eisenstein,R. Essick,T. Etzel,M. Evans,Thomas Mikal-Evans,M. Factourovich,V. Fafone,H. Fair,S. Fairhurst,Stefania Farinon,B. Farr,José Font,M. Favata,H. Fehrmann,Jon Feicht,Martin Fejer,A. Fernandez-Galiana,I. Ferrante,F. Ferrini,F. Fidecaro,D. Fiorucci,R. Fisher,R. Flaminio,M. Fletcher,Heather Fong,Perry Forsyth,Steven Forsyth,J.‐D. Fournier,Sergio Frasca,Franco Frasconi,Z. Frei,A. Freise,R. Frey,E. Fries,Peter Fritschel,Valery Frolov,M. Fyffe,H. Gabbard,Matthew Gabel,B. Gadre,S. Gaebel,J. Gair,L. Gammaitoni,M. Ganija,Sharad Gaonkar,F. Garufi,Gurudatt Gaur,N. Gehrels,Gianluca Gemme,Eric Genin,A. Gennai,J. George,L. Gergely,S. Ghonge,Abhirup Ghosh,Archisman Ghosh,J. Giaime,K.D. Giardina,Adalberto Giazotto,Kiranjyot Gill,Lamar Glover,E. Goetz,Sandra Gomes,G. González,A. Gopakumar,Michael Gorodetsky,S. Gossan,M. Gosselin,Romain Gouaty,A. Grado,M. Granata,Alastair Grant,Slawomir Gras,Corey Gray,G. Greco,A. Green,H. Grote,Steffen Grünewald,Pierre Gruning,S. Grünewald,Anchal Gupta,Manoj Gupta,E. Gustafson,R. Gustafson,Bernard Hall,E. Hall,J. Hanks,M. Haney,Jonathan Hanks,Chad Hanna,M. Hannam,J. Hanson,Terra Hardwick,J. Harms,I. Harry,K. Haughian,James Healy,A. Heidmann,Henrich Heitmann,Patrice Hello,Gary Hemming,Martin Hendry,P. Hello,J. Hennig,Alastair Heptonstall,M. Heurs,S. Hild,D. Hofman,Kathy Holt,Daniel Holz,Christian Horst,J. Hough,E. Houston,E. Howell,Yi-Ming Hu,E. Huerta,Brennan Hughey,B. Hughey,T. Huynh-Dinh,Nathaniel Indik,D. Ingram,Ra Inta,Giuseppe Intini,H. Isa,J.-M. Isac,Max Isi,B. Iyer,T. Jacqmin,K. Jani,P. Jaranowski,F. Jiménez‐Forteza,Warren Johnson,Nathan Johnson-McDaniel,D. Jones,Russell Jones,Reinier Jonker,L. Ju,C. Kalaghatgi,S. Kandhasamy,G. Kang,S. Karki,M. Kasprzack,M. Katolik,E. Katsavounidis,William Katzman,Steffen Kaufer,Keita Kawabe,F. Kéfélian,D. Keitel,A. Kemball,Christopher Kent,J. Key,I. Khan,S. Khan,Е. Хазанов,Chunglee Kim,Jeongcho Kim,Won Kim,Whansun Kim,Y.-M. Kim,S. Kimbrell,E. King,Peter King,R. Kirchhoff,J. Kissel,L. Kleybolte,S. Klimenko,Philip Koch,V. Kondrashov,Veronica Kondrashov,A. Kontos,M. Korobko,I. Kowalska,Christina Krämer,Volker Kringel,B. Krishnan,A. Królak,P. Kumar,L. Kuo,A. Kutynia,S. Kwang,B. Lackey,M. Landry,R. Lang,Jacob Lange,Brian Lantz,Robert Lanza,A. Lartaux-Vollard,P. Lasky,M. Laxen,C. Lazzaro,P. Leaci,C. Lee,Chang‐Hwan Lee,H.M. Lee,Hyung Lee,R. Abbott,A. Lenon,N. Letendre,Y. Levin,Tjonnie Li,A. Libson,T. Littenberg,J. Liu,N. Lockerbie,L. London,Janet Lord,M. Lorenzini,Marc Lormand,G. Losurdo,Geoffrey Lovelace,D. Lumaca,A. Lundgren,Ying Ma,S. Macfoy,Bernd Machenschalk,D. Macleod,I. Hernandez,F. Magaña-Sandoval,L. Zertuche,R. Magee,E. Majorana,N. Man,Vuk Mandic,V. Mandic,Michael Manske,M. Mantovani,Fréderique Marion,Szabolcs Márka,Z. Márka,A. Markosyan,L. Matone,Filippo Martelli,Lionel Martellini,F. Martelli,K. Mason,Alain Masserot,S. Mastrogiovanni,A. Masserot,Luca Matone,N. Mavalvala,Rajiv Mayani,Nairwita Mazumder,D. McClelland,S. McGuire,J. McIver,D. McManus,S. McWilliams,Duncan Meacher,J. Meidam,E. Mejuto-Villa,A. Melatos,E. Merilh,M. Merzougui,С. Мешков,S. Meshkov,C. Messick,P. Meyers,F. Mezzani,H. Miao,H. Middleton,Е. Михайлов,L. Milano,A. Miller,Brandon Miller,John Miller,M. Millhouse,O. Minazzoli,Yuri Minenkov,Jing Ming,C. Mishra,Valery Mitrofanov,G. Mitselmakher,A. Moggi,Martin Mohan,S.R.P. Mohapatra,M. Montani,C. Moore,Gerardo Moreno,Sean Morriss,B. Mours,C. Mow‐Lowry,A. Muir,Debnandini Mukherjee,Soma Mukherjee,Nikhil Mukund,Adam Mullavey,Jesper Munch,Erik Muniz,P. Murray,K. Napier,I. Nardecchia,L. Naticchioni,G. Nelemans,Martina Neri,Marina Nery,Ansel Neunzert,J. Newport,Gavin Newton,Ken Ng,Thanh Nguyen,David Nichols,Samaya Nissanke,D. Nolting,Flavio Nocera,David Nolting,Marc Normandin,L. Nuttall,Jason Oberling,E. Ochsner,E. Oelker,J. Oh,F. Ohme,Patrick Oppermann,R. O’Shaughnessy,Rich Ormiston,L. Ortega,B. Owen,J. Page,M. Page,S. Pai,Jordan Palamos,Oleg Palashov,C. Palomba,H. Pan,Belinda Pang,P. Pang,F. Pannarale,F. Paoletti,M. Papa,Hugo Paris,William Parker,D. Pascucci,Antonio Pasqualetti,R. Passaquieti,B. Patricelli,Mike Pedraza,Richard Pedurand,L. Pekowsky,A. Pele,Steven Penn,Carlos Pérez,Antonio Perreca,L. Perri,Harald Pfeiffer,O. Piccinni,Mikhaël Pichot,F. Piergiovanni,V. Pierro,Laurent Pinard,I. Pinto,M. Pitkin,R. Poggiani,Katherine Porter,Alexander Post,J. Powell,James Pratt,V. Predoi,Tanner Prestegard,Mirko Prijatelj,M. Principe,G. Prodi,H. Radkins,Michele Punturo,Paola Puppo,M. Pürrer,H. Qi,J. Qin,R. Quitzow-James,F. Raab,P. Raffai,Sendhil Raja,C. Rajan,Malik Rakhmanov,K. Ramirez,P. Rapagnani,V. Raymond,M. Razzano,Tania Regimbau,Luca Rei,S. Reid,D. Reitze,H. Rew,S. Reyes,Fulvio Ricci,P. Ricker,K. Riles,Norna Robertson,Raymond Robie,Florent Robinet,A. Rocchi,J. Rollins,Vincent Roma,Joseph Romano,R. Romano,Janeen Romie,A. Rüdiger,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,Paolo Ruggi,Kyle Ryan,Mats Rynge,S. Sachdev,Travis Sadecki,L. Sadeghian,Mairi Sakellariadou,M. Saleem,F. Salemi,Letizia Sammut,Laura Sampson,Eduardo Sanchez,Vernon Sandberg,B. Sandeen,B. Sassolas,B. Sathyaprakash,O. Sauter,R. Savage,P. Schale,Jacob Scheuer,Eric Schmidt,Justus Schmidt,P. Schmidt,Robert Schofield,Axel Schönbeck,Emil Schreiber,Dirk Schuette,B. Schulte,B. Schutz,J. Scott,Danny Sellers,Anand Sengupta,D. Sentenac,V. Sequino,A. Sergeev,D. Shaddock,Thomas Shaffer,A. Shah,M. Shahriar,Lijing Shao,Peter Shawhan,Alec Sheperd,D. Shoemaker,Deirdre Shoemaker,K. Siellez,D. Sigg,Abe Singer,L. Singer,Avneet Singh,R. Singh,A. Singhal,A. Sintes,B. Slagmolen,J. Smith,R. Smith,J. Sonnenberg,B. Sorazu,F. Sorrentino,A. Srivastava,Alexan Staley,M. Steinke,J. Steinlechner,S. Steinlechner,Branson Stephens,R. Stone,K. Strain,G. Stratta,Riccardo Sturani,A. Stuver,L. Sun,P. Sutton,S. Solimeno,M. Tacca,D. Tanner,A. Taracchini,Jordan Taylor,Robert Taylor,Thomas Theeg,E. Thomas,Michael Thomas,Patrick Thomas,Keith Thorne,Kip Thorne,Vaibhav Tiwari,K. Tokmakov,K. Toland,Z. Tornasi,Daniel Töyrä,E. Tournefier,Daniele Trifirò,J. Trinastic,M. Tringali,K. Tsang,Maggie Tse,R. Tso,D. Tuyenbayev,K. Ueno,D. Ugolini,Cs Unnikrishnan,Alexander Urban,S. Usman,Karan Vahi,H. Vahlbruch,G. Vajente,N. Bakel,Martin Beuzekom,J. Brand,D.C. Vander-Hyde,J. Heijningen,M. Vardaro,Vijay Varma,Steve Vass,M. Vasúth,A. Vecchio,J. Veitch,Krishna Venkateswara,G. Venugopalan,D. Verkindt,F. Vetrano,A. Viceré,S. Vinciguerra,D. Vine,M. Yvert,Salvatore Vitale,D. Voss,Will Vousden,Sergey Vyatchanin,A. Wade,M. Wade,R. Walet,M. Walker,L. Wallace,Sinéad Walsh,G. Wang,Haoyu Wang,Jonathan Wang,Mengyao Wang,Y.-F. Wang,Yan Wang,R. Ward,M. Was,J. Watchi,Betsy Weaver,R. Weiss,M. Weinert,A. Weinstein,Rainer Weiß,Tobias Westphal,K. Wette,J. Whelan,B. Whiting,D. Williams,J. Willis,B. Willke,Christopher Wipf,Holger Wittel,G. Woan,Kaze Wong,John Worden,J. Wright,William Yam,Hiro Yamamoto,Cregg Yancey,Haocun Yu,Michel Yvert,Adam Zadrożny,M. Zanolin,T. Zelenova,J.-P. Zendri,M. Zevin,Liyuan Zhang,M. Zhang,T. Zhang,C. Zhao,M. Zhou,X. Zhu,Aaron Zimmerman,M. Zucker,Odylio Aguiar,T. Abbott,T. Adams,M. Afrough,B. Agarwal,S. Appert,N. Arnaud,S. Aston,M. Bader,S. Bae,F. Baldaccini,G. Ballardin,S. Ballmer,J.C. Barayoga,S. Barclay,M. Barsuglia,D. Barta,J. Bartlett,A. Basti,J. Batch,C. Baune,I. Belahcene,A.S. Bell,J. Betzwieser,I.A. Bilenko,J. Birch,O. Birnholtz,S. Biscans,A. Bisht,C. Biwer