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Cartmell, Matthew P. and Lockerbie, Nicholas A. and Faller, James E. (2021) Towards a high-performance Foucault pendulum for the measurement of relativistic gravity. In: NODYCON 2021 - Second International Nonlinear Dynamics Conference, 2021-02-16 - 2021-02-19.

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., KAGRA Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2020) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 23. 3. ISSN 1433-8351

Cartmell, Matthew P. and Faller, James E. and Lockerbie, Nicholas A. and Handous, Eva (2020) On the modelling and testing of a laboratory scale Foucault pendulum as a precursor for the design of a high performance measurement instrument. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A: Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 476 (2238). 20190680. ISSN 1471-2962

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S.V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2020) A guide to LIGO-Virgo detector noise and extraction of transient gravitational-wave signals. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 37 (5). 055002. ISSN 1361-6382

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the second Advanced LIGO observing run with an improved hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 100 (12). 122002. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, Nicholas and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Tests of general relativity with the binary black hole signals from the LIGO-Virgo catalog GWTC-1. Physical Review D, 100 (10). 104036. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO's first two observing runs. Physical Review D, 100 (6). 062001. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Search for the isotropic stochastic background using data from Advanced LIGO's second observing run. Physical Review D, 100 (6). 061101(R). ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Lockerbie, Nicholas and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 882 (2). L24. ISSN 2041-8213

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, Nicholas and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) GWTC-1: a gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs. Physical Review X, 9 (3). 031040. ISSN 2160-3308

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Tests of General Relativity with GW170817. Physical Review Letters, 123 (1). 011102. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Narrow-band search for gravitational waves from known pulsars using the second LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 99 (12). 122002. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Searches for gravitational waves from known pulsars at two harmonics in 2015–2017 LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal, 879 (1). ISSN 1538-4357

Soares-Santos, M. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, Stuart, The DES Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration (2019) First measurement of the Hubble Constant from a dark standard siren using the Dark Energy Survey galaxies and the LIGO/Virgo binary–black-hole merger GW170814. Astrophysical Journal, 876 (1). L7. ISSN 1538-4357

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. (2019) Low-latency gravitational-wave alerts for multimessenger astronomy during the second Advanced LIGO and Virgo observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 875 (2). 161. ISSN 1538-4357

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration (2019) Search for gravitational waves from a long-lived remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal, 875 (2). 160. ISSN 1538-4357

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, Stuart, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration (2019) Searches for continuous gravitational waves from 15 supernova remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO. Astrophysical Journal, 875 (2). 122. ISSN 1538-4357

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. (2019) Search for transient gravitational-wave signals associated with magnetar bursts during Advanced LIGO's second observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 874 (2). 163. ISSN 1538-4357

Driggers, J. C. and Hall, E. D. and Hanson, J. and Hough, J. and Liu, J. and Smith, B. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Zhang, L., LIGO Scientific Collaboration (2019) Improving astrophysical parameter estimation via offline noise subtraction for Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 99 (4). 042001. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Constraining the p-mode-g-mode tidal instability with GW170817. Physical Review Letters, 122 (6). 061104. ISSN 1079-7114

Burns, E. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, Sean and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration (2019) A Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor search for electromagnetic signals coincident with gravitational-wave candidates in Advanced LIGO's first observing run. Astrophysical Journal, 871 (1). 90. ISSN 1538-4357

Albert, A. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S., IceCube Collaboration, Antares Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration (2019) Search for multimessenger sources of gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos with advanced LIGO during its first observing run, ANTARES, and IceCube. Astrophysical Journal, 870 (2). pp. 1-16. 134. ISSN 1538-4357

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, Svetoslava and Lockerbie, Nicholas and Reid, Stuart and Tokmakov, Kirill, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2019) Properties of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Physical Review X, 9 (1). 011001. ISSN 2160-3308

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., KAGRA Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA. Living Reviews in Relativity, 21 (3). pp. 1-57. ISSN 1433-8351

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) Search for subsolar-mass ultracompact binaries in advanced LIGO's first observing run. Physical Review Letters, 121. 231103. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Angelova, S. V. and Birney, R. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Macfoy, S. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) GW170817 : Measurements of neutron star radii and equation of state. Physical Review Letters, 121. 091101. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) Full band all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the O1 LIGO data. Physical Review D, 97. 102003. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) Constraints on cosmic strings using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Physical Review D, 97. 102002. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) GW170817 : Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from compact binary coalescences. Physical Review Letters, 120. 091101. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B P and Jawahar, S and Lockerbie, N A and Tokmakov, K V, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35 (6). 065009. ISSN 1361-6382

Abbott, B P and Jawahar, S and Lockerbie, N A and Tokmakov, K V, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2018) Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO's first observing run. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 35 (6). 065010. ISSN 1361-6382

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A, and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (2018) First search for nontensorial gravitational waves from known pulsars. Physical Review Letters, 120 (3). 031104. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) GW170608 : observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851 (2). pp. 1-11. ISSN 2041-8213

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Search for post-merger gravitational waves from the remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 851 (1). L16. ISSN 2041-8213

Walker, M. and Abbott, T. D. and Aston, S. M. and González, G. and Macleod, D. M. and McIver, J. and Abbott, B. P. and Abbott, R. and Adams, C. and Adhikari, R. X. and Anderson, S. B. and Ananyeva, A. and Appert, S. and Arai, K. and Ballmer, S. W. and Barker, D. and Barr, B. and Barsotti, L. and Bartlett, J. and Bartos, I. and Batch, J. C. and Bell, A. S. and Betzwieser, J. and Billingsley, G. and Birch, J. and Biscans, S. and Biwer, C. and Blair, C. D. and Bork, R. and Brooks, A. F. and Ciani, G. and Clara, F. and Countryman, S. T. and Cowart, M. J. and Coyne, D. C. and Cumming, A. and Cunningham, L. and Danzmann, K. and Da Silva Costa, C. F. and Daw, E. J. and Debra, D. and Derosa, R. T. and Desalvo, R. and Dooley, K. L. and Doravari, S. and Driggers, J. C. and Dwyer, S. E. and Effler, A. and Etzel, T. and Evans, M. and Evans, T. M. and Factourovich, M. and Fair, H. and Fernández Galiana, A. and Fisher, R. P. and Fritschel, P. and Frolov, V. V. and Fulda, P. and Fyffe, M. and Giaime, J. A. and Giardina, K. D. and Goetz, E. and Goetz, R. and Gras, S. and Gray, C. and Grote, H. and Gushwa, K. E. and Gustafson, E. K. and Gustafson, R. and Hall, E. D. and Hammond, G. and Hanks, J. and Hanson, J. and Hardwick, T. and Harry, G. M. and Heintze, M. C. and Heptonstall, A. W. and Hough, J. and Izumi, K. and Jones, R. and Kandhasamy, S. and Karki, S. and Kasprzack, M. and Kaufer, S. and Kawabe, K. and Kijbunchoo, N. and King, E. J. and King, P. J. and Kissel, J. S. and Korth, W. Z. and Kuehn, G. and Landry, M. and Lantz, B. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Lormand, M. and Lundgren, A. P. and Macinnis, M. and Márka, S. and Márka, Z. and Markosyan, A. S. and Maros, E. and Martin, I. W. and Martynov, D. V. and Mason, K. and Massinger, T. J. and Matichard, F. and Mavalvala, N. and McCarthy, R. and McClelland, D. E. and McCormick, S. and McIntyre, G. and Mendell, G. and Merilh, E. L. and Meyers, P. M. and Miller, J. and Mittleman, R. and Moreno, G. and Mueller, G. and Mullavey, A. and Munch, J. and Nuttall, L. K. and Oberling, J. and Oliver, M. and Oppermann, P. and Oram, Richard J. and O'Reilly, B. and Ottaway, D. J. and Overmier, H. and Palamos, J. R. and Paris, H. R. and Parker, W. and Pele, A. and Penn, S. and Phelps, M. and Pierro, V. and Pinto, I. and Principe, M. and Prokhorov, L. G. and Puncken, O. and Quetschke, V. and Quintero, E. A. and Raab, F. J. and Radkins, H. and Raffai, P. and Reid, S. and Reitze, D. H. and Robertson, N. A. and Rollins, J. G. and Roma, V. J. and Romie, J. H. and Rowan, S. and Ryan, K. and Sadecki, T. and Sanchez, E. J. and Sandberg, V. and Savage, R. L. and Schofield, R. M.S. and Sellers, D. and Shaddock, D. A. and Shaffer, T. J. and Shapiro, B. and Shawhan, P. and Shoemaker, D. H. and Sigg, D. and Slagmolen, B. J.J. and Smith, B. and Smith, J. R. and Sorazu, B. and Staley, A. and Strain, K. A. and Tanner, D. B. and Taylor, R. and Thomas, M. and Thomas, P. and Thorne, K. A. and Thrane, E. and Torrie, C. I. and Traylor, G. and Tuyenbayev, D. and Vajente, G. and Valdes, G. and Van Veggel, A. A. and Vecchio, A. and Veitch, P. J. and Venkateswara, K. and Vo, T. and Vorvick, C. and Ward, R. L. and Warner, J. and Weaver, B. and Weiss, R. and Weßels, P. and Willke, B. and Wipf, C. C. and Worden, J. and Wu, G. and Yamamoto, H. and Yancey, C. C. and Yu, Hang and Yu, Haocun and Zhang, L. and Zucker, M. E. and Zweizig, J. (2017) Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves. Review of Scientific Instruments, 88 (12). 124501. ISSN 0034-6748

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Estimating the contribution of dynamical ejecta in the kilonova associated with GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850 (2). pp. 1-13. ISSN 2041-8213

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) On the progenitor of binary neutron star merger GW170817. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 850 (2). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2041-8213

Abbott, T. D. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, The 1M2H Collaboration, The Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration, The DES Collaboration, The DLT40 Collaboration, The Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration, The VINROUGE Collaboration, The MASTER Collaboration (2017) A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant. Nature, 551. 85–88. ISSN 0028-0836

Abbott, B. P. and Birney, R. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Reid, S. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) GW170817 : Observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. Physical Review Letters, 119 (16). 161101. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) GW170814 : a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence. Physical Review Letters, 119 (14). 141101. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Upper limits on gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 from a model-based cross-correlation search in Advanced LIGO data. Astrophysical Journal, 847 (1). 47. ISSN 1538-4357

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., Antares Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Search for high-energy neutrinos from gravitational wave event GW151226 and candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube. Physical Review D, 96 (2). 022005. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO. Physical Review D, 96 (2). 022001. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) Search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X-1 in the first Advanced LIGO observing run with a hidden Markov model. Physical Review D, 95 (12). 122003. ISSN 1550-2368

Abbott, B. P. and Jawahar, S. and Lockerbie, N. A. and Tokmakov, K. V., LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration (2017) GW170104 : Observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2. Physical Review Letters, 118 (22). 221101. ISSN 1079-7114

Abbott, B. P. and Abbott, R. and Abbott, T. D. and Abernathy, M. R. and Acernese, F. and Ackley, K. and Adams, C. and Adams, T. and Addesso, P. and Adhikari, R. X. and Adya, V. B. and Affeldt, C. and Agathos, M. and Agatsuma, K. and Aggarwal, N. and Aguiar, O. D. and Aiello, L. and Ain, A. and Ajith, P. and Allen, B. and Allocca, A. and Altin, P. A. and Ananyeva, A. and Anderson, S. B. and Anderson, W. G. and Appert, S. and Arai, K. and Araya, M. C. and Areeda, J. S. and Arnaud, N. and Arun, K. G. and Ascenzi, S. and Ashton, G. and Ast, M. and Aston, S. M. and Astone, P. and Aufmuth, P. and Aulbert, C. and Avila-Alvarez, A. and Babak, S. and Bacon, P. and Bader, M. K M and Baker, P. T. and Baldaccini, F. and Ballardin, G. and Ballmer, S. W. and Barayoga, J. C. and Barclay, S. E. and Barish, B. C. and Barker, David and Barone, F. and Barr, B. and Barsotti, L. and Barsuglia, M. and Barta, D. and Bartlett, J. and Bartos, I. and Bassiri, R. and Basti, A. and Batch, J. 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