| GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence BP Abbott, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 241103, 2016 | 17489* | 2016 |
| Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger BP Abbott, et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102, 2016 | 17008 | 2016 |
| Advanced ligo J Aasi, BP Abbott, R Abbott, T Abbott, MR Abernathy, K Ackley, C Adams, ... Classical and quantum gravity 32 (7), 074001, 2015 | 4684 | 2015 |
| GW150914: The Advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 116 (13), 131103, 2016 | 3042 | 2016 |
| Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo BP Abbott Living Rev. Relativity 19 (1), 2016 | 2647* | 2016 |
| Binary black hole mergers in the first advanced LIGO observing run BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical Review X 6 (4), 041015, 2016 | 2026 | 2016 |
| Tests of general relativity with GW150914 BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 116 (22), 221101, 2016 | 1888 | 2016 |
| Enhanced sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light J Aasi, J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, C Adams, ... Nature Photonics 7 (8), 613-619, 2013 | 1491 | 2013 |
| Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, K Ackley, C Adams, ... Classical and Quantum Gravity 34 (4), 044001, 2017 | 1383 | 2017 |
| A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit Nature Physics 7 (12), 962-965, 2011 | 1158 | 2011 |
| Properties of the binary black hole merger GW150914 BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 116 (24), 241102, 2016 | 1148 | 2016 |
| Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger GW150914 BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 818 (2), L22, 2016 | 871 | 2016 |
| Supplement: Localization and Broadband Follow-Up of the Gravitational-Wave Transient GW150914 BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 225 (1), 8, 2016 | 642* | 2016 |
| GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical Review D 93 (12), 122003, 2016 | 613 | 2016 |
| Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run J Aasi, J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, T Abbott, MR Abernathy, T Accadia, ... Classical and Quantum Gravity 32 (11), 115012, 2015 | 602 | 2015 |
| QCD Phase Transition with Chiral Quarks and Physical Quark Masses T Bhattacharya, MI Buchoff, NH Christ, HT Ding, R Gupta, C Jung, ... Physical Review Letters 113 (8), 082001, 2014 | 543 | 2014 |
| Parameter estimation for compact binary coalescence signals with the first generation gravitational-wave detector network J Aasi, J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, M Abernathy, T Accadia, ... Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 88 (6), 062001, 2013 | 491* | 2013 |
| Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914 BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Classical and Quantum Gravity 33 (13), 134001, 2016 | 463 | 2016 |
| GW150914: Implications for the stochastic gravitational-wave background from binary black holes BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 116 (13), 131102, 2016 | 455 | 2016 |
| Search for gravitational waves from low mass compact binary coalescence in<? format?> LIGO’s sixth science run and Virgo’s science runs 2 and 3 J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, M Abernathy, T Accadia, ... Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 85 (8), 082002, 2012 | 417 | 2012 |