| Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 116 (6), 061102, 2016 | 27304* | 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 | 2197 | 2016 |
| Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Living reviews in relativity 23 (1), 3, 2020 | 2184 | 2020 |
| 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 | 2020 | 2016 |
| 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 | 1636 | 2017 |
| 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 | 1324 | 2016 |
| 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 | 1004 | 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 | 929 | 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 | 726 | 2016 |
| Analysis framework for the prompt discovery of compact binary mergers in gravitational-wave data C Messick, K Blackburn, P Brady, P Brockill, K Cannon, R Cariou, ... Physical Review D 95 (4), 042001, 2017 | 591 | 2017 |
| 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 | 525 | 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 | 501 | 2016 |
| Upper limits on the stochastic gravitational-wave background from Advanced LIGO’s first observing run BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 118 (12), 121101, 2017 | 385 | 2017 |
| Supplement:“localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914”(2016, ApJL, 826, L13) BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 225 (1), 8, 2016 | 326 | 2016 |
| The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from Advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914 BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... The Astrophysical journal letters 833 (1), L1, 2016 | 323 | 2016 |
| Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical Review D 93 (12), 122004, 2016 | 282 | 2016 |
| Improved analysis of GW150914 using a fully spin-precessing waveform model BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical Review X 6 (4), 041014, 2016 | 228 | 2016 |
| Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations for binary black hole coalescence BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical Review D 94 (6), 064035, 2016 | 223 | 2016 |
| Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron star–black hole mergers from advanced LIGO’s first observing run BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... The Astrophysical journal letters 832 (2), L21, 2016 | 218 | 2016 |
| First search for gravitational waves from known pulsars with Advanced LIGO BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... The Astrophysical Journal 839 (1), 12, 2017 | 211 | 2017 |
