| 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 | 6833 | 2016 |
| GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, ... Physical Review Letters 119 (16), 161101, 2017 | 3118 | 2017 |
| GW151226: observation of gravitational waves from a 22-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical review letters 116 (24), 241103, 2016 | 2465 | 2016 |
| The BABAR detector B Aubert, A Bazan, A Boucham, D Boutigny, I De Bonis, J Favier, ... Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators …, 2002 | 2008 | 2002 |
| GW170104: observation of a 50-solar-mass binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0.2 L Scientific, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Physical Review Letters 118 (22), 221101, 2017 | 1648 | 2017 |
| LIGO: the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory BP Abbott, R Abbott, R Adhikari, P Ajith, B Allen, G Allen, RS Amin, ... Reports on Progress in Physics 72 (7), 076901, 2009 | 1372 | 2009 |
| A functional basis for engineering design: reconciling and evolving previous efforts J Hirtz, RB Stone, DA McAdams, S Szykman, KL Wood Research in engineering Design 13 (2), 65-82, 2002 | 1329 | 2002 |
| Advanced ligo J Aasi, BP Abbott, R Abbott, T Abbott, MR Abernathy, K Ackley, C Adams, ... Classical and quantum gravity 32 (7), 074001, 2015 | 1243 | 2015 |
| GW170814: a three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, ... Physical review letters 119 (14), 141101, 2017 | 1201 | 2017 |
| Development of a functional basis for design RB Stone, KL Wood J. Mech. Des. 122 (4), 359-370, 1999 | 1183 | 1999 |
| Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, M Abernathy, T Accadia, F Acernese, ... Classical and Quantum Gravity 27 (17), 173001, 2010 | 1128 | 2010 |
| Gravitational waves and gamma-rays from a binary neutron star merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 848 (2), L13, 2017 | 996 | 2017 |
| Elliptic Flow in Collisions at KH Ackermann, N Adams, C Adler, Z Ahammed, S Ahmad, C Allgower, ... Physical Review Letters 86 (3), 402, 2001 | 966 | 2001 |
| 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 | 913 | 2016 |
| Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, MR Abernathy, F Acernese, K Ackley, ... Living Reviews in Relativity 21 (1), 3, 2018 | 714* | 2018 |
| A heuristic method for identifying modules for product architectures RB Stone, KL Wood, RH Crawford Design studies 21 (1), 5-31, 2000 | 664 | 2000 |
| A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, M Abernathy, C Adams, ... Nature Physics 7 (12), 962, 2011 | 637 | 2011 |
| GW170608: Observation of a 19 solar-mass binary black hole coalescence BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams, T Adams, ... The Astrophysical Journal Letters 851 (2), L35, 2017 | 628 | 2017 |
| 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, 2013 | 592 | 2013 |
| 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 | 531 | 2016 |