Gravitational wave discovery and characterization of the binary neutron star inspiral GW170817 Tyson B. Littenberg (NASA/MSFC) for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration Advanced LIGO Observing Runs GW170608 GW170814 — the 3-detector era begins LVC, PRL, 119, 141101 (2017) LIGO/Virgo Compact Binary Analyses e.g. GW150914 I.Coincident grid search 
 
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