Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914

by Abbott, B. P, Abbott, R., Abbott, T. D, Abernathy, M. R, Ackley, K., Adams, C., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R. X, Adya, V. B, Affeldt, C., Aggarwal, N., Aguiar, O. D, Ain, A., Ajith, P., Allen, B., Altin, P. A, Amariutei, D. V, Anderson, S. B, Anderson, W. G, Arai, K., Araya, M. C, Arceneaux, C. C, Areeda, J. S, Arun, K. G, Ashton, G., Ast, M., Aston, S. M, Aufmuth, P., Aulbert, C., Babak, S., Baker, P. T, Ballmer, S. W, Barayoga, J. C, Barclay, S. E, Barish, B. C, Barker, D., Barr, B., Barsotti, L., Bartlett, J., Bartos, I., Bassiri, R., Batch, J. C, Baune, C., Behnke, B., Bell, A. S, Bell, C. J, Berger, B. K, Bergman, J., Bergmann, G., Berry, C. P. L, Betzwieser, J., Bhagwat, S., Bhandare, R., Bilenko, I. A, Billingsley, G., Birch, J., Birney, R., Biscans, S., Bisht, A., Biwer, C., Blackburn, J. K, Blair, C. D, Blair, D., Blair, R. M, Bock, O., Bodiya, T. P, Bogan, C., Bohe, A., Bojtos, P., Bond, C., Bork, R., Bose, S., Brady, P. R, Braginsky, V. B, Brau, J. E, Brinkmann, M., Brockill, P., Brooks, A. F, Brown, D. A, Brown, D. D, Brown, N. M, Buchanan, C. C, Buikema, A., Buonanno, A., Byer, R. L, Cadonati, L., Cahillane, C., Calderón Bustillo, J., Callister, T., Camp, J. B, Cannon, K. C, Cao, J., Capano, C. D, Caride, S., Caudill, S., Cavaglià, M., Cepeda, C., Chakraborty, R., Chalermsongsak, T., Chamberlin, S. J, Chan, M., Chao, S., Charlton, P., Chen, H. Y, Chen, Y., Cheng, C., Cho, H. S, Cho, M., Chow, J. H, Christensen, N., Chu, Q., Chung, S., Ciani, G., Clara, F., Clark, J. A, Collette, C. G, Cominsky, L., Constancio, M., Cook, D., Corbitt, T. R, Cornish, N., Corsi, A., Costa, C. A, Coughlin, M. W, Coughlin, S. B, Countryman, S. T, Couvares, P., Coward, D. M, Cowart, M. J, Coyne, D. C, Coyne, R., Craig, K., Creighton, J. D. E, Cripe, J., Crowder, S. G, Cumming, A., Cunningham, L., Dal Canton, T., Danilishin, S. L, Danzmann, K., Darman, N. S, Dave, I., Daveloza, H. P, Davies, G. S, Daw, E. J, DeBra, D., Del Pozzo, W., Denker, T., Dent, T., Dergachev, V., DeRosa, R., DeSalvo, R., Dhurandhar, S., Díaz, M. C, Di Palma, I., Dojcinoski, G., Donovan, F., Dooley, K. L, Doravari, S., Douglas, R., Downes, T. P, Drago, M., Drever, R. W. P, Driggers, J. C, Du, Z., Dwyer, S. E, Edo, T. B, Edwards, M. C, Effler, A., Eggenstein, H.-B, Ehrens, P., Eichholz, J., Eikenberry, S. S, Engels, W., Essick, R. C, Etzel, T., Evans, M., Evans, T. M, Everett, R., Factourovich, M., Fair, H., Fairhurst, S., Fan, X., Fang, Q., Farr, B., Farr, W. M, Favata, M., Fays, M., Fehrmann, H., Fejer, M. M, Ferreira, E. C, Fisher, R. P, Fletcher, M., Frei, Z., Freise, A., Frey, R., Fricke, T. T, Fritschel, P., Frolov, V. V, Fulda, P., Fyffe, M., Gabbard, H. A. G, Gair, J. R, Gaonkar, S. G, Gaur, G., Gehrels, N., George, J., Gergely, L., Ghosh, A., Giaime, J. A, Giardina, K. D, Gill, K., Glaefke, A., Goetz, E., Goetz, R., Gondan, L., González, G., Gopakumar, A., Gordon, N. A, Gorodetsky, M. L, Gossan, S. E, Graef, C., Graff, P. B, Grant, A., Gras, S., Gray, C., Green, A. C, Grote, H., Grunewald, S., Guo, X., Gupta, A., Gupta, M. K, Gushwa, K. E, Gustafson, E. K, Gustafson, R., Hacker, J. J, Hall, B. R, Hall, E. D, Hammond, G., Haney, M., Hanke, M. M, Hanks, J., Hanna, C., Hannam, M. D, Hanson, J., Hardwick, T., Harry, G. M, Harry, I. W, Hart, M. J, Hartman, M. T, Haster, C.-J, Haughian, K., Heintze, M. C, Hendry, M., Heng, I. S, Hennig, J., Heptonstall, A. W, Heurs, M., Hild, S., Hoak, D., Hodge, K. A, Hollitt, S. E, Holt, K., Holz, D. E, Hopkins, P., Hosken, D. J, Hough, J., Houston, E. A, Howell, E. J, Hu, Y. M, Huang, S., Huerta, E. A, Hughey, B., Husa, S., Huttner, S. H, Huynh-Dinh, T., Idrisy, A., Indik, N., Ingram, D. R, Inta, R., Isa, H. N, Isi, M., Islas, G., Isogai, T., Iyer, B. R, Izumi, K., Jang, H., Jani, K., Jawahar, S., Jiménez-Forteza, F., Johnson, W. W, Jones, D. I, Jones, R., Ju, L., K., Haris, Kalaghatgi, C. V, Kalogera, V., Kandhasamy, S., Kang, G., Kanner, J. B, Karki, S., Kasprzack, M., Katsavounidis, E., Katzman, W., Kaufer, S., Kaur, T., 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