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First all-sky upper limits from LIGO on the strength of periodic gravitational waves using the Hough transform

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Original languageEnglish
Article number102004
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume72
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 15 2005
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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