http://stacks.iop.org/0034-4885 Reports on Progress in Physics publishes review articles covering all branches of physics, written by invited authors who are worldwide experts in their field. en-gb Copyright © IOP Publishing 2009 Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT http://syndication.iop.org/about/ custserv@iop.org (Customer Services) http://images.iop.org/website-logos/ejs_logo.png http://stacks.iop.org/ http://stacks.iop.org/0034-4885/72/i=7/a=076601?rss=2.0 Author(s): P Schall<br>Affiliation(s): Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute, University of Amsterdam, Valckenierstraat 65, 1018XE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT http://stacks.iop.org/0034-4885/72/i=7/a=076901?rss=2.0 Author(s): B P Abbott, R Abbott, R Adhikari, P Ajith, B Allen, G Allen, R S Amin, S B Anderson, W G Anderson, M A Arain, M Araya, H Armandula, P Armor, Y Aso, S Aston, P Aufmuth, C Aulbert, S Babak, P Baker, S Ballmer, C Barker, D Barker, B Barr, P Barriga, L Barsotti, M A Barton, I Bartos, R Bassiri, M Bastarrika, B Behnke, M Benacquista, J Betzwieser, P T Beyersdorf, I A Bilenko, G Billingsley, R Biswas, E Black, J K Blackburn, L Blackburn, D Blair, B Bland, T P Bodiya, L Bogue, R Bork, V Boschi, S Bose, P R Brady, V B Braginsky, J E Brau, D O Bridges, M Brinkmann, A F Brooks, D A Brown, A Brummit, G Brunet, A Bullington, A Buonanno, O Burmeister, R L Byer, L Cadonati, J B Camp, J Cannizzo, K C Cannon, J Cao, L Cardenas, S Caride, G Castaldi, S Caudill, M Cavaglia, C Cepeda, T Chalermsongsak, E Chalkley, P Charlton, S Chatterji, S Chelkowski, Y Chen, N Christensen, C T Y Chung, D Clark, J Clark, J H Clayton, T Cokelaer, C N Colacino, R Conte, D Cook, T R C Corbitt, N Cornish, D Coward, D C Coyne, J D E Creighton, T D Creighton, A M Cruise, R M Culter, A Cumming, L Cunningham, S L Danilishin, K Danzmann, B Daudert, G Davies, E J Daw, D DeBra, J Degallaix, V Dergachev, S Desai, R DeSalvo, S Dhurandhar, M Diaz, A Dietz, F Donovan, K L Dooley, E E Doomes, R W P Drever, J Dueck, I Duke, J-C Dumas, J G Dwyer, C Echols, M Edgar, A Effler, P Ehrens, E Espinoza, T Etzel, M Evans, T Evans, S Fairhurst, Y Faltas, Y Fan, D Fazi, H Fehrmenn, L S Finn, K Flasch, S Foley, C Forrest, N Fotopoulos, A Franzen, M Frede, M Frei, Z Frei, A Freise, R Frey, T Fricke, P Fritschel, V V Frolov, M Fyffe, V Galdi, J A Garofoli, I Gholami, J A Giaime, S Giampanis, K D Giardina, K Goda, E Goetz, L M Goggin, G Gonzalez, M L Gorodetsky, S Gossler, R Gouaty, A Grant, S Gras, C Gray, M Gray, R J S Greenhalgh, A M Gretarsson, F Grimaldi, R Grosso, H Grote, S Grunewald, M Guenther, E K Gustafson, R Gustafson, B Hage, J M Hallam, D Hammer, G D Hammond, C Hanna, J Hanson, J Harms, G M Harry, I W Harry, E D Harstad, K Haughian, K Hayama, J Heefner, I S Heng, A Heptonstall, M Hewitson, S Hild, E Hirose, D Hoak, K A Hodge, K Holt, D J Hosken, J Hough, D Hoyland, B Hughey, S H Huttner, D R Ingram, T Isogai, M Ito, A Ivanov, B Johnson, W W Johnson, D I Jones, G Jones, R Jones, L Ju, P Kalmus, V Kalogera, S Kandhasamy, J Kanner, D Kasprzyk, E Katsavounidis, K Kawabe, S Kawamura, F Kawazoe, W Kells, D G Keppel, A Khalaidovski, F Y Khalili, R Khan, E Khazanov, P King, J S Kissel, S Klimenko, K Kokeyama, V Kondrashov, R Kopparapu, S Koranda, D Kozak, B Krishnan, R Kumar, P Kwee, P K Lam, M Landry, B Lantz, A Lazzarini, H Lei, M Lei, N Leindecker, I Leonor, C Li, H Lin, P E Lindquist, T B Littenberg, N A Lockerbie, D Lodhia, M Longo, M Lormand, P Lu, M Lubinski, A Lucianetti, H Luck, B Machenschalk, M MacInnis, M Mageswaran, K Mailand, I Mandel, V Mandic, S Marka, Z Marka, A Markosyan, J Markowitz, E Maros, I W Martin, R M Martin, J N Marx, K Mason, F Matichard, L Matone, R A Matzner, N Mavalvala, R McCarthy, D E McClelland, S C McGuire, M McHugh, G McIntyre, D J A McKechan, K McKenzie, M Mehmet, A Melatos, A C Melissinos, D F Menendez, G Mendell, R A Mercer, S Meshkov, C Messenger, M S Meyer, J Miller, J Minelli, Y Mino, V P Mitrofanov, G Mitselmakher, R Mittleman, O Miyakawa, B Moe, S D Mohanty, S R P Mohapatra, G Moreno, T Morioka, K Mors, K Mossavi, C MowLowry, G Mueller, H Muller-Ebhardt, D Muhammad, S Mukherjee, H Mukhopadhyay, A Mullavey, J Munch, P G Murray, E Myers, J Myers, T Nash, J Nelson, G Newton, A Nishizawa, K Numata, J O'Dell, B O'Reilly, R O'Shaughnessy, E Ochsner, G H Ogin, D J Ottaway, R S Ottens, H Overmier, B J Owen, Y Pan, C Pankow, M A Papa, V Parameshwaraiah, P Patel, M Pedraza, S Penn, A Perraca, V Pierro, I M Pinto, M Pitkin, H J Pletsch, M V Plissi, F Postiglione, M Principe, R Prix, L Prokhorov, O Punken, V Quetschke, F J Raab, D S Rabeling, H Radkins, P Raffai, Z Raics, N Rainer, M Rakhmanov, V Raymond, C M Reed, T Reed, H Rehbein, S Reid, D H Reitze, R Riesen, K Riles, B Rivera, P Roberts, N A Robertson, C Robinson, E L Robinson, S Roddy, C Rover, J Rollins, J D Romano, J H Romie, S Rowan, A Rudiger, P Russell, K Ryan, S Sakata, L Sancho de la Jordana, V Sandberg, V Sannibale, L Santamaria, S Saraf, P Sarin, B S Sathyaprakash, S Sato, M Satterthwaite, P R Saulson, R Savage, P Savov, M Scanlan, R Schilling, R Schnabel, R Schofield, B Schulz, B F Schutz, P Schwinberg, J Scott, S M Scott, A C Searle, B Sears, F Seifert, D Sellers, A S Sengupta, A Sergeev, B Shapiro, P Shawhan, D H Shoemaker, A Sibley, X Siemens, D Sigg, S Sinha, A M Sintes, B J J Slagmolen, J Slutsky, J R Smith, M R Smith, N D Smith, K Somiya, B Sorazu, A Stein, L C Stein, S Steplewski, A Stochino, R Stone, K A Strain, S Strigin, A Stroeer, A L Stuver, T Z Summerscales, K-X Sun, M Sung, P J Sutton, G P Szokoly, D Talukder, L Tang, D B Tanner, S P Tarabrin, J R Taylor, R Taylor, J Thacker, K A Thorne, A Thuring, K V Tokmakov, C Torres, C Torrie, G Traylor, M Trias, D Ugolini, J Ulmen, K Urbanek, H Vahlbruch, M Vallisneri, C Van Den Broeck, M V van der Sluys, A A van Veggel, S Vass, R Vaulin, A Vecchio, J Veitch, P Veitch, C Veltkamp, A Villar, C Vorvick, S P Vyachanin, S J Waldman, L Wallace, R L Ward, A Weidner, M Weinert, A J Weinstein, R Weiss, L Wen, S Wen, K Wette, J T Whelan, S E Whitcomb, B F Whiting, C Wilkinson, P A Willems, H R Williams, L Williams, B Willke, I Wilmut, L Winkelmann, W Winkler, C C Wipf, A G Wiseman, G Woan, R Wooley, J Worden, W Wu, I Yakushin, H Yamamoto, Z Yan, S Yoshida, M Zanolin, J Zhang, L Zhang, C Zhao, N Zotov, M E Zucker, H zur Muhlen and J Zweizig<br>Affiliation(s): LIGO--California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA; Ginzton, E.L. Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA; Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany; Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut fur Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Golm, Germany; Department of Physics, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717, USA; LIGO--Hanford Observatory, Richland, WA 99352, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK; School of Physics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia; LIGO--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA; Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA; Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA 95192, USA; Relativity Group, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia; LIGO--Livingston Observatory, Livingston, LA 70754, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA; Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA; Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244, USA; Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, HSIC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, UK; Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA; Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA 01003, USA; NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA; Department of Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Engineering, University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy; Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Mississippi, University, MS 38677, USA; Research Scool of Physics and Engineering, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia; Caltech-CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Carleton College, Northfield, MN 55057, USA; School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia; School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, UK; Institute of Physics, Eotvos University, ELTE 1053 Budapest, Hungary; Department of Physics, University of Salerno, 84084 Fisciano (Salerno), Italy; Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA; Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune - 411007, India; Department of Physics, Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA 70813, USA; California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; Department of Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Research School of Physics and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, 0200, Australia; Department of Physics, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, AZ 86301, USA; Department of Physics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA; School of Chemistry and Physics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan; Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia; Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XQ, UK; Department of Physics, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA; Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY 14456, USA; Department of Physics, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71272, USA; Department of Physics, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, MI 49104, USA; Relativity and Gravitation Group, Universitat de les Illes Balears, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78212, USA; Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA; Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA 70402, USA Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT http://stacks.iop.org/0034-4885/72/i=7/a=076001?rss=2.0 Author(s): J M Gibson<br>Affiliation(s): Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 Cass Avenue, Argonne IL 60439, USA Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT http://stacks.iop.org/0034-4885/72/i=7/a=076501?rss=2.0 Author(s): Peter P Vasil'ev<br>Affiliation(s): PN Lebedev Physical Institute, 53 Leninsky Prospect, Moscow 119991, Russia Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:00:00 GMT