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Tringali^88,89, L. Trozzo^136,21, M. Tse¹², M. Turconi⁵⁴, D. Tuyenbayev⁸⁷, D. Ugolini¹³⁷, C. S. Unnikrishnan¹⁰⁰, A. L. Urban¹⁸, S. A. Usman³⁷, H. Vahlbruch¹⁹, G. Vajente¹, G. Valdes⁸⁷, M. Vallisneri⁷⁷, N. van Bakel¹¹, M. van Beuzekom¹¹, J. F. J. van den Brand^63,11, C. Van Den Broeck¹¹, D. C. Vander-Hyde³⁷, L. van der Schaaf¹¹, J. V. van Heijningen¹¹, A. A. van Veggel³⁸, M. Vardaro^43,44, S. Vass¹, M. Vasúth⁴⁰, R. Vaulin¹², A. Vecchio⁴⁶, G. Vedovato⁴⁴, J. Veitch⁴⁶, P. J. Veitch¹¹³, K. Venkateswara¹³⁸, D. Verkindt⁸, F. Vetrano^57,58, A. Viceré^57,58, S. Vinciguerra⁴⁶, D. J. Vine⁵¹, J.-Y. Vinet⁵⁴, S. Vitale¹², T. Vo³⁷, H. Vocca^34,35, C. Vorvick³⁹, D. V. Voss⁶, W. D. Vousden⁴⁶, S. P. Vyatchanin⁵⁰, A. R. Wade²², L. E. Wade¹³⁹, M. Wade¹³⁹, M. Walker², L. Wallace¹, S. Walsh^31,10, G. Wang^14,58, H. Wang⁴⁶, M. Wang⁴⁶, X. Wang⁷¹, Y. Wang⁵², R. L. Ward²², J. Warner³⁹, M. Was⁸, B. Weaver³⁹, L.-W. Wei⁵⁴, M. Weinert¹⁰, A. J. Weinstein¹, R. Weiss¹², L. Wen⁵², P. Weßels¹⁰, T. Westphal¹⁰, K. Wette¹⁰, J. T. Whelan¹⁰⁴, B. F. Whiting⁶, R. D. Williams¹, A. R. Williamson⁹¹, J. L. Willis¹⁰³, B. Willke^19,10, M. H. Wimmer^10,19, W. Winkler¹⁰, C. C. Wipf¹, H. Wittel^10,19, G. Woan³⁸, J. Woehler¹⁰, J. Worden³⁹, J. L. Wright³⁸, D. S. Wu¹⁰, G. Wu⁷, J. Yablon⁸², W. Yam¹², H. Yamamoto¹, C. C. Yancey⁶⁴, H. Yu¹², M. Yvert⁸, A. Zadrożny¹¹⁴, L. Zangrando⁴⁴, M. Zanolin⁹⁹, J.-P. Zendri⁴⁴, M. Zevin⁸², L. Zhang¹, M. Zhang¹²⁴, Y. Zhang¹⁰⁴, C. Zhao⁵², M. Zhou⁸², Z. Zhou⁸², X. J. Zhu⁵², M. E. Zucker^1,12, S. E. Zuraw¹²⁰, and J. Zweizig¹ (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration)

M. Boyle¹⁴⁰, D. Hemberger⁷⁷, L. E. Kidder¹⁴⁰, G. Lovelace²⁴, S. Ossokine³¹, M. Scheel⁷⁷, B. Szilagyi^77,141, and S. Teukolsky¹⁴⁰

• ¹LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
• ²Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
• ³American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA
• ⁴Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
• ⁵INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
• ⁶University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
• ⁷LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
• ⁸Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France
• ⁹University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy
• ¹⁰Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
• ¹¹Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ¹²LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
• ¹³Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
• ¹⁴INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy
• ¹⁵INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
• ¹⁶Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India
• ¹⁷International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560012, India
• ¹⁸University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
• ¹⁹Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
• ²⁰Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
• ²¹INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
• ²²Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
• ²³The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
• ²⁴California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA
• ²⁵LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
• ²⁶Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India
• ²⁷Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
• ²⁸University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
• ²⁹Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
• ³⁰INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy
• ³¹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
• ³²APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
• ³³Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
• ³⁴Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
• ³⁵INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
• ³⁶European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy
• ³⁷Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
• ³⁸SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
• ³⁹LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
• ⁴⁰Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary
• ⁴¹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
• ⁴²Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
• ⁴³Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy
• ⁴⁴INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
• ⁴⁵CAMK-PAN, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
• ⁴⁶University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
• ⁴⁷Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
• ⁴⁸INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
• ⁴⁹RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India
• ⁵⁰Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
• ⁵¹SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
• ⁵²University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
• ⁵³Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• ⁵⁴Artemis, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire Côte d’Azur, CS 34229, Nice cedex 4, France
• ⁵⁵Institut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France
• ⁵⁶Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
• ⁵⁷Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
• ⁵⁸INFN, Sezione di Firenze, I-50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italy
• ⁵⁹University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA
• ⁶⁰Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, UPMC-Sorbonne Universités, CNRS, ENS-PSL Research University, Collège de France, F-75005 Paris, France
• ⁶¹Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
• ⁶²Astronomical Observatory Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland
• ⁶³VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ⁶⁴University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
• ⁶⁵Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
• ⁶⁶Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), CNRS/IN2P3, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
• ⁶⁷Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
• ⁶⁸Università di Napoli “Federico II”, Complesso Universitario di Monte S.Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
• ⁶⁹NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
• ⁷⁰RESCEU, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, 113-0033, Japan
• ⁷¹Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
• ⁷²Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
• ⁷³National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China
• ⁷⁴Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia
• ⁷⁵West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
• ⁷⁶University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
• ⁷⁷Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
• ⁷⁸Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Korea
• ⁷⁹Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, I-00185 Roma, Italy
• ⁸⁰University of Brussels, Brussels 1050, Belgium
• ⁸¹Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA
• ⁸²Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration & Research in Astrophysics (CIERA), Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
• ⁸³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
• ⁸⁴The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
• ⁸⁵Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India
• ⁸⁶The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
• ⁸⁷The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, TX 78520, USA
• ⁸⁸Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
• ⁸⁹INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
• ⁹⁰The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
• ⁹¹Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
• ⁹²Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA
• ⁹³MTA Eötvös University, “Lendulet” Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest 1117, Hungary
• ⁹⁴National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
• ⁹⁵Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada
• ⁹⁶School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
• ⁹⁷Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India
• ⁹⁸University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary
• ⁹⁹Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
• ¹⁰⁰Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India
• ¹⁰¹INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte, I-80131, Napoli, Italy
• ¹⁰²University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
• ¹⁰³Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA
• ¹⁰⁴Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
• ¹⁰⁵NCSA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
• ¹⁰⁶Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3—IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• ¹⁰⁷University of Białystok, 15-424 Białystok, Poland
• ¹⁰⁸SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
• ¹⁰⁹IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India
• ¹¹⁰Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
• ¹¹¹Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
• ¹¹²Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
• ¹¹³University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
• ¹¹⁴NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland
• ¹¹⁵IM-PAN, 00-956 Warsaw, Poland
• ¹¹⁶Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
• ¹¹⁷Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
• ¹¹⁸The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong SAR, China
• ¹¹⁹University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA
• ¹²⁰University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
• ¹²¹ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
• ¹²²Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
• ¹²³Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
• ¹²⁴College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
• ¹²⁵Instituto de Física Teórica, University Estadual Paulista/ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, São Paulo SP 01140-070, Brazil
• ¹²⁶University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
• ¹²⁷IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India
• ¹²⁸Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, HSIC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
• ¹²⁹Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362 USA
• ¹³⁰National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 305-390, Korea
• ¹³¹Université de Lyon, F-69361 Lyon, France
• ¹³²Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
• ¹³³Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland
• ¹³⁴King’s College London, University of London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom
• ¹³⁵Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA
• ¹³⁶Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
• ¹³⁷Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
• ¹³⁸University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
• ¹³⁹Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA
• ¹⁴⁰Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
• ¹⁴¹Caltech JPL, Pasadena, California 91109, USA

• ^*Full author list given at end of the article.
• ^aDeceased, March 2016.
• ^bDeceased, May 2015.
• ^cDeceased, March 2015.