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Tuyenbayev⁸⁶, D. Ugolini¹³², C. S. Unnikrishnan¹⁰⁰, A. L. Urban¹⁶, S. A. Usman³⁵, H. Vahlbruch¹⁷, G. Vajente¹, G. Valdes⁸⁶, M. Vallisneri⁷⁷, N. van Bakel⁹, M. van Beuzekom⁹, J. F. J. van den Brand^62,9, C. Van Den Broeck⁹, D. C. Vander-Hyde^35,22, L. van der Schaaf⁹, J. V. van Heijningen⁹, A. A. van Veggel³⁶, M. Vardaro^41,42, S. Vass¹, M. Vasúth³⁸, R. Vaulin¹⁰, A. Vecchio⁴⁴, G. Vedovato⁴², J. Veitch⁴⁴, P. J. Veitch¹⁰⁴, K. Venkateswara¹³³, D. Verkindt⁷, F. Vetrano^57,58, A. Viceré^57,58, S. Vinciguerra⁴⁴, D. J. Vine⁴⁹, J.-Y. Vinet⁵², S. Vitale¹⁰, T. Vo³⁵, H. Vocca^32,33, C. Vorvick³⁷, D. Voss⁵, W. D. Vousden⁴⁴, S. P. Vyatchanin⁴⁸, A. R. Wade²⁰, L. E. Wade¹³⁴, M. Wade¹³⁴, M. Walker², L. Wallace¹, S. Walsh^16,8,29, G. Wang¹², H. Wang⁴⁴, M. Wang⁴⁴, X. Wang⁷¹, Y. Wang⁵⁰, R. L. Ward²⁰, J. Warner³⁷, M. Was⁷, B. Weaver³⁷, L.-W. Wei⁵², M. Weinert⁸, A. J. Weinstein¹, R. Weiss¹⁰, T. Welborn⁶, L. Wen⁵⁰, P. Weßels⁸, T. Westphal⁸, K. Wette⁸, J. T. Whelan^102,8, D. J. White⁸⁷, B. F. Whiting⁵, D. Williams³⁶, R. D. Williams¹, A. R. Williamson⁹², J. L. Willis¹³⁵, B. Willke^17,8, M. H. Wimmer^8,17, W. Winkler⁸, C. C. Wipf¹, H. Wittel^8,17, G. Woan³⁶, J. Worden³⁷, J. L. Wright³⁶, G. Wu⁶, J. Yablon⁸³, W. Yam¹⁰, H. Yamamoto¹, C. C. Yancey⁶³, M. J. Yap²⁰, H. Yu¹⁰, M. Yvert⁷, A. Zadrożny¹¹², L. Zangrando⁴², M. Zanolin⁹⁸, J.-P. Zendri⁴², M. Zevin⁸³, F. Zhang¹⁰, L. Zhang¹, M. Zhang¹²⁰, Y. Zhang¹⁰², C. Zhao⁵⁰, M. Zhou⁸³, Z. Zhou⁸³, X. J. Zhu⁵⁰, M. E. Zucker^1,10, S. E. Zuraw¹⁰³, J. Zweizig¹, M. Boyle⁵⁶, M. Campanelli¹⁰², D. A. Hemberger⁷⁷, L. E. Kidder⁵⁶, S. Ossokine²⁹, M. A. Scheel⁷⁷, B. Szilagyi^77,130, S. Teukolsky⁵⁶, and Y. Zlochower¹⁰² (LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations)

• ¹LIGO, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
• ²Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
• ³Università di Salerno, Fisciano, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
• ⁴INFN, Sezione di Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
• ⁵University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA
• ⁶LIGO Livingston Observatory, Livingston, Louisiana 70754, USA
• ⁷Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Université Savoie Mont Blanc, CNRS/IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux, France
• ⁸Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
• ⁹Nikhef, Science Park, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ¹⁰LIGO, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
• ¹¹Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, 12227-010 São José dos Campos, S ao Paulo, Brazil
• ¹²INFN, Gran Sasso Science Institute, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy
• ¹³INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
• ¹⁴Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune 411007, India
• ¹⁵International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore 560012, India
• ¹⁶University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201, USA
• ¹⁷Leibniz Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
• ¹⁸Università di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
• ¹⁹INFN, Sezione di Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
• ²⁰Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia
• ²¹The University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi 38677, USA
• ²²California State University Fullerton, Fullerton, California 92831, USA
• ²³LAL, Université Paris–Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris–Saclay, 91400 Orsay, France
• ²⁴Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai 603103, India
• ²⁵Università di Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Roma, Italy
• ²⁶University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
• ²⁷Universität Hamburg, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
• ²⁸INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy
• ²⁹Albert-Einstein-Institut, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, D-14476 Potsdam-Golm, Germany
• ³⁰APC, AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, F-75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
• ³¹Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 59717, USA
• ³²Università di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
• ³³INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
• ³⁴European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), I-56021 Cascina, Pisa, Italy
• ³⁵Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244, USA
• ³⁶SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
• ³⁷LIGO Hanford Observatory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
• ³⁸Wigner RCP, RMKI, H-1121 Budapest, Konkoly Thege Miklós út 29-33, Hungary
• ³⁹Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, USA
• ⁴⁰Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
• ⁴¹Università di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, I-35131 Padova, Italy
• ⁴²INFN, Sezione di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy
• ⁴³CAMK-PAN, 00-716 Warsaw, Poland
• ⁴⁴University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom
• ⁴⁵Università degli Studi di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
• ⁴⁶INFN, Sezione di Genova, I-16146 Genova, Italy
• ⁴⁷RRCAT, Indore MP 452013, India
• ⁴⁸Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow 119991, Russia
• ⁴⁹SUPA, University of the West of Scotland, Paisley PA1 2BE, United Kingdom
• ⁵⁰University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
• ⁵¹Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9010, 6500 GL Nijmegen, Netherlands
• ⁵²Artemis, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Observatoire Côte d’Azur, CS 34229, Nice cedex 4, France
• ⁵³MTA Eötvös University, “Lendulet” Astrophysics Research Group, Budapest 1117, Hungary
• ⁵⁴Institut de Physique de Rennes, CNRS, Université de Rennes 1, F-35042 Rennes, France
• ⁵⁵Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
• ⁵⁶Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, 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
• ⁶¹Astronomical Observatory, Warsaw University, 00-478 Warsaw, Poland
• ⁶²VU University Amsterdam, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ⁶³University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
• ⁶⁴Center for Relativistic Astrophysics and School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA
• ⁶⁵Institut Lumière Matière, Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, UMR CNRS 5306, 69622 Villeurbanne, France
• ⁶⁶Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés (LMA), IN2P3/CNRS, Université de Lyon, F-69622 Villeurbanne, Lyon, France
• ⁶⁷Universitat de les Illes Balears, IAC3—IEEC, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
• ⁶⁸Università di Napoli “Federico II,” Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, I-80126 Napoli, Italy
• ⁶⁹NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA
• ⁷⁰Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H8, Canada
• ⁷¹Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
• ⁷²Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA
• ⁷³The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
• ⁷⁴National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu City, 30013 Taiwan, Republic of China
• ⁷⁵Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, New South Wales 2678, Australia
• ⁷⁶University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
• ⁷⁷Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
• ⁷⁸Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Daejeon 305-806, Korea
• ⁷⁹Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota 55057, USA
• ⁸⁰Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” I-00185 Roma, Italy
• ⁸¹University of Brussels, Brussels 1050, Belgium
• ⁸²Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California 94928, USA
• ⁸³Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA
• ⁸⁴University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA
• ⁸⁵The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia
• ⁸⁶The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Brownsville, Texas 78520, USA
• ⁸⁷The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, United Kingdom
• ⁸⁸University of Sannio at Benevento, I-82100 Benevento, Italy and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80100 Napoli, Italy
• ⁸⁹Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey 07043, USA
• ⁹⁰Università di Trento, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
• ⁹¹INFN, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
• ⁹²Cardiff University, Cardiff CF24 3AA, United Kingdom
• ⁹³National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 2-21-1 Osawa, Mitaka, Tokyo 181-8588, Japan
• ⁹⁴School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
• ⁹⁵Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar Ahmedabad Gujarat 382424, India
• ⁹⁶Institute for Plasma Research, Bhat, Gandhinagar 382428, India
• ⁹⁷University of Szeged, Dóm tér 9, Szeged 6720, Hungary
• ⁹⁸Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona 86301, USA
• ⁹⁹University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA
• ¹⁰⁰Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai 400005, India
• ¹⁰¹American University, Washington, D.C. 20016, USA
• ¹⁰²Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York 14623, USA
• ¹⁰³University of Massachusetts–Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, USA
• ¹⁰⁴University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia
• ¹⁰⁵West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA
• ¹⁰⁶University of Biał ystok, 15-424 Biał ystok, Poland
• ¹⁰⁷SUPA, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XQ, United Kingdom
• ¹⁰⁸IISER-TVM, CET Campus, Trivandrum Kerala 695016, India
• ¹⁰⁹Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 603950, Russia
• ¹¹⁰Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
• ¹¹¹Hanyang University, Seoul 133-791, Korea
• ¹¹²NCBJ, 05-400 Świerk-Otwock, Poland
• ¹¹³IM-PAN, 00-956 Warsaw, Poland
• ¹¹⁴Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
• ¹¹⁵Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
• ¹¹⁶University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama 35899, USA
• ¹¹⁷ESPCI, CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France
• ¹¹⁸Università di Camerino, Dipartimento di Fisica, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
• ¹¹⁹Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70813, USA
• ¹²⁰College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187, USA
• ¹²¹Instituto de Física Teórica, University Estadual Paulista/ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, 01140-070 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
• ¹²²University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
• ¹²³IISER-Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal 741252, India
• ¹²⁴Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, HSIC, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
• ¹²⁵Whitman College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, Washington 99362, USA
• ¹²⁶National Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Daejeon 305-390, Korea
• ¹²⁷Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York 14456, USA
• ¹²⁸Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Góra, 65-265 Zielona Góra, Poland
• ¹²⁹Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan 49104, USA
• ¹³⁰Caltech JPL, Pasadena, California 91109, USA
• ¹³¹Università di Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
• ¹³²Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas 78212, USA
• ¹³³University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
• ¹³⁴Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio 43022, USA
• ¹³⁵Abilene Christian University, Abilene, Texas 79699, USA

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