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Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state

B Abbott1, R Abbott1, R Adhikari1, P Ajith2, B Allen2,3, G Allen4, R Amin5, S B Anderson1, W G Anderson3, M A Arain6, M Araya1, H Armandula1, P Armor3, Y Aso7, S Aston8, P Aufmuth9, C Aulbert2, S Babak10, S Ballmer1, H Bantilan11, B C Barish1, C Barker12, D Barker12, B Barr13, P Barriga14, M A Barton13, M Bastarrika13, K Bayer15, J Betzwieser1, P T Beyersdorf16, I A Bilenko17, G Billingsley1, R Biswas3, E Black1, K Blackburn1, L Blackburn15, D Blair14, B Bland12, T P Bodiya15, L Bogue18, R Bork1, V Boschi1, S Bose19, P R Brady3, V B Braginsky17, J E Brau20, M Brinkmann2, A Brooks1, D A Brown21, G Brunet15, A Bullington4, A Buonanno22, O Burmeister2, R L Byer4, L Cadonati23, G Cagnoli13, J B Camp24, J Cannizzo24, K Cannon1, J Cao15, L Cardenas1, T Casebolt4, G Castaldi25, C Cepeda1, E Chalkley13, P Charlton26, S Chatterji1, S Chelkowski8, Y Chen10,27, N Christensen11, D Clark4, J Clark13, T Cokelaer28, R Conte29, D Cook12, T Corbitt15,56, D Coyne1, J D E Creighton3, A Cumming13, L Cunningham13, R M Cutler8, J Dalrymple21, S Danilishin17, K Danzmann2,9, G Davies28, D DeBra4, J Degallaix10, M Degree4, V Dergachev30, S Desai31, R DeSalvo1, S Dhurandhar32, M Díaz33, J Dickson34, A Dietz28, F Donovan15, K L Dooley6, E E Doomes35, R W P Drever36, I Duke15, J-C Dumas14, R J Dupuis1, J G Dwyer7, C Echols1, A Effler12, P Ehrens1, E Espinoza1, T Etzel1, T Evans18, S Fairhurst28, Y Fan14, D Fazi1, H Fehrmann2, M M Fejer4, L S Finn31, K Flasch3, N Fotopoulos3, A Freise8, R Frey20, T Fricke1,37, P Fritschel15, V V Frolov18, M Fyffe18, J Garofoli12, I Gholami10, J A Giaime5,18, S Giampanis37, K D Giardina18, K Goda15, E Goetz30, L Goggin1, G González5, S Gossler2, R Gouaty5, A Grant13, S Gras14, C Gray12, M Gray34, R J S Greenhalgh38, A M Gretarsson39, F Grimaldi15, R Grosso33, H Grote2, S Grunewald10, M Guenther12, E K Gustafson1, R Gustafson30, B Hage9, J M Hallam8, D Hammer3, C Hanna5, J Hanson18, J Harms2, G Harry15, E Harstad20, K Hayama33, T Hayler38, J Heefner1, I S Heng13, M Hennessy4, A Heptonstall13, M Hewitson2, S Hild8, E Hirose21, D Hoak18, D Hosken40, J Hough13, S H Huttner13, D Ingram12, M Ito20, A Ivanov1, B Johnson12, W W Johnson5, D I Jones41, G Jones28, R Jones13, L Ju14, P Kalmus7, V Kalogera42, S Kamat7, J Kanner22, D Kasprzyk8, E Katsavounidis15, K Kawabe12, S Kawamura43, F Kawazoe43, W Kells1, D G Keppel1, F Ya Khalili17, R Khan7, E Khazanov44, C Kim42, P King1, J S Kissel5, S Klimenko6, K Kokeyama43, V Kondrashov1, R K Kopparapu31, D Kozak1, I Kozhevatov44, B Krishnan10, P Kwee9, P K Lam34, M Landry12, M M Lang31, B Lantz4, A Lazzarini1, M Lei1, N Leindecker4, V Leonhardt43, I Leonor20, K Libbrecht1, H Lin6, P Lindquist1, N A Lockerbie45, D Lodhia8, M Lormand18, P Lu4, M Lubinski12, A Lucianetti6, H Lück2,9, B Machenschalk2, M MacInnis15, M Mageswaran1, K Mailand1, V Mandic46, S Márka7, Z Márka7, A Markosyan4, J Markowitz15, E Maros1, I Martin13, R M Martin6, J N Marx1, K Mason15, F Matichard5, L Matone7, R Matzner47, N Mavalvala15, R McCarthy12, D E McClelland34, S C McGuire35, M McHugh48, G McIntyre1, G McIvor47, D McKechan28, K McKenzie34, T Meier9, A Melissinos37, G Mendell12, R A Mercer6, S Meshkov1, C J Messenger2, D Meyers1, H Miao14, J Miller1,13, J Minelli31, S Mitra32, V P Mitrofanov17, G Mitselmakher6, R Mittleman15, O Miyakawa1, B Moe3, S Mohanty33, G Moreno12, K Mossavi2, C Mow-Lowry34, G Mueller6, S Mukherjee33, H Mukhopadhyay32, H Müller-Ebhardt2, J Munch40, P Murray13, E Myers12, J Myers12, T Nash1, J Nelson13, G Newton13, A Nishizawa43, K Numata24, J O'Dell38, G Ogin1, B O'Reilly18, R O'Shaughnessy31, D J Ottaway15, R S Ottens6, H Overmier18, B J Owen31, Y Pan22, C Pankow6, M A Papa3,10, V Parameshwaraiah12, P Patel1, M Pedraza1, S Penn49, A Perreca8, T Petrie31, I M Pinto25, M Pitkin13, H J Pletsch2, M V Plissi13, F Postiglione29, M Principe25, R Prix2, V Quetschke6, F Raab12, D S Rabeling34, H Radkins12, N Rainer2, M Rakhmanov50, M Ramsunder31, H Rehbein2, S Reid13, D H Reitze6, R Riesen18, K Riles30, B Rivera12, N A Robertson1,13, C Robinson28, E L Robinson8, S Roddy18, A Rodriguez5, A M Rogan19, J Rollins7, J D Romano33, J Romie18, R Route4, S Rowan13, A Rüdiger2, L Ruet15, P Russell1, K Ryan12, S Sakata43, M Samidi1, L Sancho de la Jordana51, V Sandberg12, V Sannibale1, S Saraf52, P Sarin15, B S Sathyaprakash28, S Sato43, P R Saulson21, R Savage12, P Savov27, S W Schediwy14, R Schilling2, R Schnabel2, R Schofield20, B F Schutz10,28, P Schwinberg12, S M Scott34, A C Searle34, B Sears1, F Seifert2, D Sellers18, A S Sengupta1, P Shawhan22, D H Shoemaker15, A Sibley18, X Siemens3, D Sigg12, S Sinha4, A M Sintes10,51, B J J Slagmolen34, J Slutsky5, J R Smith21, M R Smith1, N D Smith15, K Somiya2,10, B Sorazu13, L C Stein15, A Stochino1, R Stone33, K A Strain13, D M Strom20, A Stuver18, T Z Summerscales53, K-X Sun4, M Sung5, P J Sutton28, H Takahashi10, D B Tanner6, R Taylor1, R Taylor13, J Thacker18, K A Thorne31, K S Thorne27, A Thüring9, K V Tokmakov13, C Torres18, C Torrie13, G Traylor18, M Trias51, W Tyler1, D Ugolini54, J Ulmen4, K Urbanek4, H Vahlbruch9, C Van Den Broeck28, M van der Sluys42, S Vass1, R Vaulin3, A Vecchio8, J Veitch8, P Veitch40, A Villar1, C Vorvick12, S P Vyatchanin17, S J Waldman1, L Wallace1, H Ward13, R Ward1, M Weinert2, A Weinstein1, R Weiss15, S Wen5, K Wette34, J T Whelan10, S E Whitcomb1, B F Whiting6, C Wilkinson12, P A Willems1, H R Williams31, L Williams6, B Willke2,9, I Wilmut38, W Winkler2, C C Wipf15, A G Wiseman3, G Woan13, R Wooley18, J Worden12, W Wu6, I Yakushin18, H Yamamoto1, Z Yan14, S Yoshida50, M Zanolin39, J Zhang30, L Zhang1, C Zhao14, N Zotov55, M Zucker15 and J Zweizig1 (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

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