Gravitational wave radiometry: Mapping a stochastic gravitational wave background
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Sanjit Mitra,* Sanjeev Dhurandhar, Tarun Souradeep, Albert Lazzarini,3,x Vuk Mandic,3,k Sukanta Bose,4,{ and Stefan Ballmer** Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Post Bag 4, Ganeshkhind, Pune 411007, India Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, BP 4229, 06304 Nice Cedex 4, France LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 18-34, Pasadena, California 91125, USA Department of Physics, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164-2814, USA (Received 21 August 2007; published 14 February 2008)
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