On constraining the speed of gravitational waves following GW150914
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Diego Blas, Mikhail M. Ivanov, Ignacy Sawicki and Sergey Sibiryakov a Theoretical Physics Department, CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland b FSB/IPHYS/LPPC, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland c Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 117312 Moscow, Russia d Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, 119991 Moscow, Russia e Départment de Physique Théorique and Center for Astroparticle Physics, Université de Genève, Quai E. Ansermet 24, CH-1211 Genève 4, Switzerland
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