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All-sky search for gravitational-wave bursts in the second joint LIGO-Virgo run

This paper was produced by the Burst Search Group, of which I am the Co-Chair. It presents the final upper limits on gravitational-wave bursts from the first-generation LIGO and Virgo detectors. I developed the statistical framework used to synthesize the observations from the various data-taking runs into a combined upper limit. I also designed and developed the simulation methodology used for measuring search sensitivity, and carried out the translation from amplitude limits to rate density limits for standard candle sources. I wrote about 10% of total text of the paper, covering these aspects of the work.