English
Related papers

Related papers: LIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave …

200 papers

The field of gravitational-wave astronomy has been opened up by gravitational-wave observations made with interferometric detectors. This review surveys the current state-of-the-art in gravitational-wave detectors and data analysis methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-10 Sarah Caudill , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Claudia Lazzaro , Andrew Matas , Magdalena Sieniawska , Amber L. Stuver

We describe the plans for gravitational-wave observations and astrophysics that will be carried out by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) in the next decade using data from the LIGO Observatories in the US, and sister facilities abroad…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-09 The LIGO Scientific collaboration

Interferometric gravitational wave antennas are based on Michelson interferometers whose sensitivity to small differential length changes has been enhanced by adding multiple coupled optical resonators. The use of optical cavities is…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Sigg , H. Rong , P. Fritschel , M. Zucker , R. Bork , N. Mavalvala , D. Ouimette , G. Gonzalez

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space-time metric from astrophysical sources. These detectors, two in Hanford, WA and one in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , J. Abadie , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , M , Abernathy , C. Adams , R. Adhikari , P. Ajith , B. Allen , G. Allen , E. Amador Ceron , R. S. Amin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , M. A. Arain , M. Araya , M. Aronsson , Y. Aso , S. Aston , D. E. Atkinson , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , S. Babak , P. Baker , S. Ballmer , D. Barker , S. Barnum , B. Barr , P. Barriga , L. Barsotti , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , M. Bastarrika , J. Bauchrowitz , B. Behnke , M. Benacquista , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , N. Beveridge , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , R. Biswas , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , R. Bondarescu , R. Bork , M. Born , S. Bose , M. Boyle , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , D. O. Bridges , M. Brinkmann , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , A. Buonanno , J. Burguet--Castell , O. Burmeister , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , J. Cannizzo , K. C. Cannon , J. Cao , C. Capano , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , C. Cepeda , T. Chalermsongsak , E. Chalkley , P. Charlton , S. Chelkowski , Y. Chen , N. Christensen , S. S. Y. Chua , C. T. Y. Chung , D. Clark , J. Clark , J. H. Clayton , R. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , N. Cornish , C. A. Costa , D. Coward , D. C. Coyne , J. D. E. Creighton , T. D. Creighton , A. M. Cruise , R. M. Culter , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , K. Dahl , S. L. Danilishin , R. Dannenberg , K. Danzmann , K. Das , B. Daudert , G. Davies , A. Davis , E. J. Daw , T. Dayanga , D. DeBra , J. Degallaix , V. Dergachev , R. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , P. Devanka , S. Dhurandhar , I. Di Palma , M. Díaz , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , E. E. Doomes , S. Dorsher , E. S. D. Douglas , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , J. Dueck , J. -C. Dumas , T. Eberle , M. Edgar , M. Edwards , A. Effler , P. Ehrens , R. Engel , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. Evans , S. Fairhurst , Y. Fan , B. F. Farr , D. Fazi , H. Fehrmann , D. Feldbaum , L. S. Finn , M. Flanigan , K. Flasch , S. Foley , C. Forrest , E. Forsi , N. Fotopoulos , M. Frede , M. Frei , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , D. Friedrich , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. A. Garofoli , I. Gholami , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , S. Giampanis , K. D. Giardina , C. Gill , E. Goetz , L. M. Goggin , G. González , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. Goßler , C. Graef , A. Grant , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. J. S. Greenhalgh , A. M. Gretarsson , R. Grosso , H. Grote , S. Grunewald , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , B. Hage , P. Hall , J. M. Hallam , D. Hammer , G. Hammond , J. Hanks , C. Hanna , J. Hanson , J. Harms , G. M. Harry , I. W. Harry , E. D. Harstad , K. Haughian , K. Hayama , J. Heefner , I. S. Heng , A. Heptonstall , M. Hewitson , S. Hild , E. Hirose , D. Hoak , K. A. Hodge , K. Holt , D. J. Hosken , J. Hough , E. Howell , D. Hoyland , B. Hughey , S. Husa , S. H. Huttner , T. Huynh--Dinh , D. R. Ingram , R. Inta , T. Isogai , A. Ivanov , W. W. Johnson , D. I. Jones , G. Jones , R. Jones , L. Ju , P. Kalmus , V. Kalogera , S. Kandhasamy , J. Kanner , E. Katsavounidis , K. Kawabe , S. Kawamura , F. Kawazoe , W. Kells , D. G. Keppel , A. Khalaidovski , F. Y. Khalili , E. A. Khazanov , H. Kim , P. J. King , D. L. Kinzel , J. S. Kissel , S. Klimenko , V. Kondrashov , R. Kopparapu , S. Koranda , D. Kozak , T. Krause , V. Kringel , S. Krishnamurthy , B. Krishnan , G. Kuehn , J. Kullman , R. Kumar , P. Kwee , M. Landry , M. Lang , B. Lantz , N. Lastzka , A. Lazzarini , P. Leaci , J. Leong , I. Leonor , J. Li , H. Lin , P. E. Lindquist , N. A. Lockerbie , D. Lodhia , M. Lormand , P. Lu , J. Luan , M. Lubinski , A. Lucianetti , H. Lück , A. Lundgren , B. Machenschalk , M. MacInnis , M. Mageswaran , K. Mailand , C. Mak , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , S. Márka , Z. Márka , E. Maros , I. W. Martin , R. M. Martin , J. N. Marx , K. Mason , F. Matichard , L. Matone , R. A. Matzner , N. Mavalvala , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. C. McGuire , G. McIntyre , G. McIvor , D. J. A. McKechan , G. Meadors , M. Mehmet , T. Meier , A. Melatos , A. C. Melissinos , G. Mendell , D. F. Menéndez , R. A. Mercer , L. Merill , S. Meshkov , C. Messenger , M. S. Meyer , H. Miao , J. Miller , Y. Mino , S. Mitra , V. P. Mitrofanov , G. Mitselmakher , R. Mittleman , B. Moe , S. D. Mohanty , S. R. P. Mohapatra , D. Moraru , G. Moreno , T. Morioka , K. Mors , K. Mossavi , C. MowLowry , G. Mueller , S. Mukherjee , A. Mullavey , H. Müller-Ebhardt , J. Munch , P. G. Murray , T. Nash , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , G. Newton , A. Nishizawa , D. Nolting , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , G. H. Ogin , R. G. Oldenburg , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , C. Osthelder , D. J. Ottaway , R. S. Ottens , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , A. Page , Y. Pan , C. Pankow , M. A. Papa , M. Pareja , P. Patel , M. Pedraza , L. Pekowsky , S. Penn , C. Peralta , A. Perreca , M. Pickenpack , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , H. J. Pletsch , M. V. Plissi , F. Postiglione , V. Predoi , L. R. Price , M. Prijatelj , M. Principe , R. Prix , L. Prokhorov , O. Puncken , V. Quetschke , F. J. Raab , T. Radke , H. Radkins , P. Raffai , M. Rakhmanov , B. Rankins , V. Raymond , C. M. Reed , T. Reed , S. Reid , D. H. Reitze , R. Riesen , K. Riles , P. Roberts , N. A. Robertson , C. Robinson , E. L. Robinson , S. Roddy , C. Röver , J. Rollins , J. D. Romano , J. H. Romie , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , K. Ryan , S. Sakata , M. Sakosky , F. Salemi , L. Sammut , L. Sancho de la Jordana , V. Sandberg , V. Sannibale , L. Santamaría , G. Santostasi , S. Saraf , B. S. Sathyaprakash , S. Sato , M. Satterthwaite , P. R. Saulson , R. Savage , R. Schilling , R. Schnabel , R. Schofield , B. Schulz , B. F. Schutz , P. Schwinberg , J. Scott , S. M. Scott , A. C. Searle , F. Seifert , D. Sellers , A. S. Sengupta , A. Sergeev , D. Shaddock , B. Shapiro , P. Shawhan , D. H. Shoemaker , A. Sibley , X. Siemens , D. Sigg , A. Singer , A. M. Sintes , G. Skelton , B. J. J. Slagmolen , J. Slutsky , J. R. Smith , M. R. Smith , N. D. Smith , K. Somiya , B. Sorazu , F. C. Speirits , A. J. Stein , L. C. Stein , S. Steinlechner , S. Steplewski , A. Stochino , R. Stone , K. A. Strain , S. Strigin , A. Stroeer , A. L. Stuver , T. Z. Summerscales , M. Sung , S. Susmithan , P. J. Sutton , D. Talukder , D. B. Tanner , S. P. Tarabrin , J. R. Taylor , R. Taylor , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , K. S. Thorne , E. Thrane , A. Thüring , C. Titsler , K. V. Tokmakov , C. Torres , C. I. Torrie , G. Traylor , M. Trias , K. Tseng , D. Ugolini , K. Urbanek , H. Vahlbruch , B. Vaishnav , M. Vallisneri , C. Van Den Broeck , M. V. van der Sluys , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , R. Vaulin , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , P. J. Veitch , C. Veltkamp , A. Villar , C. Vorvick , S. P. Vyachanin , S. J. Waldman , L. Wallace , A. Wanner , R. L. Ward , P. Wei , M. Weinert , A. J. Weinstein , R. Weiss , L. Wen , S. Wen , P. Wessels , M. West , T. Westphal , K. Wette , J. T. Whelan , S. E. Whitcomb , D. J. White , B. F. Whiting , C. Wilkinson , P. A. Willems , L. Williams , B. Willke , L. Winkelmann , W. Winkler , C. C. Wipf , A. G. Wiseman , G. Woan , R. Wooley , J. Worden , I. Yakushin , H. Yamamoto , K. Yamamoto , D. Yeaton-Massey , S. Yoshida , P. P. Yu , M. Zanolin , L. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , N. Zotov , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig

The LIGO Research Community (LRC) is an independent organization of researchers interested in the scientific opportunities created by the construction and operation of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Lee Samuel Finn

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration have carried out joint searches in LIGO and Virgo data for periodic continuous gravitational waves. These analyses range from targeted searches for gravitational-wave signals from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Keith Riles

GEO 600, Kagra, LIGO, and Virgo were built to observe gravitational waves at frequencies in the audio band, where the highest event rates combined with the largest signal to noise ratios had been predicted. Currently, hypothetical sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-06 Roman Schnabel , Mikhail Korobko

The discovery of gravitational waves by the international collaboration LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)/Virgo on the one hand is a triumphant confirmation of the general theory of relativity, and on the other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-24 V. M. Lipunov

We report on the status of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the plans and progress towards Enhanced and Advanced LIGO. The initial LIGO detectors have finished a two year long data run during which a full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 Joshua R Smith

In gravitational-wave detection, special emphasis is put onto searches that focus on cosmic events detected by other types of astrophysical observatories. The astrophysical triggers, e.g. from gamma-ray and X-ray satellites, optical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration

Hardware injections are simulated gravitational-wave signals added to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). The detectors' test masses are physically displaced by an actuator in order to simulate the effects of a…

We demonstrate the potential of new adaptive optical technology to expand the detection horizon of gravitational-wave observatories. Achieving greater quantum-noise-limited sensitivity to spacetime strain hinges on achieving higher…

The interferometers being planned for second generation LIGO promise and order of magnitude increase in broadband strain sensitivity--with the corresponding cubic increase in detection volume--and an extension of the observation band to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Fritschel

Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries, stellar collapses and pulsars are all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew Pitkin , Stuart Reid , Sheila Rowan , Jim Hough

During 2015 and 2016, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) conducted a three-month observing campaign. These observations delivered the first direct detection of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Derek Weitzel , Brian Bockelman , Duncan A. Brown , Peter Couvares , Frank Würthwein , Edgar Fajardo Hernandez

Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 2015,10 binary black hole coalescences and one binary neutron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 David Reitze , Rich Abbott , Carl Adams , Rana Adhikari , Nancy Aggarwal , Shreya Anand , Alena Ananyeva , Stuart Anderson , Stephen Appert , Koji Arai , Melody Araya , Stuart Aston , Juan Barayoga , Barry Barish , David Barker , Lisa Barsotti , Jeffrey Bartlett , Joseph Betzwieser , GariLynn Billingsley , Sebastien Biscans , Sylvia Biscoveanu , Kent Blackburn , Carl Blair , Ryan Blair , Brian Bockelman , Rolf Bork , Alyssa Bramley , Aidan Brooks , Sharon Brunett , Aaron Buikema , Craig Cahillane , Thomas Callister , Tom Carruthers , Filiberto Clara , Paul Corban , Michael Coughlin , Peter Couvares , Matthew Cowart , Dennis Coyne , Nicholas Demos , Fred Donovan , Jenne Driggers , Sheila Dwyer , Anamaria Effler , Robert Eisenstein , Todd Etzel , Matthew Evans , Tom Evans , Jon Feicht , Alvaro Fernandez-Galiana , Peter Fritschel , Valery Frolov , Michael Fyffe , Bubba Gateley , Joe Giaime , Dwayne Giardina , Evan Goetz , Sarah Gossan , Slawomir Gras , Philippe Grassia , Corey Gray , Anchal Gupta , Eric Gustafson , Les Guthman , Evan Hall , Jonathan Hanks , Joe Hanson , Raine Hasskew , Carl-Johan Haster , Matthew Heintze , Edgar Hernandez , Kathy Holt , Yiwen Huang , Tien Huynh-Dinh , Max Isi , Jeff Jones , Brittany Kamai , Jonah Kanner , Marie Kasprzack , Erik Katsavounidis , William Katzman , Keita Kawabe , Peter King , Jeffrey Kissel , Veronica Kondrashov , William Korth , Dan Kozak , Rahul Kumar , Michael Landry , Benjamin Lane , Robert Lanza , Michael Laxen , Albert Lazzarini , Yannick Lecoeuche , Ken Libbrecht , Ka-Lok Lo , Lionel London , Marc Lormand , Myron MacInnis , Georgia Mansell , Aaron Markowitz , Ed Maros , Jay Marx , Ken Mason , Thomas Massinger , Fabrice Matichard , Nergis Mavalvala , Richard McCarthy , Scott McCormick , Lee McCuller , Jessica McIver , Gregory Mendell , Edmond Merilh , Syd Meshkov , Richard Mittleman , Dan Moraru , Gerardo Moreno , Adam Mullavey , Timothy Nelson , Kwan-Yeung Ng , Minkyun Noh , Brian O'Reilly , Jason Oberling , Richard Oram , Charles Osthelder , Harry Overmier , William Parker , Mike Pedraza , Arnaud Pele , Carlos Perez , Danielle Petterson , Marc Pirello , Fred Raab , Hugh Radkins , Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra , Jonathan Richardson , Norna Robertson , Jameson Rollins , Chandra Romel , Janeen Romie , Kyle Ryan , Travis Sadecki , Eduardo Sanchez , Luis Sanchez , Richard Savage , Dean Schaetzl , Danny Sellers , Thomas Shaffer , David Shoemaker , Daniel Sigg , Amber Strunk , Vivishek Sudhir , Ling Sun , Duo Tao , Robert Taylor , Michael Thomas , Patrick Thomas , Keith Thorne , Calum Torrie , Gary Traylor , Randy Trudeau , Maggie Tse , Gabriele Vajente , Steve Vass , Gautam Venugopalan , Salvatore Vitale , Cheryl Vorvick , Andrew Wade , Larry Wallace , Jim Warner , Betsy Weaver , Alan Weinstein , Rainer Weiss , Stan Whitcomb , Chris Whittle , Joshua Willis , Christopher Wipf , Sophia Xiao , Hiro Yamamoto , Hang Yu , Haocun Yu , Liyuan Zhang , Michael Zucker , John Zweizig

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford $10 \text{m}$ atom interferometer presently under construction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-22 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

In this article, which will appear as a chapter in the Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, we will describe the detection of gravitational waves with space-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories. We will provide an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-27 Jonathan R Gair , Martin Hewitson , Antoine Petiteau , Guido Mueller