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LIGO Detector Characterization in the first half of the fourth Observing run

Progress in gravitational-wave astronomy depends upon having sensitive detectors with good data quality. Since the end of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA third Observing run in March 2020, detector-characterization efforts have lead to increased…

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Reducing Scattered Light in LIGO's Third Observing Run

Noise due to scattered light has been a frequent disturbance in the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors, hindering the detection of gravitational waves. The non stationary scatter noise caused by low frequency motion can be…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-07 S Soni , C Austin , A Effler , R M S Schofield , G Gonzalez , V V Frolov , J C Driggers , A Pele , A L Urban , G Valdes , R. Abbott , C. Adams , R. X. Adhikari , A. Ananyeva , S. Appert , K. Arai , J. S. Areeda , Y. Asali , S. M. Aston , A. M. Baer , M. Ball , S. W. Ballmer , S. Banagiri , D. Barker , L. Barsotti , J. Bartlett , B. K. Berger , J. Betzwieser , D. Bhattacharjee , G. Billingsley , S. Biscans , C. D. Blair , R. M. Blair , N. Bode , P. Booker , R. Bork , A. Bramley , A. F. Brooks , D. D. Brown , A. Buikema , C. Cahillane , K. C. Cannon , X. Chen , A. A. Ciobanu , F. Clara , S. J. Cooper , K. R. Corley , S. T. Countryman , P. B. Covas , D. C. Coyne , L. E. H. Datrier , D. Davis , C. Di Fronzo , K. L. Dooley , P. Dupej , S. E. Dwyer , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. M. Evans , J. Feicht , A. Fernandez-Galiana , P. Fritschel , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. A. Giaime , K. D. Giardina , P. Godwin , E. Goetz , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. Gray , A. C. Green , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , J. Hanks , J. Hanson , T. Hardwick , R. K. Hasskew , M. C. Heintze , A. F. Helmling-Cornell , N. A. Holland , J. D. Jones , S. Kandhasamy , S. Karki , M. Kasprzack , K. Kawabe , N. Kijbunchoo , P. J. King , J. S. Kissel , Rahul Kumar , M. Landry , B. B. Lane , B. Lantz , M. Laxen , Y. K. Lecoeuche , J. Leviton , J. Liu , M. Lormand , A. P. Lundgren , R. Macas , M. MacInnis , D. M. Macleod , G. L. Mansell , S. Márka , Z. Márka , D. V. Martynov , K. Mason , T. J. Massinger , F. Matichard , N. Mavalvala , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. McCormick , L. McCuller , J. McIver , T. McRae , G. Mendell , K. Merfeld , E. L. Merilh , F. Meylahn , T. Mistry , R. Mittleman , G. Moreno , C. M. Mow-Lowry , S. Mozzon , A. Mullavey , T. J. N. Nelson , P. Nguyen , L. K. Nuttall , J. Oberling , Richard J. Oram , C. Osthelder , D. J. Ottaway , H. Overmier , J. R. Palamos , W. Parker , E. Payne , R. Penhorwood , C. J. Perez , M. Pirello , H. Radkins , K. E. Ramirez , J. W. Richardson , K. Riles , N. A. Robertson , J. G. Rollins , C. L. Romel , J. H. Romie , M. P. Ross , K. Ryan , T. Sadecki , E. J. Sanchez , L. E. Sanchez , T. R. Saravanan , R. L. Savage , D. Schaetzl , R. Schnabel , E. Schwartz , D. Sellers , T. Shaffer , D. Sigg , B. J. J. Slagmolen , J. R. Smith , B. Sorazu , A. P. Spencer , K. A. Strain , L. Sun , M. J. Szczepańczyk , M. Thomas , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , K. Toland , C. I. Torrie , G. Traylor , M. Tse , G. Vajente , D. C. Vander-Hyde , P. J. Veitch , K. Venkateswara , G. Venugopalan , A. D. Viets , T. Vo , C. Vorvick , M. Wade , R. L. Ward , J. Warner , B. Weaver , R. Weiss , C. Whittle , B. Willke , C. C. Wipf , L. Xiao , H. Yamamoto , Hang Yu , Haocun Yu , L. Zhang , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig

The Advanced LIGO Gravitational Wave Detector

The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors will be installed starting in 2011, with completion scheduled for 2015. The new detectors will improve the strain sensitivity of current instruments by a factor of ten, with a thousandfold…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-15 S. J. Waldman

A characterization method for low-frequency environmental noise in LIGO

We present a method to characterize the noise in ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as the Laser Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). This method uses linear regression algorithms such as the least absolute shrinkage and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-21 Guillermo Valdes , Adam Hines , Andrea Nelson , Yanqi Zhang , Felipe Guzman

Sensitivity and Performance of the Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Third Observing Run

On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long dedicated search for gravitational radiation. The LIGO detectors…

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Seismic isolation of Advanced LIGO: Review of strategy, instrumentation and performance

Isolating ground-based interferometric gravitational wave observatories from environmental disturbances is one of the great challenges of the advanced detector era. In order to directly observe gravitational waves, the detector components…

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Noise Line Identification in LIGO S6 and Virgo VSR2

An important goal for LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and Virgo is to find periodic sources of gravitational waves. The LIGO and Virgo detectors are sensitive to a variety of noise of non-astrophysical origin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , Michael W. Coughlin

Parameter Estimation and Model Selection of Gravitational Wave Signals Contaminated by Transient Detector Noise Glitches

The number of astrophysical sources detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo is expected to increase as the detectors approach their design sensitivity. Gravitational wave detectors are also sensitive to transient noise sources created by the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Jade Powell

Limiting noises in gravitational wave detectors: guidance from their statistical properties

It is expected that interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO \cite{Barish99} will be eventually limited by fundamental noise sources like shot noise and Brownian motion, as well as by seismic noise. In the commissioning…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriela Gonzalez

Gravity Spy: Integrating Advanced LIGO Detector Characterization, Machine Learning, and Citizen Science

(abridged for arXiv) With the first direct detection of gravitational waves, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has initiated a new field of astronomy by providing an alternate means of sensing the…

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A Gravitational Wave Detector with Cosmological Reach

Twenty years ago, construction began on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Advanced LIGO, with a factor of ten better design sensitivity than Initial LIGO, will begin taking data this year, and should soon make…

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External environmental noise influences on Virgo during O3

Sources of geophysical noise, such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes, can have an impact on gravitational wave interferometers causing sensitivity worsening and gaps in data taking. During the 1-year long O3 run (April 1st 2019 to March…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-11 Nicolas Arnaud , Rosario De Rosa , Francesco Di Renzo , Irene Fiori , Carlo Giunchi , Kamiel Janssens , Alessandro Longo , Marco Olivieri , Federico Paoletti , Paolo Ruggi , Maria Concetta Tringali

Modeling and Reduction of High Frequency Scatter Noise at LIGO Livingston

The sensitivity of aLIGO detectors is adversely affected by the presence of noise caused by light scattering. Low frequency seismic disturbances can create higher frequency scattering noise adversely impacting the frequency band in which we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-13 Siddharth Soni , Jane Glanzer , Anamaria Effler , Valera Frolov , Gabriela González , Arnaud Pele , Robert Schofield

Gravitational wave detectors from an experimental perspective

This chapter introduces the fundamental principles of gravitational wave detectors in a simple and comprehensive manner. Because these instruments aim for extremely high sensitivity, it is essential to understand their various noise…

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Noise in the LIGO Livingston Gravitational Wave Observatory due to Trains

Environmental seismic disturbances limit the sensitivity of LIGO gravitational wave detectors. Trains near the LIGO Livingston detector produce low frequency (0.5-10 Hz) ground noise that couples into the gravitational wave sensitive…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-29 Jane Glanzer , Siddharth Soni , Jaidyn Spoon , Anamaria Effler , Gabriela González

Localization of gravitational wave sources with networks of advanced detectors

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Background Filter: A method for removing signal contamination during significance estimation of a GstLAL anaysis

To evaluate the probability of a gravitational-wave candidate originating from noise, GstLAL collects noise statistics from the data it analyzes. Gravitational-wave signals of astrophysical origin get added to the noise statistics, harming…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Prathamesh Joshi , Leo Tsukada , Chad Hanna

One of the key science goals of advanced gravitational-wave detectors is to observe a stochastic gravitational-wave background. However, recent work demonstrates that correlated magnetic fields from Schumann resonances can produce…

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Tumbleweeds and airborne gravitational noise sources for LIGO

Gravitational-wave detectors are sensitive not only to astrophysical gravitational waves, but also to the fluctuating Newtonian gravitational forces of moving masses in the ground and air around the detector. This paper studies the…

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Data quality up to the third observing run of Advanced LIGO: Gravity Spy glitch classifications

Understanding the noise in gravitational-wave detectors is central to detecting and interpreting gravitational-wave signals. Glitches are transient, non-Gaussian noise features that can have a range of environmental and instrumental…

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