Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project: overview and status

Richard L. Savage Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.308362

15 May 1998 Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project: overview and status

Richard L. Savage Jr.

Proceedings Volume 3270, Methods for Ultrasensitive Detection; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.308362
Event: Optoelectronics and High-Power Lasers and Applications, 1998, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The LIGO Project is a joint effort between the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build and operate a novel astronomical observatory that directly senses gravitational waves, and in doing so open a new observational window to the universe. Installation of detector components is planned to begin in the spring of 1998 with the first data run at the designed strain sensitivity of h approximately 2 X 10^-23 m/(root) Hz scheduled to begin in 2002.

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Richard L. Savage Jr. "Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project: overview and status", Proc. SPIE 3270, Methods for Ultrasensitive Detection, (15 May 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.308362

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